SFIA Contract Job Trends in South London

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring SFIA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing SFIA 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.51% - 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% - 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £601 - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.79%
75th Percentile £602 - £594
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £467 £639 £600
% change year-on-year -26.85% +6.46% -10.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 173 186 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 88.72% 87.32% 83.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 124 164
10th Percentile £266 £229 £195
25th Percentile £419 £400 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +0.48% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £715 £734 £650
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 18
10th Percentile - - £15.59
25th Percentile - £17.25 £23.81
Median hourly rate £17.98 £19.50 £46.86
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% -58.39% +6.23%
75th Percentile £40.54 £35.91 £55.00
90th Percentile £54.08 £61.41 £69.00
London median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -21.33% - -

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

SFIA job vacancy trend in South London

SFIA
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing SFIA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing SFIA

SFIA
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SFIA within the South London region over the 6 months to 12 November 2025. 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
Croydon - 1 £601 -
SFIA
London

SFIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Delivery Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Budget Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
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%) Consul
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Packer
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform