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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 102 95
Rank change year-on-year -16 -7 +23
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 21 20 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.98% 1.16% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.23% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 22
10th Percentile £493 £410 -
25th Percentile £550 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £550 £519
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% +6.02% -17.00%
75th Percentile £642 £641 £642
90th Percentile £764 £798 £760
Central London median daily rate £590 £550 £530
% change year-on-year +7.27% +3.77% -15.20%

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 1,939 1,628 1,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.44% 94.43% 91.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,344 1,094 1,210
10th Percentile £363 £326 £367
25th Percentile £455 £424 £463
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 £764 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 20
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.96 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £21.63
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% -22.54% +13.60%
75th Percentile £27.35 £39.88 £97.38
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

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 8 October 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 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) IaaS
3 3 (14.29%) PaaS
4 2 (9.52%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.76%) dbt
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) Mimecast
5 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) Network Security
1 1 (4.76%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Data Vault
1 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 8 (38.10%) Banking
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Influencing Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Manufacturing
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Military
3 2 (9.52%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Retail Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.76%) Front Office
4 1 (4.76%) Games
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Marketing
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Project Manager
2 4 (19.05%) Product Owner
3 3 (14.29%) Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Migration Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Migration Project Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Technical Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Technical Project Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) Product Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Analytics Manager
5 1 (4.76%) KYC Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Product Owner
5 1 (4.76%) Programme Director
5 1 (4.76%) Risk Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) ADO
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Product Ownership
2 3 (14.29%) Private Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (9.52%) Credit Risk
3 2 (9.52%) Life Science
3 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 2 (9.52%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.76%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) Agile
2 9 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 9 (42.86%) Scrum
2 9 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (33.33%) Migration
4 6 (28.57%) Decision-Making
5 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
5 5 (23.81%) Product Management
5 5 (23.81%) Product Roadmap
5 5 (23.81%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (19.05%) AI
6 4 (19.05%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 4 (19.05%) Data Governance
6 4 (19.05%) Kanban
6 4 (19.05%) Microservices
6 4 (19.05%) PRINCE2
6 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (19.05%) Product Backlog
6 4 (19.05%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Bash
1 1 (4.76%) Korn
1 1 (4.76%) Python
1 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) PMI Certification
2 3 (14.29%) CSPO
2 3 (14.29%) PMP
2 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (4.76%) SAFe Agilist
3 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.52%) GRC
2 2 (9.52%) GxP
3 1 (4.76%) Basel III
3 1 (4.76%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) IFRS
3 1 (4.76%) IFRS 9
3 1 (4.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (4.76%) F5
2 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
2 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.76%) Tenable