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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 99 91
Rank change year-on-year -15 -8 +50
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 17 20 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.78% 1.15% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.24% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 26
10th Percentile £400 £466 £453
25th Percentile £411 £485 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £574 £505
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% +13.61% -32.67%
75th Percentile £764 £679 £594
90th Percentile £777 £690 £656
Central London median daily rate £575 £574 £510
% change year-on-year +0.22% +12.50% -32.00%

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 1,895 1,614 2,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.57% 92.49% 89.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,297 1,035 1,415
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £670 £676 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £806
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 13
10th Percentile - £22.00 £17.39
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £19.92
Median hourly rate £32.07 £32.83 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +42.72% -43.21%
75th Percentile £52.16 £47.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £67.38 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £32.83 £27.81
% change year-on-year -19.10% +18.03% -20.54%

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 14 April 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 3 (17.65%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.88%) Miro
3 1 (5.88%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
1 1 (5.88%) Data Vault
1 1 (5.88%) DB2
1 1 (5.88%) Delta Lake
1 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
1 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
2 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.76%) GitLab
4 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.88%) REST Assured
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Banking
4 3 (17.65%) Retail
5 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Legal
5 2 (11.76%) Marketing
5 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.88%) Front Office
6 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Product Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Lead
2 2 (11.76%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Head of PMO
3 1 (5.88%) Head of Release Management
3 1 (5.88%) Principal Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Programme Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Scrum Master
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms Business Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Transformation Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
1 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
1 1 (5.88%) Jest
1 1 (5.88%) Kafka
1 1 (5.88%) Next.js
1 1 (5.88%) Node.js
1 1 (5.88%) Playwright
1 1 (5.88%) PySpark
1 1 (5.88%) React
1 1 (5.88%) REST
1 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
1 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
1 1 (5.88%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (41.18%) Scrum
3 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (29.41%) DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (23.53%) Change Management
5 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
6 3 (17.65%) Business Case
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Product Management
6 3 (17.65%) Release Management
7 2 (11.76%) Analytics
7 2 (11.76%) Business Transformation
7 2 (11.76%) Kanban
7 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.76%) Microservices
7 2 (11.76%) Strategic Planning
7 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Python
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) C#
2 1 (5.88%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.88%) PMP
2 1 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) GDPR
2 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (11.76%) PCI DSS
2 2 (11.76%) PMO
2 2 (11.76%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.88%) GRC
3 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
3 2 (11.76%) Informatica
4 1 (5.88%) Confluent
4 1 (5.88%) Databricks
4 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.88%) IBM
4 1 (5.88%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Planview
4 1 (5.88%) Splunk
4 1 (5.88%) StreamSets
4 1 (5.88%) Workday