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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 590 729
Rank change year-on-year +64 +139 -112
Contract jobs citing SABSA 44 100 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.20% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 61 92
10th Percentile £525 £600 £491
25th Percentile £600 £650 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £770
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £650 £750
% change year-on-year -7.69% -13.33% +21.95%
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 36,537 50,741 79,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 89.71% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,555 35,132 55,704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 1,680 1,899
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

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 23 May 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 6 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 23 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
England +53 38 £722 +1.37% 5
London +60 30 £725 -3.33% 4
Work from Home +85 21 £725 -3.33% 2
UK excluding London +44 5 £600 -7.69% 2
South East +10 4 £600 -9.77% 1
East of England - 1 - - 1

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 (2.27%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.09%) AWS
2 11 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (9.09%) GCP
3 4 (9.09%) IaaS
3 4 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (9.09%) SaaS
4 3 (6.82%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.55%) PaaS
6 1 (2.27%) AWS IoT
6 1 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (34.09%) Network Security
2 8 (18.18%) Firewall
3 7 (15.91%) DNS
4 4 (9.09%) DHCP
4 4 (9.09%) TCP/IP
4 4 (9.09%) VLAN
4 4 (9.09%) VPN
5 2 (4.55%) NGFW
6 1 (2.27%) Internet
6 1 (2.27%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
General
1 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Finance
4 3 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Legal
6 1 (2.27%) Military
6 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (65.91%) Architect
1 29 (65.91%) Security Architect
2 6 (13.64%) Senior
2 6 (13.64%) Senior Architect
2 6 (13.64%) Senior Security Architect
3 5 (11.36%) Analyst
4 4 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 4 (9.09%) Security Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) Consultant
5 3 (6.82%) Information Officer
5 3 (6.82%) Information Security Officer
5 3 (6.82%) Security Consultant
5 3 (6.82%) Security Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Security Officer
6 2 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (4.55%) IT Architect
6 2 (4.55%) IT Security Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Network Security Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Security Technical Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.73%) Management Information System
2 8 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (6.82%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.82%) IoT
3 3 (6.82%) Operational Technology
3 3 (6.82%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.55%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (4.55%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.27%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (63.64%) Information Security
1 28 (63.64%) Security Architecture
2 25 (56.82%) TOGAF
3 18 (40.91%) Cybersecurity
4 14 (31.82%) Risk Management
5 13 (29.55%) Security Management
6 12 (27.27%) Information Assurance
6 12 (27.27%) Information Security Management
7 11 (25.00%) Cloud Security
8 10 (22.73%) Architectural Patterns
8 10 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (22.73%) Risk Assessment
9 8 (18.18%) Roadmaps
10 6 (13.64%) Agile
10 6 (13.64%) Decision-Making
10 6 (13.64%) SIEM
11 5 (11.36%) Data Protection
11 5 (11.36%) DevOps
11 5 (11.36%) Mentoring
11 5 (11.36%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 34 (77.27%) CISSP
2 26 (59.09%) CISM
3 24 (54.55%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (45.45%) CISA
5 18 (40.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 13 (29.55%) CCSK
6 13 (29.55%) Security Cleared
7 11 (25.00%) CEH
8 10 (22.73%) CCSP
8 10 (22.73%) Degree
9 9 (20.45%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (18.18%) CREST Certified
10 8 (18.18%) CRISC
11 7 (15.91%) GIAC
12 6 (13.64%) CCNA
12 6 (13.64%) SC Cleared
13 4 (9.09%) APMP
13 4 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (9.09%) PMP
13 4 (9.09%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (47.73%) NIST
2 20 (45.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (25.00%) NCSC
4 10 (22.73%) NIST 800
5 8 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 4 (9.09%) GDPR
6 4 (9.09%) PCI DSS
7 2 (4.55%) COBIT
7 2 (4.55%) ISO 31000
7 2 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (2.27%) GRC
8 1 (2.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.55%) QRadar
3 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.82%) Cisco
3 2 (4.55%) Splunk
3 2 (4.55%) Zscaler
4 1 (2.27%) AlienVault
4 1 (2.27%) Citrix
4 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.27%) VMware