JSP 440 Contracts in the South East

The Defence Manual of Security Issue 3 (JSP 440)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for JSP 440 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JSP 440 over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 202 217 239
Rank change year-on-year +15 +22 -45
Contract jobs citing JSP 440 2 6 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.036% 0.10% 0.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.23% 0.68% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 15
10th Percentile - £560 £513
25th Percentile - £575 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +21.14%
75th Percentile - £625 £588
90th Percentile - £640 -
England median daily rate £545 £625 £540
% change year-on-year -12.80% +15.74% -6.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

JSP 440 is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 864 885 1,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.49% 15.08% 16.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 554 807
10th Percentile £232 £200 £225
25th Percentile £363 £339 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -1.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £586
90th Percentile £641 £696 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 47 48
10th Percentile £10.82 £18.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £15.82 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.00 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +47.27% -17.45%
75th Percentile £46.25 £53.06 £36.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £49.36
England median hourly rate £20.61 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -51.52% +54.55% +31.26%

JSP 440
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing JSP 440 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for JSP 440 in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JSP 440 in the South East.

Daily rate trend for JSP 440 in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JSP 440 in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for JSP 440 in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSP 440 within the South East region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
Hampshire +8 2 - - 1
JSP 440
England

JSP 440
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) SQLAlchemy
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft