Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Scaled Agile Framework skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 428 352 372
Rank change year-on-year -76 +20 +12
Permanent jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 558 968 1,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.95% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.00% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 318 311 614
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £62,367
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £68,497 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.84% -2.15% +16.67%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the UK

Scaled Agile Framework
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the UK

Scaled Agile Framework
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -96 455 £75,000 +3.45% 104
UK excluding London -102 408 £72,500 +5.84% 74
Work from Home -122 140 £72,500 +5.84% 66
London +3 123 £75,000 -9.09% 33
South East +27 119 £63,500 -9.29% 23
North of England -41 99 £85,000 +36.00% 11
North West +18 75 £90,000 +20.30% 4
Scotland -24 67 £65,000 -18.75% 6
South West -37 59 £105,000 +50.00% 14
Midlands -92 44 £67,500 +22.73% 10
West Midlands -72 31 £70,000 +27.27% 7
East Midlands -17 13 £67,500 +12.50% 2
North East +3 12 £52,500 -
Yorkshire -24 12 £77,500 -3.13% 7
Wales 0 7 - - 2
East of England -48 7 - - 7
Northern Ireland +24 5 - - 2
Isle of Man - 1 - - 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 65 (11.65%) Confluence
2 26 (4.66%) Apache
2 26 (4.66%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.08%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.54%) SAS
5 2 (0.36%) CMS
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 22 (3.94%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.61%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 256 (45.88%) Azure
2 136 (24.37%) AWS
3 83 (14.87%) Azure DevOps
4 59 (10.57%) GCP
5 46 (8.24%) AWS CloudFormation
6 38 (6.81%) SaaS
7 36 (6.45%) Serverless
8 32 (5.73%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (5.20%) OpenShift
10 26 (4.66%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (3.23%) BlazeMeter
12 18 (3.23%) PaaS
13 16 (2.87%) IaaS
14 13 (2.33%) GitHub
15 7 (1.25%) Collibra
15 7 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
16 5 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
17 4 (0.72%) Snowflake
18 3 (0.54%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.66%) AMQP
2 20 (3.58%) Network Security
3 15 (2.69%) Firewall
4 6 (1.08%) Wireless
5 5 (0.90%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.54%) BIG-IP
6 3 (0.54%) Broadband
6 3 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.54%) Cisco Wireless
6 3 (0.54%) Internet
6 3 (0.54%) MPLS
6 3 (0.54%) NaaS
6 3 (0.54%) SAN
6 3 (0.54%) SSL
6 3 (0.54%) VPN
6 3 (0.54%) WAN
7 1 (0.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (9.14%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (8.42%) Data Vault
3 46 (8.24%) SQL Server
4 34 (6.09%) Delta Lake
5 32 (5.73%) Big Data
6 27 (4.84%) Hadoop
7 26 (4.66%) Cloudera CDH
8 24 (4.30%) Relational Database
9 22 (3.94%) NoSQL
10 12 (2.15%) InfluxDB
11 8 (1.43%) Metadata
11 8 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (0.36%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.36%) Tableau
13 1 (0.18%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 153 (27.42%) JIRA
2 30 (5.38%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.41%) JMeter
4 17 (3.05%) Selenium
5 14 (2.51%) SonarQube
6 13 (2.33%) WebDriver
7 12 (2.15%) GitLab
7 12 (2.15%) TestRail
8 11 (1.97%) NUnit
8 11 (1.97%) Visual Studio
9 7 (1.25%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.25%) gulp
9 7 (1.25%) Spinnaker
10 6 (1.08%) Git
10 6 (1.08%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.72%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.72%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.54%) Postman
12 3 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 156 (27.96%) Social Skills
2 127 (22.76%) Finance
3 85 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (11.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (8.60%) Marketing
6 44 (7.89%) Law
7 42 (7.53%) Public Sector
8 39 (6.99%) Aerospace
9 27 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (3.58%) Banking
10 20 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (3.23%) Military
12 6 (1.08%) Legal
13 5 (0.90%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.72%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.54%) Retail
16 2 (0.36%) Games
16 2 (0.36%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.36%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.36%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 109 (19.53%) Architect
2 83 (14.87%) Senior
3 82 (14.70%) Analyst
4 68 (12.19%) Solutions Architect
5 66 (11.83%) Software Engineer
6 59 (10.57%) Lead
7 57 (10.22%) Data Engineer
8 42 (7.53%) Business Analyst
9 36 (6.45%) Senior Architect
10 35 (6.27%) Project Manager
11 33 (5.91%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 28 (5.02%) Java Engineer
13 26 (4.66%) Consultant
13 26 (4.66%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 26 (4.66%) Informatica Engineer
14 24 (4.30%) Presales Solution Architect
14 24 (4.30%) Product Owner
15 23 (4.12%) Java Software Engineer
16 22 (3.94%) Full Stack Engineer
16 22 (3.94%) Full Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (12.19%) React
2 45 (8.06%) REST
3 39 (6.99%) Spring
4 38 (6.81%) Node.js
5 36 (6.45%) Spring Boot
6 31 (5.56%) .NET
7 29 (5.20%) Middleware
7 29 (5.20%) RabbitMQ
8 28 (5.02%) AngularJS
9 26 (4.66%) gRPC
9 26 (4.66%) Material-UI
9 26 (4.66%) OpenAPI
9 26 (4.66%) Swagger
10 21 (3.76%) PySpark
11 19 (3.41%) Kafka
12 14 (2.51%) .NET Core
13 13 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (2.15%) JSON
14 12 (2.15%) XML
15 9 (1.61%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 115 (20.61%) Product Ownership
2 96 (17.20%) Cloud Native
3 75 (13.44%) Data Structures
4 60 (10.75%) Public Cloud
5 42 (7.53%) Reinsurance
6 20 (3.58%) Cyber Defence
7 18 (3.23%) Market Risk
7 18 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
8 15 (2.69%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.97%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.79%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.61%) IoT
13 8 (1.43%) Data Centre
14 6 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
15 5 (0.90%) PMI
16 3 (0.54%) Algorithms
16 3 (0.54%) CMDB
16 3 (0.54%) PKI
16 3 (0.54%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 86 (15.41%) Linux
2 34 (6.09%) Ubuntu
3 32 (5.73%) Windows
4 29 (5.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (4.84%) CentOS
6 26 (4.66%) Debian
7 7 (1.25%) Solaris
7 7 (1.25%) Unix
8 3 (0.54%) Android
9 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (97.13%) Agile
2 324 (58.06%) Scrum
3 143 (25.63%) DevOps
4 117 (20.97%) Software Engineering
5 111 (19.89%) Kanban
6 95 (17.03%) Mentoring
7 90 (16.13%) Microservices
8 89 (15.95%) Actionable Insight
9 82 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
10 80 (14.34%) Coaching
11 77 (13.80%) Decision-Making
12 74 (13.26%) Data Modelling
13 71 (12.72%) Analytics
13 71 (12.72%) Collaborative Working
14 70 (12.54%) Project Management
14 70 (12.54%) Test Automation
15 67 (12.01%) Data Analysis
16 66 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
17 62 (11.11%) CI/CD
18 60 (10.75%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 102 (18.28%) Java
2 94 (16.85%) Python
3 92 (16.49%) SQL
4 80 (14.34%) JavaScript
5 39 (6.99%) C#
6 18 (3.23%) Kotlin
7 14 (2.51%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.33%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.15%) Bash
10 7 (1.25%) C
11 6 (1.08%) Apex Code
11 6 (1.08%) SOQL
12 3 (0.54%) C++
13 2 (0.36%) Go
13 2 (0.36%) VBScript
14 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.18%) R
14 1 (0.18%) Ruby
14 1 (0.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 131 (23.48%) Security Cleared
2 85 (15.23%) SC Cleared
3 84 (15.05%) Degree
4 68 (12.19%) DV Cleared
5 50 (8.96%) TOGAF Certification
6 30 (5.38%) PMI Certification
7 25 (4.48%) PMP
8 20 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (3.23%) AWS Certification
10 15 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (2.51%) Azure Certification
11 14 (2.51%) ISTQB
12 12 (2.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 11 (1.97%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 8 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (1.43%) Master's Degree
15 7 (1.25%) CISSP
16 6 (1.08%) SAFe Agilist
17 5 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (10.39%) Data Quality
2 51 (9.14%) QA
3 18 (3.23%) NIST
3 18 (3.23%) NIST 800
4 11 (1.97%) PMO
5 8 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.25%) ISO 13485
7 3 (0.54%) GRC
8 2 (0.36%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.36%) NCSC
9 1 (0.18%) GAMP
9 1 (0.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (3.94%) Docker
2 13 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.43%) KVM
4 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (9.32%) Terraform
2 50 (8.96%) Kubernetes
3 42 (7.53%) Ansible
4 26 (4.66%) Puppet
5 12 (2.15%) Grafana
5 12 (2.15%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.18%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 60 (10.75%) Oracle
2 52 (9.32%) Databricks
3 51 (9.14%) Informatica
4 47 (8.42%) Google
5 43 (7.71%) Microsoft
6 26 (4.66%) Red Hat
6 26 (4.66%) SaltStack
7 17 (3.05%) ServiceNow
8 14 (2.51%) Salesforce
9 13 (2.33%) Cisco
9 13 (2.33%) VMware
10 11 (1.97%) SAP
11 7 (1.25%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.08%) Apttus
12 6 (1.08%) Confluent
12 6 (1.08%) DocuSign
13 4 (0.72%) YouTube
14 3 (0.54%) Freshdesk
14 3 (0.54%) Palo Alto
14 3 (0.54%) Sparx