Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SFIA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SFIA over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 626 786
Rank change year-on-year +109 +160 -128
Contract jobs citing SFIA 66 70 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.12% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.13% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 55 29
10th Percentile £413 £361 £365
25th Percentile £488 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £625 £731 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -6.25% +33.33% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £17.42
25th Percentile - - £17.79
Median hourly rate - - £19.73
75th Percentile - - £22.94
90th Percentile - - £26.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £22.93
% change year-on-year - - -30.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

SFIA is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SFIA in the UK

SFIA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SFIA in the UK

SFIA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SFIA over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SFIA in the UK

SFIA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SFIA.

Hourly rate trend for SFIA in the UK

SFIA
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SFIA within the UK over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
England +105 62 £525 -6.25% 5
London +85 44 £525 -6.25% 3
Work from Home +115 19 £550 - 3
UK excluding London +74 18 £563 -6.25% 2
North of England +27 9 £550 -26.67%
South West +23 8 £588 +6.82% 1
North West +26 5 £550 -26.67%
North East +13 3 £525 -30.00%
South East +12 2 £327 -25.15% 1
Yorkshire +19 1 £575 -23.33%
East of England +8 1 £625 -3.85%

SFIA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (4.55%) nginx
1 3 (4.55%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Trello
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (7.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (40.91%) AWS
2 23 (34.85%) Azure
3 8 (12.12%) Serverless
4 7 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (6.06%) Amazon MSK
6 4 (6.06%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (6.06%) dbt
6 4 (6.06%) Miro
6 4 (6.06%) SaaS
7 3 (4.55%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.55%) GCP
7 3 (4.55%) PaaS
8 2 (3.03%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (3.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.03%) Azure Stack
8 2 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) HTTP
1 1 (1.52%) LAN
1 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) Amazon Athena
1 7 (10.61%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.06%) DynamoDB
2 4 (6.06%) Parquet
3 3 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.55%) Tableau
4 2 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.55%) Postman
1 3 (4.55%) Selenium
2 2 (3.03%) Bitbucket
2 2 (3.03%) Cucumber
2 2 (3.03%) EasyMock
2 2 (3.03%) JUnit
2 2 (3.03%) Maven
2 2 (3.03%) Mockito
2 2 (3.03%) SonarQube
2 2 (3.03%) TestNG
3 1 (1.52%) Git
General
1 23 (34.85%) Public Sector
2 10 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.64%) Back Office
4 7 (10.61%) Local Government
5 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Finance
6 2 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Law
7 1 (1.52%) Electronics
7 1 (1.52%) Legal
7 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.52%) Marketing
7 1 (1.52%) Military
7 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (22.73%) Architect
2 13 (19.70%) Data Engineer
3 8 (12.12%) Product Owner
4 6 (9.09%) Analyst
4 6 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (7.58%) Developer
5 5 (7.58%) Senior
5 5 (7.58%) Service Manager
5 5 (7.58%) Service Transition Manager
5 5 (7.58%) Transition Manager
6 4 (6.06%) Business Analyst
6 4 (6.06%) Lead
6 4 (6.06%) Lead Data Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Senior Product Owner
7 3 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Capability Manager
8 2 (3.03%) Change Analyst
8 2 (3.03%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.18%) Kafka
2 6 (9.09%) JSON
3 4 (6.06%) Apache Avro
3 4 (6.06%) REST
3 4 (6.06%) Spring
3 4 (6.06%) Spring Boot
4 3 (4.55%) Guice
5 2 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.03%) Gherkin
5 2 (3.03%) JAX-RS
5 2 (3.03%) Mustache
5 2 (3.03%) OpenAPI
5 2 (3.03%) Swagger
5 2 (3.03%) WireMock
5 2 (3.03%) XML
6 1 (1.52%) jQuery
6 1 (1.52%) React
6 1 (1.52%) Redux
6 1 (1.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 6 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.03%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.33%) Agile
2 12 (18.18%) Data Management
3 10 (15.15%) Change Management
3 10 (15.15%) Project Management
3 10 (15.15%) TOGAF
4 9 (13.64%) ITIL
4 9 (13.64%) PRINCE2
4 9 (13.64%) User Stories
5 8 (12.12%) Acceptance Criteria
5 8 (12.12%) Data Analysis
6 7 (10.61%) Analytics
6 7 (10.61%) DevOps
6 7 (10.61%) Requirements Gathering
6 7 (10.61%) Service Management
7 6 (9.09%) ETL
7 6 (9.09%) Microservices
8 5 (7.58%) BPMN
8 5 (7.58%) Critical Path Analysis
8 5 (7.58%) Technical Architecture
8 5 (7.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.64%) Python
1 9 (13.64%) SQL
2 5 (7.58%) Java
3 1 (1.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (53.03%) Security Cleared
2 34 (51.52%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.09%) Degree
4 3 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (3.03%) CCSK
5 2 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.03%) CISSP
5 2 (3.03%) ISEB
6 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.52%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.15%) PCI DSS
2 7 (10.61%) COBIT
2 7 (10.61%) ISO 22301
2 7 (10.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 7 (10.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.03%) NCSC
3 2 (3.03%) NIST
4 1 (1.52%) ISO 9000
4 1 (1.52%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (10.61%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.58%) Terraform
3 2 (3.03%) Ansible
3 2 (3.03%) Kustomize
3 2 (3.03%) Packer
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.58%) Sparx
3 3 (4.55%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.55%) Splunk
4 2 (3.03%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.52%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle
5 1 (1.52%) SAP
5 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.52%) SnapLogic