Scaled Agile Framework Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Scaled Agile Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 50 63
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 +21
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 11 9 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.28% 1.36% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.59% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 2
10th Percentile £303 £389 -
25th Percentile £314 £400 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £353 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -35.82% -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £381 £575 £613
90th Percentile £391 £658 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £593
% change year-on-year - -7.17% -1.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 722 565 629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.05% 85.48% 83.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 338 441
10th Percentile £185 £263 £213
25th Percentile £352 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £444 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -6.53% -
75th Percentile £525 £550 £588
90th Percentile £626 £632 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 28 51
10th Percentile £16.10 £15.07 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.67
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +33.69%
75th Percentile £25.11 £35.23 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £51.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scaled Agile Framework relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Scaled Agile Framework job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Scaled Agile Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Scaled Agile Framework

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the East Midlands

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire -1 11 £353 -9.72% 2
Scaled Agile Framework
England

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (27.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (45.45%) Banking
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Product Owner
1 4 (36.36%) Project Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Junior
2 3 (27.27%) Junior Project Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Product Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Banking Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Finance Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Finance Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Scrum Master
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Product Ownership
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (18.18%) PMI
4 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (72.73%) Scrum
3 7 (63.64%) Fintech
3 7 (63.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (54.55%) Regulatory Change
5 5 (45.45%) Product Vision
6 4 (36.36%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 4 (36.36%) Change Management
6 4 (36.36%) Kanban
6 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (36.36%) Product Management
7 3 (27.27%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (27.27%) Cost Control
7 3 (27.27%) Market Research
7 3 (27.27%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (27.27%) Sprint Retrospective
7 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (27.27%) Strategic Roadmap
7 3 (27.27%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
2 2 (18.18%) MBA
2 2 (18.18%) PMI Certification
2 2 (18.18%) PMP
2 2 (18.18%) SAFe Agilist
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Basel III
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) PSD2
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft