SFIA Contracts in Central London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 124 166 196
Rank change year-on-year +42 +30 -40
Contract jobs citing SFIA 11 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.45% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.17% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 1
10th Percentile £475 £521 -
25th Percentile £488 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £570 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.09% +8.57% -
75th Percentile £569 £632 £538
90th Percentile £644 £894 -
London median daily rate £525 £555 £488
% change year-on-year -5.41% +13.85% +2.63%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,217 3,537 4,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.53% 91.63% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,569 2,400 3,184
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 28 41
10th Percentile £19.52 £15.43 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £36.50 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £56.15 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
% change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.77%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SFIA in Central London

SFIA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for SFIA in Central London

SFIA
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for SFIA in Central London

SFIA
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central 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
City of London +56 11 £513 -10.09%
SFIA
London

SFIA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (9.09%) nginx
1 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (54.55%) Serverless
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon MSK
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
3 3 (27.27%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (27.27%) DynamoDB
2 3 (27.27%) Parquet
2 3 (27.27%) Tableau
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
1 1 (9.09%) EasyMock
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JUnit
1 1 (9.09%) Maven
1 1 (9.09%) Mockito
1 1 (9.09%) Postman
1 1 (9.09%) Selenium
1 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
1 1 (9.09%) TestNG
General
1 9 (81.82%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Local Government
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Backend Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) Kafka
2 3 (27.27%) Apache Avro
2 3 (27.27%) JSON
3 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
3 1 (9.09%) Guice
3 1 (9.09%) JAX-RS
3 1 (9.09%) Mustache
3 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) Spring
3 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 1 (9.09%) Swagger
3 1 (9.09%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Data Ingestion
1 3 (27.27%) DevOps
1 3 (27.27%) ETL
1 3 (27.27%) Microservices
1 3 (27.27%) Predictive Modelling
1 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (18.18%) Business Case
2 2 (18.18%) Business Impact Analysis
2 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
2 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
2 2 (18.18%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (18.18%) Information Security
2 2 (18.18%) Performance Management
2 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
2 2 (18.18%) SABSA
2 2 (18.18%) Security Architecture
2 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
3 1 (9.09%) ITSM
3 1 (9.09%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) SC Cleared
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (18.18%) CCSK
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (18.18%) CISSP
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) ISO 22301
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (18.18%) NCSC
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Kustomize
2 1 (9.09%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat