SFIA Jobs in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring SFIA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SFIA over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 471 373
Rank change year-on-year +88 -98 +498
Permanent jobs citing SFIA 10 28 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.078% 0.12% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% 0.13% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4 26 18
10th Percentile £49,676 - £57,750
25th Percentile £54,815 £69,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,670 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% -2.67% +10.70%
75th Percentile £70,440 £76,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £93,426 - £99,500
England median annual salary £57,670 £73,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -21.00% -2.67% +11.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

SFIA falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,397 21,536 32,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.18% 91.13% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,220 15,919 23,171
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £43,477
25th Percentile £56,000 £51,532 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SFIA in London

SFIA
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SFIA in London.

Salary trend for SFIA in London

SFIA
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SFIA in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SFIA in London

SFIA
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SFIA within the London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West London - 2 £57,670 -
SFIA
England

SFIA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (20.00%) Asana
3 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (20.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JMeter
2 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) JUnit
2 2 (20.00%) LoadRunner
2 2 (20.00%) Postman
2 2 (20.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) TestRail
3 1 (10.00%) Gatling
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) Locust
3 1 (10.00%) REST Assured
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Applications Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Head of Cybersecurity
1 2 (20.00%) Head of Security
1 2 (20.00%) ICT Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Programme Director
1 2 (20.00%) Senior
1 2 (20.00%) Tester
2 1 (10.00%) Functional Tester
2 1 (10.00%) Performance Tester
2 1 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (20.00%) Leaflet
1 2 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (30.00%) Defect Management
4 3 (30.00%) Kanban
4 3 (30.00%) OWASP
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) Security Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Test Planning
4 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Data Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Data Management
5 2 (20.00%) ITIL
5 2 (20.00%) Manual Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Release Management
5 2 (20.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CISSP
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (30.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (20.00%) CESG Certified Professional
3 2 (20.00%) CISMP
3 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (20.00%) PMP
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk