Scaled Agile Framework Contracts

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 245 197
Rank change year-on-year -28 -48 +33
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 380 654 1,330
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 1.09% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.22% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 479 877
10th Percentile £413 £450 £413
25th Percentile £487 £513 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +12.20%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £775 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +18.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 17 45
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% -24.58%
75th Percentile - - £49.25
90th Percentile - £88.50 £66.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.00 £85.00 £54.31
% change year-on-year -37.65% +56.52% -15.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the UK

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the UK

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the UK

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the UK

Scaled Agile Framework
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +7 343 £550 -8.33% 92
UK excluding London -23 183 £550 -6.78% 59
London +36 171 £550 -12.00% 29
Work from Home -16 117 £550 -3.93% 40
South East -3 68 £550 -8.33% 24
South West +11 38 £650 +1.56% 10
North of England +8 30 £510 -7.27% 9
North West +9 18 £510 -7.27% 5
Midlands +7 18 £675 +19.47% 5
West Midlands +33 17 £675 +24.14% 4
Scotland +25 16 £470 -14.55% 2
East of England -16 13 £655 +9.17% 9
Yorkshire +2 10 £600 -3.23% 4
North East +20 2 £533 +3.90%
East Midlands +3 1 £550 -8.33% 1

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 36 (9.47%) Confluence
2 14 (3.68%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.89%) Site Server
4 7 (1.84%) Apache
4 7 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.32%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.05%) CMS
7 3 (0.79%) Drupal
8 2 (0.53%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.26%) IIS
9 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (6.05%) Microsoft Project
2 22 (5.79%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (5.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (5.53%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.79%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.53%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.53%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.53%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.53%) SAP IS-U
3 2 (0.53%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.26%) SAP Convergent Charging
4 1 (0.26%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 105 (27.63%) Azure
2 56 (14.74%) Azure DevOps
3 54 (14.21%) AWS
4 24 (6.32%) GCP
5 18 (4.74%) Amazon S3
6 16 (4.21%) SaaS
7 15 (3.95%) Power Platform
8 12 (3.16%) IaaS
9 8 (2.11%) Serverless
9 8 (2.11%) Snowflake
10 7 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.84%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (1.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (1.58%) GitHub
11 6 (1.58%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.32%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (1.32%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.32%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.37%) Network Security
2 5 (1.32%) Firewall
2 5 (1.32%) FTP
3 4 (1.05%) DNS
4 3 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (0.79%) SAN
4 3 (0.79%) SSL
5 2 (0.53%) Internet
6 1 (0.26%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.26%) HTTP
6 1 (0.26%) IOS XR
6 1 (0.26%) LAN
6 1 (0.26%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.26%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.26%) RTP
6 1 (0.26%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (5.00%) Big Data
2 19 (5.00%) GIS
3 12 (3.16%) Data Lake
4 11 (2.89%) Power BI
5 6 (1.58%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.32%) Tableau
7 4 (1.05%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.79%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.79%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.53%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.53%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.53%) MySQL
9 2 (0.53%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.53%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.53%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 107 (28.16%) JIRA
2 25 (6.58%) Git
3 22 (5.79%) Selenium
4 15 (3.95%) TestRail
5 12 (3.16%) Jenkins
6 11 (2.89%) Postman
6 11 (2.89%) SoapUI
7 10 (2.63%) Appium
7 10 (2.63%) Cucumber
7 10 (2.63%) eggPlant
7 10 (2.63%) JUnit
7 10 (2.63%) REST Assured
7 10 (2.63%) SOAtest
7 10 (2.63%) TestNG
7 10 (2.63%) WebDriver
8 6 (1.58%) Robot Framework
8 6 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.58%) Subversion
9 5 (1.32%) GitLab
10 3 (0.79%) CircleCI
General
1 113 (29.74%) Social Skills
2 108 (28.42%) Finance
3 79 (20.79%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (11.84%) Public Sector
5 38 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 23 (6.05%) Banking
7 20 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.89%) Marketing
9 9 (2.37%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.37%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.84%) Front Office
10 7 (1.84%) Military
11 6 (1.58%) Legal
11 6 (1.58%) Retail
11 6 (1.58%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.05%) Automotive
13 4 (1.05%) Games
13 4 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.79%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 55 (14.47%) Lead
2 54 (14.21%) Analyst
3 36 (9.47%) Architect
3 36 (9.47%) Senior
4 35 (9.21%) Scrum Master
5 32 (8.42%) Project Manager
6 24 (6.32%) Business Analyst
7 21 (5.53%) Developer
8 20 (5.26%) Project Leader
9 19 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (3.95%) Programme Manager
10 15 (3.95%) Test Analyst
11 14 (3.68%) Delivery Manager
11 14 (3.68%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
12 13 (3.42%) Cloud Architect
12 13 (3.42%) Cloud Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.42%) Principal Architect
12 13 (3.42%) Product Owner
13 12 (3.16%) Principal Solutions Architect
13 12 (3.16%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.32%) REST
2 23 (6.05%) .NET
3 13 (3.42%) HTML
4 12 (3.16%) CSS
5 9 (2.37%) .NET Framework
5 9 (2.37%) React
6 8 (2.11%) ADO
6 8 (2.11%) Kafka
7 7 (1.84%) GraphQL
7 7 (1.84%) JSON
7 7 (1.84%) XML
8 5 (1.32%) .NET Core
8 5 (1.32%) AngularJS
8 5 (1.32%) HTML5
8 5 (1.32%) Web Services
9 4 (1.05%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (1.05%) Node.js
9 4 (1.05%) Visualforce
10 3 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.79%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 44 (11.58%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.95%) Client/Server
3 10 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (2.63%) PKI
3 10 (2.63%) Public Cloud
4 8 (2.11%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.11%) Mobile App
5 6 (1.58%) Cyber Defence
5 6 (1.58%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.58%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.32%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.05%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.05%) Taxonomies
8 3 (0.79%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.79%) Online Banking
8 3 (0.79%) PMI
8 3 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.42%) Linux
2 19 (5.00%) Windows
3 15 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (3.95%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.53%) Android
4 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (90.00%) Agile
2 163 (42.89%) Scrum
3 94 (24.74%) DevOps
4 81 (21.32%) Stakeholder Management
5 70 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (15.53%) Kanban
7 53 (13.95%) Project Management
8 52 (13.68%) Project Delivery
9 50 (13.16%) PRINCE2
10 44 (11.58%) Test Automation
11 42 (11.05%) Coaching
12 41 (10.79%) Roadmaps
13 37 (9.74%) CI/CD
13 37 (9.74%) Cybersecurity
14 35 (9.21%) Continuous Integration
15 34 (8.95%) Programme Management
16 32 (8.42%) Mentoring
17 30 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
18 29 (7.63%) SDLC
19 28 (7.37%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 50 (13.16%) Python
2 42 (11.05%) Java
3 39 (10.26%) PowerShell
4 28 (7.37%) C#
5 26 (6.84%) SQL
6 22 (5.79%) JavaScript
7 15 (3.95%) VBScript
8 11 (2.89%) Korn
9 7 (1.84%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.32%) C++
10 5 (1.32%) Scala
11 4 (1.05%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.05%) Go
12 2 (0.53%) ABAP
12 2 (0.53%) Groovy
13 1 (0.26%) Bash
13 1 (0.26%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 119 (31.32%) Security Cleared
2 76 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 48 (12.63%) SC Cleared
4 30 (7.89%) Degree
5 22 (5.79%) APMP
6 15 (3.95%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.95%) ISTQB
6 15 (3.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 15 (3.95%) PMP
7 13 (3.42%) PMI Certification
8 12 (3.16%) CISM
8 12 (3.16%) CISSP
9 10 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.58%) CRISC
10 6 (1.58%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.58%) SANS
11 4 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.79%) CCNA
12 3 (0.79%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.63%) PMO
2 24 (6.32%) QA
3 8 (2.11%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.84%) NIST
5 6 (1.58%) NIST 800
6 4 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.79%) P3O
8 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.53%) GxP
8 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 1 (0.26%) COBIT
9 1 (0.26%) GAMP
9 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.26%) NCSC
9 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.58%) Docker
4 1 (0.26%) NFS
4 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (6.58%) Ansible
2 23 (6.05%) Terraform
3 13 (3.42%) Puppet
4 6 (1.58%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.79%) SCCM
6 2 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.26%) Grafana
7 1 (0.26%) Podman
7 1 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 42 (11.05%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.58%) SAP
3 24 (6.32%) Oracle
4 20 (5.26%) Salesforce
5 18 (4.74%) VMware
6 16 (4.21%) ESRI
7 10 (2.63%) Databricks
8 8 (2.11%) Informatica
8 8 (2.11%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.58%) Google
9 6 (1.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 6 (1.58%) Talend
10 5 (1.32%) Adobe
11 4 (1.05%) Cisco
11 4 (1.05%) F5
11 4 (1.05%) IBM
12 3 (0.79%) ArcSight
12 3 (0.79%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.79%) Citrix
12 3 (0.79%) Splunk