SFIA Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring SFIA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SFIA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 0.43% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £460 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 - -
75th Percentile £479 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £425 - £375
% change year-on-year - - -27.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 166 99 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 70.64% 82.50% 89.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 56 114
10th Percentile £305 £363 £400
25th Percentile £416 £430 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% -3.08% +13.50%
75th Percentile £591 £616 £675
90th Percentile £625 £660 £843
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £582
% change year-on-year - -5.50% +10.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 18 100
10th Percentile £15.72 £40.88 £51.06
25th Percentile £45.21 £53.13 £53.40
Median hourly rate £48.72 £58.88 £59.44
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% -0.95% +3.37%
75th Percentile £63.97 £63.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.55 £66.88 £76.86
Hampshire median hourly rate £40.00 £57.63 £57.35
% change year-on-year -30.59% +0.48% +9.24%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

SFIA job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

SFIA
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing SFIA

SFIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian