Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 616 709
Rank change year-on-year +92 +93 -118
Contract jobs citing SABSA 55 84 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.16% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 49 104
10th Percentile £525 £588 £495
25th Percentile £600 £650 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £760 £750 £770
90th Percentile £855 £800 £843
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £600 £675
% change year-on-year +4.08% -11.11% +17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

SABSA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SABSA in the UK

SABSA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SABSA in the UK

SABSA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SABSA over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SABSA in the UK

SABSA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SABSA in the UK

SABSA
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SABSA within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England +99 49 £725 +3.57% 11
London +101 40 £725 -3.33% 5
Work from Home +93 23 £725 -3.33% 3
UK excluding London +58 6 £625 +4.08% 7
South East +18 3 £600 -7.69% 4
East of England - 2 £649 - 2
South West - 1 £725 -

SABSA
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.82%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (34.55%) AWS
1 19 (34.55%) Azure
2 7 (12.73%) GCP
2 7 (12.73%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (10.91%) IaaS
4 5 (9.09%) SaaS
5 2 (3.64%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.64%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.82%) AWS IoT
6 1 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.82%) PaaS
6 1 (1.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (27.27%) Network Security
2 11 (20.00%) Firewall
3 7 (12.73%) DNS
4 4 (7.27%) DHCP
4 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
4 4 (7.27%) VLAN
4 4 (7.27%) VPN
5 2 (3.64%) NGFW
6 1 (1.82%) Internet
6 1 (1.82%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
General
1 17 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.73%) Finance
3 6 (10.91%) Local Government
4 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.64%) Legal
5 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Banking
6 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Military
6 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (67.27%) Architect
1 37 (67.27%) Security Architect
2 11 (20.00%) Senior
3 9 (16.36%) Senior Architect
3 9 (16.36%) Senior Security Architect
4 7 (12.73%) Consultant
4 7 (12.73%) Security Consultant
5 4 (7.27%) Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) IT Architect
5 4 (7.27%) IT Security Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Security Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 3 (5.45%) Information Officer
6 3 (5.45%) Information Security Officer
6 3 (5.45%) Security Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Security Officer
7 2 (3.64%) Senior Security Consultant
7 2 (3.64%) Senior Technical Consultant
7 2 (3.64%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.64%) Management Information System
2 10 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (5.45%) Cyber Security Posture
3 3 (5.45%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.45%) IoT
3 3 (5.45%) Operational Technology
3 3 (5.45%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.64%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.82%) NHS
5 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (69.09%) Security Architecture
2 33 (60.00%) Information Security
3 28 (50.91%) TOGAF
4 22 (40.00%) Cloud Security
5 21 (38.18%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (30.91%) Risk Management
7 13 (23.64%) Security Management
8 12 (21.82%) Information Assurance
8 12 (21.82%) Information Security Management
9 11 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
9 11 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
10 8 (14.55%) Agile
10 8 (14.55%) Decision-Making
10 8 (14.55%) Roadmaps
11 6 (10.91%) Computer Science
11 6 (10.91%) Data Loss Prevention
12 5 (9.09%) Business Strategy
12 5 (9.09%) Data Protection
12 5 (9.09%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 43 (78.18%) CISSP
2 33 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
3 29 (52.73%) CISM
4 28 (50.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 27 (49.09%) CISA
6 20 (36.36%) CCSK
7 14 (25.45%) CRISC
7 14 (25.45%) Degree
8 13 (23.64%) Security Cleared
9 11 (20.00%) CEH
9 11 (20.00%) GIAC
10 9 (16.36%) CCSP
10 9 (16.36%) TOGAF Certification
11 8 (14.55%) CREST Certified
12 7 (12.73%) SANS
12 7 (12.73%) SC Cleared
13 5 (9.09%) CCNA
14 4 (7.27%) APMP
14 4 (7.27%) FFIEC
14 4 (7.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (56.36%) NIST
2 27 (49.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (29.09%) NCSC
4 15 (27.27%) NIST 800
5 10 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 8 (14.55%) PCI DSS
7 4 (7.27%) GDPR
7 4 (7.27%) ISO 31000
8 3 (5.45%) ISO 22301
8 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (3.64%) COBIT
9 2 (3.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (1.82%) GRC
10 1 (1.82%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.82%) Firmware
2 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.82%) QRadar
1 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.45%) Cisco
3 2 (3.64%) Zscaler
4 1 (1.82%) AlienVault
4 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.82%) Sparx
4 1 (1.82%) Splunk
4 1 (1.82%) VMware