Offensive Security Certified Expert (OSCE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for OSCE qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 706 859
Rank change year-on-year +117 +153 -
Contract jobs citing OSCE 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.002% 0.003%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.015% 0.006% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £436 - £520
25th Percentile £490 - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 - £565
75th Percentile £685 - £608
90th Percentile £742 - £633
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

OSCE is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,393 16,479 19,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.68% 27.33% 21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,265 10,989 12,632
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +4.76% +8.81%
75th Percentile £648 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £740 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,062 872 784
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.25 £13.44
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.22 £19.20
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.28 £40.93
Median % change year-on-year -26.31% +32.62% +6.31%
75th Percentile £61.30 £68.56 £56.31
90th Percentile £75.22 £79.98 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.13 £50.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -19.75% +61.29% -10.25%

OSCE
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OSCE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OSCE in the UK

OSCE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OSCE.

Daily rate trend for OSCE in the UK

OSCE
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OSCE over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OSCE in the UK

OSCE
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSCE within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
England +116 2 £585 - 3
London - 1 £400 -

OSCE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Malware Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Offensive Security
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) OSCP
1 2 (100.00%) OSWP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) CHFI
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) EnCE
2 1 (50.00%) GCED
2 1 (50.00%) GCIA
2 1 (50.00%) GCIH
2 1 (50.00%) GIAC
2 1 (50.00%) GPEN
2 1 (50.00%) GSNA
2 1 (50.00%) GWAPT
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (50.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco