Offensive Security Certified Expert (OSCE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OSCE qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 885 - 1203
Rank change year-on-year - - -300
Permanent jobs citing OSCE 10 0 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% - 0.019%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.036% - 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 13
10th Percentile £32,500 - -
25th Percentile £45,000 - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.78%
75th Percentile £72,500 - -
90th Percentile £73,750 - £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 - £36,000
% change year-on-year - - -41.70%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,420 32,843 43,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.65% 32.94% 26.93%
Number of salaries quoted 17,235 14,741 18,878
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,277 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% +8.36% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,959 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.77% +3.92% +2.04%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OSCE.

Salary trend for OSCE in the UK

OSCE
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OSCE over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OSCE in the UK

OSCE
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OSCE within the UK over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England - 9 £50,000 - 10
London - 6 £70,000 - 4
Work from Home - 5 £50,000 - 3
UK excluding London - 4 £50,000 - 8
North of England - 3 £50,000 - 3
North West - 3 £50,000 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 7 (70.00%) Wireless
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Burp Suite
1 7 (70.00%) Metasploit
General
1 4 (40.00%) Marketing
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Penetration Tester
1 6 (60.00%) Tester
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
3 3 (30.00%) Consultant
3 3 (30.00%) Security Consultant
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Consultant
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Security Consultant
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Testing Consultant
3 3 (30.00%) Testing Consultant
4 2 (20.00%) Graduate
4 2 (20.00%) Graduate Tester
5 1 (10.00%) Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Penetration Tester
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Tester
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) IoT
1 7 (70.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (30.00%) Operational Technology
3 2 (20.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Penetration Testing
1 9 (90.00%) Red Team
2 7 (70.00%) OWASP
2 7 (70.00%) Social Engineering
3 6 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (60.00%) Security Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Black-Box Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
4 4 (40.00%) White-Box Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (30.00%) Data Privacy
5 3 (30.00%) Information Security
5 3 (30.00%) Microservices
5 3 (30.00%) Project Management
5 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
6 2 (20.00%) Offensive Security
6 2 (20.00%) Physics
7 1 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
1 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (30.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) OSCP
2 9 (90.00%) CREST Certified
3 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) Degree
4 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (20.00%) PhD
5 1 (10.00%) CEH
5 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (10.00%) GIAC
5 1 (10.00%) GSEC
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Nessus
1 7 (70.00%) Nmap
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Qualys