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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 108 98
Rank change year-on-year -12 -10 +37
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 18 19 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.76% 1.02% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.08% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 25
10th Percentile £493 £476 £455
25th Percentile £541 £543 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £645 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.56% +20.05% -17.31%
75th Percentile £735 £690 £656
90th Percentile £771 £733 £754
Central London median daily rate £590 £620 £538
% change year-on-year -4.88% +15.40% -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 2,060 1,757 1,907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.40% 94.16% 91.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,407 1,154 1,282
10th Percentile £379 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £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 27 22 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.35 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.18 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.16% +4.91% -13.60%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £78.75
90th Percentile £57.49 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -20.33% +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 13 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) IaaS
2 2 (11.11%) PaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
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
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Banking
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.56%) Front Office
4 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
4 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%) Credit Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
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
3 1 (5.56%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Transformation Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
1 1 (5.56%) ADO
1 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
1 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
1 1 (5.56%) Jest
1 1 (5.56%) Next.js
1 1 (5.56%) Node.js
1 1 (5.56%) Playwright
1 1 (5.56%) React
1 1 (5.56%) REST
1 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) 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
3 7 (38.89%) Scrum
4 6 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (27.78%) Migration
5 5 (27.78%) Product Roadmap
5 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (22.22%) Product Vision
6 4 (22.22%) Validation
7 3 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
7 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (16.67%) Kanban
7 3 (16.67%) Microservices
7 3 (16.67%) Product Backlog
7 3 (16.67%) Product Management
7 3 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (16.67%) Technical Debt
7 3 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) C#
1 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) CSPO
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
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%) PMI Certification
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%) GRC
2 2 (11.11%) GxP
3 1 (5.56%) Basel III
3 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) IFRS
3 1 (5.56%) IFRS 9
3 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.56%) NCSC
3 1 (5.56%) PMO
3 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
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