SSCP Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

(ISC)² Systems Security Certified Practitioner (ISC2 SSCP)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SSCP 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.100% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.32% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median annual salary - - £65,000

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 308 263 431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 30.74% 39.20% 32.65%
Number of salaries quoted 134 106 281
10th Percentile £30,199 £32,583 £26,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £46,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £74,375 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £78,750 £80,250
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -

SSCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

SSCP job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

SSCP
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing SSCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing SSCP

SSCP
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSCP within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 8 March 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge - 1 - - 1
SSCP
East of England

SSCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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