OSCE Contract Job Trends in London

Offensive Security Certified Expert (OSCE)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for OSCE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 - 439
Rank change year-on-year - - +166
Contract jobs citing OSCE 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.015% - 0.005%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.057% - 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.92%
75th Percentile - - £638
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate - - £486
% change year-on-year - - -8.30%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

OSCE 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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,535 3,980 5,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 24.43% 23.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,382 2,603 3,451
10th Percentile £355 £350 £355
25th Percentile £438 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 56 87
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.00 £19.06
25th Percentile - £22.00 £23.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.90 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.54% -39.08% +21.20%
75th Percentile £37.81 £53.75 £65.05
90th Percentile £65.00 £66.50 £78.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £54.53
% change year-on-year -53.43% -0.97% +21.18%

OSCE
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for OSCE in London

OSCE
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OSCE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OSCE

OSCE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (100.00%) Metasploit
1 2 (100.00%) sqlmap
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 2 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Red Team
1 2 (100.00%) Service Catalogue
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) GPEN
1 2 (100.00%) GXPN
1 2 (100.00%) OSCP
1 2 (100.00%) SANS
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Nessus
1 2 (100.00%) Nmap
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow