Scaled Agile Framework Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Scaled Agile Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 80 94
Rank change year-on-year -24 +14 -7
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 11 1 14
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.49% 0.11% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.12% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 9
10th Percentile £476 - £401
25th Percentile £528 £738 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £775 £635
Median % change year-on-year -25.81% +22.05% +8.22%
75th Percentile £688 £813 £675
90th Percentile £743 - £680
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,733 846 1,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 77.30% 89.33% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 857 442 693
10th Percentile £200 £226 £205
25th Percentile £363 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £458
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +9.29% -3.68%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 174 608
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.17 £16.46 £15.39
Median hourly rate £22.66 £41.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.08% +3.13% +81.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.88 £62.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -0.96%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Scaled Agile Framework job vacancy trend in the East of England

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in the East of England over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the East of England

Scaled Agile Framework
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Scaled Agile Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Scaled Agile Framework

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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
Hertfordshire -20 7 £625 -19.35% 8
Cambridgeshire - 2 - - 2
Essex - 1 £535 - 2
Bedfordshire - 1 £575 -
Scaled Agile Framework
England

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Apigee
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Boomi
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) PaaS
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Retail
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Scrum Master
1 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Integration Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Migration Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Technical Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Product Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Programme Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Release Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Integration Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) CMDB
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Scrum
4 4 (36.36%) Migration
4 4 (36.36%) Project Management
4 4 (36.36%) SDLC
4 4 (36.36%) Sprint Planning
4 4 (36.36%) Waterfall
5 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (27.27%) Information Security
5 3 (27.27%) PRINCE2
5 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (18.18%) Coaching
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 2 (18.18%) Programme Governance
6 2 (18.18%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) PMI Certification
1 3 (27.27%) PMP
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (9.09%) PgMP
2 1 (9.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) NIST
2 2 (18.18%) PMO
3 1 (9.09%) GDPR
3 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
3 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Control-M
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
1 1 (9.09%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) BMC
2 1 (9.09%) Cadence
2 1 (9.09%) Dell
2 1 (9.09%) Forcepoint
2 1 (9.09%) Talend