Scaled Agile Framework Contracts in Scotland

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 143 132
Rank change year-on-year +31 -11 -19
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 17 24 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.77% 0.85% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.91% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 37
10th Percentile £425 £435 £420
25th Percentile £453 £513 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% -2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £487 £590 £600
90th Percentile - £688 £624
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +12.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,954 2,625 3,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.74% 92.49% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,182 1,886 2,317
10th Percentile £225 £260 £244
25th Percentile £400 £406 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £559 £550
90th Percentile £672 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 55 47
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.32
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.78 £20.38
Median hourly rate £18.79 £17.21 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -56.98% -
75th Percentile £40.94 £50.74 £49.15
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.94 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in Scotland

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in Scotland

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in Scotland

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Edinburgh +38 9 £479 -18.90% 2
Glasgow +8 4 £460 -21.70% 2
West Lothian -1 1 £60 -88.71%
Perthshire - 1 - -
Scaled Agile Framework
UK

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
1 1 (5.88%) AWS
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
1 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
1 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 11 (64.71%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Lead
2 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Agile Delivery Lead
3 1 (5.88%) Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Scrum Master
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Test Automation Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Agile
2 15 (88.24%) Scrum
3 13 (76.47%) Coaching
4 12 (70.59%) Roadmaps
5 11 (64.71%) Release Train
6 2 (11.76%) Budget Management
6 2 (11.76%) Business Strategy
6 2 (11.76%) PRINCE2
6 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (5.88%) Architectural Patterns
7 1 (5.88%) Change Management
7 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (5.88%) Design Patterns
7 1 (5.88%) IT Strategy
7 1 (5.88%) Kanban
7 1 (5.88%) Objectives and Key Results
7 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
7 1 (5.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Groovy
1 1 (5.88%) Java
1 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.88%) Python
1 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (11.76%) P3O
3 1 (5.88%) PMO
3 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Confluent
1 1 (5.88%) IBM
1 1 (5.88%) Informatica
1 1 (5.88%) StreamSets