SLSA Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring SLSA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SLSA 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.16% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £617 - -
25th Percentile £617 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 - -
75th Percentile £656 - -
90th Percentile £656 - -
South East median daily rate £638 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hampshire

SLSA falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 237 145 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 12.95% 16.38% 10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 92 109
10th Percentile £410 £400 £350
25th Percentile £506 £442 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £514 £570
Median % change year-on-year +11.87% -9.82% +3.64%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £638
90th Percentile £736 £686 £673
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 18
10th Percentile - - £53.38
25th Percentile £38.25 £50.00 £66.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -21.43% +5.66%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.72 -
90th Percentile £66.88 £59.58 £75.75
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +40.00% -18.83% -2.61%

SLSA
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SLSA within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 7 July 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Portsmouth - 3 £638 -
SLSA
South East

SLSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
1 3 (100.00%) Lead Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Lead Security Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) SBOM
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 3 (100.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification