OSCP Job Trends in the Midlands

Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for OSCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 262 207
Rank change year-on-year +56 -55 +154
Permanent jobs citing OSCP 5 6 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.082% 0.070% 0.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.31% 0.22% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 10
10th Percentile - - £68,375
25th Percentile £48,165 £61,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -16.67% +1.69%
75th Percentile £53,951 £63,750 £75,938
90th Percentile - - £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.66% -1.85% -5.26%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,617 2,736 1,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 26.53% 32.03% 31.11%
Number of salaries quoted 776 790 1,143
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,405 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,485 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% +4.97% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +2.68%

OSCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

OSCP job vacancy trend in the Midlands

OSCP
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing OSCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing OSCP

OSCP
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSCP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands +28 3 £51,058 - 2
West Midlands +55 2 £52,500 -16.00% 3
OSCP
England

OSCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
1 2 (40.00%) SSH
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Burp Suite
1 3 (60.00%) Metasploit
General
1 3 (60.00%) Retail
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Security Specialist
1 3 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (60.00%) Insider Threat
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (40.00%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Information Security
1 5 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (60.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 3 (60.00%) Black-Box Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 3 (60.00%) Offensive Security
2 3 (60.00%) Open Source
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Red Team
2 3 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (40.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (40.00%) RBAC
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
3 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CEH
1 5 (100.00%) CISSP
1 5 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (60.00%) CCNA
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (60.00%) CISMP
2 3 (60.00%) CREST Certified
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) GIAC
2 3 (60.00%) GPEN
2 3 (60.00%) MCP
2 3 (60.00%) MCSE
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Nmap
2 2 (40.00%) Nessus
2 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Qualys