SFIA Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring SFIA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SFIA 11 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.59% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% - -
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £48,250 - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £59,375 - -
90th Percentile £72,500 - -
North East median annual salary £55,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,340 420 1,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 72.43% 91.30% 84.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,091 278 1,078
10th Percentile £30,000 £24,871 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,300 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £75,772
North East median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

SFIA job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

SFIA
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing SFIA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing SFIA

SFIA
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing SFIA in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for SFIA in Tyne and Wear

SFIA
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SFIA within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 11 £55,000 - 9
SFIA
North East

SFIA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 5 (45.45%) Apache
1 5 (45.45%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (45.45%) Jupyter
2 3 (27.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Adobe XD
1 2 (18.18%) InVision
1 2 (18.18%) Sketch
1 2 (18.18%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon EMR
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon S3
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (18.18%) Asana
3 2 (18.18%) Figma
4 1 (9.09%) Google Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Amazon Athena
1 5 (45.45%) DynamoDB
2 2 (18.18%) Big Data
2 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
3 1 (9.09%) Looker
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) Axure RP
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 8 (72.73%) Public Sector
2 6 (54.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Legal
3 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Test Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Business Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Lead
3 3 (27.27%) Lead Test Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Designer
4 2 (18.18%) Service Designer
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) CSS
1 2 (18.18%) Framer.js
1 2 (18.18%) HTML
1 2 (18.18%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Augmented Reality
2 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Mentoring
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Coaching
3 5 (45.45%) Data Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (45.45%) Data Validation
3 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
3 5 (45.45%) Validation
4 3 (27.27%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) User Research
4 3 (27.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) Bash
2 5 (45.45%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
2 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
3 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
3 2 (18.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) Google