Scaled Agile Framework Contracts in the City of London

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Scaled Agile Framework skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scaled Agile Framework over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 89 142
Rank change year-on-year -3 +53 -14
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 24 38 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.37% 1.76% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.94% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 28 17
10th Percentile £444 £454 £493
25th Percentile £485 £463 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £500 £688
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% -27.27% +14.58%
75th Percentile £676 £623 £775
90th Percentile £690 £683 £875
Central London median daily rate £613 £500 £688
% change year-on-year +22.50% -27.27% +14.58%

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 1,635 1,957 3,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.59% 90.39% 91.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,027 1,377 2,170
10th Percentile £353 £350 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £564 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.50% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £14.75
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.15 £25.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -26.79% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £41.65 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Scaled Agile Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the City of London

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the City of London

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 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the City of London

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) Apache
1 4 (16.67%) Apache Spark
1 4 (16.67%) Jupyter
2 3 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) SAP Convergent Charging
1 2 (8.33%) SAP CRM
1 2 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
3 3 (12.50%) AWS
4 2 (8.33%) SaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) SSH
2 1 (4.17%) BGP
2 1 (4.17%) DHCP
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.83%) Power BI
3 4 (16.67%) Apache Hive
3 4 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (16.67%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (4.17%) Data Hub
4 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (41.67%) JIRA
2 5 (20.83%) Git
3 4 (16.67%) RStudio
4 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.17%) GitLab
4 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
3 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Automotive
5 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Architect
2 3 (12.50%) Consultant
2 3 (12.50%) Product Owner
2 3 (12.50%) Software Consultant
3 2 (8.33%) ABAP Developer
3 2 (8.33%) CRM Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Developer
3 2 (8.33%) SAP CRM Developer
3 2 (8.33%) SAP Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Capacity Planning Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Integration Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Network Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Product Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Project Planner
4 1 (4.17%) Release Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) JSON
1 5 (20.83%) YAML
2 4 (16.67%) pydantic
2 4 (16.67%) PySpark
3 3 (12.50%) Web Services
4 2 (8.33%) SAP BSP
4 2 (8.33%) SOAP
5 1 (4.17%) .NET
5 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET
5 1 (4.17%) Bootstrap
5 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.17%) Kafka
5 1 (4.17%) Middleware
5 1 (4.17%) Node.js
5 1 (4.17%) React
5 1 (4.17%) REST
5 1 (4.17%) RESTful
5 1 (4.17%) WSDL
5 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 4 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (16.67%) Reference Data
3 2 (8.33%) Replication
4 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.17%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (95.83%) Agile
2 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (41.67%) Scrum
3 6 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 5 (20.83%) PRINCE2
4 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
4 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
4 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (16.67%) Coaching
5 4 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (16.67%) Data Security
5 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 3 (12.50%) Design Patterns
6 3 (12.50%) DevOps
6 3 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (12.50%) Project Management
6 3 (12.50%) Technical Debt
6 3 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) SQL
2 4 (16.67%) Bash
2 4 (16.67%) Java
2 4 (16.67%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) Scala
3 2 (8.33%) ABAP
4 1 (4.17%) Bicep
4 1 (4.17%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 3 (12.50%) PMP
4 1 (4.17%) CCNP
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.17%) JNCIP
4 1 (4.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Databricks
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (8.33%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco
4 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto