OSCP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for OSCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 364 434
Rank change year-on-year +40 +70 +69
Contract jobs citing OSCP 15 35 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.17% 0.054%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.33% 0.46% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 10
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £663 £600 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +23.81% +0.24%
75th Percentile £750 - £574
90th Percentile - - £596
UK median daily rate £675 £600 £560
% change year-on-year +12.50% +7.14% +1.82%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,542 7,681 7,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.51% 37.01% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,777 4,413 5,341
10th Percentile £212 £269 £275
25th Percentile £394 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £535 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £725 £703
UK median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 935 669
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.58 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.94 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -18.12% +54.46%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.29 £65.75
90th Percentile £80.25 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +0.63% -25.93% +29.16%

OSCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing OSCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for OSCP in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OSCP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for OSCP in the UK excluding London

OSCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OSCP in the UK excluding London

OSCP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSCP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
South East +29 4 £525 - 28
North of England +18 4 £715 +10.00% 15
Scotland +14 4 £713 - 5
South West +38 3 £750 +25.00% 10
North West +13 2 £715 - 8
Yorkshire +5 2 £715 +10.00% 7
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UK

OSCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Burp Suite
1 2 (13.33%) Metasploit
General
1 10 (66.67%) Banking
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Retail Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Consultant
1 9 (60.00%) Security Consultant
2 8 (53.33%) Architect
2 8 (53.33%) DevSecOps Architect
2 8 (53.33%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 8 (53.33%) Security Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Penetration Tester
3 2 (13.33%) Security Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Engineering Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) IT Security Officer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Officer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 9 (60.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) OWASP
2 10 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (60.00%) DevSecOps
4 8 (53.33%) DevOps
4 8 (53.33%) Network Architecture
4 8 (53.33%) Security Management
5 5 (33.33%) Cloud Security
6 4 (26.67%) Data Protection
6 4 (26.67%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (20.00%) Information Security
8 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
8 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (13.33%) Cryptography
8 2 (13.33%) Regulatory Compliance
8 2 (13.33%) Reverse Engineering
8 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
8 2 (13.33%) Scenario Testing
8 2 (13.33%) Security Testing
9 1 (6.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) C
2 2 (13.33%) C++
2 2 (13.33%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) Ruby
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) CISSP
2 12 (80.00%) CEH
3 10 (66.67%) CISM
4 9 (60.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 9 (60.00%) CCSP
4 9 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (13.33%) Degree
5 2 (13.33%) GCIH
5 2 (13.33%) GPEN
5 2 (13.33%) GWAPT
5 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
5 2 (13.33%) OSCE
5 2 (13.33%) SANS
6 1 (6.67%) GCFA
6 1 (6.67%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (73.33%) PCI DSS
2 9 (60.00%) NIST
3 8 (53.33%) COBIT
4 2 (13.33%) GDPR
4 2 (13.33%) HIPAA
5 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (6.67%) Qualys
2 1 (6.67%) Rapid7
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow