The first table below looks at the demand for SSCP in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SSCP over the 3 months to 24 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
(ISC)² Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
Rank 840 880 867
Rank change year-on-year
+40 -13
Permanent jobs citing SSCP 22 19 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.020% 0.016% 0.011%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.074% 0.057% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 13
Average salary £62,500 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+47.05% -5.55%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
- -5.55%
All Qualifications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
29882 33504 32557
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 27.65% 27.76% 26.17%
Number of salaries quoted 24050 28534 27195
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £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
Jobs Demand Trend

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

SSCP Jobs Demand Trend

SSCP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SSCP within the UK.

SSCP Salary Trend

SSCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SSCP over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

SSCP Salary Histogram

SSCP
Top 14 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 UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England +25 18 £58,750 +34.28%
London +61 13 £62,500 -12.28%
Edinburgh +8 3 £80,000 +146.15%
Scotland +4 3 £80,000 +146.15%
Essex +18 2 £41,750 -
East of England +4 2 £41,750 -
Leeds - 2 £22,500 -
Yorkshire - 2 £22,500 -
West Yorkshire - 2 £22,500 -
Beckenham - 2 £37,500 -
South East +2 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Newbury - 1 - -
Chelmsford - 1 £41,000 -

SSCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SSCP.

1 55 (87.30%) CISSP
2 37 (58.73%) Information Security
3 28 (44.44%) CISM
4 26 (41.27%) CEH
5 24 (38.10%) Security Architecture
6 23 (36.51%) GIAC
6 23 (36.51%) Firewall
6 23 (36.51%) Finance
7 22 (34.92%) Security Management
8 20 (31.75%) CISA
9 16 (25.40%) CISMP
9 16 (25.40%) PCI DSS
10 15 (23.81%) CRISC
10 15 (23.81%) Windows
11 14 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
11 14 (22.22%) Network Security
11 14 (22.22%) OWASP
12 13 (20.63%) Cryptography
12 13 (20.63%) E-Commerce
13 12 (19.05%) Internet
13 12 (19.05%) UNIX
13 12 (19.05%) ITIL
13 12 (19.05%) Perl
13 12 (19.05%) Management Information System
14 11 (17.46%) Degree
15 10 (15.87%) JSON
15 10 (15.87%) Spring Security
15 10 (15.87%) Spring
15 10 (15.87%) Software Engineering
15 10 (15.87%) Ruby

SSCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SSCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (15.87%) JSON
1 10 (15.87%) Spring Security
1 10 (15.87%) Spring
1 10 (15.87%) REST
2 5 (7.937%) .NET
3 2 (3.175%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (6.349%) IIS
2 2 (3.175%) Exchange Server 2000
2 2 (3.175%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (3.175%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (3.175%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (6.349%) MS Office
2 1 (1.587%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 23 (36.51%) Firewall
2 14 (22.22%) Network Security
3 12 (19.05%) Internet
4 7 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
5 6 (9.524%) LAN
5 6 (9.524%) WAN
6 4 (6.349%) NetScaler
7 3 (4.762%) DNS
7 3 (4.762%) DHCP
8 2 (3.175%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.87%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.349%) Data Mining
3 2 (3.175%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (3.175%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (3.175%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.175%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 23 (36.51%) Finance
2 10 (15.87%) Billing
3 4 (6.349%) Marketing
4 2 (3.175%) Banking
4 2 (3.175%) Publishing
5 1 (1.587%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.587%) Law
Job Titles
1 24 (38.10%) Consultant
2 20 (31.75%) Security Consultant
3 16 (25.40%) Senior Consultant
4 14 (22.22%) Information Security Consultant
4 14 (22.22%) Senior Security Consultant
4 14 (22.22%) Senior Information Security Consultant
5 13 (20.63%) Security Analyst
5 13 (20.63%) Analyst
6 10 (15.87%) Security Architect
6 10 (15.87%) Architect
7 7 (11.11%) Team Leader
8 5 (7.937%) Senior Manager
9 4 (6.349%) IT Security Consultant
9 4 (6.349%) Network Consultant
9 4 (6.349%) IT Consultant
10 3 (4.762%) Security Manager
11 2 (3.175%) Change Manager
11 2 (3.175%) Senior Network Consultant
11 2 (3.175%) Firewall Specialist
11 2 (3.175%) Information Security Officer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.63%) Cryptography
2 12 (19.05%) Management Information System
3 10 (15.87%) SaaS
4 5 (7.937%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.587%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.81%) Windows
2 12 (19.05%) UNIX
3 5 (7.937%) Linux
4 4 (6.349%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (3.175%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (3.175%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (1.587%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.587%) Windows 8
6 1 (1.587%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (58.73%) Information Security
2 24 (38.10%) Security Architecture
3 22 (34.92%) Security Management
4 14 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
4 14 (22.22%) OWASP
5 13 (20.63%) E-Commerce
6 12 (19.05%) ITIL
7 10 (15.87%) Software Engineering
7 10 (15.87%) Identity Management
7 10 (15.87%) OOP
7 10 (15.87%) OO
7 10 (15.87%) SOA
7 10 (15.87%) Security Testing
8 8 (12.70%) SIEM
9 6 (9.524%) Cyber Security
10 5 (7.937%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 5 (7.937%) Information Security Management
11 4 (6.349%) Risk Management
11 4 (6.349%) Business Development
11 4 (6.349%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.05%) Perl
2 10 (15.87%) Ruby
2 10 (15.87%) Java
3 3 (4.762%) C#
4 2 (3.175%) SQL
4 2 (3.175%) Python
Qualifications
1 55 (87.30%) CISSP
2 28 (44.44%) CISM
3 26 (41.27%) CEH
4 23 (36.51%) GIAC
5 20 (31.75%) CISA
6 16 (25.40%) CISMP
7 15 (23.81%) CRISC
8 11 (17.46%) Degree
9 9 (14.29%) Security Cleared
9 9 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (14.29%) MCSE
10 7 (11.11%) GCIH
11 5 (7.937%) SC Cleared
11 5 (7.937%) CCSP
11 5 (7.937%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (6.349%) GCFA
12 4 (6.349%) Citrix Certification
12 4 (6.349%) CCEA
12 4 (6.349%) DV Cleared
12 4 (6.349%) GCED
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (25.40%) PCI DSS
2 6 (9.524%) COBIT
3 4 (6.349%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.175%) COSO
5 1 (1.587%) BS7799
System Software
1 3 (4.762%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.349%) MIIS
2 2 (3.175%) Nessus
2 2 (3.175%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.587%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 8 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.524%) Cisco
3 3 (4.762%) Citrix
3 3 (4.762%) Juniper
4 2 (3.175%) CheckPoint
4 2 (3.175%) Oracle
5 1 (1.587%) ArcSight
5 1 (1.587%) LogLogic
5 1 (1.587%) Q1 Labs
5 1 (1.587%) HP
5 1 (1.587%) EMC
5 1 (1.587%) Symantec
5 1 (1.587%) McAfee
5 1 (1.587%) Novell
5 1 (1.587%) Tripwire
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