SABSA Contracts with Work from Home Options

Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for SABSA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SABSA over the 6 months to 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 404 529
Rank change year-on-year +84 +125 -76
Contract jobs citing SABSA 21 60 85
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.25% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.28% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 37 68
10th Percentile £525 £585 £482
25th Percentile £550 £625 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £715
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +4.90% +10.00%
75th Percentile £738 £800 £770
90th Percentile £765 £810 £800
UK median daily rate £715 £700 £700
% change year-on-year +2.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,767 21,391 40,184
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.48% 89.69% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,586 15,185 29,262
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 496 520
10th Percentile £14.88 £18.00 £14.50
25th Percentile £23.75 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.72
90th Percentile £74.50 £78.00 £70.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.64%

SABSA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SABSA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SABSA trend for jobs with a WFH option

SABSA
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SABSA.

SABSA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SABSA
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SABSA over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

SABSA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SABSA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) IaaS
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (66.67%) Network Security
2 6 (28.57%) Firewall
3 5 (23.81%) DNS
4 4 (19.05%) DHCP
4 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
4 4 (19.05%) VLAN
4 4 (19.05%) VPN
5 1 (4.76%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Architect
1 15 (71.43%) Security Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Security Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Firewall Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Security Technical Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Senior
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) Information Security
2 17 (80.95%) TOGAF
3 16 (76.19%) Security Architecture
4 11 (52.38%) Information Security Management
4 11 (52.38%) Security Management
5 10 (47.62%) Architectural Patterns
5 10 (47.62%) Information Assurance
5 10 (47.62%) Risk Assessment
6 8 (38.10%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (33.33%) Risk Management
8 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (28.57%) Roadmaps
9 5 (23.81%) Decision-Making
9 5 (23.81%) SIEM
10 4 (19.05%) Compliance Audit
10 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
10 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
10 4 (19.05%) Project Management
10 4 (19.05%) Project Planning
10 4 (19.05%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 18 (85.71%) CISSP
2 15 (71.43%) CISM
3 10 (47.62%) CISA
4 9 (42.86%) TOGAF Certification
5 8 (38.10%) CREST Certified
6 7 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
7 6 (28.57%) Degree
8 5 (23.81%) CCNA
8 5 (23.81%) CEH
9 4 (19.05%) APMP
9 4 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (19.05%) PMP
10 3 (14.29%) CCSP
10 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
11 2 (9.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (4.76%) CCSK
12 1 (4.76%) CRISC
12 1 (4.76%) FFIEC
12 1 (4.76%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (52.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (52.38%) NIST
2 10 (47.62%) NCSC
3 2 (9.52%) COBIT
3 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (9.52%) NIST 800
3 2 (9.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (4.76%) GDPR
4 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) QRadar
1 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
1 1 (4.76%) Splunk
1 1 (4.76%) Zscaler