SABSA Contracts in the South West

Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 156 -
Rank change year-on-year +46 - -
Contract jobs citing SABSA 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.060% 0.031% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.038% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 £713 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% - -
75th Percentile £688 £738 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £675 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +1.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing SABSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for SABSA in the South West

SABSA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SABSA in the South West.

Daily rate trend for SABSA in the South West

SABSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) MODAF
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Research
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware