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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 104 96
Rank change year-on-year -15 -8 +31
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 20 19 31
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.88% 1.06% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.12% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 22
10th Percentile £422 £412 -
25th Percentile £513 £476 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £518
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +8.70% -20.38%
75th Percentile £644 £651 £642
90th Percentile £768 £732 £760
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £518
% change year-on-year +4.55% +6.28% -20.38%

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 2,017 1,694 1,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.46% 94.22% 92.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,388 1,117 1,234
10th Percentile £368 £325 £386
25th Percentile £459 £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 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.78% -11.91% +20.00%

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 September 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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) IaaS
3 2 (10.00%) PaaS
3 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.00%) dbt
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
1 1 (5.00%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Banking
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Legal
5 2 (10.00%) Military
5 2 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.00%) Front Office
6 1 (5.00%) Games
6 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.00%) Marketing
6 1 (5.00%) Retail
6 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Product Owner
1 4 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Migration Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Migration Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Product Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Analytics Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Credit Risk Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Product Owner
4 1 (5.00%) Principal Architect
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Scrum Master
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) ADO
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (10.00%) Credit Risk
2 2 (10.00%) Life Science
2 2 (10.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (45.00%) Roadmaps
4 8 (40.00%) Scrum
4 8 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (30.00%) Product Roadmap
6 5 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 5 (25.00%) Product Management
6 5 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (20.00%) AI
7 4 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 4 (20.00%) Data Governance
7 4 (20.00%) Kanban
7 4 (20.00%) Migration
7 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (20.00%) Product Backlog
7 4 (20.00%) Product Vision
8 3 (15.00%) Business Case
8 3 (15.00%) Sprint Review
8 3 (15.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Bash
1 1 (5.00%) Korn
1 1 (5.00%) Python
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) CSPO
2 3 (15.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (10.00%) PMP
3 2 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.00%) GRC
2 2 (10.00%) GxP
3 1 (5.00%) Basel III
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (5.00%) IFRS
3 1 (5.00%) IFRS 9
3 1 (5.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) VMware
2 1 (5.00%) F5
2 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (5.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (5.00%) Tenable