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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 97 109
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 +7
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 19 22 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.03% 1.07% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 1.16% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 17
10th Percentile £411 - £461
25th Percentile £413 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% -18.52%
75th Percentile £768 £620 £638
90th Percentile £854 £650 £675
Central London median daily rate £450 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -13.88% -5.00% -17.54%

All Process and 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 1,663 1,899 2,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.48% 92.18% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,170 1,159 1,591
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - -0.92%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £760 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 10
10th Percentile £19.98 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +61.90% -38.95%
75th Percentile £41.80 £102.25 £44.56
90th Percentile £50.63 £127.30 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -25.40% +30.84% -35.93%

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 25 December 2025.

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 (15.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.26%) Boomi
4 1 (5.26%) GCP
4 1 (5.26%) iPaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.26%) Miro
4 1 (5.26%) SaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Metadata
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.26%) DB2
2 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.53%) GitLab
4 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.26%) REST Assured
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 10 (52.63%) Finance
3 6 (31.58%) Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Legal
4 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.26%) Front Office
5 1 (5.26%) Law
5 1 (5.26%) Marketing
5 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Lead
2 4 (21.05%) Scrum Master
3 3 (15.79%) Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Chief Technology Officer
5 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Principal Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Programme Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Security Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Telecoms Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Kafka
1 1 (5.26%) MACH
1 1 (5.26%) Middleware
1 1 (5.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (47.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (42.11%) Scrum
4 6 (31.58%) Roadmaps
5 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (26.32%) Kanban
5 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
6 4 (21.05%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
6 4 (21.05%) DevOps
6 4 (21.05%) Release Management
6 4 (21.05%) Technology Roadmap
7 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (10.53%) Coaching
8 2 (10.53%) Data Governance
8 2 (10.53%) Portfolio Management
8 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
8 2 (10.53%) Product Management
8 2 (10.53%) SDLC
8 2 (10.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Korn
2 1 (5.26%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Degree
3 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) PMI Certification
3 2 (10.53%) PMP
4 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.26%) IIBA
4 1 (5.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) GDPR
2 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.53%) PCI DSS
2 2 (10.53%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (5.26%) GRC
3 1 (5.26%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Salesforce
2 2 (10.53%) Informatica
2 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.26%) Confluent
3 1 (5.26%) Dell
3 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.26%) F5
3 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.26%) IBM
3 1 (5.26%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.26%) Planview
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) StreamSets
3 1 (5.26%) Tenable