SFIA Contracts in the City of London

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for SFIA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SFIA over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 166 189
Rank change year-on-year +48 +23 -37
Contract jobs citing SFIA 12 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.55% 0.17% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.18% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 0
10th Percentile £476 £521 -
25th Percentile £488 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £570 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.21% - -
75th Percentile £566 £632 -
90th Percentile £637 £894 -
Central London median daily rate £518 £570 -
% change year-on-year -9.21% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

SFIA 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 advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,972 3,247 3,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.46% 91.57% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,394 2,187 2,938
10th Percentile £352 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £684
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 43
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.10 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.61 £22.63
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.10
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing SFIA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for SFIA in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SFIA in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SFIA in the City of London

SFIA
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SFIA in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SFIA in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (8.33%) nginx
1 1 (8.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
1 7 (58.33%) Serverless
2 6 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon MSK
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 3 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (25.00%) Parquet
2 3 (25.00%) Tableau
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (8.33%) EasyMock
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) JUnit
1 1 (8.33%) Maven
1 1 (8.33%) Mockito
1 1 (8.33%) Postman
1 1 (8.33%) Selenium
1 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
1 1 (8.33%) TestNG
General
1 9 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Local Government
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Back Office
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Backend Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Product Owner
4 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Product Owner
4 1 (8.33%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) Kafka
2 3 (25.00%) Apache Avro
2 3 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (8.33%) Gherkin
3 1 (8.33%) Guice
3 1 (8.33%) JAX-RS
3 1 (8.33%) Mustache
3 1 (8.33%) OpenAPI
3 1 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) Spring
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (8.33%) Swagger
3 1 (8.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
1 3 (25.00%) DevOps
1 3 (25.00%) ETL
1 3 (25.00%) Microservices
1 3 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (16.67%) Agile
2 2 (16.67%) Business Case
2 2 (16.67%) Business Impact Analysis
2 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 2 (16.67%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (16.67%) Information Security
2 2 (16.67%) Performance Management
2 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
2 2 (16.67%) SABSA
2 2 (16.67%) Security Architecture
2 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
3 1 (8.33%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (16.67%) CCSK
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (16.67%) CISSP
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO 22301
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) NCSC
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Kustomize
2 1 (8.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat