SSCP Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SSCP in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SSCP over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications currently tracked.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
(ISC)² Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
Rank 539 564 573
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +9
Contract jobs citing SSCP 1 17 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.002% 0.029% 0.012%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.012% 0.168% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 13 4
Average daily rate - £600 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +71.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Qualifications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 8525 10094 9522
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.06% 17.27% 15.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4567 5265 4539
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £538 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 461 551 661
Average hourly rate £23.35 £22.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.13% -2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £40.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%

SSCP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SSCP within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

SSCP Jobs Demand Trend

SSCP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SSCP within the UK.

SSCP Daily Rate Trend

SSCP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SSCP within the UK.

SSCP Hourly Rate Trend

SSCP
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSCP within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +29 1 - -
South East +24 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Reading - 1 - -

SSCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SSCP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SSCP.

1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
1 3 (100.00%) GIAC
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) CISA
2 2 (66.67%) CISM
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2
2 2 (66.67%) ISEB Practitioner
2 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) IT Governance
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) ISEB
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Security
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce

SSCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SSCP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SSCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Security
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
1 1 (33.33%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Security Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Compliance Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) IT Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) SOA
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Ruby
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
1 3 (100.00%) GIAC
2 2 (66.67%) CISA
2 2 (66.67%) CISM
2 2 (66.67%) ISEB Practitioner
2 2 (66.67%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
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