Scaled Agile Framework Contracts in the South East

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 133 125 138
Rank change year-on-year -8 +13 -4
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 68 98 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.23% 1.69% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.89% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 81 99
10th Percentile £425 £450 £431
25th Percentile £515 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £573
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.71% +19.69%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £685 £727 £683
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £26.09 -
25th Percentile - £32.00 £82.50
Median hourly rate - £42.58 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -49.91% -
75th Percentile - £53.92 £87.50
90th Percentile - £60.27 -
England median hourly rate £53.00 £85.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.65% +91.01% -31.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,683 5,187 6,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.85% 89.29% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,599 4,696
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £404 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 219 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.83 £15.72
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.71
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.83 £62.70
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the South East

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the South East

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the South East

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the South East

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Hampshire +2 34 £550 -6.38% 8
Thames Valley -13 18 £550 - 4
Berkshire -21 18 £550 - 2
West Sussex +8 8 £750 - 2
Surrey +2 7 £620 -0.80% 5
Scaled Agile Framework
England

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (10.29%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.47%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) Site Server
Cloud Services
1 30 (44.12%) Azure
2 26 (38.24%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (8.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 6 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (8.82%) Power Platform
4 5 (7.35%) PowerApps
5 3 (4.41%) AWS
6 2 (2.94%) PaaS
6 2 (2.94%) SaaS
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.47%) Collibra
7 1 (1.47%) GCP
7 1 (1.47%) IaaS
7 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.47%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) Power BI
2 4 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.47%) Ataccama
3 1 (1.47%) Big Data
3 1 (1.47%) GIS
3 1 (1.47%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.47%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (22.06%) TestRail
2 13 (19.12%) JIRA
3 6 (8.82%) Robot Framework
3 6 (8.82%) Selenium
4 4 (5.88%) Git
5 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.41%) Subversion
6 1 (1.47%) GitLab
6 1 (1.47%) VersionOne
6 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (27.94%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (11.76%) Finance
3 6 (8.82%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.41%) Marketing
5 2 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Banking
6 1 (1.47%) Billing
6 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (33.82%) Analyst
2 15 (22.06%) Test Analyst
3 14 (20.59%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
4 10 (14.71%) Scrum Master
5 7 (10.29%) Lead
6 5 (7.35%) Architect
6 5 (7.35%) Solutions Analyst
7 4 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Senior
7 4 (5.88%) Technical Architect
8 3 (4.41%) Applications Packager
8 3 (4.41%) Data Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Developer
9 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared Application Packager
9 2 (2.94%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 2 (2.94%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Product Analyst
9 2 (2.94%) Product Owner
9 2 (2.94%) Software Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.35%) REST
2 4 (5.88%) .NET
2 4 (5.88%) GraphQL
2 4 (5.88%) Kafka
3 3 (4.41%) gRPC
3 3 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.94%) CSS
4 2 (2.94%) HTML
4 2 (2.94%) React
5 1 (1.47%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.47%) DOM
5 1 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.47%) jQuery
5 1 (1.47%) JWT
5 1 (1.47%) Node.js
5 1 (1.47%) OAuth
5 1 (1.47%) OpenID
5 1 (1.47%) Redux
5 1 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.06%) Client/Server
2 5 (7.35%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.41%) PKI
4 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.94%) PMI
5 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.53%) Linux
2 15 (22.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 15 (22.06%) Windows
2 15 (22.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (88.24%) Agile
2 30 (44.12%) DevOps
3 25 (36.76%) Scrum
4 22 (32.35%) Test Automation
5 20 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (23.53%) Test Management
7 15 (22.06%) Application Packaging
7 15 (22.06%) Application Virtualisation
7 15 (22.06%) Requirements Analysis
8 13 (19.12%) Kanban
9 9 (13.24%) Coaching
9 9 (13.24%) Microservices
10 8 (11.76%) Analytics
10 8 (11.76%) TDD
11 7 (10.29%) CI/CD
11 7 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (10.29%) Waterfall
12 6 (8.82%) SIEM
13 5 (7.35%) Business Intelligence
13 5 (7.35%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (41.18%) Python
2 16 (23.53%) PowerShell
3 15 (22.06%) VBScript
4 7 (10.29%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.82%) Java
5 6 (8.82%) SQL
6 5 (7.35%) C#
6 5 (7.35%) Scala
7 3 (4.41%) Go
8 1 (1.47%) Bash
8 1 (1.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 41 (60.29%) Security Cleared
2 32 (47.06%) DV Cleared
3 15 (22.06%) ISTQB
3 15 (22.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 7 (10.29%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.88%) Degree
6 2 (2.94%) PgMP
6 2 (2.94%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) GxP
1 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 15 (22.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.41%) Docker
3 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.47%) Ansible
2 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (22.06%) VMware
2 6 (8.82%) Databricks
3 3 (4.41%) ArcSight
3 3 (4.41%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.47%) Citrix
4 1 (1.47%) ESRI
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle
4 1 (1.47%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.47%) StreamSets
4 1 (1.47%) Talend