OSCP Contract Job Trends in England

Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for OSCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 467 442
Rank change year-on-year -28 -25 +277
Contract jobs citing OSCP 50 48 123
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.17% 0.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.47% 0.55% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 33 22
10th Percentile £405 £563 £465
25th Percentile £422 £600 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £650 £627
Median % change year-on-year -20.19% +3.67% +4.50%
75th Percentile £581 £700 £728
90th Percentile £673 £748 £767
UK median daily rate £513 £665 £626
% change year-on-year -22.93% +6.23% +4.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £38.15 - -
25th Percentile £41.00 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - -
75th Percentile £62.75 - -
90th Percentile £63.05 - -
UK median hourly rate £54.50 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 10,636 8,742 11,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.90% 30.36% 30.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,952 5,392 7,151
10th Percentile £313 £305 £300
25th Percentile £419 £422 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 906 412 673
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.76 £17.15
25th Percentile £19.31 £25.06 £26.78
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.71 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.16% -11.02% +16.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £67.81 £67.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £75.39 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -23.81% +16.67%

OSCP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

OSCP job vacancy trend in England

OSCP
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OSCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OSCP

OSCP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSCP in England over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OSCP in England

OSCP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OSCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing OSCP

OSCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing OSCP in England over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for OSCP in England

OSCP
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 OSCP within the England region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
London +4 31 £525 -25.00% 7
South East -10 8 £419 -21.98% 4
North of England -43 3 £600 -9.77% 7
West Midlands -27 2 £1,342 - 2
Midlands -33 2 £1,342 - 4
Yorkshire -47 2 £564 -13.29% 2
South West -15 1 £488 -31.82% 4
East of England -24 1 £550 -8.33%
North West -31 1 £620 -8.82% 4
OSCP
UK

OSCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 4 (8.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (50.00%) AWS
1 25 (50.00%) Azure
2 15 (30.00%) GCP
3 4 (8.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (8.00%) GitHub
4 2 (4.00%) OCI
4 2 (4.00%) SaaS
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (2.00%) IaaS
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.00%) Wireshark
2 6 (12.00%) Network Security
3 5 (10.00%) Firewall
3 5 (10.00%) Internet
4 3 (6.00%) DNS
4 3 (6.00%) HTTP
4 3 (6.00%) SMTP
4 3 (6.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (6.00%) VLAN
4 3 (6.00%) VPN
5 1 (2.00%) DMZ
5 1 (2.00%) InfiniBand
5 1 (2.00%) Intranet
5 1 (2.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.00%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.00%) SSH
5 1 (2.00%) Telnet
5 1 (2.00%) WAN
5 1 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 18 (36.00%) Burp Suite
2 16 (32.00%) Metasploit
3 6 (12.00%) JIRA
4 4 (8.00%) sqlmap
5 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (6.00%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.00%) GitLab
7 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.00%) Git
7 1 (2.00%) Snyk
General
1 27 (54.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (28.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (16.00%) Finance
5 5 (10.00%) Legal
6 4 (8.00%) Law
7 2 (4.00%) Electronics
7 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.00%) Marketing
7 2 (4.00%) Military
7 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (40.00%) Penetration Tester
2 19 (38.00%) Tester
3 9 (18.00%) Analyst
4 8 (16.00%) Security Engineer
5 7 (14.00%) Security Analyst
6 6 (12.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Data Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) Senior
8 2 (4.00%) SOC Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) Test Engineer
9 1 (2.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (2.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 1 (2.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 1 (2.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 1 (2.00%) Network Engineer
9 1 (2.00%) Network Security Engineer
9 1 (2.00%) Risk Analyst
9 1 (2.00%) Senior Tester
9 1 (2.00%) SOC Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) Flash
1 2 (4.00%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (2.00%) .NET
2 1 (2.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.00%) REST
2 1 (2.00%) Spring
2 1 (2.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Security Posture
2 6 (12.00%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (10.00%) Cybercrime
3 5 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.00%) Blockchain
4 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.00%) CSOC
5 1 (2.00%) CUDA
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (38.00%) Linux
2 13 (26.00%) Windows
3 11 (22.00%) Kali Linux
4 6 (12.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (64.00%) Penetration Testing
2 24 (48.00%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (48.00%) OWASP
3 21 (42.00%) Cloud Security
4 18 (36.00%) Application Security
4 18 (36.00%) Test Automation
5 16 (32.00%) Incident Response
6 15 (30.00%) Ethical Hacking
6 15 (30.00%) Red Team
7 14 (28.00%) DevSecOps
7 14 (28.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 12 (24.00%) Offensive Security
9 11 (22.00%) CI/CD
9 11 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (20.00%) Agile
10 10 (20.00%) SDLC
10 10 (20.00%) SIEM
10 10 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
11 8 (16.00%) Risk Assessment
11 8 (16.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (58.00%) Python
2 21 (42.00%) Bash
3 15 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (10.00%) Go
5 4 (8.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (6.00%) Rust
7 2 (4.00%) C++
7 2 (4.00%) Java
7 2 (4.00%) Solidity
7 2 (4.00%) SQL
8 1 (2.00%) C
8 1 (2.00%) C-shell
8 1 (2.00%) Korn
Qualifications
1 28 (56.00%) CEH
2 24 (48.00%) Security Cleared
3 22 (44.00%) GPEN
4 16 (32.00%) SC Cleared
5 15 (30.00%) CISSP
6 10 (20.00%) CREST Certified
7 8 (16.00%) CompTIA CySA+
7 8 (16.00%) GIAC
7 8 (16.00%) GWAPT
8 7 (14.00%) CISM
8 7 (14.00%) SANS
9 6 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (12.00%) Degree
9 6 (12.00%) OSCE
10 5 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (10.00%) CCSP
10 5 (10.00%) GREM
11 4 (8.00%) CISA
11 4 (8.00%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (8.00%) GXPN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (30.00%) NIST
2 12 (24.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (14.00%) PCI DSS
4 5 (10.00%) NCSC
4 5 (10.00%) NIST 800
5 3 (6.00%) GDPR
5 3 (6.00%) GRC
6 2 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (4.00%) QA
6 2 (4.00%) SOC 2
7 1 (2.00%) Def Stans
7 1 (2.00%) JSP 440
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (8.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Firmware
2 1 (2.00%) GPFS
2 1 (2.00%) Lustre
2 1 (2.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 16 (32.00%) Nmap
2 6 (12.00%) Nessus
3 5 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.00%) Ansible
4 3 (6.00%) CSIRT
5 2 (4.00%) Terraform
6 1 (2.00%) Nexpose
6 1 (2.00%) QRadar
6 1 (2.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 8 (16.00%) CrowdStrike
2 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.00%) ServiceNow
3 4 (8.00%) Google
4 3 (6.00%) Darktrace
4 3 (6.00%) Qualys
4 3 (6.00%) Veracode
5 2 (4.00%) Oracle
5 2 (4.00%) Remedy
5 2 (4.00%) SAP
5 2 (4.00%) Splunk
5 2 (4.00%) Tenable
5 2 (4.00%) Trend Micro
6 1 (2.00%) Checkmarx
6 1 (2.00%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.00%) NVIDIA
6 1 (2.00%) Rapid7