Scaled Agile Framework Contracts in England

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Scaled Agile Framework skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scaled Agile Framework over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 241 189
Rank change year-on-year -6 -52 +49
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 345 551 1,117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.93% 1.09% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.21% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 399 738
10th Percentile £413 £461 £413
25th Percentile £500 £520 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +10.58%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £763 £790 £779
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 17 43
10th Percentile - £55.60 -
25th Percentile - £70.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £53.00 £85.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.65% +91.01% -31.01%
75th Percentile - - £49.25
90th Percentile - £88.50 £66.97
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £85.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.65% +91.01% -24.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Scaled Agile Framework 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Scaled Agile Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in England

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in England.

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in England

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in England

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in England.

Hourly rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in England

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
London +42 171 £550 -12.00% 31
South East -8 68 £550 -8.33% 23
South West +6 40 £650 +1.56% 10
North of England +7 30 £510 -7.27% 9
North West +16 18 £510 -7.27% 5
Midlands +11 18 £675 +19.47% 5
West Midlands +34 17 £675 +24.14% 4
East of England -22 13 £655 +10.32% 9
Yorkshire +5 10 £600 -3.23% 4
North East +21 2 £533 +3.90%
East Midlands +4 1 £550 -8.33% 1
Scaled Agile Framework
UK

