SSCP Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SSCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 361 426
Rank change year-on-year -11 +65 +86
Contract jobs citing SSCP 1 10 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.007% 0.054% 0.004%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.019% 0.15% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £434 -
25th Percentile £713 £484 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% - -
75th Percentile £738 £541 -
90th Percentile - £546 -
UK median daily rate £565 £525 £425
% change year-on-year +7.62% +23.53% -32.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £31.41
UK median hourly rate - - £31.41

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,364 6,663 7,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.07% 36.00% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,167 4,020 4,608
10th Percentile £213 £290 £308
25th Percentile £385 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £638
90th Percentile £675 £713 £706
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 632 767 535
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.19 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% -14.29% +18.11%
75th Percentile £52.13 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.70 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £55.41
% change year-on-year -41.51% -22.40% +23.13%

SSCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SSCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SSCP in the UK excluding London

SSCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SSCP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SSCP in the UK excluding London

SSCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SSCP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SSCP in the UK excluding London

SSCP
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 SSCP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
South West +23 1 £725 - 1
SSCP
UK

SSCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Stack
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle