SSCP Job Trends in Cambridge

(ISC)² Systems Security Certified Practitioner (ISC2 SSCP)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridge with a requirement for SSCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 8 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SSCP 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.17% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.41% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridge

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

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 245 149 309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 40.63% 39.01% 34.14%
Number of salaries quoted 105 63 193
10th Percentile £30,370 £31,250 £28,934
25th Percentile £34,750 £43,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £64,450 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,615 £78,750 £85,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

SSCP job vacancy trend in Cambridge

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Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing SSCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing SSCP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Compliance Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Governance Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Compliance Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Internal Audit
1 1 (100.00%) IT Audit
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISA
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 31000
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google