SABSA Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 292 322 424
Rank change year-on-year +30 +102 +111
Contract jobs citing SABSA 12 23 53
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.17% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 20 35
10th Percentile - £525 £548
25th Percentile £663 £563 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £775
90th Percentile - £755 £815
UK median daily rate £675 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -3.57% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

SABSA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SABSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SABSA trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SABSA
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SABSA.

SABSA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SABSA
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SABSA over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

SABSA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SABSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Architect
2 8 (66.67%) Enterprise Architect
3 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 5 (41.67%) Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Identity Management Architect
4 1 (8.33%) IT Security Officer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Security Officer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Operational Technology
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (41.67%) Cloud Security
2 5 (41.67%) Security Architecture
3 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 4 (33.33%) TOGAF
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) MODAF
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) IT Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (16.67%) User Experience
5 2 (16.67%) UX Research
6 1 (8.33%) Architecture Governance
6 1 (8.33%) Business Strategy
6 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
6 1 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) CISSP
2 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) GIAC
3 2 (16.67%) SANS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (8.33%) CEH
4 1 (8.33%) CISM
4 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) JSP 440
2 1 (8.33%) NCSC
2 1 (8.33%) NIST 800
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft