Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SBOM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SBOM over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 905 - 1251
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SBOM 2 0 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% - 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.002% - 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £63,000
25th Percentile £37,500 - £66,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - £81,000
75th Percentile £42,500 - -
90th Percentile - - £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 - £70,500

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

SBOM 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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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%

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

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

Salary trend for SBOM in the UK

SBOM
Top 6 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 1 June 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 - 2 £40,000 - 4
Work from Home - 1 £40,000 - 2
UK excluding London - 1 £40,000 - 3
North of England - 1 £40,000 - 1
London - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £40,000 - 1

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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Loki
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Brown Bag Session
2 1 (50.00%) Chaos Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Gamification
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform