SFIA Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SFIA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 119 136
Rank change year-on-year -1 +17 -
Contract jobs citing SFIA 5 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.28% 0.094% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.10% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 9
10th Percentile £350 - £430
25th Percentile £417 £630 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £640 £617
Median % change year-on-year -22.66% +3.81% -
75th Percentile £580 £650 £644
90th Percentile - - £675
Central London median daily rate £495 £640 £617
% change year-on-year -22.66% +3.81% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,646 1,948 2,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.32% 91.50% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 1,199 1,690
10th Percentile £339 £370 £363
25th Percentile £421 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £756 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 13
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +54.00% -51.92%
75th Percentile £52.19 £92.50 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £122.20 £69.60
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -50.00%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

SFIA job vacancy trend in the City of London

SFIA
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SFIA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SFIA

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 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SFIA in the City of London

SFIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Runbook
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft