OSCP Contract Job Trends in the South West

Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for OSCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 118 140
Rank change year-on-year -20 +22 +33
Contract jobs citing OSCP 1 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.041% 0.20% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.074% 0.38% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £659 -
25th Percentile £456 £673 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £715 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% - -
75th Percentile £519 £750 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £513 £650 £626
% change year-on-year -21.15% +3.83% +8.87%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,354 1,050 1,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 55.74% 53.71% 54.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 649 999
10th Percentile £275 £312 £368
25th Percentile £450 £450 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.62%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £734 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 76 165
10th Percentile £17.69 £25.26 £37.60
25th Percentile £20.00 £55.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £62.05
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +4.75% -4.54%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £77.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.89
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.00% +15.31%

OSCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

OSCP job vacancy trend in the South West

OSCP
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

OSCP
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 10 January 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
Wiltshire - 1 £488 - 2
OSCP
England

OSCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST