JSP 440 Contract Job Trends in Somerset

The Defence Manual of Security Issue 3 (JSP 440)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring JSP 440 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JSP 440 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.30% - 1.47%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.04% - 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £671 - -
South West median daily rate £625 £575 £545
% change year-on-year +8.70% +5.50% -12.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.75
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £61.25
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £55.00 - £57.50
% change year-on-year - - -22.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Somerset

JSP 440 falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 49 28 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 14.58% 20.00% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 15 23
10th Percentile £370 £387 £186
25th Percentile £403 £447 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% +20.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £573 £638 £588
90th Percentile £671 £735 £621
South West median daily rate £500 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -3.61% -1.19% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 8
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile - - £12.18
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £12.62
Median % change year-on-year - - -74.76%
75th Percentile - - £12.81
90th Percentile - - £27.35
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +44.44% -29.85%

JSP 440
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JSP 440 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

JSP 440 job vacancy trend in Somerset

JSP 440
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing JSP 440.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing JSP 440

JSP 440
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing JSP 440.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing JSP 440

JSP 440
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Bath - 1 £671 -
JSP 440
South West

JSP 440
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Coordinator
1 1 (100.00%) Security Assurance Coordinator
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams