Scaled Agile Framework Contracts in Cheshire

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 22 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 56 56
Rank change year-on-year +12 0 -
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 13 7 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.52% 1.30% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 1.42% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 1
10th Percentile £390 £456 -
25th Percentile £398 £484 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £515 £600 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £510 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -7.27% -6.38% -22.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 437 493 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.85% 91.47% 85.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 333 254
10th Percentile £300 £265 £214
25th Percentile £401 £385 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £627 £667 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 22 25
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.16 £11.29
25th Percentile £16.67 £22.60 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £29.26 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +19.43% -19.50%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.00 £33.90
90th Percentile £45.00 £39.60 £61.30
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in Cheshire

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in Cheshire

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in Cheshire over the 6 months to 22 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in Cheshire

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 22 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
Macclesfield -14 6 £510 +7.37% 2
Knutsford - 4 £395 - 1
Runcorn - 1 £475 -
Scaled Agile Framework
North West

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (38.46%) Apache
1 5 (38.46%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (38.46%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (38.46%) Amazon EMR
1 5 (38.46%) Amazon S3
1 5 (38.46%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
1 5 (38.46%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (38.46%) Serverless
1 5 (38.46%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Big Data
2 2 (15.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) JIRA
2 5 (38.46%) Git
General
1 6 (46.15%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (38.46%) Manufacturing
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Finance
4 2 (15.38%) Front Office
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Data Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Scrum Master
1 5 (38.46%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Integration Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Integration Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) SAP Integration Manager
3 2 (15.38%) SAP Manager
3 2 (15.38%) SAP Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) JSON
1 5 (38.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Life Science
2 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (76.92%) Scrum
3 5 (38.46%) Agile Coaching
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
3 5 (38.46%) Data Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) Data Management
3 5 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (38.46%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (38.46%) ETL
3 5 (38.46%) OO
3 5 (38.46%) OOP
3 5 (38.46%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (38.46%) SDLC
3 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
4 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (23.08%) Project Management
6 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
6 2 (15.38%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) C#
1 5 (38.46%) Java
1 5 (38.46%) Python
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) PMI Certification
1 3 (23.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) GAMP
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Salesforce
2 5 (38.46%) Informatica
2 5 (38.46%) Talend
3 3 (23.08%) SAP