Scaled Agile Framework Contracts with Work from Home Options

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 227 228 207
Rank change year-on-year +1 -21 +45
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 121 264 577
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.80% 1.05% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.17% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 192 383
10th Percentile £433 £406 £413
25th Percentile £481 £483 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -1.30% +9.52%
75th Percentile £637 £650 £675
90th Percentile £688 £736 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 35
10th Percentile - £61.50 -
25th Percentile - £69.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate - £85.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year - +91.01% -24.58%
75th Percentile - - £49.25
90th Percentile - £87.25 £51.28
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £85.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.65% +91.01% -17.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Scaled Agile Framework
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scaled Agile Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Scaled Agile Framework trend for jobs with a WFH option

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scaled Agile Framework.

Scaled Agile Framework daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Scaled Agile Framework over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Scaled Agile Framework daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Scaled Agile Framework
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scaled Agile Framework.

Scaled Agile Framework hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (12.40%) Confluence
2 2 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.83%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.65%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.65%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.65%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.65%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (1.65%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.83%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 26 (21.49%) Azure
2 11 (9.09%) SaaS
3 10 (8.26%) AWS
4 9 (7.44%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.61%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (4.13%) GCP
7 5 (4.13%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.31%) Miro
9 3 (2.48%) Adobe Analytics
9 3 (2.48%) GitHub
9 3 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.48%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 3 (2.48%) Serverless
10 2 (1.65%) Asana
10 2 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.65%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.65%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (4.96%) Power BI
2 5 (4.13%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.31%) GIS
4 3 (2.48%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.65%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.65%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.65%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.65%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.65%) Tableau
6 1 (0.83%) Ataccama
6 1 (0.83%) Big Data
6 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.83%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.83%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.83%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (21.49%) JIRA
2 4 (3.31%) Git
2 4 (3.31%) Selenium
3 3 (2.48%) Appium
3 3 (2.48%) CircleCI
3 3 (2.48%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.48%) eggPlant
3 3 (2.48%) JUnit
3 3 (2.48%) Postman
3 3 (2.48%) REST Assured
3 3 (2.48%) SoapUI
3 3 (2.48%) SOAtest
3 3 (2.48%) TestNG
3 3 (2.48%) WebDriver
4 2 (1.65%) GitLab
4 2 (1.65%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.65%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.83%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.83%) Subversion
General
1 45 (37.19%) Social Skills
2 36 (29.75%) Finance
3 13 (10.74%) Banking
3 13 (10.74%) Influencing Skills
4 12 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.92%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.44%) Legal
6 8 (6.61%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.96%) Marketing
8 5 (4.13%) Retail
9 4 (3.31%) Front Office
9 4 (3.31%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.48%) Automotive
10 3 (2.48%) Billing
10 3 (2.48%) Electronics
10 3 (2.48%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.65%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.83%) Back Office
12 1 (0.83%) Law
Job Titles
1 19 (15.70%) Analyst
2 15 (12.40%) Lead
3 14 (11.57%) Senior
4 12 (9.92%) Business Analyst
5 11 (9.09%) Developer
6 10 (8.26%) Consultant
6 10 (8.26%) Scrum Master
7 9 (7.44%) Product Owner
8 8 (6.61%) Architect
8 8 (6.61%) Delivery Manager
9 7 (5.79%) Transformation Manager
10 6 (4.96%) Project Delivery Manager
10 6 (4.96%) Project Manager
10 6 (4.96%) Service Design Manager
11 5 (4.13%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (3.31%) Data Engineer
12 4 (3.31%) Senior Product Owner
12 4 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
13 3 (2.48%) Agile Delivery Lead
13 3 (2.48%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.79%) React
2 6 (4.96%) .NET
2 6 (4.96%) HTML
3 5 (4.13%) CSS
3 5 (4.13%) HTML5
4 4 (3.31%) GraphQL
4 4 (3.31%) REST
5 3 (2.48%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.48%) Kafka
5 3 (2.48%) Node.js
5 3 (2.48%) SAPUI5
5 3 (2.48%) Web Services
6 2 (1.65%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.65%) ADO
6 2 (1.65%) Ember.js
6 2 (1.65%) Middleware
6 2 (1.65%) RESTful
6 2 (1.65%) Vue
7 1 (0.83%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.83%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.96%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.31%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.31%) Taxonomies
4 3 (2.48%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.48%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.65%) DataPower
5 2 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.65%) Life Science
5 2 (1.65%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.65%) Online Banking
5 2 (1.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (1.65%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.83%) Derivative
6 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.83%) SCADA
6 1 (0.83%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.65%) Android
1 2 (1.65%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (90.91%) Agile
2 67 (55.37%) Scrum
3 31 (25.62%) Kanban
4 25 (20.66%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (19.83%) DevOps
5 24 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (14.88%) Roadmaps
7 17 (14.05%) Analytics
7 17 (14.05%) Project Management
8 16 (13.22%) Product Management
9 12 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (9.92%) CRM
9 12 (9.92%) Process Improvement
10 11 (9.09%) Business Case
10 11 (9.09%) PRINCE2
10 11 (9.09%) Project Delivery
10 11 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
11 10 (8.26%) Business Analysis
11 10 (8.26%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (8.26%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.88%) Java
2 17 (14.05%) SQL
3 11 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 9 (7.44%) Python
5 7 (5.79%) C#
5 7 (5.79%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.13%) Scala
7 2 (1.65%) Go
7 2 (1.65%) Groovy
8 1 (0.83%) ABAP
8 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.83%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 18 (14.88%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.57%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.44%) Degree
4 4 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.48%) PMP
6 2 (1.65%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.65%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.65%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.83%) APMP
7 1 (0.83%) CSPO
7 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.83%) MBA
7 1 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.26%) QA
2 3 (2.48%) P3O
3 2 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (1.65%) PMO
4 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.83%) GAMP
4 1 (0.83%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.83%) GxP
4 1 (0.83%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.83%) NCSC
4 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (5.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.31%) Terraform
2 3 (2.48%) Ansible
3 2 (1.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (1.65%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.65%) SCCM
4 1 (0.83%) Grafana
4 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.83%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (13.22%) SAP
2 15 (12.40%) Microsoft
3 13 (10.74%) Oracle
4 8 (6.61%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.96%) Databricks
6 4 (3.31%) IBM
6 4 (3.31%) Informatica
7 3 (2.48%) Adobe
7 3 (2.48%) ESRI
7 3 (2.48%) Google
7 3 (2.48%) StreamSets
8 2 (1.65%) Confluent
8 2 (1.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.83%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.83%) Citrix
9 1 (0.83%) CyberSource
9 1 (0.83%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.83%) Talend
9 1 (0.83%) Workday