SFIA Contracts

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SFIA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SFIA over the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 521 629
Rank change year-on-year +14 +108 +191
Contract jobs citing SFIA 48 59 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.17% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 46 45
10th Percentile £400 £388 £361
25th Percentile £431 £490 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £524 £622 £625
90th Percentile £618 £713 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.14 - £50.00
Median hourly rate £40.59 - £60.00
75th Percentile £47.12 - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.59 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +118.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,556 35,109 49,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.33% 85.47% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,533 22,547 34,047
10th Percentile £300 £306 £323
25th Percentile £404 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.14% -0.43%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,581 2,151 1,632
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.35 £17.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.33% -7.06% +60.38%
75th Percentile £50.75 £62.83 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.17 £40.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -39.59% -1.45% +88.79%

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 23 July 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SFIA over the 6 months to 23 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SFIA in the UK

SFIA
Top 8 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 23 July 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
England +37 42 £475 -9.52% 15
London +21 31 £475 -9.52% 5
Work from Home +41 30 £465 -23.77% 6
UK excluding London +9 10 £500 -6.98% 11
North of England -3 9 £500 -0.50% 3
North West +3 6 £410 -21.90% 3
North East -9 3 £500 +11.11%
East of England - 1 £375 - 3

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 4 (8.33%) Confluence
2 3 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.17%) CMS
3 2 (4.17%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.75%) AWS
2 4 (8.33%) Azure
3 3 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (6.25%) Serverless
3 3 (6.25%) ShareGate
4 2 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (4.17%) Amazon Lightsail
4 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.17%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.08%) Azure AI
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.08%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) MySQL
2 3 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (14.58%) JIRA
2 3 (6.25%) Git
General
1 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 13 (27.08%) Finance
3 8 (16.67%) Billing
4 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Project Manager
2 8 (16.67%) Developer
2 8 (16.67%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 7 (14.58%) Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) Architect
4 4 (8.33%) Junior
4 4 (8.33%) Junior Project Manager
4 4 (8.33%) PMO Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) Scrum Master
5 3 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Product Manager
5 3 (6.25%) Senior
5 3 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Technical Manager
6 2 (4.17%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.17%) Lead
6 2 (4.17%) Project Controller
6 2 (4.17%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.42%) Node.js
2 3 (6.25%) RESTful
2 3 (6.25%) Spring
2 3 (6.25%) Spring Boot
2 3 (6.25%) Spring MVC
2 3 (6.25%) Web Services
3 1 (2.08%) HTML
3 1 (2.08%) JSON
3 1 (2.08%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.25%) Virtual Team
3 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.08%) NHS
4 1 (2.08%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (52.08%) Agile
2 9 (18.75%) PRINCE2
2 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (18.75%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 8 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 8 (16.67%) Scrum
4 6 (12.50%) DevOps
5 5 (10.42%) ITIL
6 4 (8.33%) Analytics
6 4 (8.33%) Backlog Refinement
6 4 (8.33%) Conflict Resolution
6 4 (8.33%) Product Requirements
6 4 (8.33%) Project Management
6 4 (8.33%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (8.33%) Sprint Retrospective
6 4 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (6.25%) Cost Reduction
7 3 (6.25%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (6.25%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.50%) SQL
2 4 (8.33%) Java
3 2 (4.17%) PHP
3 2 (4.17%) Python
3 2 (4.17%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 41 (85.42%) Security Cleared
2 34 (70.83%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.17%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.17%) PMP
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.08%) CISSP
5 1 (2.08%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.08%) Degree
5 1 (2.08%) GIAC
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.08%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) PMO
2 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.08%) ISO 22301
3 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (2.08%) NIST
3 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.08%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) Nintex
3 1 (2.08%) Databricks
3 1 (2.08%) Foundry
3 1 (2.08%) Palantir
3 1 (2.08%) Splunk