SFIA Contracts in the North West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 146 164
Rank change year-on-year +14 +18 -24
Contract jobs citing SFIA 5 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% 0.34% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.38% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 6
10th Percentile - - £400
25th Percentile £513 £350 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £637 £544
Median % change year-on-year -13.72% +17.23% +3.57%
75th Percentile £575 £775 £676
90th Percentile - - £705
England median daily rate £525 £555 £475
% change year-on-year -5.41% +16.84% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.18
Median hourly rate - - £18.35
75th Percentile - - £19.53
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £19.46
% change year-on-year - - -41.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,377 2,894 3,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.28% 90.61% 88.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,519 2,058 2,615
10th Percentile £306 £313 £238
25th Percentile £405 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 144 165
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.30 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +70.82% +10.76%
75th Percentile £45.22 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.00% +53.06% +2.08%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SFIA in the North West

SFIA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for SFIA in the North West

SFIA
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Manchester +21 5 £550 +57.14%
SFIA
England

SFIA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Stack
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Capability Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (40.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Data Lineage
2 2 (40.00%) Data Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Mapping
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Data Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (40.00%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Value Proposition
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality