SFIA Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 48 34 27
Rank change year-on-year -14 -7 +28
Contract jobs citing SFIA 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.18% 0.90% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.03% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £360 £378 £465
25th Percentile £375 £408 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.35% -6.67% -30.00%
75th Percentile £625 £548 £563
90th Percentile - £563 £585
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £575 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +17.35% -6.67% -30.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 365 194 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 86.29% 87.78% 85.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 134 89
10th Percentile £260 £300 £225
25th Percentile £373 £352 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -7.22% -11.82%
75th Percentile £538 £555 £588
90th Percentile £596 £625 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 19
10th Percentile £17.88 £14.90 £17.70
25th Percentile £51.25 £15.13 £19.13
Median hourly rate £60.00 £16.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +263.64% -65.26% -
75th Percentile £69.44 £25.88 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £39.60 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £57.50 £16.25 £17.50
% change year-on-year +253.85% -7.14% -

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

SFIA job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

SFIA
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing SFIA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing SFIA

SFIA
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Daily rate histogram for SFIA in Newcastle upon Tyne

SFIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (20.00%) Gatling
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) JMeter
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) TestRail
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (60.00%) Microservices
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) BDD
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (40.00%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (20.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Zscaler