SSCP Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire with a requirement for SSCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SSCP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.084% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £565 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 218 67 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 18.40% 14.50% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 41 42
10th Percentile £402 £322 £375
25th Percentile £457 £360 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £606 £550 £576
90th Percentile £688 £650 £673
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.09% -2.05% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 0
10th Percentile £21.33 - -
25th Percentile £21.77 - -
Median hourly rate £25.77 £18.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +39.30% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £25.11 £15.09
% change year-on-year +2.62% +66.47% -42.54%

SSCP
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

SSCP job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

SSCP
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing SSCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing SSCP

SSCP
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SSCP within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 June 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
Sheffield - 1 £565 - 1
SSCP
Yorkshire

SSCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FIDO
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) iSeries
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Okta