SSCP Contracts in the North of England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for SSCP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 186 215 240
Rank change year-on-year +29 +25 -56
Contract jobs citing SSCP 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.021% 0.017% 0.042%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.081% 0.067% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £381 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £388 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -38.00% -21.88%
75th Percentile - £394 £644
90th Percentile - - £648
England median daily rate - £450 £600
% change year-on-year - -25.00% +48.15%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,239 1,487 1,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.24% 25.65% 20.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 686 1,054 979
10th Percentile £300 £321 £200
25th Percentile £415 £431 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +8.25% +7.78%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £588
90th Percentile £725 £700 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 69 83
10th Percentile £10.95 £20.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.16 £25.00 £16.44
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.00 £32.37
Median % change year-on-year -59.85% +23.57% +22.17%
75th Percentile £39.54 £52.13 £49.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.75 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £38.90
% change year-on-year -23.81% +34.98% +1.34%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SSCP in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for SSCP in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for SSCP in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
North West - 1 - -
SSCP
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Biotechnology
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) IT Governance
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft