SABSA Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring SABSA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SABSA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.16% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £513 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

SABSA falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 561 409 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.21% 89.69% 91.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 239 237
10th Percentile £268 £316 £265
25th Percentile £356 £374 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.69% -4.40% +11.11%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £550
90th Percentile £683 £650 £588
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 23 24
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £14.60
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.00 £17.14
Median hourly rate £22.85 £24.18 £21.84
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +10.71% +43.21%
75th Percentile £40.00 £33.75 £35.19
90th Percentile £71.65 £84.30 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £31.75 £31.25 £35.50
% change year-on-year +1.60% -11.97% +33.81%

SABSA
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SABSA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

SABSA job vacancy trend in Cheshire

SABSA
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing SABSA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing SABSA

SABSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Security Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk