About SFIA

What is SFIA?

The Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) provides a common reference model for the identification of the skills needed to develop effective Information Systems (IS) making use of Information Communications Technologies (ICT). It is a simple and logical two-dimensional framework consisting of areas of work on one axis and levels of responsibility on the other.

It uses a common language and a sensible, logical structure that can be adapted to the training and development needs of a very wide range of businesses – or simply used ‘off the shelf’.

SFIA enables employers of IT professionals to carry out a range of HR activities against a common framework of reference - including skill audit, planning future skill requirements, development programmes, standardisation of job titles and functions, and resource allocation.

It is easily accessible to:

• ICT practitioners and users
• employers
• education and training providers; and
• government

The skills relate both to the e-skills UK National Occupational Standards and to the BCS’s SFIAplus which incorporates its Industry Structure Model.