SFIA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 435 477
Rank change year-on-year +65 +42 -79
Contract jobs citing SFIA 21 21 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.087% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.097% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 22
10th Percentile £508 £350 £366
25th Percentile £513 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £594 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% +25.00% -13.64%
75th Percentile £608 £749 £602
90th Percentile £625 £775 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £18.08
25th Percentile - - £19.44
Median hourly rate - - £22.93
75th Percentile - - £26.44
90th Percentile - - £27.83
UK median hourly rate - - £19.73
% change year-on-year - - -40.21%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,514 21,548 27,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.76% 89.51% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,486 14,951 19,202
10th Percentile £248 £255 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,030 1,307 1,367
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.18 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SFIA in the UK excluding London

SFIA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SFIA in the UK excluding London

SFIA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SFIA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SFIA in the UK excluding London

SFIA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for SFIA in the UK excluding London

SFIA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
South West +24 11 £595 +8.18% 1
North of England +29 9 £550 -13.72%
North West +17 5 £550 -13.72%
North East +19 3 £525 -30.00%
Yorkshire +20 1 £575 -23.33%
South East +15 1 £375 -27.18% 3
East of England +9 1 £625 -3.85%
West Midlands - 1 £515 -
Midlands - 1 £515 -
SFIA
UK

SFIA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) Azure Stack
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (9.52%) SaaS
3 1 (4.76%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) HTTP
1 1 (4.76%) LAN
1 1 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (9.52%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 9 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 5 (23.81%) Finance
4 4 (19.05%) Electronics
4 4 (19.05%) Manufacturing
4 4 (19.05%) Marketing
4 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
5 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Law
6 1 (4.76%) Legal
6 1 (4.76%) Local Government
6 1 (4.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Service Manager
1 6 (28.57%) Service Transition Manager
1 6 (28.57%) Transition Manager
2 4 (19.05%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Change Manager
3 3 (14.29%) IT Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Capability Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Data Architect
4 2 (9.52%) IT Services Manager
4 2 (9.52%) ITIL Change Manager
4 2 (9.52%) ITIL Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Portfolio Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Digital Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) IT Change Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Support Officer
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) JSON
1 2 (9.52%) REST
1 2 (9.52%) XML
2 1 (4.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
1 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
1 2 (9.52%) Reference Data
2 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Change Management
2 9 (42.86%) ITIL
3 8 (38.10%) Project Management
3 8 (38.10%) Service Management
4 7 (33.33%) Agile
4 7 (33.33%) Business Continuity
4 7 (33.33%) Business Impact Analysis
4 7 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
4 7 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 6 (28.57%) Conflict Resolution
5 6 (28.57%) Critical Path Analysis
5 6 (28.57%) Work Breakdown Structure
6 5 (23.81%) ITSM
7 4 (19.05%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (19.05%) Digital Marketing
7 4 (19.05%) PRINCE2
7 4 (19.05%) Programme Management
8 3 (14.29%) Change Control
8 3 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (9.52%) ISEB
5 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) COBIT
2 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.52%) ISO 9000
3 1 (4.76%) ISO 22301
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.76%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) SAP
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Sparx