OSCP Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for OSCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 53 -
Rank change year-on-year -23 - -
Contract jobs citing OSCP 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.27% 0.61% -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.08% 2.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £523 £656 -
25th Percentile £536 £665 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £680 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.11% - -
75th Percentile £585 £715 -
90th Percentile £594 £736 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £564 £680 -
% change year-on-year -17.11% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 186 129 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 25.00% 26.33% 20.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 100 123
10th Percentile £360 £263 £315
25th Percentile £425 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £631
90th Percentile £650 £726 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £494
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.86% -5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £16.25 £16.50 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +31.68% -79.95%
75th Percentile £16.33 £17.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.26 £37.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -48.65% +150.00% -76.00%

OSCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

OSCP job vacancy trend in Leeds

OSCP
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing OSCP

OSCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Flash
1 2 (100.00%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blockchain
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Collection
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Federated Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) KYC
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Rust
1 2 (100.00%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCSK
1 2 (100.00%) CEH
1 2 (100.00%) CISA
1 2 (100.00%) CISM
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (100.00%) SOC 2