SFIA Contracts in Reading

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring SFIA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SFIA over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SFIA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £645 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 556 966 964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.51% 86.17% 88.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 523 635
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% +6.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £713
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.00% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 33 23
10th Percentile - £14.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £14.75 £52.90 £50.95
Median hourly rate £20.75 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.31% -6.67% +120.00%
75th Percentile £38.42 £76.99 £74.40
90th Percentile £60.50 £87.46 £76.64
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £61.60 £56.89
% change year-on-year -39.48% +8.29% +89.62%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing SFIA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for SFIA in Reading

SFIA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SFIA in Reading.

Daily rate trend for SFIA in Reading

SFIA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform