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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SABSA 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.88% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £560 - -
25th Percentile £620 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 - -
75th Percentile £709 - -
90th Percentile £737 - -
North West median daily rate £639 - -

All Process & 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 602 407 464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.53% 92.92% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 245 306
10th Percentile £311 £291 £265
25th Percentile £358 £356 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £553
90th Percentile £686 £647 £610
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 34 35
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.61 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.56 £24.18 £16.97
Median hourly rate £22.85 £32.95 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -30.65% +39.56% +18.05%
75th Percentile £41.50 £83.31 £39.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £25.30
% change year-on-year +38.46% +28.46% -32.53%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SABSA in Cheshire over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SABSA in Cheshire

SABSA
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SABSA within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 5 March 2026. 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
Knutsford - 5 £700 - 2
SABSA
North West

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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) Apigee
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure API Management
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Kong
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) JWT
1 2 (33.33%) OAuth
1 2 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 2 (33.33%) OpenID
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Security Architecture
2 4 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) B2B
3 3 (50.00%) B2C
3 3 (50.00%) Biometrics
3 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) API Development
4 2 (33.33%) API Integration
4 2 (33.33%) API Management
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) OWASP
4 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
4 2 (33.33%) SIEM
4 2 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
5 1 (16.67%) Information Security
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
2 2 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) GIAC
3 1 (16.67%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (16.67%) CyberArk