SBOM Job Trends

Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SBOM skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 660 790 -
Rank change year-on-year +130 - -
Permanent jobs citing SBOM 3 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.005% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% 0.006% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £51,500 - -
25th Percentile £51,875 £37,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% - -
75th Percentile £75,625 £42,500 -
90th Percentile £86,500 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £40,000 -
% change year-on-year +34.38% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

SBOM 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 43,832 63,083 58,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.65% 80.93% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 24,681 36,451 44,024
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

SBOM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SBOM in the UK

SBOM
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SBOM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SBOM

SBOM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SBOM over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Salary histogram for SBOM in the UK

SBOM
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SBOM within the UK over the 6 months to 14 September 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
England +115 3 £55,000 +37.50% 8
UK excluding London +88 2 £53,750 +34.38% 7
Work from Home +79 2 £53,750 +34.38% 6
London +77 1 £87,500 - 1
North of England +31 1 £55,000 +37.50% 4
Yorkshire - 1 £55,000 - 4
South East - 1 £52,500 - 2

SBOM
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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Advertising
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) IT Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) IT Security Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Due Diligence
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) BCP
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Resilience Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CISA
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) CRISC
1 2 (66.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
2 2 (66.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (66.67%) GRC
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) SLA
2 2 (66.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) AppDynamics
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk