OSCP Job Trends in Leeds

Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 89 110
Rank change year-on-year -11 +21 -
Permanent jobs citing OSCP 3 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.22% 0.097% 0.076%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.85% 0.39% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £70,000
75th Percentile £82,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £80,000 - £65,500

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Leeds

OSCP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Leeds.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 353 256 277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 26.40% 24.73% 20.95%
Number of salaries quoted 198 76 149
10th Percentile - £25,000 £32,400
25th Percentile £28,250 £39,063 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,250 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.50% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £69,375 £69,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,776 £80,000 £83,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £41,075 £49,637 £57,500
% change year-on-year -17.25% -13.67% -1.06%

OSCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OSCP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

OSCP job vacancy trend in Leeds

OSCP
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing OSCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing OSCP

OSCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (33.33%) Azure
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing
1 2 (66.67%) Public Speaking
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Head of Security
2 1 (33.33%) Head of Testing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
1 2 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Red Team
1 3 (100.00%) Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Business Development
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Objectives and Key Results
2 2 (66.67%) Presales
2 2 (66.67%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Social Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
2 2 (66.67%) CEH
2 2 (66.67%) CISA
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Qualys