SABSA Jobs in the UK excluding London

Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SABSA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SABSA over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 558 737 717
Rank change year-on-year +179 -20 +70
Permanent jobs citing SABSA 15 22 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.038% 0.031% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.037% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 11 12 17
10th Percentile £71,250 £43,375 £64,500
25th Percentile £76,500 £51,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £58,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.43% -21.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £91,041 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £73,625 £103,850
UK median annual salary £82,801 £73,750 £90,000
% change year-on-year +12.27% -18.06% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,295 59,625 57,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.88% 84.00% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,237 41,241 29,486
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,200 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

SABSA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SABSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SABSA in the UK excluding London

SABSA
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SABSA in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SABSA in the UK excluding London

SABSA
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SABSA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SABSA in the UK excluding London

SABSA
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SABSA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
South East +94 6 £82,500 +57.14% 7
Midlands +64 3 £82,500 - 8
West Midlands - 2 £80,151 - 2
North of England - 2 £82,282 - 9
South West +104 1 £90,000 +10.77% 3
East Midlands +41 1 £82,500 - 5
Scotland - 1 £81,764 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £82,801 - 5
Wales - 1 £81,764 - 2
North East - 1 £81,764 - 3
North West - 1 £82,801 - 6
SABSA
UK

SABSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
1 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (6.67%) IaaS
1 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
1 1 (6.67%) PaaS
1 1 (6.67%) SaaS
1 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.67%) DB2
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Legal
3 6 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (33.33%) Finance
5 4 (26.67%) Aerospace
6 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Architect
2 7 (46.67%) Security Architect
3 6 (40.00%) Principal Architect
3 6 (40.00%) Principal Security Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Project Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Project Leader
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Security Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 13 (86.67%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (53.33%) Decision-Making
4 7 (46.67%) Information Security
4 7 (46.67%) Penetration Testing
4 7 (46.67%) Risk Management
4 7 (46.67%) Security Architecture
5 6 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (40.00%) Information Assurance
5 6 (40.00%) Information Security Management
5 6 (40.00%) Risk Analysis
5 6 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
5 6 (40.00%) Security Management
6 4 (26.67%) Analytics
6 4 (26.67%) Data Analytics
6 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
6 4 (26.67%) Systems Engineering
7 3 (20.00%) Agile
7 3 (20.00%) Scrum
8 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (53.33%) CISSP
4 5 (33.33%) Degree
5 4 (26.67%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (13.33%) CISM
7 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
7 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
7 1 (6.67%) CEH
7 1 (6.67%) GIAC
7 1 (6.67%) OSCP
7 1 (6.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (46.67%) NCSC
1 7 (46.67%) NIST
2 6 (40.00%) QA
3 4 (26.67%) Def Stans
4 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (6.67%) IBM
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle