The first table below looks at the demand for SSCP in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 for the London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
(ISC)² Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
Rank 593 636 620
Rank change year-on-year
+43 -16
Permanent jobs citing SSCP 14 2 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.032% 0.004% 0.007%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.126% 0.016% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 4
Average salary £62,500 £69,750 £48,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.39% +45.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £63,950 £45,900
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £75,550 £63,400
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
- -5.55%
All Qualifications
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
11114 12832 13359
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 25.28% 23.82% 23.49%
Number of salaries quoted 9042 11048 11038
Average salary £50,000 £48,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.09% -3.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
SSCP
England

SSCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London SSCP Salary Trend

SSCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SSCP across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London 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 London region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Beckenham - 2 £37,500 -
SSCP
England

SSCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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 33 (91.67%) CISSP
2 27 (75.00%) Information Security
3 25 (69.44%) Security Architecture
4 17 (47.22%) Finance
4 17 (47.22%) CISA
4 17 (47.22%) CISM
4 17 (47.22%) CEH
4 17 (47.22%) CISMP
5 15 (41.67%) Security Management
5 15 (41.67%) CRISC
5 15 (41.67%) Network Security
5 15 (41.67%) OWASP
6 14 (38.89%) GIAC
7 13 (36.11%) E-Commerce
8 12 (33.33%) Internet
9 11 (30.56%) Firewall
10 10 (27.78%) Identity Management
10 10 (27.78%) Billing
10 10 (27.78%) Cryptography
10 10 (27.78%) Penetration Testing
10 10 (27.78%) Spring
10 10 (27.78%) Software Engineering
10 10 (27.78%) Ruby
10 10 (27.78%) JSON
10 10 (27.78%) SOA
10 10 (27.78%) OOP
10 10 (27.78%) OO
10 10 (27.78%) Java
10 10 (27.78%) Perl
10 10 (27.78%) Spring Security

SSCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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 (27.78%) Spring
1 10 (27.78%) JSON
1 10 (27.78%) Spring Security
1 10 (27.78%) REST
2 5 (13.89%) .NET
3 2 (5.556%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (11.11%) IIS
2 2 (5.556%) MS Exchange
2 2 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2000
2 2 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 15 (41.67%) Network Security
2 12 (33.33%) Internet
3 11 (30.56%) Firewall
4 3 (8.333%) LAN
4 3 (8.333%) WAN
5 2 (5.556%) DHCP
5 2 (5.556%) VPN
5 2 (5.556%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) NoSQL
2 4 (11.11%) Data Mining
3 2 (5.556%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.556%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 17 (47.22%) Finance
2 10 (27.78%) Billing
3 2 (5.556%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) Senior Consultant
1 15 (41.67%) Consultant
1 15 (41.67%) Security Consultant
1 15 (41.67%) Information Security Consultant
1 15 (41.67%) Senior Security Consultant
1 15 (41.67%) Senior Information Security Consultant
2 10 (27.78%) Security Architect
2 10 (27.78%) Architect
3 5 (13.89%) Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Security Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Senior Manager
5 2 (5.556%) IT Security Analyst
5 2 (5.556%) Firewall Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Cryptography
1 10 (27.78%) SaaS
2 4 (11.11%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Windows
2 5 (13.89%) UNIX
3 4 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (8.333%) Linux
5 2 (5.556%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (5.556%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (75.00%) Information Security
2 25 (69.44%) Security Architecture
3 15 (41.67%) Security Management
3 15 (41.67%) OWASP
4 13 (36.11%) E-Commerce
5 10 (27.78%) Identity Management
5 10 (27.78%) Penetration Testing
5 10 (27.78%) Software Engineering
5 10 (27.78%) SOA
5 10 (27.78%) OOP
5 10 (27.78%) OO
5 10 (27.78%) Security Testing
6 4 (11.11%) Business Development
6 4 (11.11%) Analytics
6 4 (11.11%) Reverse Engineering
6 4 (11.11%) Cyber Security
7 2 (5.556%) ITIL
7 2 (5.556%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.78%) Ruby
1 10 (27.78%) Java
1 10 (27.78%) Perl
2 3 (8.333%) C#
3 2 (5.556%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (91.67%) CISSP
2 17 (47.22%) CISA
2 17 (47.22%) CISM
2 17 (47.22%) CEH
2 17 (47.22%) CISMP
3 15 (41.67%) CRISC
4 14 (38.89%) GIAC
5 4 (11.11%) Degree
5 4 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
6 3 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (8.333%) MCSE
7 2 (5.556%) CCSP
7 2 (5.556%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (5.556%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.78%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.556%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (5.556%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) MIIS
2 2 (5.556%) Nessus
2 2 (5.556%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) Cisco
3 2 (5.556%) Oracle
3 2 (5.556%) CheckPoint
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