Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SABSA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 708 631 839
Rank change year-on-year -77 +208 -30
Permanent jobs citing SABSA 70 47 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.071% 0.096% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.096% 0.11% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 58 25 32
10th Percentile £61,250 - £50,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £64,509 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,801 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% +10.40% -11.76%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,025 £155,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £81,764 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.90% +55.74% -27.59%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,823 44,302 82,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.72% 90.16% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 50,276 24,855 57,929
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,201 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +4.00% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

SABSA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SABSA job vacancy trend in the UK

SABSA
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SABSA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SABSA

SABSA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SABSA over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for SABSA in the UK

SABSA
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SABSA within the UK over the 6 months to 16 July 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
England -59 60 £80,000 -3.38% 29
UK excluding London -70 37 £82,500 +0.90% 18
Work from Home -1 31 £76,250 -6.74% 14
London -29 28 £75,000 -50.00% 17
Midlands -12 11 £82,500 +6.45%
West Midlands -21 11 £82,500 +6.45%
North of England -27 9 £62,500 -23.56% 2
South West -51 7 £77,500 -13.89% 2
Wales -49 6 £83,750 +10.82% 2
North West -1 4 £88,000 +6.28% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £62,500 -
East of England - 3 £82,500 - 2
South East -17 1 £110,000 +15.79% 11
North East -55 1 £48,500 -35.82%

SABSA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 11 (15.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (57.14%) Azure
2 36 (51.43%) AWS
3 18 (25.71%) GCP
4 4 (5.71%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (2.86%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.43%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 33 (47.14%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Yeoman
General
1 19 (27.14%) Public Sector
2 14 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (18.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (18.57%) Law
4 10 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (11.43%) Finance
5 8 (11.43%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (5.71%) Advertising
6 4 (5.71%) Banking
7 3 (4.29%) Aerospace
7 3 (4.29%) Legal
8 1 (1.43%) Police
8 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (75.71%) Architect
2 52 (74.29%) Security Architect
3 7 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 7 (10.00%) Cloud Security Architect
4 6 (8.57%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 5 (7.14%) Consultant
5 5 (7.14%) Security Consultant
6 4 (5.71%) IT Architect
6 4 (5.71%) IT Security Architect
6 4 (5.71%) Lead
7 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Security Architect
8 2 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 2 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Head of Cybersecurity
8 2 (2.86%) Security Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Senior
8 2 (2.86%) Senior Architect
8 2 (2.86%) Senior Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.14%) PKI
3 4 (5.71%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (5.71%) Security Posture
4 3 (4.29%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.86%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (84.29%) Security Architecture
2 55 (78.57%) TOGAF
3 42 (60.00%) Cloud Security
4 41 (58.57%) Identity Access Management
5 40 (57.14%) Threat Modelling
6 29 (41.43%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (35.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 20 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
9 19 (27.14%) Risk Analysis
10 17 (24.29%) Security Operations
11 15 (21.43%) Agile
11 15 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (20.00%) SIEM
13 13 (18.57%) Community of Practice
13 13 (18.57%) OWASP
13 13 (18.57%) Risk Assessment
13 13 (18.57%) Technology Strategy
14 12 (17.14%) AI
15 11 (15.71%) Information Security
16 10 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
Qualifications
1 53 (75.71%) CISSP
2 43 (61.43%) Security Cleared
3 40 (57.14%) SC Cleared
4 36 (51.43%) CISM
5 25 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (34.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 20 (28.57%) CCSP
7 20 (28.57%) Degree
8 10 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (11.43%) DV Cleared
10 7 (10.00%) CCSK
11 6 (8.57%) AWS Certification
11 6 (8.57%) Azure Certification
12 4 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (2.86%) GCIA
13 2 (2.86%) GCIH
13 2 (2.86%) GIAC
14 1 (1.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 1 (1.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (65.71%) NIST
2 45 (64.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (32.86%) NCSC
4 21 (30.00%) GDPR
5 16 (22.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 9 (12.86%) PCI DSS
7 5 (7.14%) GRC
7 5 (7.14%) NIST 800
8 2 (2.86%) Accessibility
8 2 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (2.86%) SOC 2
9 1 (1.43%) COBIT
9 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (1.43%) JSP 440
9 1 (1.43%) QA
9 1 (1.43%) RMADS
System Software
1 2 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (12.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (15.71%) SAP
2 9 (12.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.86%) Google
3 2 (2.86%) Qualys
3 2 (2.86%) Tenable
4 1 (1.43%) Commvault
4 1 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.43%) Dell
4 1 (1.43%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.43%) Splunk