OSCP Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon with a requirement for OSCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing OSCP 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 3.70% 1.03% -
As % of the Qualifications category 4.76% 1.52% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £508 - -
25th Percentile £509 £675 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 £725 -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £525 £700 -
% change year-on-year -25.00% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 63 66 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 77.78% 68.04% 70.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 41 77
10th Percentile £463 £380 £380
25th Percentile £505 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -8.26% -5.22%
75th Percentile £600 £561 £600
90th Percentile £641 £650 £673
South London median daily rate £525 £475 £531
% change year-on-year +10.53% -10.55% -7.65%

OSCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

OSCP job vacancy trend in Croydon

OSCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Penetration Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CSOC
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) OWASP
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Decision Tree
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CEH
1 3 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SANS
3 1 (33.33%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
1 3 (100.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (33.33%) NCSC