SABSA Job Trends in Birmingham

Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring SABSA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SABSA 6 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.35% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £80,500 - -
25th Percentile £81,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - -
75th Percentile £83,750 - -
90th Percentile £84,500 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £82,500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

SABSA falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,372 1,678 1,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 79.21% 93.27% 88.11%
Number of salaries quoted 971 782 1,015
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,125 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

SABSA
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

SABSA job vacancy trend in Birmingham

SABSA
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SABSA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SABSA

SABSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
1 3 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Information Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Security Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Information Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 3 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 3 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 4 (66.67%) Technology Roadmap
3 3 (50.00%) Change Advisory Board
3 3 (50.00%) Coaching
3 3 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) ITIL
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 3 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) Information Security
4 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CISM
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
2 2 (33.33%) DBS Check
2 2 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 3 (50.00%) NIST
3 2 (33.33%) GRC
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft