Scaled Agile Framework Contracts in Edinburgh

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 63 98
Rank change year-on-year 0 +35 +2
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 4 9 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.64% 1.10% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.25% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 11
10th Percentile - £461 £435
25th Percentile £360 £467 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £479 £590
Median % change year-on-year -22.68% -18.90% +5.59%
75th Percentile £380 £487 £639
90th Percentile - - £1,100
Scotland median daily rate £370 £470 £550
% change year-on-year -21.28% -14.55% -2.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in Edinburgh

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in Edinburgh

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) DB2
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Release Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Release Train Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Environment Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Change Data Capture
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (50.00%) Release Train
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Testing
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) Informatica
1 2 (50.00%) StreamSets
2 1 (25.00%) Confluent
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle