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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 110 119
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 +5
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 20 21 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.11% 0.98% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.07% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 18
10th Percentile £411 - £461
25th Percentile £416 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -14.81%
75th Percentile £766 £625 £675
90th Percentile £844 £763 £725
Central London median daily rate £550 £535 £575
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.96% -13.79%

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 1,653 1,958 2,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.09% 91.62% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,207 1,661
10th Percentile £336 £363 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £752 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 12
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +62.11% -53.88%
75th Percentile £52.19 £92.50 £40.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £122.20 £71.05
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -11.43% +40.00% -50.50%

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 3 December 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 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
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
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.00%) DB2
2 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.00%) GitLab
4 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.00%) REST Assured
General
1 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (55.00%) Finance
3 7 (35.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Legal
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.00%) Law
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Lead
2 4 (20.00%) Scrum Master
3 3 (15.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Technical Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Head of Release Management
5 1 (5.00%) PMO Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Principal Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Principal Technical Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Product Owner
5 1 (5.00%) Release Train Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (5.00%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Security Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Programme Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Kafka
1 1 (5.00%) MACH
1 1 (5.00%) Middleware
1 1 (5.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (40.00%) Scrum
4 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (20.00%) DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) Kanban
5 4 (20.00%) Release Management
5 4 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
6 3 (15.00%) ITIL
6 3 (15.00%) Programme Management
6 3 (15.00%) Project Management
6 3 (15.00%) TOGAF
7 2 (10.00%) AI
7 2 (10.00%) Change Management
7 2 (10.00%) ITSM
7 2 (10.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Korn
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) 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 4 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (5.00%) GRC
3 1 (5.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (10.00%) Informatica
2 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
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%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
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%) Splunk
3 1 (5.00%) StreamSets
3 1 (5.00%) Tenable