Scaled Agile Framework Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Scaled Agile Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 110 100
Rank change year-on-year -15 -10 +31
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 18 17 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.78% 0.94% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.00% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 23
10th Percentile £422 £472 £453
25th Percentile £513 £566 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £645 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.56% +22.90% -19.23%
75th Percentile £728 £688 £653
90th Percentile £768 £789 £758
Central London median daily rate £590 £620 £525
% change year-on-year -4.88% +18.14% -19.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Scaled Agile Framework falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,035 1,697 1,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.75% 94.28% 91.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,398 1,116 1,250
10th Percentile £381 £323 £375
25th Percentile £460 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £774 £790
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £31.52 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £49.64 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.58 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +7.67% -22.86%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scaled Agile Framework relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Scaled Agile Framework job vacancy trend in the City of London

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Scaled Agile Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Scaled Agile Framework

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the City of London

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) GCP
2 2 (11.11%) IaaS
2 2 (11.11%) PaaS
2 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.56%) dbt
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
1 1 (5.56%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Data Vault
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Banking
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing
4 3 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 2 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.56%) Front Office
6 1 (5.56%) Legal
6 1 (5.56%) Marketing
6 1 (5.56%) Retail
6 1 (5.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Product Owner
1 4 (22.22%) Project Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Migration Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Migration Project Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Senior
2 2 (11.11%) Technical Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Analytics Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Credit Risk Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Data Analytics Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) KYC Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Lead
3 1 (5.56%) Lead Product Owner
3 1 (5.56%) Principal Architect
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (11.11%) Credit Risk
2 2 (11.11%) Life Science
2 2 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) PMI
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Agile
2 8 (44.44%) Roadmaps
2 8 (44.44%) Scrum
3 7 (38.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (27.78%) Migration
5 5 (27.78%) Product Roadmap
6 4 (22.22%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 4 (22.22%) Data Governance
6 4 (22.22%) Product Backlog
6 4 (22.22%) Product Vision
6 4 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (16.67%) Data Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 3 (16.67%) Kanban
7 3 (16.67%) Product Management
7 3 (16.67%) Sprint Review
7 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (16.67%) User Stories
7 3 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Bash
1 1 (5.56%) Korn
1 1 (5.56%) Python
1 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) CSPO
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 2 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) PMP
3 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) GRC
2 2 (11.11%) GxP
3 1 (5.56%) Basel III
3 1 (5.56%) IFRS
3 1 (5.56%) IFRS 9
3 1 (5.56%) NCSC
3 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) VMware
2 1 (5.56%) F5
2 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
2 1 (5.56%) Tenable