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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring JSP 440 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited JSP 440 over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 582 844 867
Rank change year-on-year +262 +23 +260
Permanent jobs citing JSP 440 132 64 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.058% 0.074%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.43% 0.46% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4 31 65
10th Percentile £62,900 £53,750 £55,200
25th Percentile £64,250 £58,520 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £63,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -2.31% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,188 £71,875 £76,250
90th Percentile £83,875 £82,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £61,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +26.02% -5.38% +1.56%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,209 14,012 16,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.51% 12.80% 18.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,645 9,281 8,354
10th Percentile £30,580 £26,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,500 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +3.09%

JSP 440
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JSP 440 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JSP 440 in the UK

JSP 440
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JSP 440.

Salary trend for JSP 440 in the UK

JSP 440
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JSP 440 over the 6 months to 12 June 2025.

Salary histogram for JSP 440 in the UK

JSP 440
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JSP 440 within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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
England +226 132 £71,250 +14.00% 44
UK excluding London +263 131 £77,500 +26.02% 42
Midlands +199 124 - -
West Midlands +151 84 - -
East Midlands - 40 - -
Work from Home +105 11 £77,500 +28.73% 18
South West +78 6 £71,250 +18.35% 16
London +101 1 £64,000 -20.00% 2
South East +90 1 £85,000 +25.93% 3

JSP 440
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

General
1 2 (1.52%) Military
2 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
2 1 (0.76%) Retail
2 1 (0.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 125 (94.70%) Security Engineer
2 119 (90.15%) Principal Engineer
2 119 (90.15%) Principal Security Engineer
3 60 (45.45%) Product Engineer
4 59 (44.70%) Analyst
4 59 (44.70%) Principal Security Analyst
4 59 (44.70%) Product Analyst
4 59 (44.70%) Security Analyst
5 6 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 4 (3.03%) Architect
6 4 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.52%) Malware Engineer
7 2 (1.52%) Senior
8 1 (0.76%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 1 (0.76%) Planning Manager
8 1 (0.76%) Security Assurance Coordinator
8 1 (0.76%) Security Consultant
8 1 (0.76%) Senior Manager
8 1 (0.76%) Senior Planning Manager
8 1 (0.76%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.76%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (99.24%) Cybersecurity
2 125 (94.70%) Risk Management
3 120 (90.91%) Project Management
4 119 (90.15%) Cyber Resilience
4 119 (90.15%) Information Security
4 119 (90.15%) Security Testing
5 5 (3.79%) Compliance Management
5 5 (3.79%) ITIL
5 5 (3.79%) Problem Management
6 4 (3.03%) Business Case
6 4 (3.03%) DevOps
6 4 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (3.03%) Roadmaps
6 4 (3.03%) SOA
6 4 (3.03%) Software Engineering
7 2 (1.52%) Data Loss Prevention
7 2 (1.52%) EAM
7 2 (1.52%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (1.52%) Vulnerability Management
8 1 (0.76%) Information Management
Qualifications
1 125 (94.70%) CISM
1 125 (94.70%) CISSP
2 120 (90.91%) CESG Certified Professional
3 119 (90.15%) BPSS Clearance
3 119 (90.15%) Degree
4 13 (9.85%) Security Cleared
5 8 (6.06%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.79%) CISA
6 5 (3.79%) GIAC
6 5 (3.79%) ISACA
6 5 (3.79%) SANS
7 2 (1.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (93.18%) NIST
2 120 (90.91%) RMADS
3 119 (90.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.55%) GRC
4 6 (4.55%) NCSC
5 4 (3.03%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 2 (1.52%) Nessus
2 1 (0.76%) OPNET
Vendors
1 2 (1.52%) Tenable
2 1 (0.76%) Palantir