SABSA Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring SABSA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SABSA 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.51% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £679 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £683 - -
75th Percentile £686 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £683 £625 -
% change year-on-year +9.20% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 536 562 803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.00% 92.89% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 297 484
10th Percentile £216 £227 £212
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £550
90th Percentile £663 £633 £634
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 30 13
10th Percentile £17.23 £20.23 £12.14
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.01 £16.00
Median hourly rate £18.94 £23.59 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.73% +34.80% -17.69%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.18 £35.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £28.97 £59.94
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £18.41
% change year-on-year -15.22% +28.14% -1.15%

SABSA
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

SABSA job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

SABSA
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing SABSA

SABSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Snyk
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 3 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 3 (100.00%) UML
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Interactive Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 2 (66.67%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (66.67%) SBOM
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CISM
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) BiZZdesign
2 2 (66.67%) Black Duck
2 2 (66.67%) Checkmarx
2 2 (66.67%) Tenable
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Fortinet