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 33 (9.57%) Confluence
2 14 (4.06%) SharePoint
3 11 (3.19%) Site Server
4 7 (2.03%) Apache
5 6 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.45%) Apache Spark
7 4 (1.16%) CMS
8 3 (0.87%) Drupal
9 2 (0.58%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.29%) IIS
10 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (7.25%) Microsoft Project
2 24 (6.96%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.87%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.58%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.58%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.58%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.58%) SAP IS-U
3 2 (0.58%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.29%) SAP Convergent Charging
Cloud Services
1 102 (29.57%) Azure
2 56 (16.23%) Azure DevOps
3 50 (14.49%) AWS
4 24 (6.96%) GCP
5 17 (4.93%) Amazon S3
6 14 (4.06%) Power Platform
7 13 (3.77%) SaaS
8 12 (3.48%) IaaS
9 8 (2.32%) Snowflake
10 7 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (2.03%) Serverless
11 6 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (1.74%) GitHub
11 6 (1.74%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.45%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.61%) Network Security
2 5 (1.45%) Firewall
2 5 (1.45%) FTP
3 4 (1.16%) DNS
4 3 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (0.87%) SAN
4 3 (0.87%) SSL
5 2 (0.58%) Internet
6 1 (0.29%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.29%) HTTP
6 1 (0.29%) IOS XR
6 1 (0.29%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.29%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.29%) RTP
6 1 (0.29%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.22%) Big Data
2 18 (5.22%) GIS
3 12 (3.48%) Data Lake
4 11 (3.19%) Power BI
5 6 (1.74%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.45%) Tableau
7 4 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.58%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.58%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.58%) MySQL
9 2 (0.58%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.29%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.29%) Ataccama
10 1 (0.29%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 95 (27.54%) JIRA
2 25 (7.25%) Git
3 22 (6.38%) Selenium
4 15 (4.35%) TestRail
5 11 (3.19%) Jenkins
5 11 (3.19%) Postman
5 11 (3.19%) SoapUI
6 10 (2.90%) Appium
6 10 (2.90%) Cucumber
6 10 (2.90%) eggPlant
6 10 (2.90%) JUnit
6 10 (2.90%) REST Assured
6 10 (2.90%) SOAtest
6 10 (2.90%) TestNG
6 10 (2.90%) WebDriver
7 6 (1.74%) Robot Framework
7 6 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.74%) Subversion
8 4 (1.16%) GitLab
9 3 (0.87%) Artifactory
General
1 111 (32.17%) Social Skills
2 103 (29.86%) Finance
3 76 (22.03%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (11.59%) Presentation Skills
5 32 (9.28%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.51%) Banking
6 19 (5.51%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (3.19%) Marketing
8 9 (2.61%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (2.03%) Front Office
9 7 (2.03%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.03%) Military
10 6 (1.74%) Legal
10 6 (1.74%) Retail
11 5 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.45%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.16%) Automotive
12 4 (1.16%) Games
12 4 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.87%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 45 (13.04%) Analyst
2 42 (12.17%) Lead
3 35 (10.14%) Architect
4 34 (9.86%) Senior
5 32 (9.28%) Scrum Master
6 31 (8.99%) Project Manager
7 22 (6.38%) Project Leader
8 19 (5.51%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (5.22%) Business Analyst
9 18 (5.22%) Developer
10 15 (4.35%) Programme Manager
10 15 (4.35%) Test Analyst
11 14 (4.06%) Delivery Manager
11 14 (4.06%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
12 13 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
12 13 (3.77%) Cloud Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.77%) Principal Architect
13 12 (3.48%) Principal Solutions Architect
13 12 (3.48%) Product Owner
13 12 (3.48%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.96%) REST
2 23 (6.67%) .NET
3 10 (2.90%) HTML
4 9 (2.61%) .NET Framework
4 9 (2.61%) CSS
5 8 (2.32%) ADO
6 7 (2.03%) GraphQL
6 7 (2.03%) JSON
6 7 (2.03%) Kafka
7 6 (1.74%) React
7 6 (1.74%) XML
8 5 (1.45%) .NET Core
8 5 (1.45%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.16%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (1.16%) Visualforce
9 4 (1.16%) Web Services
10 3 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.87%) gRPC
10 3 (0.87%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.58%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.01%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.35%) Client/Server
3 10 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (2.90%) PKI
4 9 (2.61%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.32%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.74%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.74%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (1.45%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.16%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.16%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.16%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.87%) PMI
9 3 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.58%) DataPower
10 2 (0.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.58%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.28%) Linux
2 19 (5.51%) Windows
3 15 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.58%) Android
4 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (90.14%) Agile
2 136 (39.42%) Scrum
3 92 (26.67%) DevOps
4 79 (22.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 65 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (15.94%) Kanban
7 53 (15.36%) Project Delivery
8 52 (15.07%) Project Management
9 48 (13.91%) PRINCE2
10 42 (12.17%) Test Automation
11 36 (10.43%) Cybersecurity
12 34 (9.86%) CI/CD
12 34 (9.86%) Continuous Integration
12 34 (9.86%) Programme Management
13 31 (8.99%) Mentoring
14 30 (8.70%) Coaching
15 29 (8.41%) Roadmaps
16 28 (8.12%) Data Management
16 28 (8.12%) Workshop Facilitation
17 27 (7.83%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 48 (13.91%) Python
2 39 (11.30%) PowerShell
3 37 (10.72%) Java
4 28 (8.12%) C#
5 25 (7.25%) SQL
6 18 (5.22%) JavaScript
7 15 (4.35%) VBScript
8 11 (3.19%) Korn
9 5 (1.45%) C++
9 5 (1.45%) Scala
10 4 (1.16%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.16%) Go
11 3 (0.87%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.29%) ABAP
12 1 (0.29%) Bash
12 1 (0.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 118 (34.20%) Security Cleared
2 78 (22.61%) DV Cleared
3 46 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 27 (7.83%) Degree
5 24 (6.96%) APMP
6 15 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 15 (4.35%) ISTQB
6 15 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 15 (4.35%) PMP
7 13 (3.77%) PMI Certification
8 12 (3.48%) CISM
8 12 (3.48%) CISSP
9 10 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.74%) CRISC
10 6 (1.74%) SANS
11 5 (1.45%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.87%) CCNA
13 3 (0.87%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.70%) PMO
2 21 (6.09%) QA
3 7 (2.03%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.03%) NIST
4 6 (1.74%) NIST 800
5 2 (0.58%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.58%) GxP
5 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.29%) COBIT
6 1 (0.29%) GAMP
6 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.29%) NCSC
6 1 (0.29%) P3O
System Software
1 15 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.74%) Docker
4 1 (0.29%) NFS
4 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (7.25%) Ansible
2 23 (6.67%) Terraform
3 13 (3.77%) Puppet
4 6 (1.74%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.87%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.87%) SCCM
6 2 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.29%) Grafana
7 1 (0.29%) Podman
7 1 (0.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 40 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.80%) Oracle
2 20 (5.80%) SAP
3 19 (5.51%) Salesforce
4 18 (5.22%) VMware
5 16 (4.64%) ESRI
6 10 (2.90%) Databricks
7 8 (2.32%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.03%) Informatica
9 6 (1.74%) Google
9 6 (1.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 6 (1.74%) Talend
10 5 (1.45%) Adobe
11 4 (1.16%) Cisco
11 4 (1.16%) F5
12 3 (0.87%) ArcSight
12 3 (0.87%) Cadence
12 3 (0.87%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.87%) IBM
12 3 (0.87%) Splunk