SFIA Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon 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 29 - 35
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing SFIA 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 3.33% - 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% - 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £263 - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.79%
75th Percentile £445 - £594
90th Percentile £539 - -
South London median daily rate £275 - £563
% change year-on-year - - -16.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 81 102 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 90.00% 93.58% 84.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 62 97
10th Percentile £412 £380 £231
25th Percentile £487 £493 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £595
90th Percentile £638 £626 £673
South London median daily rate £510 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -5.20% +7.60% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.02% -
75th Percentile - £21.75 £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £58.94 £19.50 £49.88
% change year-on-year +202.23% -60.91% +13.08%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

SFIA job vacancy trend in Croydon

SFIA
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing SFIA

SFIA
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SFIA in Croydon over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SFIA in Croydon

SFIA
Contract Job Locations in Croydon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SFIA within the Croydon region over the 6 months to 2 December 2025. 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 Croydon - 1 £275 -
SFIA
South London

SFIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Budget Management
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Consul
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Packer
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform