SCCP Job Trends

Signaling Connection Control Part (SCCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SCCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 649 - 711
Rank change year-on-year - - +320
Permanent jobs citing SCCP 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.003% - 0.004%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.021% - 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

SCCP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,650 7,299 7,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.31% 13.22% 14.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,954 3,825 6,131
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -32.00% +11.11% -

SCCP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SCCP job vacancy trend in the UK

SCCP
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SCCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SCCP

SCCP
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCCP within the UK over the 6 months to 1 January 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
London - 2 £70,000 -
England - 2 £70,000 -
Work from Home - 1 - -

SCCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aviation
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce