Scaled Agile Framework Contracts in the North West

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 119 135 162
Rank change year-on-year +16 +27 -34
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 18 25 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.65% 0.78% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.86% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 14
10th Percentile £390 £464 £474
25th Percentile £400 £500 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -6.38% -21.67%
75th Percentile £530 £573 £638
90th Percentile £641 £600 £709
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +10.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the North West

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the North West

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the North West

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Cheshire +12 13 £493 -14.35% 2
Lancashire +4 3 £702 +40.49%
Manchester +8 2 £500 -4.76% 2
Scaled Agile Framework
England

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (27.78%) Apache
1 5 (27.78%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (27.78%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (27.78%) Amazon EMR
1 5 (27.78%) Amazon S3
1 5 (27.78%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
1 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (27.78%) Serverless
1 5 (27.78%) Snowflake
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Big Data
2 2 (11.11%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) JIRA
2 5 (27.78%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) CircleCI
General
1 6 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Manufacturing
3 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Front Office
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (27.78%) Data Engineer
1 5 (27.78%) Scrum Master
1 5 (27.78%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (16.67%) Programme Manager
2 3 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Integration Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Integration Project Manager
3 2 (11.11%) SAP Integration Manager
3 2 (11.11%) SAP Manager
3 2 (11.11%) SAP Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.56%) IT Programme Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) JSON
1 5 (27.78%) XML
2 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.56%) CSS
2 1 (5.56%) Ember.js
2 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.56%) HTML
2 1 (5.56%) HTML5
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Life Science
2 1 (5.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Agile
2 11 (61.11%) Scrum
3 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (33.33%) Project Management
5 5 (27.78%) Agile Coaching
5 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
5 5 (27.78%) Data Engineering
5 5 (27.78%) Data Management
5 5 (27.78%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (27.78%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (27.78%) ETL
5 5 (27.78%) OO
5 5 (27.78%) OOP
5 5 (27.78%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (27.78%) PRINCE2
5 5 (27.78%) Programme Management
5 5 (27.78%) SDLC
5 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
5 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (27.78%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) C#
1 5 (27.78%) Java
1 5 (27.78%) Python
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) PMI Certification
1 3 (16.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) GAMP
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 5 (27.78%) Informatica
2 5 (27.78%) Talend
3 3 (16.67%) Cadence
3 3 (16.67%) SAP