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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 101 104
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +17
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 20 24 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.10% 1.25% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 1.36% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 21
10th Percentile £411 - £463
25th Percentile £413 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £490 £538
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -8.84% -17.31%
75th Percentile £768 £567 £625
90th Percentile £854 £640 £675
Central London median daily rate £450 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -12.20% -4.65% -17.31%

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 1,626 1,770 2,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.54% 92.04% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,143 1,078 1,563
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £764 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £539 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.30% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +61.90% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £132.40 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.66
% change year-on-year -25.40% +26.56% -20.99%

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 10 January 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 4 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) Boomi
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) iPaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.00%) Miro
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Metadata
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.00%) DB2
2 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.00%) GitLab
4 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.00%) REST Assured
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Marketing
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Legal
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.00%) Front Office
5 1 (5.00%) Law
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Lead
2 4 (20.00%) Scrum Master
3 3 (15.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Product Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Technical Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Chief Technology Officer
5 1 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Head of Release Management
5 1 (5.00%) PMO Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Principal Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Product Owner
5 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Kafka
1 1 (5.00%) MACH
1 1 (5.00%) Middleware
1 1 (5.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (45.00%) Scrum
2 9 (45.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Kanban
4 4 (20.00%) Product Management
4 4 (20.00%) Release Management
4 4 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (10.00%) Business Transformation
6 2 (10.00%) Coaching
6 2 (10.00%) Data Governance
6 2 (10.00%) Metadata Management
6 2 (10.00%) Portfolio Management
6 2 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Korn
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) IIBA
3 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.00%) PMP
3 1 (5.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (5.00%) GRC
3 1 (5.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
1 3 (15.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (10.00%) Informatica
2 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) Confluent
3 1 (5.00%) Dell
3 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.00%) F5
3 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.00%) IBM
3 1 (5.00%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.00%) Planview
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk
3 1 (5.00%) StreamSets
3 1 (5.00%) Tenable