OSCP Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for OSCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 - 80
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OSCP 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.15% - 0.085%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.56% - 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £405 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - £650
75th Percentile £415 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £443 £620 £650
% change year-on-year -28.55% -4.62% +33.74%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 533 285 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 26.53% 28.50% 24.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 182 141
10th Percentile £367 £306 £294
25th Percentile £423 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% - -3.15%
75th Percentile £638 £621 £600
90th Percentile £725 £715 £700
North West median daily rate £520 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 26 21
10th Percentile £18.05 £20.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £28.69 £22.16 £25.35
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.58 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.48% -22.77% +23.33%
75th Percentile £43.96 £50.31 £62.50
90th Percentile £66.94 £67.50 £100.00
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £27.38 £45.59
% change year-on-year +60.58% -39.95% -0.63%

OSCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

OSCP job vacancy trend in Manchester

OSCP
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing OSCP

OSCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cryptography
1 2 (66.67%) OWASP
1 2 (66.67%) Security Management
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) Database Security
2 1 (33.33%) Key Management
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CEH
1 3 (100.00%) CISM
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
2 2 (66.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (66.67%) CCSP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) COBIT
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS