SFIA Contracts in Tyne and Wear

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for SFIA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SFIA over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 45 -
Rank change year-on-year +18 - -
Contract jobs citing SFIA 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.38% 0.38% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 0.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £378 - -
25th Percentile £408 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - -
75th Percentile £534 - -
90th Percentile £572 - -
North East median daily rate £465 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

SFIA is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 207 241 379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 87.34% 90.60% 92.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 182 284
10th Percentile £329 £312 £218
25th Percentile £391 £400 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £600
90th Percentile £638 £749 £688
North East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 0 12
10th Percentile £11.50 - £10.53
25th Percentile £12.13 - £12.44
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £16.18
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.54%
75th Percentile £50.00 - £17.31
90th Percentile £68.75 - £18.63
North East median hourly rate £19.50 £39.34 £16.50
% change year-on-year -50.43% +138.42% +24.53%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing SFIA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for SFIA in Tyne and Wear

SFIA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SFIA in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for SFIA in Tyne and Wear

SFIA
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SFIA in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SFIA in Tyne and Wear

SFIA
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SFIA within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 8 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newcastle upon Tyne +19 8 £465 -
SFIA
North East

SFIA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Portfolio Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) Sprint Planning
2 5 (62.50%) Sprint Retrospective
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (50.00%) Project Management
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) Sprint Review
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Requirements Workshops
5 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (25.00%) User Research
5 2 (25.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA