SCCP Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Signaling Connection Control Part (SCCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SCCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SCCP 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.088% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £311 - -
25th Percentile £350 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £477 - -
90th Percentile £515 - -
UK median daily rate £413 £600 -
% change year-on-year -31.17% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

SCCP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,260 2,366 3,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.35% 16.02% 17.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,500 1,334 2,077
10th Percentile £200 £192 £205
25th Percentile £300 £314 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £683
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 119 268
10th Percentile £15.36 £15.22 £17.58
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.36 £24.19
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -38.04% +25.53%
75th Percentile £68.00 £63.13 £65.98
90th Percentile £83.60 £72.75 £75.38
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -2.86% -37.16% +35.75%

SCCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SCCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SCCP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SCCP
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SCCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SCCP

SCCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SCCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SCCP in the UK excluding London

SCCP
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SCCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SCCP

SCCP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCCP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 December 2025. 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
Yorkshire - 1 £540 -
South East - 1 £286 -
North of England - 1 £540 -
SCCP
UK

SCCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) MGCP
1 1 (50.00%) Telepresence
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
1 1 (50.00%) WebEx
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Audio Visual Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Implementation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft