SFIA Contracts in the North of England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for SFIA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SFIA over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 206 224
Rank change year-on-year +35 +18 -37
Contract jobs citing SFIA 9 12 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.19% 0.21% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.23% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 9
10th Percentile £500 - £400
25th Percentile £513 £350 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £637 £495
Median % change year-on-year -13.72% +28.78% -5.71%
75th Percentile £575 £775 £619
90th Percentile £590 - £699
England median daily rate £525 £550 £485
% change year-on-year -4.55% +13.40% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £18.08
25th Percentile - - £19.44
Median hourly rate - - £22.93
75th Percentile - - £26.44
90th Percentile - - £27.83
England median hourly rate - - £19.46
% change year-on-year - - -41.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

SFIA is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,077 5,319 6,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.92% 90.94% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,519 3,696 4,718
10th Percentile £285 £300 £230
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £557
90th Percentile £675 £688 £645
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 216 268
10th Percentile £11.00 £10.63 £10.65
25th Percentile £12.40 £14.73 £13.09
Median hourly rate £17.50 £27.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +48.65% -
75th Percentile £44.07 £45.05 £32.97
90th Percentile £52.69 £65.00 £51.99
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing SFIA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for SFIA in the North of England

SFIA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SFIA in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for SFIA in the North of England

SFIA
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SFIA in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SFIA in the North of England

SFIA
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
North West +17 5 £550 -13.72% 1
North East +21 3 £525 -30.00%
Yorkshire +18 1 £575 -23.33%
SFIA
England

SFIA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Stack
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (22.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Capability Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Data Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Portfolio Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) JSON
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) XML
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
1 2 (22.22%) Reference Data
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Change Management
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Data Lineage
4 2 (22.22%) Data Management
4 2 (22.22%) Data Mapping
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) Data Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
4 2 (22.22%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Quality Management
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Value Proposition
4 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft