SSCP Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

(ISC)² Systems Security Certified Practitioner (ISC2 SSCP)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for SSCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SSCP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.35% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - £700 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Oxfordshire

SSCP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 114 30 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 39.58% 28.57% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 19 14
10th Percentile £226 £390 £157
25th Percentile £263 £444 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £663 £538
90th Percentile £588 £700 £587
South East median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.28% -2.32% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 4 12
10th Percentile £17.67 £25.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.34 £26.62 £30.31
Median hourly rate £25.45 £37.03 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.27% -24.04% +73.12%
75th Percentile £51.27 £46.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £53.75 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.13 £57.35
% change year-on-year -3.72% -0.39% +0.05%

SSCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SSCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

SSCP job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

SSCP
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSCP within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 30 April 2026. 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
Abingdon - 1 - -
SSCP
South East

SSCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Internal Audit
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CESG Certified Professional
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CRISC
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) GSEC
1 1 (100.00%) SANS
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 31000
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft