SFIA Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring SFIA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 78 96
Rank change year-on-year -14 +18 +14
Contract jobs citing SFIA 7 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.47% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.22% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £393 - -
25th Percentile £456 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +57.14%
75th Percentile £563 - £575
90th Percentile £595 - -
North West median daily rate £550 £688 £550
% change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -13.72%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,270 899 1,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 85.81% 90.90% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 834 601 951
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £669
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 35 77
10th Percentile £19.75 £15.36 £12.46
25th Percentile £23.00 £21.75 £13.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +25.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.20 £65.00 £72.50
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £32.00 £23.45
% change year-on-year +40.63% +36.46% -37.47%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

SFIA job vacancy trend in Manchester

SFIA
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SFIA

SFIA
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SFIA in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SFIA in Manchester

SFIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) DocumentDB
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Mocha
3 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 1 (14.29%) Postman
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Software Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Resilience Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Node.js
2 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
2 2 (28.57%) Jest
2 2 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) PMI
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Microservices
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) API Development
3 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Secure Coding
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) API Testing
4 1 (14.29%) BDD
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Metadata Management
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform