OSCE Contracts in England

Offensive Security Certified Expert (OSCE)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for OSCE qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 658 766
Rank change year-on-year +115 +108 -
Contract jobs citing OSCE 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.005% 0.002% 0.001%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.017% 0.007% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £436 - -
25th Percentile £490 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 - £600
75th Percentile £685 - £650
90th Percentile £742 - -
UK median daily rate £585 - £565

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

OSCE is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,649 14,062 15,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.34% 27.75% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,156 9,406 10,043
10th Percentile £300 £325 £314
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £632
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 982 764 693
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.03 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -2.60%
75th Percentile £62.49 £68.56 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.45 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +7.21%

OSCE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing OSCE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for OSCE in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OSCE in England.

Daily rate trend for OSCE in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSCE in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OSCE in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSCE within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
London - 1 £400 - 1
OSCE
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Offensive Security
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) OSCP
1 2 (100.00%) OSWP
2 1 (50.00%) CCFP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) EC-Council LPT
2 1 (50.00%) ECIH
2 1 (50.00%) ECSA
2 1 (50.00%) GAWN
2 1 (50.00%) GCFE
2 1 (50.00%) GCIA
2 1 (50.00%) GIAC
2 1 (50.00%) GPPA
2 1 (50.00%) GREM
2 1 (50.00%) GXPN
2 1 (50.00%) SANS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (50.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco