SFIA Contracts in London

Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 440 577
Rank change year-on-year +75 +137 -97
Contract jobs citing SFIA 35 44 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.17% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.19% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 35 4
10th Percentile £460 £418 -
25th Percentile £488 £498 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £463
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +24.32% -7.50%
75th Percentile £556 £655 £491
90th Percentile £580 £704 £496
England median daily rate £525 £569 £500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.75% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.99
Median hourly rate - - £19.46
75th Percentile - - £20.93
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £60.00 £23.48
% change year-on-year - +155.54% -28.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,493 22,867 35,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.25% 90.91% 92.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,090 16,561 26,167
10th Percentile £340 £375 £393
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £778
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 265 394
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +9.09% +8.83%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.00 £51.26
90th Percentile £68.30 £82.40 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

SFIA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing SFIA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for SFIA in London

SFIA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SFIA in London.

Daily rate trend for SFIA in London

SFIA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SFIA in London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SFIA in London

SFIA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SFIA in London.

Hourly rate trend for SFIA in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SFIA within the London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Central London +41 10 £518 -12.29% 1
East London -6 2 £549 +26.15%
SFIA
England

SFIA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (5.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (42.86%) AWS
2 14 (40.00%) Azure
3 9 (25.71%) Serverless
4 8 (22.86%) Azure Service Bus
5 7 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (11.43%) Amazon MSK
6 4 (11.43%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (11.43%) dbt
7 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (5.71%) Miro
9 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.86%) PaaS
9 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (11.43%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (11.43%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (11.43%) DynamoDB
2 4 (11.43%) Parquet
3 3 (8.57%) Tableau
4 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
General
1 14 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 11 (31.43%) Back Office
3 4 (11.43%) Local Government
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Data Engineer
2 10 (28.57%) Product Owner
3 6 (17.14%) Senior
4 5 (14.29%) Architect
4 5 (14.29%) Senior Product Owner
5 4 (11.43%) Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Business Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Lead
5 4 (11.43%) Lead Data Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Agile Business Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Agile Product Owner
7 1 (2.86%) AWS Developer
7 1 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) IT Business Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Java Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) Kafka
2 4 (11.43%) Apache Avro
2 4 (11.43%) JSON
3 2 (5.71%) Spring
3 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (31.43%) Product Ownership
2 5 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Agile
2 10 (28.57%) Data Management
2 10 (28.57%) User Stories
3 9 (25.71%) Data Analysis
4 7 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (11.43%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (11.43%) ArchiMate
5 4 (11.43%) BPMN
5 4 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (11.43%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (11.43%) DevOps
5 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Modelling
5 4 (11.43%) ETL
5 4 (11.43%) IT4IT
5 4 (11.43%) Predictive Modelling
5 4 (11.43%) PRINCE2
5 4 (11.43%) Product Backlog
5 4 (11.43%) Technical Architecture
5 4 (11.43%) TOGAF
6 3 (8.57%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) Python
1 7 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (5.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (54.29%) SC Cleared
1 19 (54.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (31.43%) PCI DSS
2 4 (11.43%) COBIT
2 4 (11.43%) ISO 22301
2 4 (11.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 4 (11.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
1 3 (8.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Sparx
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.86%) Splunk