SkillsTX

SkillsTX builds skills profiles for IT and digital staff. It uses SFIA, a public standard for IT and digital skills. Employees rate their own skills first. A manager or assessor can then review what they claimed. SkillsTX publishes its price. Business costs US$13 a user a month. Having a profile checked, which SkillsTX calls validating, costs extra. Until someone validates it, treat a profile as a claim, not a fact.

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

Buy it if

You want a skills record for your IT and digital staff, built on SFIA. You also have people with time to validate what employees claim.

Do not buy it if

You want one skills system for your whole workforce. SkillsTX is built for IT and digital staff. You want validated skills without anyone reporting their own work first.

Price

US$13 a user a month on Business, from 10 users. US$11 from 250 users, and US$10 from 1,000 users, on Enterprise. Both are billed a year upfront, on SkillsTX’s US price list. Validating profiles costs extra, in manager time or assessment fees.

Staff rate themselves on SFIA, and validation is a separate step

SkillsTX is a skills inventory. That means it stores a list of what each employee can do. It is built on SFIA, the Skills Framework for the Information Age. SFIA covers 147 professional skills, at seven levels of responsibility. SFIA does not name specific tools or brands. SkillsTX lets you add those yourself. For example, you can add a programming language or a security certificate under a broader SFIA skill. SkillsTX can also hold DigComp 3.0, a digital skills framework from the European Commission. It can build your own skills framework into the product too, if you have one. TalentTX is the name of the SkillsTX product on its price list.

Employees fill in a self-assessment, a survey where they rate their own skills. They can do it in stages, or skip most of it and build a profile by hand instead. They do that in their Planner console, a personal page for managing their own profile. For each skill, they can attach evidence, such as work samples or learning records. During the survey, that evidence is just a description they type or say out loud. On the Business plan, an internal or external assessor can also approve, or “endorse,” a skill. SkillsTX’s own help centre says validating everyone’s profile “may not be practical or cost effective.” Decide early which people, and which skills, you will actually validate.

If staff want a recognised credential, an accredited SFIA assessor reviews the evidence for up to six skills. A company called APMG International then issues the credential, as a digital badge, through a platform called Credly. The credential comes from APMG, not from SkillsTX itself.

Since late 2025, customers have used TXpertIQ, a set of AI tools SkillsTX calls agents. Two of them, ProfileIQ and ActionIQ, prompt an employee to talk about recent work. They turn the answer into proposed skill updates, for a manager or assessor to review. A third, EvidenceIQ, grades the evidence people submit as Poor, OK or Very Good, against SFIA’s own definitions. A fourth, RequirementIQ, turns an uploaded job description into the skills that role needs. These agents learn from your own organisation’s SkillsTX data, alongside SFIA and other framework content. SkillsTX also has a tool called AI Xplorer, for measuring how ready your organisation is for AI. It works the same way. Employees assess themselves against the 147 SFIA skills.

SkillsTX measures people’s skills against roles. You can upload role definitions from a spreadsheet, or start from more than 870 sample role templates SkillsTX provides. SkillsTX says customers see the benefits within two months.

SkillsTX is built around self-assessment, on purpose. Its view is that tools sold as objective tests only test what someone knows, not what they actually do. It admits that self-assessment “is always going to run the risk of being subjective.” It chose a graded scale instead. A skill is a full match when its SFIA description fits 85% or more of the person’s work. It counts as largely matched between 50% and 85%. In a self-assessment, the employee decides which of those bands their own work falls into.

A manager or assessor validates only the skills you choose to pay for. How much you validate decides how much weight you can put on the reports.

In one case, staff claimed 13.2 skills and experts found 8.2

SkillsTX publishes numbers on what changes when a self-assessed profile gets validated. It also publishes results for its customers.

13.2 skills per person, then 8.2One organisation, 2018

Staff at New South Wales Government Land and Property Information rated their own skills in SkillsTX. They said they had 13.2 skills each, on average. Outside, independent experts then assessed the same people. Their average was 8.2. This is one company, from 2018. Treat it as an example, not a rate for your own staff.

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

SkillsTX uses an example employee called Raphael. By his own account, he is an 82% match to his current role. Counting only recent, validated skills, his match is 27%. His match to a future role falls too, from 64% to 8%. SkillsTX says this does not mean he lacks the skills. It only means nobody has validated them yet. A match score can mean two different things. It can count what people say about themselves. Or it can count what someone has validated.

35% lower hiring costsResults for employers

SkillsTX says its customers see 35% lower hiring costs and 50% faster internal moves. It also says training spend returns four times as much. Before any of these goes into a business case, get the customers and the method behind each one.

92% renewal rateCorporate clients, December 2021

SkillsTX says 92% of its corporate clients renew, a figure dated December 2021. Australian government records add a newer data point. The Australian Signals Directorate, a security agency, has bought SkillsTX under public contracts since November 2022. It renewed in October and December 2025. Its latest subscription runs from May 2026 to May 2027.

Digital Skills Agency is SkillsTX’s New Zealand partner. It says “self-reported skills data that hasn’t been stress-tested isn’t data you can make decisions from.” If a promotion or a move to a new role rests on these profiles, budget for validation.

A public price and a public standard work in your favour

It publishes a price before you speak to anyone

SkillsTX puts a per-user price on its website, for the US, Australia, New Zealand, the EU and the UK. Business needs at least 10 users. Enterprise needs at least 250. TechWolf’s price, by contrast, is not published. Because SkillsTX’s number is public, you can put a first figure in a business case before a salesperson calls.

It keeps what people claim apart from what is validated

SkillsTX gives you two versions of every report. One is built from self-assessment. The other is built from validated profiles, its own word for a profile someone has reviewed. You can export either as a list of people, each with a percentage match to a job. You can see how far your staff’s claims differ from what has been validated. A separate report flags self-assessments that look unusual, such as someone claiming an unusually high number of skills. That helps you spend a limited validation budget where it matters most.

Its skill levels come from a public standard

A skill level in SkillsTX is a SFIA level of responsibility. SFIA scores five things. They are autonomy, influence, complexity, knowledge and business skills. If a manager or an employee questions a level, they can read the published definition behind it. SFIA’s own foundation has approved SkillsTX as an assessment partner. SkillsTX also issues its own digital badges, through a product called CredentialsTX. These follow Open Badges 3.0, an open standard for digital certificates. So an employee can take a credential with them if they leave.

Its AI suggests, and a person decides

Every suggestion from SkillsTX’s AI agents goes to a manager or assessor to review. SkillsTX calls this “AI proposes; your people decide.” The agents let an employee talk about recent work in a short conversation, instead of filling in a form. Using the agents does not use up a user licence.

It fits IT teams on SFIA, and government buyers

It fits skills questions about IT and digital staff

SFIA covers IT and digital skills. So SkillsTX fits when the skills you track sit inside your IT and digital teams. Finning is a Caterpillar dealer. It had more than 13,000 staff at the time of its 2020 case study. It uses SkillsTX for its technology teams. The City of Arvada uses it for its IT department. You do not need to know SFIA before you start. The framework is already built in.

It adds detailed technology skills beside an HR suite

Finning ran SkillsTX alongside Workday. A Finning executive says SkillsTX adds a detailed record of technology skills on top of Workday’s broader, more general one. Many SkillsTX customers run it next to Workday, SuccessFactors or Cornerstone. The HR and learning systems keep the official employee record.

Government buyers in Australia and New Zealand have a route

SkillsTX has a public buying record in Australia. The Australian Signals Directorate is one buyer. Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade holds a separate contract with SkillsTX, bought through a government panel. Those contract records are public. In New Zealand, you can buy through Digital Skills Agency, a New Zealand company and SkillsTX’s only partner there. If you buy for government somewhere else, confirm your buying route first. In the UK, SkillsTX is not currently available through G-Cloud. That is the list public bodies use to buy cloud software.

A Microsoft enterprise agreement may already cover it

You can buy SkillsTX through Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace. SkillsTX says that if your company has a Microsoft enterprise agreement, this purchase may already be covered by it. If that agreement has unspent money left, you may not need new sign-off or extra budget. Get that confirmed in writing before you plan around it.

Its limits are IT-only scope, self-reports and custom connections

You want the whole workforce in one system

SkillsTX is built for IT and digital staff, the people SFIA covers. Beyond those roles, it offers a framework from Engineering Education Australia, for engineering staff. Sales, operations or frontline staff may need to sit in the same system. Then get a reference call with a customer who does that.

Every profile needs the employee to describe their own work

SkillsTX has no connection that reads the work people actually produce, such as documents, work tickets, code or chat messages. It has no feature that works out skills from a CV, a job history or a finished course. A skill only reaches a profile because an employee reports it, by hand or in conversation with an AI agent. SkillsTX’s own help centre says getting people to finish their surveys on time “can be frustrating.” Plan how staff will finish their surveys. Do it before any decision rests 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. There are no ready-made connections. Reporting lines load in from an Excel template. Role definitions go in by spreadsheet too, using the official skill codes for the SFIA version your account runs on. Someone on your own team will need time to prepare those spreadsheets.

SkillsTX runs on Microsoft Azure. It promises the system will be available 99.9% of the time. If your data must stay in a particular country, confirm which region would hold it. SkillsTX also holds ISO 27001, a certificate that shows a company manages information security properly. Request the certificate itself. It will show who issued it, and what it actually covers.

SkillsTX’s clients include Red Hat, Saudi Aramco, BHP, the NHS, Optus and New Zealand’s Inland Revenue. It also works with 50 government agencies. Request a reference at a company close to your own size. The business behind SkillsTX is TX Management Systems Pty Ltd, a private company in Queensland, Australia, running since 2015. It bought a company called Credentials Cloud in February 2026. No layoffs, closure or sale has been reported. A separate company sits in the same postcode. It is called Digital Skills Management Pty Ltd. It has appeared under the SkillsTX name on an Australian Taxation Office supplier panel. Confirm which of the two companies your own contract would actually name.

The licence costs US$10 to US$13 a user, and validation costs more

On SkillsTX’s US price list, TalentTX Business costs US$13 per user per month. You need at least 10 users. TalentTX Enterprise costs US$11 per user from 250 users, and US$10 from 1,000 users. Past 5,000 users, you have to request a price. These prices cover a year paid upfront. Pay monthly instead, and it costs 20% more. SkillsTX also publishes price lists in other currencies. In Australia, the same three plans cost $19, $16 and $14. In New Zealand, they cost $21, $18 and $15. In the EU, they cost €12, €10 and €9. In the UK, they cost £10, £9 and £8.

Microsoft’s marketplace lists different prices. Its catalogue lists the Business plan, for 10 to 250 users, at US$130 for a one-year subscription. Get in writing whether that is per user. The Enterprise plan, for 250 to 1,000 users, costs US$118. The Large Enterprise plan, for 1,000 to 5,000 users, costs US$108. Before you compare SkillsTX with anything else, get SkillsTX to confirm which set of prices actually applies to you.

Validation takes manager time or a paid assessment. Video assessment through a tool called Bongo costs extra too. A full, accredited SFIA assessment of up to six skills costs US$435 when a person pays for it themselves. Confirm the fee for your own staff before it goes into a budget. SkillsTX’s TXpertIQ AI agents are free to current customers for the first 12 months. Get the price for year two in writing before you budget beyond one year.

Public contract records show what one large buyer, the Australian Signals Directorate, actually pays SkillsTX. Four of its software contracts are running in September 2026. Together they are worth A$530,970. The newest is a licence running from May 2026 to May 2027. On top of its licences, the agency also paid SkillsTX A$109,576.50 to set the system up. That ran between September 2022 and June 2023. It paid A$227,967.83 for ongoing management support, between November 2023 and January 2025. Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade holds a separate contract, worth A$261,811.00, for IT services. It was bought through a government panel for IT labour hire and professional services. The notice does not say whether that covers licences or services. The Signals Directorate paid SkillsTX for help as well as software. Leave room in your own budget for that kind of help, and get SkillsTX to price it before you sign.

SkillsTX’s current contract decides what leaving actually costs you. Once it ends, SkillsTX “may permit” you to get your own data back, for up to 60 days. It has no duty to keep that data, and may delete it after that. Fees cannot be cancelled or refunded. If something goes wrong, the most SkillsTX owes you is what you paid it in the past 12 months. Any dispute goes to court in Sydney, under New South Wales law. Employees lose access to their Planner console when they leave, or when you stop renewing. Leaving costs the hours people spent rating themselves and the hours managers spent validating. Agree the file format and the 60-day window in writing before you sign.

You could also build this on your own systems. We have mapped what that looks like. See it as an agent

What should you ask SkillsTX before you sign?

  1. After a year, what share of your customers’ profiles has a manager or assessor actually validated, not just self-assessed? Good answer: Both versions of one customer’s reports, with names removed.
  2. What will validating our profiles cost? Count manager time, assessor fees, and accredited SFIA assessment. Is US$435 still the fee for one person’s assessment? Good answer: A written cost estimate, and confirmation of the US$435 figure.
  3. Which HR systems do you connect to as standard today? Which ones are custom work, and who pays for it? Good answer: A list of standard connections, and a price for custom work.
  4. If we buy through Microsoft’s marketplace, which plan and price apply to us? How do the US$130, US$118 and US$108 one-year figures relate to your per-user prices? Good answer: A written price that matches one of your two price lists.
  5. What will the AI agents cost after the free 12 months? Is our data used to train agents that other customers use? Good answer: A price for TXpertIQ after year one, and a clear answer on training data.
  6. Your contract says you “may permit” us to get our data back for up to 60 days after it ends. Will you commit, in writing, to handing back every profile, every piece of evidence and every approved skill? Good answer: A written commitment, with a file format named.
  7. Who issued your ISO 27001 certificate? What does it cover, and in which country will our data be held? Good answer: A copy of the certificate and a named data region.
  8. Which company would we actually sign with, TX Management Systems Pty Ltd, or Digital Skills Management Pty Ltd? Good answer: A written answer naming one company, matching the contract.

Use SFIA free, or pick a tool that reads real work

The main alternatives to SkillsTX are TechWolf and Microsoft People Skills. Both work out skills from people’s actual work, rather than relying on what employees report. Another option is your own HR suite’s built-in skills tool, such as SAP Talent Intelligence Hub. Or you can use the SFIA framework on its own, with no software at all.

TechWolf and Microsoft People Skills work at the scale of a large organisation. Our guide to skills intelligence software covers both. TechWolf takes three to six months from signing the contract to validated skills for every job and employee in scope. A business case built on TechWolf should allow for that wait. Microsoft People Skills, by contrast, comes with $0 extra, so far. It comes with a Microsoft Copilot or Viva licence. It reads what people do inside Microsoft 365 only. It never sees a skill someone uses in a different tool. SkillsTX takes its skill levels from SFIA. TechWolf’s scale has five levels by default, adjustable from three to eight.

If you need your whole workforce in one system, our market guide covers that group of products too. Like SkillsTX, those products rely on employees to report their own skills. If you already run a large HR suite, its own skills tool may cover more than you expect. Confirm what it costs too, before you buy anything alongside it. SAP SuccessFactors, for example, needs a separately purchased AI units licence for its premium AI features. Only then can it work out skills with AI.

You can use SFIA without buying SkillsTX at all. Every use of SFIA needs a licence from the SFIA Foundation. That body also licenses SkillsTX to sell SFIA-based software. For most internal staff management and workforce development, that licence from the Foundation is free. An IT leadership team can agree which SFIA skills and levels its roles need, at no cost for the framework. It can then decide whether the gaps are worth paying for 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.