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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 97 119
Rank change year-on-year -4 +22 +9
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 20 28 31
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.16% 1.33% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.45% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 18
10th Percentile £408 £444 £459
25th Percentile £413 £463 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £519 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% -13.54% -7.69%
75th Percentile £588 £614 £675
90th Percentile £798 £688 £725
Central London median daily rate £450 £530 £600
% change year-on-year -15.09% -11.67% -7.69%

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 1,617 1,933 2,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.96% 91.65% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,123 1,187 1,740
10th Percentile £329 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.37% +1.39%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £758 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -30.13%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +6.87% -24.26%

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 6 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 (15.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP Convergent Charging
1 1 (5.00%) SAP CRM
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) Boomi
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) iPaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Mimecast
4 1 (5.00%) Miro
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Metadata
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (5.00%) DB2
2 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Legal
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Law
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Architect
1 4 (20.00%) Scrum Master
2 3 (15.00%) Lead
2 3 (15.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Lead Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.00%) Chief Technology Officer
4 1 (5.00%) CRM Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (5.00%) PMO Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Principal Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (5.00%) SAP CRM Developer
4 1 (5.00%) SAP Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Middleware
1 2 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (5.00%) JSON
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) MACH
2 1 (5.00%) PySpark
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) SAP BSP
2 1 (5.00%) SOAP
2 1 (5.00%) WSDL
2 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.00%) Replication
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Agile
2 8 (40.00%) Scrum
2 8 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (20.00%) Kanban
3 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (15.00%) Programme Management
4 3 (15.00%) Project Management
4 3 (15.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (15.00%) TOGAF
5 2 (10.00%) Business Analysis
5 2 (10.00%) Coaching
5 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (10.00%) Data Governance
5 2 (10.00%) Metadata Management
5 2 (10.00%) Portfolio Management
5 2 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Korn
2 1 (5.00%) ABAP
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) PMI Certification
3 3 (15.00%) PMP
4 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.00%) IIBA
5 1 (5.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
1 1 (5.00%) GRC
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.00%) PMO
1 1 (5.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (10.00%) Informatica
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Confluent
3 1 (5.00%) Dell
3 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.00%) F5
3 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.00%) IBM
3 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.00%) Planview
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) StreamSets
3 1 (5.00%) Tenable