JSP 440 Job Trends in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring JSP 440 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 - 133
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing JSP 440 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.048% - 0.14%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.62% - 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £75,000
75th Percentile - - £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £67,500 £63,750 £69,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -7.61% -1.43%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East of England

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 325 571 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 7.80% 15.92% 13.45%
Number of salaries quoted 231 171 196
10th Percentile £30,370 £28,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £59,375 £74,542 £68,125
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +4.35%

JSP 440
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JSP 440 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

JSP 440 job vacancy trend in the East of England

JSP 440
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing JSP 440.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing JSP 440

JSP 440
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JSP 440 within the East of England region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire - 2 - - 5
JSP 440
England

JSP 440
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DMZ
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blog
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) ISMS
1 2 (100.00%) Key Management
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
1 2 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) GRC
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS