SSCP Contracts in England

(ISC)² Systems Security Certified Practitioner (ISC2 SSCP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SSCP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 653 760
Rank change year-on-year +126 +107 -147
Contract jobs citing SSCP 9 7 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.024% 0.014% 0.039%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.077% 0.050% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 23
10th Percentile - £390 £515
25th Percentile - £403 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -25.00% +48.15%
75th Percentile - £625 £638
90th Percentile - £715 -
UK median daily rate - £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +48.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £31.41 £31.41
UK median hourly rate - £50.96 £31.41
% change year-on-year - +62.23% -51.68%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

SSCP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,688 14,114 15,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.40% 27.77% 21.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,204 9,441 10,111
10th Percentile £301 £325 £315
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 971 770 698
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.94 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -1.81%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.56 £55.82
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £40.93
% change year-on-year -25.93% +31.94% +6.31%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SSCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SSCP in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSCP in England.

Daily rate trend for SSCP in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSCP in England.

Hourly rate trend for SSCP in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSCP within the England region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West - 8 - -
North of England +40 1 - - 5
North West - 1 - - 3
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
General
1 8 (88.89%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Architect
1 8 (88.89%) Lead
1 8 (88.89%) Lead Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Information Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) CESG
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (11.11%) Cyberattack
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (100.00%) Information Security
2 8 (88.89%) Information Assurance
2 8 (88.89%) Security Operations
3 1 (11.11%) Antivirus Management
3 1 (11.11%) Biomedicine
3 1 (11.11%) Biotechnology
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Data Privacy
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
3 1 (11.11%) IT Governance
3 1 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) SIEM
3 1 (11.11%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (11.11%) Threat Detection
3 1 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 8 (88.89%) CEH
2 8 (88.89%) CISA
2 8 (88.89%) CISM
2 8 (88.89%) CISMP
2 8 (88.89%) CISSP
2 8 (88.89%) ISACA
2 8 (88.89%) SC Cleared
2 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) GDPR
1 9 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 9 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (100.00%) NIST
1 9 (100.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (11.11%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft