SFIA Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring SFIA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - 67
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SFIA 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.55% - 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £515
75th Percentile £625 - £523
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £375 £515
% change year-on-year +20.00% -27.18% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

SFIA falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 770 460 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 84.15% 86.79% 83.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 323 419
10th Percentile £313 £163 £248
25th Percentile £408 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -9.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £638 £700 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 21 44
10th Percentile £12.82 - £13.20
25th Percentile £15.62 £12.62 £17.75
Median hourly rate £19.34 £14.70 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +31.56% -46.06% +81.67%
75th Percentile £25.00 £29.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £37.50 £30.68 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £18.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +66.67% -20.00% +26.98%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SFIA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

SFIA job vacancy trend in Birmingham

SFIA
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SFIA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SFIA

SFIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Miro
2 1 (20.00%) Slack
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Delivery Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Delivery Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 3 (60.00%) Software Delivery
3 3 (60.00%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (40.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (40.00%) CRM
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Migration
4 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) User Stories
5 1 (20.00%) Change Management
5 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow