SABSA Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring SABSA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SABSA 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.89% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
North West median daily rate £600 £575 -
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 269 154 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 80.06% 84.62% 71.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 96 78
10th Percentile £150 £129 £181
25th Percentile £255 £259 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £473 £420
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -14.94%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £514
90th Percentile £675 £683 £591
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 11 9
10th Percentile £14.85 - £16.24
25th Percentile £20.46 £12.21 £18.11
Median hourly rate £25.38 £17.30 £22.88
Median % change year-on-year +46.71% -24.37% +14.38%
75th Percentile £43.96 £17.44 £40.00
90th Percentile - - £54.00
North West median hourly rate £47.15 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +87.48% -37.63% +18.60%

SABSA
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

SABSA job vacancy trend in Merseyside

SABSA
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SABSA within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 7 September 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
Liverpool - 3 £600 - 1
SABSA
North West

SABSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Information Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (100.00%) CCSP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (100.00%) CISSP
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft