SABSA Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield 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 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SABSA 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.43% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £419 - -
25th Percentile £509 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £537 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 605 378 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.88% 89.57% 96.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 195 237
10th Percentile £313 £250 £388
25th Percentile £400 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £587
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -10.63% +11.90%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £663
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £523 £587
% change year-on-year -8.13% -11.06% +17.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £14.66 £13.14 £18.33
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £18.44
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -1.23% +6.58%
75th Percentile £20.44 £21.50 £24.88
90th Percentile £25.15 - £28.70
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
% change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +22.39%

SABSA
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

SABSA job vacancy trend in Sheffield

SABSA
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for SABSA in Sheffield

SABSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (88.89%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Architect
2 5 (55.56%) Security Architect
3 4 (44.44%) Lead
3 4 (44.44%) Lead Architect
3 4 (44.44%) Lead Security Architect
3 4 (44.44%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 4 (44.44%) Security Solutions Architect
3 4 (44.44%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (33.33%) Design Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) OAuth
1 5 (55.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Management Information System
2 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 9 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 9 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 9 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 9 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 9 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 9 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 9 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 9 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 9 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 9 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 8 (88.89%) Privileged Access Management
2 8 (88.89%) Programme Management
2 8 (88.89%) Project Governance
3 7 (77.78%) Computer Science
3 7 (77.78%) Dependency Management
3 7 (77.78%) Software Engineering
3 7 (77.78%) UML
3 7 (77.78%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) CISM
1 9 (100.00%) CISSP
1 9 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 7 (77.78%) Degree
2 7 (77.78%) Master's Degree
2 7 (77.78%) PhD
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) BiZZdesign
2 5 (55.56%) CyberArk
3 4 (44.44%) Centrify
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft