SFIA Contracts in London

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 354 448 579
Rank change year-on-year +94 +131 -129
Contract jobs citing SFIA 40 47 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.17% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.19% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 36 6
10th Percentile £413 £419 £425
25th Percentile £488 £492 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.87% +2.63%
75th Percentile £563 £638 £500
90th Percentile £625 £675 £519
England median daily rate £525 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.99
Median hourly rate - - £19.46
75th Percentile - - £20.93
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £19.46
% change year-on-year - - -41.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,796 24,868 36,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 91.10% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,308 17,810 26,281
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 284 428
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.96 £22.72 £23.91
Median hourly rate £29.00 £39.00 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.64% +9.09% +10.96%
75th Percentile £47.50 £62.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £78.35 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SFIA in London

SFIA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SFIA in London

SFIA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SFIA in London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SFIA in London

SFIA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SFIA in London.

Hourly rate trend for SFIA in London

SFIA
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SFIA within the London region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +45 11 £513 -10.09%
South London +11 4 - -
SFIA
England

SFIA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (7.50%) nginx
1 3 (7.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (57.50%) AWS
2 12 (30.00%) Azure
3 7 (17.50%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (17.50%) Serverless
4 4 (10.00%) Amazon MSK
4 4 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (10.00%) dbt
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon S3
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.00%) GCP
6 2 (5.00%) Miro
7 1 (2.50%) PaaS
7 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) Amazon Athena
1 7 (17.50%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 4 (10.00%) Parquet
3 3 (7.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.50%) Tableau
4 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (7.50%) Postman
1 3 (7.50%) Selenium
2 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (5.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (5.00%) EasyMock
2 2 (5.00%) JUnit
2 2 (5.00%) Maven
2 2 (5.00%) Mockito
2 2 (5.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (5.00%) TestNG
General
1 17 (42.50%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.00%) Local Government
3 5 (12.50%) Back Office
4 3 (7.50%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (32.50%) Data Engineer
2 10 (25.00%) Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Analyst
3 4 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 4 (10.00%) Developer
3 4 (10.00%) Lead
3 4 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Product Owner
3 4 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (7.50%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Backend Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Security Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (2.50%) IT Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) React Developer
6 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (2.50%) Senior Product Owner
6 1 (2.50%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) Kafka
2 4 (10.00%) Apache Avro
2 4 (10.00%) JSON
2 4 (10.00%) Spring
2 4 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (7.50%) Guice
4 2 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (5.00%) Gherkin
4 2 (5.00%) JAX-RS
4 2 (5.00%) Mustache
4 2 (5.00%) OpenAPI
4 2 (5.00%) REST
4 2 (5.00%) Swagger
4 2 (5.00%) WireMock
5 1 (2.50%) jQuery
5 1 (2.50%) React
5 1 (2.50%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) Agile
2 8 (20.00%) Data Management
3 6 (15.00%) ETL
3 6 (15.00%) PRINCE2
3 6 (15.00%) TOGAF
3 6 (15.00%) User Stories
4 5 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (10.00%) Analytics
5 4 (10.00%) ArchiMate
5 4 (10.00%) BPMN
5 4 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (10.00%) Data Analysis
5 4 (10.00%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (10.00%) DevOps
5 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Modelling
5 4 (10.00%) IT4IT
5 4 (10.00%) Predictive Modelling
5 4 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
6 3 (7.50%) Performance Management
6 3 (7.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) Python
1 9 (22.50%) SQL
2 4 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (65.00%) SC Cleared
1 26 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) Degree
3 2 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (5.00%) CCSK
3 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) ISO 22301
1 6 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 6 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (15.00%) PCI DSS
2 4 (10.00%) COBIT
3 2 (5.00%) NCSC
3 2 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.50%) Terraform
3 2 (5.00%) Ansible
3 2 (5.00%) Kustomize
3 2 (5.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) Sparx
3 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.50%) Splunk