SFIA Contract Job Trends in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring SFIA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 371 425
Rank change year-on-year +31 +54 +160
Contract jobs citing SFIA 33 19 17
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.25% 0.12% 0.080%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.13% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 13 16
10th Percentile £400 £494 £406
25th Percentile £427 £511 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.13% +1.67% -11.24%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £656
90th Percentile £634 - £697
England median daily rate £488 £538 £598
% change year-on-year -9.30% -10.04% -3.00%

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 12,416 14,444 19,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.61% 89.28% 90.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,188 9,440 13,949
10th Percentile £332 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -1.71%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £695
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 183 232
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.30 £18.18
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.18 £21.19
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.80 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% -2.52% +6.34%
75th Percentile £47.25 £56.75 £60.44
90th Percentile £63.75 £78.68 £76.23
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +47.11%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SFIA job vacancy trend in London

SFIA
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SFIA

SFIA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SFIA in London over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SFIA in London

SFIA
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SFIA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SFIA

SFIA
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 5 October 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 -2 1 £495 -7.69%
SFIA
England

SFIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (3.03%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) Azure
2 4 (12.12%) GitHub
2 4 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (9.09%) AWS
3 3 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (6.06%) Serverless
5 1 (3.03%) Azure AI
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (3.03%) GCP
5 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) JIRA
General
1 9 (27.27%) Finance
2 8 (24.24%) Billing
2 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Project Manager
1 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared Project Manager
2 6 (18.18%) Architect
3 5 (15.15%) Analyst
3 5 (15.15%) Azure Architect
4 4 (12.12%) Junior
4 4 (12.12%) Junior Project Manager
4 4 (12.12%) PMO Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Scrum Master
5 2 (6.06%) Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Lead
5 2 (6.06%) Senior
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Administrator
6 1 (3.03%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) .NET
1 3 (9.09%) ARM Templates
1 3 (9.09%) PySpark
1 3 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Onboarding
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) CMDB
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (57.58%) Agile
2 10 (30.30%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 8 (24.24%) PRINCE2
3 8 (24.24%) Project Delivery
4 7 (21.21%) Scrum
5 6 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 5 (15.15%) Analytics
6 5 (15.15%) Backlog Refinement
6 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
6 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
6 5 (15.15%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (15.15%) DevOps
6 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (15.15%) Microservices
6 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (15.15%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (12.12%) Conflict Resolution
7 4 (12.12%) Product Requirements
7 4 (12.12%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) TypeScript
2 4 (12.12%) SQL
3 3 (9.09%) Bicep
3 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.03%) C#
4 1 (3.03%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 28 (84.85%) Security Cleared
2 27 (81.82%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 3 (9.09%) Degree
3 3 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) PMO
2 2 (6.06%) QA
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Terraform
2 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (3.03%) Splunk