SkillsTX

SkillsTX gives your IT and digital staff a skills profile built on SFIA, the global standard for IT and digital skills, and runs alongside HR systems such as Workday, SuccessFactors and Cornerstone. Each employee assesses their own skills against SFIA, and a manager or assessor can then check what they have claimed. SkillsTX publishes its price, US$10 to US$13 per user per month on its US price list, and the checking is paid for separately, in manager time or assessment fees.

By Ashish Manchanda Published 16 Sep 2026 Last updated 16 Sep 2026
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A self-assessed skills inventory for IT and digital staff, built on SFIA, with a published price.

Buy it if

You want a skills inventory for your IT and digital staff on SFIA, and you have managers or assessors with the time to check what people say about themselves.

Do not buy it if

You want one skills system for the whole workforce, since SkillsTX is built for IT and digital staff, or you want skills to appear on profiles without employees describing their own work.

Price

US$13 per user per month on Business from 10 users, or US$11 from 250 users and US$10 from 1,000 users on Enterprise, billed a year upfront, on SkillsTX’s US price list. Checking profiles comes on top, as manager time or assessment fees.

How it works

How a SkillsTX profile gets made

SkillsTX is a skills inventory built on SFIA, the Skills Framework for the Information Age, which covers 147 professional skills and seven levels of responsibility. SFIA does not name particular technologies or vendors, so SkillsTX lets you record specific ones, such as JavaScript or the CISSP security certification, as extra detail under the broader SFIA skills. It can also hold the European Commission’s DigComp 3.0 digital skills framework, and SkillsTX can set up your own competency model in the product for you. TalentTX is the SkillsTX product on its per-user price list.

Employees work through a structured self-assessment, in chunks if they prefer, or skip most of the questions and build a profile by hand in their Planner console. For each skill they can attach evidence, such as work samples or learning records, and during the survey the evidence is a description they type or dictate, so both the rating and its evidence begin with the employee. A manager or assessor can then review the profile, and the Business plan includes endorsement of skills by internal or external assessors. SkillsTX’s help centre says having everyone’s profile checked “may not be practical or cost effective”, so decide early which people and which skills you will have checked.

For staff who want a recognised credential, an accredited SFIA assessor reviews the evidence for up to six skills. APMG International then issues the credential as a digital badge through the Credly platform, so it comes from APMG rather than from SkillsTX.

Since the last quarter of 2025, customers have been using a set of AI agents called TXpertIQ. For employees, ProfileIQ and ActionIQ ask what they have been working on and turn the answer into proposed skill updates for a manager or assessor to review, so the starting point is still the employee’s own account. For reviewers, EvidenceIQ grades the evidence people submit as Poor, OK or Very Good against SFIA’s definitions. For the roles themselves, RequirementIQ turns an uploaded job description into the skills the role requires. The agents are trained on your organisation’s own SkillsTX data alongside framework content, including SFIA. AI Xplorer, SkillsTX’s module for measuring AI readiness, also starts with employees assessing themselves against the 147 SFIA skills.

What comes out is a picture of people’s skills measured against roles. You can upload role definitions in bulk from a spreadsheet or start from more than 870 sample role templates, and SkillsTX says customers see the benefits within two months.

SkillsTX relies on self-assessment by design. Its view is that tools sold as objective tests only test knowledge, so it chose self-assessment on a graduated scale, while accepting that self-assessment “is always going to run the risk of being subjective”. On that scale, a skill counts as fully matched when the SFIA description matches 85% or more of what the person has done at work, and largely matched between 50% and 85%. In a self-assessment, the employee decides which of those bands their own work falls into.

What you buy, in the end, is each employee’s own account of their skills, measured against a public standard, with a manager’s or assessor’s check on the skills you choose to pay for. The amount of checking decides how much weight the reports can carry.

Its figures

What its figures measure

SkillsTX publishes figures on what happens when self-assessed profiles are checked, alongside results for its customers.

13.2 skills per person, then 8.2One organisation, 2018

When staff at New South Wales Government Land & Property Information assessed themselves in SkillsTX, they averaged 13.2 skills per person. After external, independent experts assessed the same people, the average was 8.2. The figure comes from a single organisation in 2018, so use it as an example of how far self-assessed and checked profiles can differ rather than as a rate for your own people.

82% role match, falling to 27%An example employee, September 2026

SkillsTX’s example employee, Raphael, is an 82% match to his current role, and a 27% match once only recent, validated skills are counted. On the same basis, his match to a future role falls from 64% to 8%. SkillsTX says this does not prove he lacks the skills, only that they cannot be backed by validated evidence. Any role-match percentage you are shown therefore needs to say whether it counts what people said about themselves or what somebody checked.

35% lower hiring costsResults for employers

SkillsTX puts its results for employers at 35% lower hiring costs, 50% faster internal mobility and four times the return on training investment. Ask which customers those figures come from, and how each was measured, before any of them goes into a business case.

92% renewal rateCorporate clients, December 2021

SkillsTX gives a 92% renewal rate for its corporate clients, dated December 2021. Australian government contract notices add a later record: the Australian Signals Directorate, a security agency, has bought SkillsTX software under public contracts since November 2022, including renewals in October and December 2025 and a subscription running from May 2026 to May 2027.

SkillsTX’s New Zealand partner, Digital Skills Agency, advises that “self-reported skills data that hasn’t been stress-tested isn’t data you can make decisions from.” If a promotion or a redeployment will rest on these profiles, budget for the checking as well as the licence.

In your favour

What it does well

Several parts of SkillsTX make a buyer’s job easier, from building the budget to settling a disputed skill level.

You can see the price before you speak to anyone

SkillsTX publishes per-user prices for the US, Australia, New Zealand, the EU and the UK, with a minimum of 10 users on Business and 250 on Enterprise, whereas TechWolf’s price is not published. Because the number is on a public page, you can put a first figure in a business case before anyone has sent you a proposal.

It keeps what people claim apart from what has been checked

Its reports come in a self-assessed version and a validated version, and either can be exported as a list of people with their percentage match to a job, so you can see for your own people how far the claimed picture and the checked one differ. A separate report flags self-assessments that look unusual, such as an excessively high number of skills, which may indicate exaggeration, so you can spend a limited checking budget where it is most needed.

Its skill levels come from a public standard

A level in SkillsTX is a SFIA level of responsibility, judged on autonomy, influence, complexity, knowledge and business skills, so a manager or employee who questions a level can read the published definition behind it. SkillsTX is an active approved assessment partner of the SFIA Foundation. Credentials issued through CredentialsTX, SkillsTX’s credentialing product, meet Open Badges 3.0, an open standard for digital credentials, and are portable, so a credential can go with the employee.

Its AI suggests and a person decides

Every output from its AI agents goes to a manager or assessor for review, which SkillsTX sums up as “AI proposes; your people decide.” The agents let an employee describe recent work in a short conversation instead of filling in forms, and they do not use up user licences.

Fit

Who it suits

Your question is about IT and digital staff

SFIA covers IT and digital skills, so SkillsTX fits when the skills you need to track belong to your IT and digital teams. Finning, a Caterpillar dealer with more than 13,000 employees at the time of its 2020 case study, adopted SkillsTX for its technology teams, and the City of Arvada uses it for the staff of its IT department. Nobody needs to know SFIA beforehand, because the whole framework is built in.

Your HR suite holds only general skills

Finning ran SkillsTX alongside Workday, and a Finning executive says SkillsTX supplements Workday’s more general capabilities with a detailed inventory of technology skills. Many SkillsTX customers run it alongside Workday, SuccessFactors or Cornerstone, and TalentTX works next to your HR and learning systems, which keep the official employee record. Running it alongside your HR suite means connecting the two, and that connection is custom work.

You buy for government in Australia or New Zealand

SkillsTX has a public buying record in Australia: besides the Australian Signals Directorate, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade holds a contract with SkillsTX through a government panel, so your procurement team can see how other agencies have bought it. New Zealand organisations can contract with a New Zealand company through Digital Skills Agency, SkillsTX’s exclusive partner there. If you buy for government anywhere else, check your buying route first. In the UK, for example, SkillsTX is not currently available through G-Cloud, the framework public bodies use to buy cloud software and services.

You have a Microsoft agreement with spending left in it

SkillsTX can be bought through Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace. SkillsTX says that for organisations with a Microsoft enterprise agreement the purchase may already be covered, and that an organisation which has not used up its Azure spending commitment can buy it without a new procurement or extra budget. Check how that applies to your own agreement with your finance team and your Microsoft account manager.

Limits

Where it stops

You want the whole workforce in one system

SkillsTX is built for the IT and digital workforce that SFIA covers, and it does not cover the entire workforce. Beyond IT and digital work, it offers Engineering Education Australia’s framework for engineering staff. If sales, operations or frontline staff need to sit in the same system, ask for a reference call with a customer who already uses SkillsTX for those staff.

Every profile needs the employee to describe their own work

SkillsTX has no connection that reads the work people produce, such as documents, tickets, code or chat, and no feature that works skills out from CVs, job history or completed courses. Skills reach a profile because an employee reports them, in the survey, by hand or in conversation with an AI agent, and SkillsTX’s help centre says that getting people to complete the surveys on time “can be frustrating”. Plan how you will get people through the surveys before you plan anything that depends on the results.

Connecting it to your HR system is custom work

TalentTX connects to HR, talent and learning systems through links SkillsTX builds for whatever data you want to share, rather than through ready-made connectors. Reporting lines are loaded from an Excel template, and role definitions are uploaded by spreadsheet using the official skill codes of the SFIA version your account was set up on, so someone on your own team will need time to prepare those spreadsheets.

Your IT security team will want two details. The platform is hosted on Microsoft Azure with a commitment to 99.9% availability, so if your data has to stay in a particular country, ask which region it would be held in. SkillsTX is certified to ISO 27001, the international standard for managing information security, so ask for the certificate itself, which shows who issued it and what it covers.

SkillsTX’s clients include Red Hat, Saudi Aramco, BHP, the NHS, Optus and New Zealand’s Inland Revenue, and it supports 50 government agencies. SkillsTX does not give the size of those deployments, so ask for a reference at an organisation close to your size. The business behind SkillsTX is TX Management Systems Pty Ltd, a private company in Queensland, Australia, active since 2015. It bought Credentials Cloud in February 2026, and no layoffs, closure or sale has been reported. A separate company in the same postcode, Digital Skills Management Pty Ltd, appeared under the SkillsTX name on an Australian Taxation Office supplier panel, so check which of the two companies your contract would be with.
Money and contract

What it costs, and what comes on top

On SkillsTX’s US price list, TalentTX Business costs US$13 per user per month with a minimum of 10 users. TalentTX Enterprise costs US$11 per user per month from 250 users and US$10 from 1,000 users, and above 5,000 users the price is by enquiry. Those prices are for annual billing, paid upfront for 12 months, and monthly billing costs 20% more. If you would pay in another currency, SkillsTX has local price lists too: in Australia the same plans cost $19, $16 and $14, in New Zealand $21, $18 and $15, in the EU €12, €10 and €9, and in the UK £10, £9 and £8.

Bought through Microsoft’s marketplace, the plans carry different figures. In Microsoft’s catalogue, the Business plan, for 10 to 250 users, is US$130 for a one-year subscription, with no unit given. The Enterprise plan, for 250 to 1,000 users, is US$118, and the Large Enterprise plan, for 1,000 to 5,000 users, is US$108. Before you compare SkillsTX with anything else, get the company to confirm which set of figures you would pay.

The price list covers the licence, and the checking comes on top of it. The Business plan lets internal or external assessors endorse skills, but that checking takes manager time or paid assessment, and video assessment through Bongo is a paid add-on. An accredited SFIA assessment for up to six skills costs US$435 when an individual pays for it, so confirm the fee for your own staff before it goes into a budget. The TXpertIQ AI agents are free to current customers for 12 months, and SkillsTX does not publish what they will cost after that, so a budget that runs past those 12 months cannot yet include them.

Public contract notices show what one large buyer, the Australian Signals Directorate, has agreed to pay SkillsTX. Four of the agency’s software contracts are running in September 2026, worth A$11,220, A$198,000, A$123,750 and A$198,000 in Australian dollars, or A$530,970 in total, and the latest is a licence subscription from May 2026 to May 2027. Alongside its licences, the agency has contracted SkillsTX for A$109,576.50 of implementation services between September 2022 and June 2023, and A$227,967.83 of management support services between November 2023 and January 2025. Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade holds a separate A$261,811.00 contract for IT services, bought through a government panel for IT labour hire and professional services, and the notice does not say whether that covers licences or services. A large buyer has contracted SkillsTX for help as well as software, so leave room in your own budget for roll-out help and get SkillsTX to price it before you sign.

SkillsTX’s current service agreement decides what leaving costs you. Once the agreement ends, SkillsTX “may permit” you to retrieve a file of your data for up to 60 days, has no obligation to keep it, and may delete it after that. Fees are non-cancellable and non-refundable, SkillsTX’s liability is capped at what you paid for the order in the previous 12 months, and disputes go to the courts in Sydney under New South Wales law. Employees lose access to their Planner console when they leave or when you stop renewing. What you would lose on leaving is the time people spent assessing themselves and the time managers spent checking, so agree the export format and the retrieval period in writing before you sign.

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Before you sign

What to ask SkillsTX

  1. After a year, what share of your customers’ profiles have been checked by a manager or assessor rather than only self-assessed? Show us both versions of the reports for one customer, with names removed.
  2. What will checking our profiles cost, in manager time, in your assessors’ fees or in accredited SFIA assessment? Is US$435 still the fee for an individual assessment?
  3. On a new employee’s first day, which parts of their profile come from somewhere other than the employee?
  4. How often do EvidenceIQ’s grades of Poor, OK and Very Good agree with a human assessor, and how did you test that?
  5. What will the AI agents cost after the free 12 months, and is our data used to train agents that other customers use?
  6. Which HR systems do you connect to as standard today, which would be custom work, and who pays for that work?
  7. If we buy through Microsoft’s marketplace, which plan and price apply to us, and how do the US$130, US$118 and US$108 one-year figures there relate to your per-user prices?
  8. Your contract says you “may permit” us to retrieve our data for up to 60 days after it ends. Will you commit in writing to handing back every profile, every piece of evidence and every endorsement, and in what format?
  9. Who issued your ISO 27001 certificate, what does it cover, and in which country will our data be held?
  10. Which company would we contract with: TX Management Systems Pty Ltd, or Digital Skills Management Pty Ltd, which appeared under the SkillsTX name on an Australian Taxation Office supplier panel?
Other options

Alternatives to SkillsTX, including buying nothing

The main alternatives to SkillsTX are TechWolf and Microsoft People Skills, which work skills out from people’s work, your HR suite’s own skills module, such as SAP Talent Intelligence Hub, and the SFIA framework on its own, without any software.

If you want software to work out skills from the work people already do, rather than asking them, you need a different kind of product from SkillsTX. Our guide to skills intelligence software names two that work skills out automatically for a large organisation. TechWolf takes three to six months from signing the contract to validated skills for every job and employee in scope, so a business case built on TechWolf should allow for that wait. Microsoft People Skills costs $0 extra, so far, on top of a Microsoft Copilot or Viva licence, and it works out skills from what people do in Microsoft 365 only, so skills people use only in other tools will not show up. On skill levels, which SkillsTX takes from SFIA, TechWolf’s scale has five levels by default, adjustable from three to eight.

If you need the whole workforce in one system, the same guide sets out the other products that ask employees for their skills, the group SkillsTX belongs to. If you already run a large HR suite, find out what its own skills module includes, and what it costs, before you buy anything alongside it. SAP SuccessFactors, for example, needs a separately purchased AI units licence for SAP’s premium AI features before it can work out skills with AI.

You can use SFIA without buying SkillsTX. Every use of SFIA needs a licence from the SFIA Foundation, which has licensed SkillsTX to offer SFIA software, and for most internal staff management and workforce development that licence is free of charge. That makes buying nothing yet a real option: an IT leadership team can agree the SFIA skills and levels its roles need, at no cost for the framework, and then judge whether the gaps are worth software to track.

Sources and method Every statement about SkillsTX comes from its own website, including its FAQ, price list, product pages, blog, help centre, current service agreement and account-creation form, all read on 14 September 2026. What SkillsTX publishes about its own product is taken as its description of that product. Company details come from the Australian Business Register, government contracts from AusTender, the Australian government’s record of contract notices, and SkillsTX’s standing with SFIA from the SFIA Foundation’s own lists. Marketplace prices come from Microsoft’s listing and catalogue. Details on TechWolf, Microsoft People Skills and SAP come from each company’s own material, with the date each was checked. Quotations are verbatim.