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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 84 93
Rank change year-on-year -7 +9 -16
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 8 3 21
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.55% 0.23% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.29% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 16
10th Percentile £453 - £466
25th Percentile £507 £563 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% - -1.88%
75th Percentile £684 £588 £775
90th Percentile £763 - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
England median hourly rate £71.00 - £85.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.70%

All Process and 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 1,284 1,052 1,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.86% 80.00% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 418 901
10th Percentile £195 £225 £225
25th Percentile £375 £318 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £559 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £725
England median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.05% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 226 374
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.05
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £26.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +31.25% -8.05%
75th Percentile £59.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.13 £70.00 £74.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 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
Hertfordshire -6 4 £638 +10.87% 11
Cambridgeshire -3 2 - - 3
Bedfordshire -7 1 £493 - 3
Norfolk - 1 £550 -
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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Programme Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum Master
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Delivery Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Deployment Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Release Manager
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) ADO
1 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) FMCG
2 1 (12.50%) PMI
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 4 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) Programme Delivery
4 3 (37.50%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (25.00%) AIOps
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Coaching
5 2 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (25.00%) Kanban
5 2 (25.00%) Observability
5 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (25.00%) Servant Leadership
5 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 2 (25.00%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) APMG
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Grafana
1 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle