SABSA Contracts in England

Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SABSA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SABSA over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 493 567 658
Rank change year-on-year +74 +91 -98
Contract jobs citing SABSA 38 73 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.17% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 45 76
10th Percentile £608 £650 £572
25th Percentile £647 £675 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £722 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £764
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £700 £713 £700
% change year-on-year -1.75% +1.79% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

SABSA is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,464 43,415 63,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.38% 90.10% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,624 30,476 45,458
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,526 1,738
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

SABSA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SABSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SABSA in England

SABSA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SABSA in England.

Daily rate trend for SABSA in England

SABSA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SABSA in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SABSA in England

SABSA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SABSA in England.

Hourly rate trend for SABSA in England

SABSA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SABSA within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
London +68 30 £725 -3.33% 9
South East +29 4 £600 -9.77% 5
East of England - 1 - - 1
SABSA
UK

SABSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.63%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (34.21%) AWS
2 9 (23.68%) Azure
3 4 (10.53%) IaaS
3 4 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (10.53%) SaaS
4 3 (7.89%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.26%) GCP
5 2 (5.26%) PaaS
6 1 (2.63%) AWS IoT
6 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.68%) Network Security
2 2 (5.26%) Firewall
3 1 (2.63%) DNS
3 1 (2.63%) Internet
3 1 (2.63%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
General
1 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Finance
3 3 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Legal
5 1 (2.63%) Local Government
5 1 (2.63%) Military
5 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (73.68%) Architect
1 28 (73.68%) Security Architect
2 6 (15.79%) Senior
2 6 (15.79%) Senior Architect
2 6 (15.79%) Senior Security Architect
3 3 (7.89%) Consultant
3 3 (7.89%) Information Officer
3 3 (7.89%) Information Security Officer
3 3 (7.89%) Security Consultant
3 3 (7.89%) Security Officer
4 2 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 2 (5.26%) IT Architect
4 2 (5.26%) IT Security Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Security Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Security Technical Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Technical Architect
5 1 (2.63%) Firewall Architect
5 1 (2.63%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.89%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (7.89%) IoT
2 3 (7.89%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.26%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.26%) Industry 4.0
3 2 (5.26%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) Security Architecture
2 24 (63.16%) Information Security
3 21 (55.26%) TOGAF
4 13 (34.21%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (34.21%) Security Management
5 12 (31.58%) Information Assurance
5 12 (31.58%) Information Security Management
6 10 (26.32%) Architectural Patterns
6 10 (26.32%) Cloud Security
6 10 (26.32%) Risk Assessment
6 10 (26.32%) Risk Management
7 5 (13.16%) Agile
7 5 (13.16%) Data Protection
7 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (7.89%) Ethical Hacking
8 3 (7.89%) IT Strategy
8 3 (7.89%) Project Delivery
9 2 (5.26%) Business Agility
9 2 (5.26%) DevSecOps
Qualifications
1 28 (73.68%) CISSP
2 21 (55.26%) CISM
3 20 (52.63%) CISA
4 18 (47.37%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (42.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 13 (34.21%) CCSK
7 9 (23.68%) Security Cleared
7 9 (23.68%) TOGAF Certification
8 8 (21.05%) CCSP
8 8 (21.05%) CREST Certified
8 8 (21.05%) CRISC
9 7 (18.42%) CEH
9 7 (18.42%) GIAC
10 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
11 5 (13.16%) Degree
12 4 (10.53%) SANS
13 3 (7.89%) CCNP
14 2 (5.26%) CCNA
14 2 (5.26%) FFIEC
14 2 (5.26%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (57.89%) NIST
2 21 (55.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (31.58%) NCSC
4 10 (26.32%) NIST 800
5 8 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 4 (10.53%) GDPR
6 4 (10.53%) PCI DSS
7 2 (5.26%) COBIT
7 2 (5.26%) ISO 31000
7 2 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (2.63%) GRC
8 1 (2.63%) ISO 22301
8 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (2.63%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.63%) Firmware
1 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (5.26%) QRadar
2 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Cisco
3 2 (5.26%) Splunk
4 1 (2.63%) AlienVault
4 1 (2.63%) Citrix
4 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.63%) VMware