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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 96 113
Rank change year-on-year -7 +17 +3
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 20 30 34
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.18% 1.42% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.55% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 20
10th Percentile £408 £456 £459
25th Percentile £413 £463 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -15.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £625 £652 £680
90th Percentile £798 £770 £703
Central London median daily rate £450 £535 £625
% change year-on-year -15.89% -14.40% -3.85%

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 1,597 1,935 2,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.50% 91.88% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,094 1,193 1,796
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £598
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.77% +3.91%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £764 £787 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 17
10th Percentile £16.85 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.57 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.48% +54.55% -36.22%
75th Percentile £36.00 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -22.76% +30.84% -37.43%

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 20 October 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%) 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%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Law
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Scrum Master
2 4 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.00%) Capacity Manager
5 1 (5.00%) CRM Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Kafka Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Planning Manager
5 1 (5.00%) PMO Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Principal Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Product Owner
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (5.00%) SAP CRM Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Security Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Planning Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Analyst
5 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%) 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 Software
2 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.00%) Replication
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Agile
2 9 (45.00%) Scrum
2 9 (45.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (25.00%) Kanban
3 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (20.00%) TOGAF
5 3 (15.00%) Coaching
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.00%) Programme Management
5 3 (15.00%) Project Management
5 3 (15.00%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (10.00%) Architectural Design
6 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (10.00%) Data Lineage
6 2 (10.00%) Metadata Management
6 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Korn
2 1 (5.00%) ABAP
2 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) 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 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%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Dell
3 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.00%) F5
3 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.00%) Informatica
3 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
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%) Tenable