JSP 440 Contract Job Trends in Wales

The Defence Manual of Security Issue 3 (JSP 440)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring JSP 440 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing JSP 440 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.26% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.61% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £625
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £91.00 £68.75 £72.69
% change year-on-year +32.36% -5.42% +32.16%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 62 80 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 16.06% 18.52% 15.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 40 44
10th Percentile £217 £161 £200
25th Percentile £296 £218 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £469 £419
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +11.94% -16.25%
75th Percentile £503 £544 £555
90th Percentile £571 £559 £585
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 10
10th Percentile - £17.02 -
25th Percentile - £22.84 £10.92
Median hourly rate £13.08 £27.50 £13.08
Median % change year-on-year -52.44% +110.24% -35.38%
75th Percentile £26.33 £28.75 £25.77
90th Percentile £57.88 £42.75 £28.77
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.84 £35.50
% change year-on-year +7.76% -21.58% +44.90%

JSP 440
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

JSP 440 job vacancy trend in Wales

JSP 440
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

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

JSP 440
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 10 October 2025. 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
South Wales - 1 - - 8
JSP 440
UK

JSP 440
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Def Stans
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800