SFIA Contract Job Trends in the North East

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East 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 50 40 33
Rank change year-on-year -10 -7 +25
Contract jobs citing SFIA 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.98% 0.62% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 0.74% 0.77%
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
England median daily rate £498 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -5.19% -3.45% -2.90%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 426 272 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 83.53% 83.95% 81.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 181 127
10th Percentile £183 £300 £187
25th Percentile £364 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £581
90th Percentile £596 £650 £643
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 9 49
10th Percentile £17.88 - £11.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £11.60 £12.13
Median hourly rate £61.16 £16.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +270.67% -5.71% -57.06%
75th Percentile £72.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile - £46.69 £50.00
England median hourly rate £30.32 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -12.12% +6.15% -9.72%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

SFIA job vacancy trend in the North East

SFIA
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SFIA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SFIA

SFIA
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for SFIA in the North East

SFIA
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SFIA within the North East region over the 6 months to 14 March 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -14 5 £575 +17.35% 3
SFIA
England

SFIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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