SFIA Contracts in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 351 446
Rank change year-on-year +29 +95 +137
Contract jobs citing SFIA 31 40 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.25% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 30 36
10th Percentile £400 £413 £418
25th Percentile £437 £488 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £555
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -5.41% +13.85%
75th Percentile £514 £563 £638
90th Percentile £549 £625 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £555
% change year-on-year -4.76% -5.41% +16.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SFIA in London

SFIA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SFIA in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SFIA in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SFIA in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SFIA in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SFIA within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London -3 4 £505 -1.46%
West London - 2 - -
SFIA
England

SFIA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (22.58%) AWS
2 5 (16.13%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (16.13%) Serverless
3 4 (12.90%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.23%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (9.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) JIRA
General
1 8 (25.81%) Finance
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Billing
3 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Analyst
1 7 (22.58%) Project Manager
2 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 4 (12.90%) PMO Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Scrum Master
4 3 (9.68%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Designer
5 2 (6.45%) Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Junior
5 2 (6.45%) Junior Project Manager
5 2 (6.45%) Lead
5 2 (6.45%) Senior
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared Project Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Lead Product Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (3.23%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Agile
2 6 (19.35%) PRINCE2
2 6 (19.35%) Project Delivery
2 6 (19.35%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 6 (19.35%) Scrum
3 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (16.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (12.90%) Backlog Refinement
4 4 (12.90%) Conflict Resolution
4 4 (12.90%) DevOps
4 4 (12.90%) Product Requirements
4 4 (12.90%) Sprint Planning
4 4 (12.90%) Sprint Retrospective
5 3 (9.68%) Microservices
5 3 (9.68%) Project Management
6 2 (6.45%) Demand Management
6 2 (6.45%) Financial Analysis
6 2 (6.45%) ITIL
6 2 (6.45%) Portfolio Management
6 2 (6.45%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) Python
1 3 (9.68%) SQL
2 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (87.10%) Security Cleared
2 24 (77.42%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) PMI Certification
4 2 (6.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) PMO
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Terraform
2 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.23%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (3.23%) Databricks
1 1 (3.23%) Foundry
1 1 (3.23%) Palantir