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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 98 88
Rank change year-on-year -17 -10 +55
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 17 23 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.74% 1.32% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.42% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 29
10th Percentile £404 £479 £454
25th Percentile £525 £485 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +25.00% -29.82%
75th Percentile £764 £678 £619
90th Percentile £768 £690 £680
Central London median daily rate £563 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% -27.93%

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 1,940 1,624 1,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.72% 93.44% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,314 1,023 1,381
10th Percentile £360 £350 £356
25th Percentile £450 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £568
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -0.44% -5.42%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £550
% change year-on-year -0.18% +0.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 11
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £28.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.80% +12.60% -28.57%
75th Percentile £49.78 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.75 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -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 May 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%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.88%) Mimecast
3 1 (5.88%) Smartsheet
3 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
1 1 (5.88%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Data Vault
2 1 (5.88%) Delta Lake
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) REST Assured
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Banking
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Marketing
3 3 (17.65%) Retail
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.88%) Front Office
5 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Legal
5 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Product Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Lead
2 2 (11.76%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Credit Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Product Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Programme Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
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%) Next.js
1 1 (5.88%) Node.js
1 1 (5.88%) Playwright
1 1 (5.88%) React
1 1 (5.88%) REST
1 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (52.94%) Scrum
3 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (29.41%) DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
5 4 (23.53%) Change Management
5 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
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%) Backlog Management
7 2 (11.76%) Business Transformation
7 2 (11.76%) Epics
7 2 (11.76%) Release Train
7 2 (11.76%) Strategic Planning
7 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) C#
1 1 (5.88%) Python
1 1 (5.88%) SQL
1 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%) 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 3 (17.65%) Oracle
1 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.88%) F5
2 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
2 1 (5.88%) Informatica
2 1 (5.88%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
2 1 (5.88%) Planview
2 1 (5.88%) Splunk
2 1 (5.88%) Tenable
2 1 (5.88%) Workday