SFIA Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 575 664
Rank change year-on-year +169 +89 +177
Permanent jobs citing SFIA 9 8 12
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.059% 0.024% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.026% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 12
10th Percentile £50,818 - £41,325
25th Percentile - - £79,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,670 £51,997 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -42.23% +400.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,350 £95,000
90th Percentile - £69,640 £111,875
UK median annual salary £57,670 £73,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -21.00% -2.67% +1.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,284 31,001 40,855
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.23% 91.62% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,786 23,546 28,388
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,759 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

SFIA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SFIA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SFIA trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SFIA
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SFIA.

SFIA salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SFIA
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SFIA over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

SFIA salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SFIA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (11.11%) MySQL
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JMeter
2 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 1 (11.11%) ERwin
2 1 (11.11%) Gatling
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
2 1 (11.11%) LoadRunner
2 1 (11.11%) Locust
2 1 (11.11%) Postman
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) TestRail
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Financial Institution
3 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Coordinator
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Lead Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Lead Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Programme Director
2 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Security Assurance Coordinator
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Leaflet
2 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Decision-Making
2 4 (44.44%) Risk Management
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 3 (33.33%) Information Security
4 2 (22.22%) Business Case
4 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Data Management
4 2 (22.22%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (22.22%) Kanban
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Programme Management
4 2 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) Security Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
4 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Bicep
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) CISSP
3 4 (44.44%) CESG Certified Professional
3 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) CISM
4 2 (22.22%) CISMP
4 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
4 2 (22.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (22.22%) PMI Certification
4 2 (22.22%) PMP
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
5 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 2 (22.22%) Def Stans
2 2 (22.22%) NIST
2 2 (22.22%) RMADS
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Databricks
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk