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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 105 108
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +16
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 17 23 33
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.95% 1.07% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.17% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 20
10th Percentile £410 - £459
25th Percentile £413 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -3.41% -16.54%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £675
90th Percentile £805 £751 £725
Central London median daily rate £450 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -15.89% -2.73% -15.97%

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 1,662 1,973 2,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.01% 91.68% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,206 1,724
10th Percentile £334 £379 £363
25th Percentile £418 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +1.30% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £756 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 17 14
10th Percentile £17.02 £16.70 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.25 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -33.53% +29.77% -36.41%
75th Percentile £43.33 £112.00 £52.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -20.71% +27.27% -45.54%

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 23 November 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 (17.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.88%) Boomi
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) iPaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Mimecast
3 1 (5.88%) Miro
3 1 (5.88%) SaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Metadata
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.88%) DB2
2 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.88%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 8 (47.06%) Finance
3 4 (23.53%) Banking
4 2 (11.76%) Legal
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Law
5 1 (5.88%) Marketing
5 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Scrum Master
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Lead
2 3 (17.65%) Technical Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.88%) Chief Technology Officer
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (5.88%) PMO Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Technical Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.88%) Release Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Release Train Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Technical Leader
4 1 (5.88%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Kafka
1 1 (5.88%) MACH
1 1 (5.88%) Middleware
1 1 (5.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
1 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) Scrum
3 7 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (23.53%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (23.53%) Kanban
4 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
4 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (17.65%) Programme Management
5 3 (17.65%) Project Management
5 3 (17.65%) Technology Roadmap
5 3 (17.65%) TOGAF
6 2 (11.76%) Coaching
6 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
6 2 (11.76%) Data Governance
6 2 (11.76%) Metadata Management
6 2 (11.76%) Resource Allocation
6 2 (11.76%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (11.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Korn
2 1 (5.88%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) PMI Certification
3 3 (17.65%) PMP
4 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.88%) IIBA
5 1 (5.88%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) GRC
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) PMO
1 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Salesforce
2 2 (11.76%) Informatica
3 1 (5.88%) Confluent
3 1 (5.88%) Dell
3 1 (5.88%) F5
3 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.88%) Planview
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) StreamSets
3 1 (5.88%) Tenable