SABSA Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SABSA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 - 197
Rank change year-on-year - - +59
Contract jobs citing SABSA 10 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.24% - 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% - 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £432 - -
25th Percentile £507 - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £537 - £775
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £753 £681
% change year-on-year -23.61% +10.62% -2.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,749 3,407 4,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.09% 84.27% 88.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,464 1,852 3,020
10th Percentile £250 £294 £281
25th Percentile £369 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £563 £575 £600
90th Percentile £671 £655 £680
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 178 211
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.28 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.55 £18.13 £18.00
Median hourly rate £24.38 £35.00 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.34% +20.69% +36.47%
75th Percentile £41.46 £51.90 £46.18
90th Percentile £64.88 £70.00 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

SABSA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

SABSA job vacancy trend in the North of England

SABSA
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SABSA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SABSA

SABSA
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SABSA in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SABSA in the North of England

SABSA
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 20 October 2025. 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
Yorkshire - 9 £537 - 8
North West - 1 £513 -
SABSA
England

SABSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 8 (80.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 5 (50.00%) Security Architect
3 4 (40.00%) Lead
3 4 (40.00%) Lead Architect
3 4 (40.00%) Lead Security Architect
3 4 (40.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 4 (40.00%) Security Solutions Architect
3 4 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (30.00%) Design Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) OAuth
1 5 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 9 (90.00%) Cryptography
1 9 (90.00%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (90.00%) Decision-Making
1 9 (90.00%) Identity Access Management
1 9 (90.00%) Incident Response
1 9 (90.00%) Secrets Management
1 9 (90.00%) Security Operations
1 9 (90.00%) Technical Debt
1 9 (90.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 9 (90.00%) TOGAF
1 9 (90.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 8 (80.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 8 (80.00%) Programme Management
2 8 (80.00%) Project Governance
3 7 (70.00%) Computer Science
3 7 (70.00%) Dependency Management
3 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
3 7 (70.00%) UML
3 7 (70.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) CISM
1 10 (100.00%) CISSP
2 9 (90.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 7 (70.00%) Degree
3 7 (70.00%) Master's Degree
3 7 (70.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) BiZZdesign
2 6 (60.00%) CyberArk
3 4 (40.00%) Centrify
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft