SFIA Contracts in Essex

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex requiring SFIA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SFIA over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 34 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Contract jobs citing SFIA 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 0.94% 0.45% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.54% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% - -
75th Percentile £388 £638 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £375 £625 -
% change year-on-year -40.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 100 185 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 94.34% 83.33% 86.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 92 153
10th Percentile £188 £194 £215
25th Percentile £313 £300 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £483 £563 £575
90th Percentile £512 £600 £624
East of England median daily rate £500 £440 £500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 51 21
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.13 £22.09
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.38 £36.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £59.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.18% +3.48% +85.72%
75th Percentile £43.20 £80.00 £70.26
90th Percentile £120.00 - £79.50
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -20.90% +90.48% +7.69%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for SFIA in Essex

SFIA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for SFIA in Essex

SFIA
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SFIA within the Essex region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Chelmsford - 1 £375 - 4
SFIA
East of England

SFIA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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:

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