SSCP Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SSCP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 572 731 705
Rank change year-on-year +159 -26 +56
Permanent jobs citing SSCP 4 29 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.041% 0.085%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.019% 0.15% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3 28 48
10th Percentile £52,100 £48,500 -
25th Percentile £52,250 £55,563 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +60.00% -37.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile - £81,300 £68,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £68,750 £42,500
% change year-on-year -16.36% +61.76% -29.17%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 21,314 19,515 21,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.41% 27.48% 36.54%
Number of salaries quoted 8,928 12,241 8,204
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £51,603
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.11% +3.21%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,708 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +1.85% -9.28% +8.23%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for SSCP in the UK excluding London

SSCP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSCP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +37 3 £55,000 -8.33% 2
North West - 2 £55,000 - 2
North East +45 1 - -
East of England +39 1 £52,000 -20.00% 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) NGFW
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
1 1 (25.00%) VoIP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Aviation
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Register
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Network Management
3 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CISM
1 4 (100.00%) CISSP
2 3 (75.00%) CEH
2 3 (75.00%) CISA
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (50.00%) CRISC
3 2 (50.00%) GCIH
3 2 (50.00%) GIAC
3 2 (50.00%) GISF
3 2 (50.00%) ISACA
3 2 (50.00%) SANS
4 1 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (25.00%) CASP
4 1 (25.00%) CCSP
4 1 (25.00%) CISMP
4 1 (25.00%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (25.00%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Aruba
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) EMC
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) VMware