SSCP Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SSCP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.13% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.47% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £510 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - -
75th Percentile £530 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £520 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +80.65%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 214 192 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.27% 22.61% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 145 177
10th Percentile £340 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -15.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £574 £550 £638
90th Percentile £668 £600 £708
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -2.02% -5.71% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 3
10th Percentile - £15.46 £27.42
25th Percentile - £20.88 £28.39
Median hourly rate - £38.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +29.17% +66.67%
75th Percentile - £42.50 £30.04
90th Percentile - £49.38 £30.06
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £28.39
% change year-on-year -37.13% +40.89% +57.72%

SSCP
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing SSCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for SSCP in West Yorkshire

SSCP
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

SSCP
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Leeds - 1 £520 -
SSCP
Yorkshire

SSCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) GCIA
1 1 (100.00%) GCIH
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid7