Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SABSA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SABSA over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 818 902 1135
Rank change year-on-year +84 +233 -324
Permanent jobs citing SABSA 60 70 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.069% 0.064%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.071% 0.072% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 37 53 64
10th Percentile £50,000 £60,750 £62,500
25th Percentile £53,250 £70,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +2.94% +13.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £100,000 £95,625
90th Percentile £87,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% -6.25% +10.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

SABSA is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

SABSA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SABSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SABSA in the UK

SABSA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SABSA.

Salary trend for SABSA in the UK

SABSA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SABSA over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SABSA in the UK

SABSA
Top 9 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 13 May 2024. 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 +93 51 £68,500 -19.41% 8
London +117 30 £75,000 -16.67% 3
UK excluding London -23 20 £52,500 -30.00% 6
Work from Home +89 15 £75,000 -11.76% 4
South East +11 12 £52,500 -37.50% 3
East Midlands -3 4 - -
Midlands -6 4 - -
South West -22 3 £90,000 +20.00%
East of England - 1 £68,500 - 2

SABSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (30.00%) Azure
2 12 (20.00%) AWS
3 7 (11.67%) GCP
4 6 (10.00%) Azure Service Fabric
4 6 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (10.00%) IaaS
4 6 (10.00%) PaaS
4 6 (10.00%) SaaS
5 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (26.67%) Firewall
2 6 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 25 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 20 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.67%) Law
4 6 (10.00%) Finance
5 5 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (8.33%) Legal
6 3 (5.00%) Aerospace
6 3 (5.00%) Automotive
6 3 (5.00%) Banking
6 3 (5.00%) Electronics
6 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.00%) Police
6 3 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (43.33%) Consultant
2 24 (40.00%) Architect
3 23 (38.33%) Security Consultant
4 21 (35.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 20 (33.33%) Security Architect
6 10 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 10 (16.67%) Senior
7 7 (11.67%) Security Manager
8 6 (10.00%) Information Architect
8 6 (10.00%) Information Security Architect
8 6 (10.00%) Lead
8 6 (10.00%) Lead Consultant
9 4 (6.67%) Information Manager
9 4 (6.67%) Information Security Manager
10 3 (5.00%) Data Manager
10 3 (5.00%) Security Engineer
10 3 (5.00%) Senior IT Manager
10 3 (5.00%) Senior Manager
10 3 (5.00%) Senior Security Consultant
10 3 (5.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.00%) REST
1 6 (10.00%) SOAP
1 6 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.33%) Management Information System
2 13 (21.67%) PKI
3 8 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (11.67%) Cyberattack
5 6 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 6 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (10.00%) Operational Technology
6 5 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (8.33%) IoT
6 5 (8.33%) Security Posture
7 3 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (5.00%) Virtual Team
8 2 (3.33%) NHS
8 2 (3.33%) Replication
9 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (78.33%) Cybersecurity
2 44 (73.33%) TOGAF
3 34 (56.67%) Security Architecture
4 29 (48.33%) Information Security
5 17 (28.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 16 (26.67%) Risk Management
6 16 (26.67%) SIEM
7 13 (21.67%) Agile
8 12 (20.00%) Security Testing
9 11 (18.33%) Application Security
9 11 (18.33%) Change Management
9 11 (18.33%) Configuration Management
10 10 (16.67%) Computer Science
10 10 (16.67%) Cryptography
10 10 (16.67%) Identity Management
10 10 (16.67%) Mentoring
10 10 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 9 (15.00%) Information Security Management
11 9 (15.00%) ITIL
11 9 (15.00%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (68.33%) CISSP
2 25 (41.67%) Security Cleared
3 22 (36.67%) Degree
4 16 (26.67%) CISM
4 16 (26.67%) Master's Degree
5 15 (25.00%) CESG Certified Professional
6 12 (20.00%) SANS
7 11 (18.33%) GIAC
8 10 (16.67%) CISMP
8 10 (16.67%) CREST Certified
9 8 (13.33%) SC Cleared
10 7 (11.67%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (11.67%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (10.00%) AWS Certification
12 5 (8.33%) Azure Certification
12 5 (8.33%) CCSK
12 5 (8.33%) CCSP
13 4 (6.67%) CEH
14 3 (5.00%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (45.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (30.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 15 (25.00%) NIST
4 12 (20.00%) PCI DSS
5 8 (13.33%) GDPR
6 7 (11.67%) GRC
6 7 (11.67%) NCSC
7 6 (10.00%) COBIT
7 6 (10.00%) NIST 800
7 6 (10.00%) Web Application Security Consortium
8 5 (8.33%) HIPAA
9 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
10 1 (1.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (10.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 4 (6.67%) CASB
Vendors
1 3 (5.00%) Netskope
1 3 (5.00%) Symantec
1 3 (5.00%) Zscaler
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.67%) CA