OSCP Contract Job Trends in Middlesex

Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
South East > Middlesex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Middlesex with a requirement for OSCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OSCP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Middlesex 3.70% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 14.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate £450 £550 £674
% change year-on-year -18.18% -18.34% +18.16%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Middlesex

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 Middlesex.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Middlesex 25.93% 12.50% 22.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £216 - £170
25th Percentile £257 - £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £334 £400 £275
Median % change year-on-year -16.56% +45.45% -
75th Percentile £412 - £288
90th Percentile £453 - £356
South East median daily rate £536 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.17% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £60.58 £47.81 £57.35
% change year-on-year +26.72% -16.64% -4.42%

OSCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Middlesex 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
1 1 (100.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) GCFA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft