SABSA Contracts in England

Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring SABSA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SABSA over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 549 684
Rank change year-on-year +34 +135 -118
Contract jobs citing SABSA 35 87 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.093% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.21% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 59 74
10th Percentile £605 £623 £564
25th Percentile £650 £663 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £768
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £715 £700 £700
% change year-on-year +2.14% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

SABSA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SABSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SABSA in England

SABSA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SABSA in England.

Daily rate trend for SABSA in England

SABSA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SABSA in England over the 6 months to 25 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SABSA in England

SABSA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SABSA in England.

Hourly rate trend for SABSA in England

SABSA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SABSA within the England region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
London +42 28 £725 -3.33% 8
South East +7 4 £600 -10.45% 3
East of England +5 1 - -
SABSA
UK

SABSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (34.29%) AWS
2 8 (22.86%) Azure
3 4 (11.43%) IaaS
3 4 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (11.43%) SaaS
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.71%) GCP
5 2 (5.71%) PaaS
6 1 (2.86%) AWS IoT
6 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.71%) Network Security
2 2 (5.71%) Firewall
3 1 (2.86%) DNS
3 1 (2.86%) Internet
3 1 (2.86%) SNMP
General
1 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Finance
3 3 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Military
5 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (71.43%) Architect
1 25 (71.43%) Security Architect
2 6 (17.14%) Senior
2 6 (17.14%) Senior Architect
2 6 (17.14%) Senior Security Architect
3 3 (8.57%) Consultant
3 3 (8.57%) Information Officer
3 3 (8.57%) Information Security Officer
3 3 (8.57%) Security Consultant
3 3 (8.57%) Security Officer
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) IT Architect
4 2 (5.71%) IT Security Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Security Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Firewall Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Network Security Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Security Technical Architect
5 1 (2.86%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.71%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.57%) IoT
2 3 (8.57%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.71%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (5.71%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.71%) Industry 4.0
3 2 (5.71%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (65.71%) Information Security
1 23 (65.71%) Security Architecture
2 18 (51.43%) TOGAF
3 13 (37.14%) Security Management
4 12 (34.29%) Information Assurance
4 12 (34.29%) Information Security Management
5 11 (31.43%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
6 10 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
6 10 (28.57%) Risk Management
7 9 (25.71%) Cloud Security
8 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (8.57%) Agile
9 3 (8.57%) Data Protection
9 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Architecture
9 3 (8.57%) Ethical Hacking
9 3 (8.57%) Investment Management
10 2 (5.71%) Penetration Testing
10 2 (5.71%) Time Management
10 2 (5.71%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 26 (74.29%) CISSP
2 20 (57.14%) CISM
3 19 (54.29%) CISA
4 18 (51.43%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (45.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 13 (37.14%) CCSK
7 9 (25.71%) Security Cleared
8 8 (22.86%) CCSP
8 8 (22.86%) CREST Certified
8 8 (22.86%) CRISC
8 8 (22.86%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (20.00%) GIAC
10 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
11 5 (14.29%) CEH
11 5 (14.29%) Degree
12 4 (11.43%) SANS
13 3 (8.57%) CCNP
14 2 (5.71%) CCNA
14 2 (5.71%) FFIEC
14 2 (5.71%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (54.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (51.43%) NIST
3 11 (31.43%) NCSC
4 9 (25.71%) NIST 800
5 8 (22.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 4 (11.43%) GDPR
6 4 (11.43%) PCI DSS
7 2 (5.71%) COBIT
7 2 (5.71%) ISO 31000
7 2 (5.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (2.86%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (2.86%) GRC
8 1 (2.86%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.71%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) Cisco
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Splunk
3 1 (2.86%) AlienVault
3 1 (2.86%) Citrix
3 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.86%) VMware