SLSA Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth 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 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SLSA 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 1.05% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.82% - -
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 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £638 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 34 39 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 11.89% 23.64% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 18 6
10th Percentile £475 £418 £400
25th Percentile £513 £430 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £517 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -23.44% +17.43%
75th Percentile £578 £550 £690
90th Percentile £625 £614 -
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £514 £570
% change year-on-year +11.87% -9.82% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 13
10th Percentile £51.00 - £64.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -21.43% +3.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.44 -
90th Percentile - £59.71 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -21.43% +5.66%

SLSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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