OSCP Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for OSCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OSCP 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.15% - 0.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.43% - 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £610 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 - £500
75th Percentile £630 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £620 - £486

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

OSCP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 232 127 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 34.73% 23.35% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 80 57
10th Percentile £304 £350 £400
25th Percentile £358 £404 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% +2.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £577 £586
90th Percentile £716 £638 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 6
10th Percentile - - £21.38
25th Percentile £15.50 - £27.65
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £37.04
Median % change year-on-year - - +41.10%
75th Percentile £67.25 - £40.00
90th Percentile £87.45 - £57.50
North West median hourly rate £27.38 £46.18 £45.88
% change year-on-year -40.72% +0.65% +27.44%

OSCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing OSCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for OSCP in Cheshire

OSCP
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSCP within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 1 £620 -
OSCP
North West

OSCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Snyk
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode