SFIA Job Trends in Portsmouth

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring SFIA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SFIA 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Portsmouth 0.49% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £85,000 - -
90th Percentile £88,000 - -
Hampshire median annual salary £85,000 £67,500 -
% change year-on-year +25.93% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 395 326 388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 65.07% 92.88% 73.48%
Number of salaries quoted 285 161 327
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £37,500 £41,174
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +13.40% -11.82%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £65,625
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £72,500
Hampshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,250 £51,000
% change year-on-year +9.45% -1.47% -7.27%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

SFIA job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

SFIA
Salary Trend in Portsmouth

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing SFIA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing SFIA

SFIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Simulink
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) QA Automation Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) QA Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) QA Test Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Code
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Defect Tracking
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) MATLAB
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA