SFIA Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring SFIA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SFIA 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.37% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £533 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 - -
75th Percentile £589 - -
90th Percentile £625 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £565 - £575
% change year-on-year - - -23.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 750 428 685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 85.42% 92.84% 86.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 286 414
10th Percentile £325 £263 £300
25th Percentile £419 £352 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £570 £550 £588
90th Percentile £629 £638 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 25
10th Percentile - £17.08 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.25 £31.54 £12.15
Median hourly rate £14.50 £41.00 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year -64.63% +233.33% -72.38%
75th Percentile £24.29 £98.08 £12.53
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £15.24
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.15 £27.50 £12.53
% change year-on-year -26.73% +119.47% -53.59%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

SFIA job vacancy trend in Leeds

SFIA
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SFIA

SFIA
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SFIA in Leeds over the 6 months to 28 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SFIA in Leeds

SFIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Military
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Senior
2 6 (50.00%) Analyst
2 6 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 6 (50.00%) Senior Manager
3 5 (41.67%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 5 (41.67%) Delivery Manager
3 5 (41.67%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
3 5 (41.67%) Senior Delivery Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Agile Delivery Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Technical Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Product Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) Software Delivery
2 7 (58.33%) Software Engineering
3 6 (50.00%) Agile
4 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 5 (41.67%) Sprint Planning
4 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (41.67%) User Stories
5 4 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
5 4 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 4 (33.33%) Business Enablement
5 4 (33.33%) Lean Thinking
5 4 (33.33%) Office Automation
5 4 (33.33%) Scrum
6 3 (25.00%) CRM
6 3 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (25.00%) Migration
6 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow