Scaled Agile Framework Contracts in England

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 276 249 242
Rank change year-on-year -27 -7 -54
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 219 350 551
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.90% 0.94% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.09% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 253 399
10th Percentile £400 £413 £461
25th Percentile £481 £495 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £700 £763 £790
UK median daily rate £546 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -0.68% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 17
10th Percentile £60.50 - £55.60
25th Percentile £61.25 - £70.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £53.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.92% -37.65% +91.01%
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile £64.50 - £88.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £53.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +17.92% -37.65% +91.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in England

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in England

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in England

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in England.

Hourly rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in England

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London -13 117 £525 -4.55% 121
South East +17 40 £550 - 54
North of England +9 20 £510 - 27
Midlands +20 17 £550 -18.52% 16
South West +19 15 £575 -11.54% 18
West Midlands +10 14 £581 -13.89% 12
North West +7 8 £413 -19.12% 16
Yorkshire +5 7 £491 -18.13% 8
North East +3 5 £650 +22.07% 4
East Midlands +12 3 £356 -35.27% 3
East of England +18 1 £775 +18.32% 20
Scaled Agile Framework
UK

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 28 (12.79%) Confluence
2 9 (4.11%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.74%) Apache
3 6 (2.74%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.74%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.83%) CMS
4 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.83%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.37%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.91%) Appian
6 2 (0.91%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.91%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.46%) Smallworld
Applications
1 15 (6.85%) MS Visio
2 13 (5.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (4.11%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (1.83%) Trello
7 3 (1.37%) Revit
8 1 (0.46%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.46%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.46%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.46%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.37%) Primavera
3 2 (0.91%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.46%) SAP Convergent Charging
4 1 (0.46%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.46%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.46%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.46%) SAP R/3
4 1 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 63 (28.77%) Azure
2 34 (15.53%) AWS
3 22 (10.05%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (6.39%) GCP
4 14 (6.39%) SaaS
5 12 (5.48%) Power Platform
6 9 (4.11%) GitHub
7 8 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (2.74%) IaaS
8 6 (2.74%) PaaS
9 4 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.37%) Asana
10 3 (1.37%) Miro
11 2 (0.91%) Amazon Cognito
11 2 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.91%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.91%) Contentful
11 2 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.74%) SSH
2 5 (2.28%) HTTP
2 5 (2.28%) POP3
2 5 (2.28%) SMTP
3 3 (1.37%) DNS
4 2 (0.91%) Firewall
4 2 (0.91%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.46%) 2G
5 1 (0.46%) 3G
5 1 (0.46%) 4G
5 1 (0.46%) 5G
5 1 (0.46%) ATM
5 1 (0.46%) BGP
5 1 (0.46%) DHCP
5 1 (0.46%) GPON
5 1 (0.46%) Network Security
5 1 (0.46%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.31%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.57%) Power BI
3 7 (3.20%) Delta Lake
4 6 (2.74%) Apache Hive
4 6 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (2.28%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.28%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.83%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.37%) Big Data
7 3 (1.37%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.91%) EDMS
9 1 (0.46%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.46%) GIS
9 1 (0.46%) MySQL
9 1 (0.46%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.46%) Parquet
9 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 65 (29.68%) JIRA
2 10 (4.57%) Git
3 9 (4.11%) TestRail
4 6 (2.74%) RStudio
5 5 (2.28%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.83%) JUnit
6 4 (1.83%) Selenium
7 3 (1.37%) GitLab
7 3 (1.37%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.91%) Appium
8 2 (0.91%) Balsamiq
8 2 (0.91%) Postman
9 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.46%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.46%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.46%) MLflow
9 1 (0.46%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.46%) Snyk
9 1 (0.46%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 60 (27.40%) Social Skills
2 58 (26.48%) Finance
3 34 (15.53%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.68%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.31%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (4.11%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.20%) Billing
7 7 (3.20%) Marketing
8 6 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.74%) Legal
8 6 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.37%) Aviation
9 3 (1.37%) Retail
10 2 (0.91%) Automotive
10 2 (0.91%) Banking
10 2 (0.91%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.91%) Publishing
11 1 (0.46%) German Language
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (15.53%) Architect
2 28 (12.79%) Project Manager
3 27 (12.33%) Analyst
4 21 (9.59%) Senior
5 17 (7.76%) Solutions Architect
6 15 (6.85%) Consultant
7 14 (6.39%) Business Analyst
7 14 (6.39%) Lead
8 13 (5.94%) Delivery Manager
8 13 (5.94%) Product Owner
8 13 (5.94%) Programme Manager
8 13 (5.94%) Scrum Master
9 12 (5.48%) Technical Architect
10 10 (4.57%) Integration Architect
10 10 (4.57%) Senior Manager
10 10 (4.57%) Test Analyst
11 9 (4.11%) Developer
11 9 (4.11%) Technical Solutions Architect
11 9 (4.11%) Test Engineer
12 8 (3.65%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.48%) JSON
2 10 (4.57%) REST
3 8 (3.65%) YAML
4 7 (3.20%) ADO
4 7 (3.20%) Kafka
5 6 (2.74%) Bootstrap
5 6 (2.74%) pydantic
5 6 (2.74%) PySpark
5 6 (2.74%) SOAP
5 6 (2.74%) Web Services
6 5 (2.28%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.28%) CSS
6 5 (2.28%) CSS3
6 5 (2.28%) HTML
6 5 (2.28%) LDAP
7 2 (0.91%) .NET
7 2 (0.91%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.91%) Node.js
7 2 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.91%) React
Miscellaneous
1 40 (18.26%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.02%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.20%) Reference Data
4 6 (2.74%) Client/Server
4 6 (2.74%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.28%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.83%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.37%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.91%) PMI
9 1 (0.46%) Animation
9 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.46%) Replication
9 1 (0.46%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.42%) Linux
2 10 (4.57%) Windows
3 8 (3.65%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.37%) Android
5 3 (1.37%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.91%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.46%) SUSE
7 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (90.87%) Agile
2 105 (47.95%) Scrum
3 63 (28.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 55 (25.11%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (21.46%) DevOps
6 46 (21.00%) Roadmaps
7 38 (17.35%) Project Management
8 32 (14.61%) Decision-Making
9 31 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (14.16%) Kanban
10 29 (13.24%) PRINCE2
11 28 (12.79%) Project Delivery
12 26 (11.87%) CI/CD
13 22 (10.05%) User Stories
14 19 (8.68%) TOGAF
15 18 (8.22%) Coaching
15 18 (8.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 17 (7.76%) Analytics
16 17 (7.76%) Test Automation
16 17 (7.76%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 27 (12.33%) Java
2 19 (8.68%) Python
3 18 (8.22%) SQL
4 13 (5.94%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.02%) PowerShell
6 8 (3.65%) VBScript
7 7 (3.20%) Bash
8 6 (2.74%) C#
8 6 (2.74%) Scala
9 2 (0.91%) ABAP
9 2 (0.91%) Go
9 2 (0.91%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.91%) VB
10 1 (0.46%) Bicep
10 1 (0.46%) Magik
10 1 (0.46%) Perl
10 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.46%) Ruby
10 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 64 (29.22%) Security Cleared
2 43 (19.63%) Degree
3 41 (18.72%) SC Cleared
4 20 (9.13%) DV Cleared
5 14 (6.39%) ISTQB
6 11 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.02%) PMP
7 10 (4.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 10 (4.57%) PMI Certification
8 7 (3.20%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.74%) CISSP
10 5 (2.28%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.28%) CISM
10 5 (2.28%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.83%) APMP
12 3 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.37%) CRISC
12 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.37%) SAFe Agilist
12 3 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.85%) QA
2 7 (3.20%) GDPR
3 5 (2.28%) PMO
4 4 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 2 (0.91%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.91%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.91%) GRC
5 2 (0.91%) NCSC
6 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.46%) NIST
6 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (4.57%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.74%) Docker
4 3 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.91%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.91%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 8 (3.65%) Terraform
2 7 (3.20%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.83%) Ansible
5 2 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.91%) Argo
5 2 (0.91%) SCCM
6 1 (0.46%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.46%) Grafana
6 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.46%) Rancher
Vendors
1 38 (17.35%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.76%) Oracle
3 11 (5.02%) ServiceNow
4 10 (4.57%) Databricks
5 8 (3.65%) VMware
6 7 (3.20%) SAP
7 4 (1.83%) Cisco
8 3 (1.37%) Adobe
8 3 (1.37%) Autodesk
9 2 (0.91%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.91%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.91%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.91%) Dell
9 2 (0.91%) Google
9 2 (0.91%) McAfee
9 2 (0.91%) Nokia
9 2 (0.91%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.91%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.91%) Snow
9 2 (0.91%) Symantec