SABSA Contracts with Work from Home Options

Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 414 522
Rank change year-on-year +91 +108 -79
Contract jobs citing SABSA 24 53 97
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.21% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.24% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 34 76
10th Percentile £525 £574 £489
25th Percentile £563 £631 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £770
90th Percentile £755 £818 £813
UK median daily rate £663 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -5.36% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

SABSA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SABSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SABSA trend for jobs with a WFH option

SABSA
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SABSA.

SABSA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SABSA
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SABSA over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

SABSA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SABSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.17%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (58.33%) Network Security
2 6 (25.00%) Firewall
3 5 (20.83%) DNS
4 4 (16.67%) DHCP
4 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 4 (16.67%) VLAN
4 4 (16.67%) VPN
5 1 (4.17%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Legal
4 1 (4.17%) Local Government
4 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (75.00%) Architect
1 18 (75.00%) Security Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Security Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) IT Architect
4 1 (4.17%) IT Security Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Security Technical Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Network Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) Information Security
2 19 (79.17%) Security Architecture
2 19 (79.17%) TOGAF
3 11 (45.83%) Architectural Patterns
3 11 (45.83%) Information Security Management
3 11 (45.83%) Security Management
4 10 (41.67%) Information Assurance
4 10 (41.67%) Risk Assessment
5 9 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (29.17%) Risk Management
7 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
8 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
8 5 (20.83%) IT Strategy
8 5 (20.83%) SIEM
9 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
9 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 4 (16.67%) Project Management
9 4 (16.67%) Project Planning
9 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 21 (87.50%) CISSP
2 17 (70.83%) CISM
3 11 (45.83%) CISA
4 9 (37.50%) TOGAF Certification
5 8 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (33.33%) CREST Certified
5 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
6 6 (25.00%) Degree
7 5 (20.83%) CCNA
7 5 (20.83%) CEH
8 4 (16.67%) APMP
8 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (16.67%) PMP
8 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
9 3 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (12.50%) CCSP
10 2 (8.33%) CCSK
11 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
11 1 (4.17%) CRISC
11 1 (4.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (50.00%) NIST
2 11 (45.83%) NCSC
3 2 (8.33%) COBIT
3 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (8.33%) NIST 800
3 2 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (4.17%) GDPR
4 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) QRadar
1 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
2 1 (4.17%) Sparx
2 1 (4.17%) Splunk
2 1 (4.17%) VMware
2 1 (4.17%) Zscaler