SFIA Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire 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 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SFIA 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.65% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £445 - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 - -
75th Percentile £607 - -
90th Percentile £629 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £541 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 582 136 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 87.13% 95.10% 64.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 92 60
10th Percentile £351 £308 £200
25th Percentile £412 £399 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £460 £363
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +26.90% -32.87%
75th Percentile £515 £537 £503
90th Percentile £581 £548 £520
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -0.82% -3.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 0 8
10th Percentile £20.75 - -
25th Percentile £25.15 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £10.42
Median % change year-on-year - - -81.05%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £11.32
90th Percentile £60.37 - £14.26
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year +54.15% -2.00% -

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

SFIA job vacancy trend in Shropshire

SFIA
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing SFIA

SFIA
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

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

Daily rate histogram for SFIA in Shropshire

SFIA
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SFIA within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 13 June 2026. 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
Telford - 11 £541 - 3
SFIA
West Midlands

SFIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
1 1 (9.09%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 8 (72.73%) Public Sector
2 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Lead
2 4 (36.36%) Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Lead Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Pega Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Systems Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Designer
4 2 (18.18%) Service Designer
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Leader
5 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) JMS
1 3 (27.27%) REST
1 3 (27.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Mobile App
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Android
1 2 (18.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
3 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Scrum
4 3 (27.27%) Case Management
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Line Management
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (27.27%) User Experience
5 2 (18.18%) Coaching
5 2 (18.18%) ETL
5 2 (18.18%) Mobile Application Development
5 2 (18.18%) Mobile Development
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Management
5 2 (18.18%) Service Design
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (18.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Pega
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Informatica
3 1 (9.09%) Talend