SFIA Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring SFIA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 36 30
Rank change year-on-year -14 -6 +24
Contract jobs citing SFIA 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.08% 0.81% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 0.95% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £360 £378 £465
25th Percentile £375 £408 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.35% -6.67% -30.00%
75th Percentile £625 £548 £563
90th Percentile - £563 £585
North East median daily rate £575 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +17.35% -6.67% -30.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 390 210 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 84.05% 85.37% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 145 99
10th Percentile £216 £285 £184
25th Percentile £364 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £588
90th Percentile £596 £625 £650
North East median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 6 37
10th Percentile £17.09 £11.60 £11.50
25th Percentile £46.19 £12.39 £12.13
Median hourly rate £57.50 £16.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +253.85% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £68.96 £18.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £33.50 £50.00
North East median hourly rate £61.16 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +270.67% -5.71% -57.06%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

SFIA job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

SFIA
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing SFIA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing SFIA

SFIA
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SFIA in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SFIA in Tyne and Wear

SFIA
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SFIA within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -14 5 £575 +17.35% 3
SFIA
North East

SFIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (20.00%) Gatling
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) JMeter
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) TestRail
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (60.00%) Microservices
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) BDD
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (40.00%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (20.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Zscaler