Scaled Agile Framework Contracts in the Thames Valley

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 114 104
Rank change year-on-year -7 -10 -16
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 15 38 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.56% 1.31% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.43% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 25 52
10th Percentile - £424 £405
25th Percentile £501 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £650
90th Percentile £613 £655 £724
South East median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +20.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £42.58 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,313 2,661 3,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.02% 91.82% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,304 1,850 2,115
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £576
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 64 87
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.88 £12.15
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
% change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.51%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the Thames Valley

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the Thames Valley

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the Thames Valley

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 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
Berkshire -28 15 £550 - 5
Scaled Agile Framework
South East

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (6.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
1 7 (46.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) PaaS
2 2 (13.33%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Big Data
1 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Robot Framework
1 3 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) TestRail
General
1 12 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Solutions Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Product Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Packager
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
4 1 (6.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (6.67%) CSS
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.67%) HTML
1 1 (6.67%) jQuery
1 1 (6.67%) Kafka
1 1 (6.67%) Node.js
1 1 (6.67%) React
1 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Client/Server
2 2 (13.33%) PMI
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
2 7 (46.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 7 (46.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Agile
2 11 (73.33%) DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) Application Packaging
3 7 (46.67%) Application Virtualisation
4 6 (40.00%) Scrum
5 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (26.67%) Waterfall
7 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
7 3 (20.00%) Release Management
8 2 (13.33%) Business Analysis
8 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (13.33%) Data Security
8 2 (13.33%) Penetration Testing
8 2 (13.33%) Programme Management
8 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
8 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) PowerShell
2 7 (46.67%) VBScript
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) DV Cleared
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) PgMP
2 2 (13.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) VMware
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat