The first table below looks at the demand for SSCP in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SSCP over the 3 months to 17 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 for the England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
(ISC)² Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
Rank 811 849 844
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -5
Permanent jobs citing SSCP 19 14 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.019% 0.012% 0.013%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.069% 0.045% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 13 12 14
Average salary £62,500 £43,750 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+42.85% -2.77%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
- -5.55%
All Qualifications
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
27737 31258 30275
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 27.50% 27.52% 25.90%
Number of salaries quoted 22621 26761 25414
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
SSCP
UK

SSCP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SSCP across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

England SSCP Jobs Demand Trend

SSCP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SSCP across the England region.

England SSCP Salary Trend

SSCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SSCP across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England SSCP Salary Histogram

SSCP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSCP within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +43 14 £62,500 -10.39%
Yorkshire - 3 £22,500 -
East of England +4 2 £41,750 -
SSCP
UK

SSCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SSCP.

1 53 (85.48%) CISSP
2 36 (58.06%) Information Security
3 25 (40.32%) Security Architecture
4 24 (38.71%) CEH
4 24 (38.71%) CISM
5 20 (32.26%) Finance
6 19 (30.65%) Security Management
6 19 (30.65%) GIAC
7 17 (27.42%) CISA
7 17 (27.42%) Firewall
7 17 (27.42%) CISMP
7 17 (27.42%) PCI DSS
8 15 (24.19%) Network Security
8 15 (24.19%) Penetration Testing
8 15 (24.19%) OWASP
8 15 (24.19%) CRISC
9 13 (20.97%) Internet
9 13 (20.97%) ITIL
9 13 (20.97%) E-Commerce
10 12 (19.35%) Windows
10 12 (19.35%) Perl
11 11 (17.74%) MCSE
11 11 (17.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (16.13%) Spring
12 10 (16.13%) Software Engineering
12 10 (16.13%) Billing
12 10 (16.13%) Cryptography
12 10 (16.13%) Spring Security
12 10 (16.13%) Security Testing
12 10 (16.13%) Ruby

SSCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SSCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (16.13%) Spring
1 10 (16.13%) JSON
1 10 (16.13%) Spring Security
1 10 (16.13%) REST
2 5 (8.065%) .NET
3 2 (3.226%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (6.452%) IIS
2 2 (3.226%) MS Exchange
2 2 (3.226%) Exchange Server 2000
2 2 (3.226%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (3.226%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 4 (6.452%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 17 (27.42%) Firewall
2 15 (24.19%) Network Security
3 13 (20.97%) Internet
4 5 (8.065%) NetScaler
5 4 (6.452%) LAN
5 4 (6.452%) WAN
6 2 (3.226%) DHCP
6 2 (3.226%) VPN
6 2 (3.226%) DNS
7 1 (1.613%) Intranet
7 1 (1.613%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.13%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.452%) Data Mining
3 2 (3.226%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (3.226%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (3.226%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (3.226%) SQL Server
General
1 20 (32.26%) Finance
2 10 (16.13%) Billing
3 4 (6.452%) Marketing
4 2 (3.226%) Publishing
5 1 (1.613%) Banking
5 1 (1.613%) Law
Job Titles
1 24 (38.71%) Consultant
2 19 (30.65%) Security Consultant
3 18 (29.03%) Senior Consultant
4 15 (24.19%) Information Security Consultant
4 15 (24.19%) Senior Security Consultant
4 15 (24.19%) Senior Information Security Consultant
5 11 (17.74%) Security Analyst
5 11 (17.74%) Analyst
6 10 (16.13%) Architect
6 10 (16.13%) Security Architect
7 6 (9.677%) Security Manager
7 6 (9.677%) Team Leader
8 5 (8.065%) Network Consultant
8 5 (8.065%) Senior Manager
9 4 (6.452%) IT Consultant
9 4 (6.452%) IT Security Consultant
10 3 (4.839%) Change Manager
10 3 (4.839%) Senior Network Consultant
11 2 (3.226%) Firewall Specialist
11 2 (3.226%) IT Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Cryptography
1 10 (16.13%) SaaS
2 7 (11.29%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.452%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.613%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.35%) Windows
2 10 (16.13%) UNIX
3 6 (9.677%) Linux
4 4 (6.452%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (3.226%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (3.226%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (58.06%) Information Security
2 25 (40.32%) Security Architecture
3 19 (30.65%) Security Management
4 15 (24.19%) Penetration Testing
4 15 (24.19%) OWASP
5 13 (20.97%) ITIL
5 13 (20.97%) E-Commerce
6 10 (16.13%) SOA
6 10 (16.13%) OOP
6 10 (16.13%) OO
6 10 (16.13%) Identity Management
6 10 (16.13%) Software Engineering
6 10 (16.13%) Security Testing
7 6 (9.677%) Cyber Security
8 5 (8.065%) SIEM
9 4 (6.452%) Analytics
9 4 (6.452%) Business Development
9 4 (6.452%) Reverse Engineering
9 4 (6.452%) Information Security Management
9 4 (6.452%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.35%) Perl
2 10 (16.13%) Java
2 10 (16.13%) Ruby
3 3 (4.839%) C#
4 2 (3.226%) SQL
4 2 (3.226%) Python
Qualifications
1 53 (85.48%) CISSP
2 24 (38.71%) CISM
2 24 (38.71%) CEH
3 19 (30.65%) GIAC
4 17 (27.42%) CISMP
4 17 (27.42%) CISA
5 15 (24.19%) CRISC
6 11 (17.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (17.74%) MCSE
7 10 (16.13%) Degree
8 9 (14.52%) Security Cleared
9 7 (11.29%) GCIH
10 5 (8.065%) SC Cleared
10 5 (8.065%) Citrix Certification
10 5 (8.065%) CCEA
10 5 (8.065%) CCIA
11 4 (6.452%) GCED
11 4 (6.452%) DV Cleared
11 4 (6.452%) GCFA
12 3 (4.839%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (27.42%) PCI DSS
2 4 (6.452%) COBIT
3 2 (3.226%) ISO 9000
3 2 (3.226%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (3.226%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.452%) MIIS
2 2 (3.226%) Nessus
2 2 (3.226%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.065%) Cisco
3 3 (4.839%) Citrix
3 3 (4.839%) Juniper
4 2 (3.226%) Oracle
4 2 (3.226%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.613%) Symantec
5 1 (1.613%) Tripwire
5 1 (1.613%) ArcSight
5 1 (1.613%) LogLogic
5 1 (1.613%) Q1 Labs
5 1 (1.613%) HP
5 1 (1.613%) EMC
5 1 (1.613%) Novell
Beckenham, South East
Responsibilities: Responsible for the Nessus internal vulnerability scanning tool and scanning programme Responsible for the review of firewall rulesets Implementation and operation of appropriate controls to maintain confidentiality,...
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £35000.00 - £40000.00 per annum
Posted: 9 May 2013