SABSA Job Trends in the Midlands

Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring SABSA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 245 213
Rank change year-on-year +54 -32 +118
Permanent jobs citing SABSA 28 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.36% 0.015% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.017% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £81,000 - -
25th Percentile £82,500 £71,250 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +13.79% +10.10%
75th Percentile - £93,750 £76,250
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.03% +13.79% -14.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,373 5,992 4,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.74% 89.69% 88.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,512 2,650 3,662
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

SABSA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

SABSA job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SABSA
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SABSA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SABSA

SABSA
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SABSA within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands +9 17 £85,000 +3.03%
West Midlands - 11 £82,500 -
SABSA
England

SABSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (3.57%) AWS
1 1 (3.57%) Azure
1 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
General
1 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Finance
2 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (78.57%) Lead
2 6 (21.43%) Architect
2 6 (21.43%) Security Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Information Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Information Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Information Security Architect
4 1 (3.57%) Senior
4 1 (3.57%) Senior Architect
4 1 (3.57%) Senior Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 22 (78.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 22 (78.57%) Cyber Threat
1 22 (78.57%) Operational Technology
1 22 (78.57%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (92.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 24 (85.71%) Business Strategy
2 24 (85.71%) Roadmaps
3 23 (82.14%) Risk Management
3 23 (82.14%) Technology Roadmap
4 22 (78.57%) Change Advisory Board
4 22 (78.57%) Coaching
4 22 (78.57%) Cyber Intelligence
4 22 (78.57%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 22 (78.57%) ITIL
4 22 (78.57%) Mentoring
4 22 (78.57%) Security Operations
4 22 (78.57%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 22 (78.57%) Threat Intelligence
4 22 (78.57%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (17.86%) Data Protection
5 5 (17.86%) Security Architecture
5 5 (17.86%) TOGAF
6 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (14.29%) Information Security
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) CISM
1 5 (17.86%) CISSP
2 4 (14.29%) DBS Check
2 4 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (82.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (78.57%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 22 (78.57%) NIST
3 4 (14.29%) GRC
4 1 (3.57%) NCSC
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Splunk
2 1 (3.57%) Varonis