OSCP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for OSCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 121 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing OSCP 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.082% 0.16% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.33% 0.66% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £517 £434 -
25th Percentile £523 £447 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.44% - -
75th Percentile £648 £522 -
90th Percentile £670 £531 -
Central London median daily rate £573 £488 -
% change year-on-year +17.44% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 611 458 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.16% 24.60% 22.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 312 311
10th Percentile £413 £358 £395
25th Percentile £463 £463 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £675
90th Percentile £734 £759 £775
Central London median daily rate £539 £550 £553
% change year-on-year -2.05% -0.45% +0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 5
10th Percentile £19.44 £21.41 -
25th Percentile £24.25 £26.16 £20.22
Median hourly rate £32.07 £45.33 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.26% +115.83% +1.42%
75th Percentile £58.58 £65.12 £27.00
90th Percentile £69.70 £82.79 -
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £34.48 £24.00
% change year-on-year +49.19% +43.67% +15.91%

OSCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OSCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

OSCP job vacancy trend in the City of London

OSCP
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OSCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OSCP

OSCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CSOC
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) CHECK Team Leader
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CREST Certified
2 1 (50.00%) IISP
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (50.00%) COBIT
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS