Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SABSA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SABSA over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 603 702
Rank change year-on-year +67 +99 -86
Contract jobs citing SABSA 50 90 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.17% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 53 103
10th Percentile £525 £605 £495
25th Percentile £600 £650 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £738 £775 £770
90th Percentile £800 £820 £845
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.92% -3.70% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

SABSA is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,201 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.27% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,946 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

SABSA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SABSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SABSA in the UK

SABSA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SABSA in the UK

SABSA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SABSA over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SABSA in the UK

SABSA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SABSA.

Hourly rate trend for SABSA in the UK

SABSA
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SABSA within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
England +65 44 £700 -1.75% 11
London +80 34 £725 -3.33% 6
Work from Home +91 24 £725 -3.33% 7
UK excluding London +60 7 £625 -3.92% 6
South East +3 4 £600 -8.75% 3
East of England - 2 £649 - 2
South West - 1 £725 -

SABSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 17 (34.00%) AWS
1 17 (34.00%) Azure
2 7 (14.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (10.00%) GCP
3 5 (10.00%) IaaS
4 4 (8.00%) SaaS
5 3 (6.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.00%) PaaS
7 1 (2.00%) AWS IoT
7 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (30.00%) Network Security
2 8 (16.00%) Firewall
3 7 (14.00%) DNS
4 4 (8.00%) DHCP
4 4 (8.00%) TCP/IP
4 4 (8.00%) VLAN
4 4 (8.00%) VPN
5 2 (4.00%) NGFW
6 1 (2.00%) Internet
6 1 (2.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
General
1 18 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (12.00%) Local Government
3 4 (8.00%) Finance
3 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Legal
6 1 (2.00%) Banking
6 1 (2.00%) Military
6 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (68.00%) Architect
1 34 (68.00%) Security Architect
2 7 (14.00%) Senior
3 6 (12.00%) Senior Architect
3 6 (12.00%) Senior Security Architect
4 5 (10.00%) Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Consultant
5 4 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Security Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Security Consultant
6 3 (6.00%) Information Officer
6 3 (6.00%) Information Security Officer
6 3 (6.00%) IT Architect
6 3 (6.00%) IT Security Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Security Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Security Officer
7 2 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 2 (4.00%) Network Security Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Security Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 8 (16.00%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.00%) IoT
3 3 (6.00%) Operational Technology
3 3 (6.00%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.00%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (4.00%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.00%) NHS
5 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (70.00%) Security Architecture
2 31 (62.00%) Information Security
3 29 (58.00%) TOGAF
4 19 (38.00%) Cybersecurity
5 17 (34.00%) Cloud Security
6 14 (28.00%) Risk Management
7 13 (26.00%) Security Management
8 12 (24.00%) Information Assurance
8 12 (24.00%) Information Security Management
9 11 (22.00%) Architectural Patterns
10 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
11 8 (16.00%) Roadmaps
12 6 (12.00%) Agile
12 6 (12.00%) Decision-Making
12 6 (12.00%) SIEM
13 5 (10.00%) Data Protection
13 5 (10.00%) IT Strategy
13 5 (10.00%) Mentoring
13 5 (10.00%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 40 (80.00%) CISSP
2 27 (54.00%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (54.00%) CISM
3 21 (42.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 21 (42.00%) CISA
4 16 (32.00%) CCSK
5 14 (28.00%) Security Cleared
6 11 (22.00%) CEH
6 11 (22.00%) Degree
7 10 (20.00%) CCSP
8 9 (18.00%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (16.00%) CREST Certified
9 8 (16.00%) CRISC
10 7 (14.00%) GIAC
10 7 (14.00%) SC Cleared
11 6 (12.00%) CCNA
12 4 (8.00%) APMP
12 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (8.00%) PMP
12 4 (8.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (54.00%) NIST
2 24 (48.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (32.00%) NCSC
4 10 (20.00%) NIST 800
5 8 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 5 (10.00%) PCI DSS
7 4 (8.00%) GDPR
8 3 (6.00%) ISO 22301
8 3 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (4.00%) COBIT
9 2 (4.00%) ISO 31000
9 2 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (2.00%) GRC
10 1 (2.00%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) Firmware
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) QRadar
2 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.00%) Cisco
3 2 (4.00%) Splunk
3 2 (4.00%) Zscaler
4 1 (2.00%) AlienVault
4 1 (2.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.00%) Sparx
4 1 (2.00%) VMware