SABSA Job Trends in the North West

Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring SABSA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 204 201
Rank change year-on-year +28 -3 +100
Permanent jobs citing SABSA 10 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.16% 0.020% 0.045%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.022% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £68,125
25th Percentile - - £72,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -7.25% -
75th Percentile - - £100,313
90th Percentile - - £105,375
England median annual salary £85,000 £81,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year +4.62% +12.07% -14.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,173 4,612 3,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 81.20% 91.25% 87.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,546 2,263 3,047
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,114 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,084 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -0.79% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,445 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

SABSA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

SABSA job vacancy trend in the North West

SABSA
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SABSA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SABSA

SABSA
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SABSA within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester - 6 £85,000 -
Merseyside - 4 - -
SABSA
England

SABSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Information Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Security Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Information Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Information Security Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 8 (80.00%) Cyber Threat
1 8 (80.00%) Operational Technology
1 8 (80.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (80.00%) Business Strategy
2 8 (80.00%) Change Advisory Board
2 8 (80.00%) Coaching
2 8 (80.00%) Cyber Intelligence
2 8 (80.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 8 (80.00%) ITIL
2 8 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 8 (80.00%) Risk Management
2 8 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 8 (80.00%) Security Operations
2 8 (80.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 8 (80.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 8 (80.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 8 (80.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CISM
1 2 (20.00%) CISSP
1 2 (20.00%) DBS Check
1 2 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 8 (80.00%) NIST
2 2 (20.00%) GRC