The global skills and competency framework for the digital world

Exploring SFIA your way

SFIA contains a broad catalogue of professional skills covering many disciplines, industries and roles.

Different people explore SFIA in different ways. Some start with a role title, others with a business area, a skill, a responsibility level or a workforce planning challenge.

To support this, SFIA provides multiple ways to explore the framework. These approaches complement each other and allow you to move from broad exploration to detailed analysis.

You do not need to use every tool or view. Most users start with one approach and then move naturally to others as their understanding develops.

A broad overview

For people who want to understand the overall structure of SFIA such as SFIA views, categories and subcategories

  • Downloadable documents
    • A3 summary chart - interactive PDF
    • Excel
    • 2 pdfs in book format
    • You need to register and log in to download these
  • SFIA multi-view
    • interactive graphical
    • search and filter
  • SFIA Views
    • web pages listing SFIA views and their categories and subcategories
      • Cloud computing skills
      • Cyber security skills
      • A framework for AI skills
      • Big data/Data science skills
      • Digital transformation skills
      • Agile skills 
      • Software engineering skills
      • Enterprise IT skills
      • DevOps skills

These resources help you understand the overall shape of SFIA and how skills are grouped and connected.

Explore by role or work context

For people starting from jobs, teams or organisational structures.

These approaches help translate SFIA into practical workforce, organisational and role-based applications.

Search and filter the framework

For users who already know roughly what they are looking for.

These tools support targeted exploration and comparison across the framework.