OSCP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for OSCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 310 472
Rank change year-on-year +16 +162 +130
Contract jobs citing OSCP 10 35 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.23% 0.019%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.36% 0.83% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile £430 £563 -
25th Percentile £475 - £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £443
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +35.44% -20.18%
75th Percentile £584 £613 £562
90th Percentile £646 £635 £699
UK median daily rate £675 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.75 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £54.50 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,762 4,242 6,586
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.88% 27.64% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,651 4,417
10th Percentile £350 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £440 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 269 292
10th Percentile £19.10 £15.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.51 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -33.85% +33.22%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.78 £83.84 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

OSCP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing OSCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OSCP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

OSCP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing OSCP.

OSCP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OSCP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing OSCP over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

OSCP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OSCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (10.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) HTTP
2 1 (10.00%) SMTP
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (20.00%) Metasploit
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Legal
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Military
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Penetration Tester
1 4 (40.00%) Tester
2 3 (30.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Security Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Penetration Test Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Security Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (40.00%) Security Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
5 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
5 2 (20.00%) Information Security
5 2 (20.00%) Offensive Security
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) SIEM
5 2 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (10.00%) Conflict Resolution
6 1 (10.00%) Key Management
6 1 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 1 (10.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) C++
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) C
2 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Embedded C
3 2 (20.00%) Embedded C++
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) Rust
4 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
4 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) CEH
1 6 (60.00%) CISSP
2 4 (40.00%) SANS
3 3 (30.00%) Degree
4 2 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (20.00%) CCSP
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (20.00%) CREST Certified
4 2 (20.00%) OSCE
5 1 (10.00%) CCNA
5 1 (10.00%) CISM
5 1 (10.00%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (10.00%) GCIH
5 1 (10.00%) GIAC
5 1 (10.00%) GPEN
5 1 (10.00%) GWAPT
5 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) CSIRT
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Nessus
1 1 (10.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Google
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (10.00%) Darktrace
2 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (10.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk