SFIA Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England 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 101 - 111
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SFIA 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.065% - 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £481
25th Percentile £363 - £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £563
75th Percentile £388 - £609
90th Percentile - - £634
England median daily rate £488 £543 £595
% change year-on-year -10.14% -8.82% +0.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,322 1,023 1,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 85.46% 82.37% 88.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 414 839
10th Percentile £185 £243 £235
25th Percentile £363 £325 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £454 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.13% -9.20% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £705
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 397 215 367
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.26 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.62 £14.58
Median hourly rate £22.00 £27.50 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +28.15% -1.20%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

SFIA job vacancy trend in the East of England

SFIA
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SFIA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SFIA

SFIA
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SFIA within the East of England 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
Essex - 1 £375 - 4
SFIA
England

SFIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Applications Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 22301
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft