SFIA Job Trends in the North East

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring SFIA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SFIA 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.10% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - -
75th Percentile £53,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,670 £73,000
% change year-on-year +4.04% -21.00% -2.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,385 521 1,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.91% 92.05% 87.01%
Number of salaries quoted 954 327 1,311
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,857 £27,873
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £65,640 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SFIA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

SFIA job vacancy trend in the North East

SFIA
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SFIA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SFIA

SFIA
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SFIA within the North East region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear - 2 £52,500 - 5
SFIA
England

SFIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (100.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) QA