SFIA Contract Job Trends in Reading

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring SFIA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SFIA 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.49% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £167 - -
25th Percentile £260 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 - -
75th Percentile £608 - -
90th Percentile £708 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £428 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £93.38 - -
25th Percentile £94.69 - -
Median hourly rate £98.75 - -
75th Percentile £102.19 - -
90th Percentile £103.13 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £98.75 - -

All Process & 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 861 491 1,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 83.59% 92.82% 87.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 314 542
10th Percentile £313 £333 £214
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £532
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.48% -3.36%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £501 £509
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.57% -3.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 5 54
10th Percentile £35.22 £19.55 £15.40
25th Percentile £80.75 £26.75 £51.86
Median hourly rate £84.00 £67.50 £60.83
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% +10.96% -10.54%
75th Percentile £88.00 £68.75 £75.83
90th Percentile £107.40 £73.81 £87.51
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.58 £63.75 £60.53
% change year-on-year +31.11% +5.32% -3.92%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

SFIA job vacancy trend in Reading

SFIA
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing SFIA

SFIA
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SFIA in Reading over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SFIA in Reading

SFIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
General
1 4 (80.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
2 4 (80.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Lead
3 2 (40.00%) Lead Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Lead Enterprise Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 5 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 4 (80.00%) ArchiMate
2 4 (80.00%) Architecture Governance
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (80.00%) MODAF
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (60.00%) Business Strategy
3 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (60.00%) Thought Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) Coaching
4 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Chartered Engineer
3 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (60.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (60.00%) CISSP
3 3 (60.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC