SFIA Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring SFIA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 68 97
Rank change year-on-year -21 +29 +15
Contract jobs citing SFIA 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.072% 0.27% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.31% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £460 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.94%
75th Percentile £479 - £538
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £496 £315 £525
% change year-on-year +57.30% -40.00% +10.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,149 640 1,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 82.84% 86.72% 85.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 757 445 675
10th Percentile £313 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +6.57%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £675
90th Percentile £726 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £511
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.96% +2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 37 121
10th Percentile £15.03 £19.38 £13.05
25th Percentile £16.38 £27.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -36.36% +37.50%
75th Percentile £33.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £51.81 £72.75 £75.16
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% -5.26% +5.56%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

SFIA job vacancy trend in Hampshire

SFIA
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing SFIA

SFIA
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SFIA within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 7 February 2026. 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
Portsmouth -2 1 £469 -
SFIA
South East

SFIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian