SFIA Contracts in England

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 599 751
Rank change year-on-year +116 +152 -163
Contract jobs citing SFIA 58 62 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.12% 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.14% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 47 25
10th Percentile £413 £413 £365
25th Percentile £488 £473 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +24.44% -14.29%
75th Percentile £582 £645 £550
90th Percentile £625 £740 £721
UK median daily rate £525 £555 £488
% change year-on-year -5.41% +13.85% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £17.34
25th Percentile - - £17.58
Median hourly rate - - £19.46
75th Percentile - - £24.84
90th Percentile - - £27.19
UK median hourly rate - - £19.73
% change year-on-year - - -40.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,929 45,052 64,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.19% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,948 31,615 45,896
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,590 1,753
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SFIA in England

SFIA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SFIA in England

SFIA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SFIA in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SFIA in England

SFIA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SFIA in England.

Hourly rate trend for SFIA in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
London +107 40 £525 -6.25% 3
North of England +35 9 £550 -26.67%
South West +29 8 £588 +6.82% 2
North West +27 5 £550 -26.67%
North East +16 3 £525 -30.00%
South East +17 2 £327 -25.15% 2
Yorkshire +18 1 £575 -23.33%
East of England +17 1 £625 -3.85%
SFIA
UK

SFIA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (5.17%) nginx
1 3 (5.17%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (41.38%) AWS
2 16 (27.59%) Azure
3 7 (12.07%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (12.07%) Serverless
4 4 (6.90%) Amazon MSK
4 4 (6.90%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (6.90%) dbt
4 4 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.17%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (5.17%) GCP
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Stack
6 2 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (3.45%) Miro
6 2 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) HTTP
1 1 (1.72%) LAN
1 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.07%) Amazon Athena
1 7 (12.07%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.90%) DynamoDB
2 4 (6.90%) Parquet
3 3 (5.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.17%) Tableau
4 2 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Jenkins
1 3 (5.17%) Postman
1 3 (5.17%) Selenium
2 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket
2 2 (3.45%) Cucumber
2 2 (3.45%) EasyMock
2 2 (3.45%) JUnit
2 2 (3.45%) Maven
2 2 (3.45%) Mockito
2 2 (3.45%) SonarQube
2 2 (3.45%) TestNG
3 1 (1.72%) Git
General
1 23 (39.66%) Public Sector
2 10 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Local Government
4 5 (8.62%) Back Office
5 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Finance
6 2 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Law
7 1 (1.72%) Electronics
7 1 (1.72%) Legal
7 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.72%) Marketing
7 1 (1.72%) Military
7 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (24.14%) Architect
2 13 (22.41%) Data Engineer
3 6 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (8.62%) Analyst
4 5 (8.62%) Developer
4 5 (8.62%) Service Manager
4 5 (8.62%) Service Transition Manager
4 5 (8.62%) Transition Manager
5 4 (6.90%) Business Analyst
5 4 (6.90%) Lead
5 4 (6.90%) Lead Data Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Product Owner
6 3 (5.17%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Capability Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Data Architect
7 2 (3.45%) IT Manager
7 2 (3.45%) IT Services Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Portfolio Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.69%) Kafka
2 6 (10.34%) JSON
3 4 (6.90%) Apache Avro
3 4 (6.90%) REST
3 4 (6.90%) Spring
3 4 (6.90%) Spring Boot
4 3 (5.17%) Guice
5 2 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.45%) Gherkin
5 2 (3.45%) JAX-RS
5 2 (3.45%) Mustache
5 2 (3.45%) OpenAPI
5 2 (3.45%) Swagger
5 2 (3.45%) WireMock
5 2 (3.45%) XML
6 1 (1.72%) jQuery
6 1 (1.72%) React
6 1 (1.72%) Redux
6 1 (1.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.45%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (27.59%) Agile
2 11 (18.97%) Data Management
3 9 (15.52%) Change Management
3 9 (15.52%) PRINCE2
3 9 (15.52%) TOGAF
4 8 (13.79%) ITIL
4 8 (13.79%) Project Management
5 7 (12.07%) Analytics
6 6 (10.34%) ETL
6 6 (10.34%) Microservices
6 6 (10.34%) Service Management
6 6 (10.34%) User Stories
7 5 (8.62%) ArchiMate
7 5 (8.62%) BPMN
7 5 (8.62%) Critical Path Analysis
7 5 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (8.62%) Data Analysis
7 5 (8.62%) DevOps
7 5 (8.62%) Enterprise Modelling
7 5 (8.62%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.52%) Python
1 9 (15.52%) SQL
2 5 (8.62%) Java
3 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (55.17%) Security Cleared
2 31 (53.45%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.90%) Degree
4 2 (3.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.45%) CCSK
4 2 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.45%) CISSP
4 2 (3.45%) ISEB
5 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) COBIT
1 7 (12.07%) ISO 22301
1 7 (12.07%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 7 (12.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (10.34%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.45%) NCSC
3 2 (3.45%) NIST
4 1 (1.72%) ISO 9000
4 1 (1.72%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (5.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (12.07%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.62%) Terraform
3 2 (3.45%) Ansible
3 2 (3.45%) Kustomize
3 2 (3.45%) Packer
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.62%) Sparx
3 2 (3.45%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.72%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.72%) SAP
4 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.72%) Splunk