OSCP Contract Job Trends in the North West

Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
England > North West

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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 118 134
Rank change year-on-year -41 +16 -
Contract jobs citing OSCP 1 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.036% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.11% 0.43% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £656 -
25th Percentile £610 £665 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £680 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% - -
75th Percentile £630 £715 -
90th Percentile - £736 -
England median daily rate £492 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -24.31% +8.33% -4.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 900 705 842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.96% 34.06% 30.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 396 490
10th Percentile £247 £209 £248
25th Percentile £381 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +3.45%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £645
90th Percentile £680 £661 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 41 119
10th Percentile £19.65 £24.00 £11.63
25th Percentile £27.82 £26.25 £15.53
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% +25.00% -27.78%
75th Percentile £67.90 £60.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.59 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £41.37
% change year-on-year -49.70% +20.88% -13.82%

OSCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

OSCP job vacancy trend in the North West

OSCP
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OSCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing OSCP

OSCP
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSCP within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 March 2026. 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
Cheshire - 1 £620 - 2
OSCP
England

OSCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Snyk
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode