SABSA Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring SABSA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 - 142
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing SABSA 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.14% - 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £448 - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £731 - -
90th Percentile £743 - -
South East median daily rate £483 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -28.44% +12.50% -7.34%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,410 1,397 2,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 82.96% 92.76% 87.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,593 846 1,344
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £401 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £606 £600
90th Percentile £670 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 56 174
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.20 £15.59
25th Percentile £20.79 £15.01 £20.04
Median hourly rate £78.40 £32.05 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +144.60% -28.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £85.50 £62.24 £64.57
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.35 £85.53
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +69.64% -37.78% -8.16%

SABSA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

SABSA job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

SABSA
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SABSA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SABSA

SABSA
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SABSA in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SABSA in the Thames Valley

SABSA
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SABSA within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
Berkshire - 2 £538 - 1
Buckinghamshire - 2 £750 - 1
SABSA
South East

SABSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) MPLS
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) NGFW
1 1 (25.00%) OSPF
1 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (25.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (50.00%) Cost Management
3 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (50.00%) FinOps
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Information Security
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) MODAF
4 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCDE
2 1 (25.00%) CCIE
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto