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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 255 261
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -79
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 243 352 463
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.97% 0.94% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.10% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 247 343
10th Percentile £357 £400 £450
25th Percentile £456 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.39%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £708 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 11
10th Percentile £62.38 - £61.50
25th Percentile £64.06 - £65.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £53.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% -33.75% +79.78%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £87.50
90th Percentile £75.50 - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £53.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year +22.64% -33.75% +79.78%

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 22,892 31,876 42,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.36% 85.33% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,789 20,642 29,656
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 2,365 1,544
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.77 £11.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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 24 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in England over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 24 June 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 +6 134 £573 +4.09% 162
South East +33 38 £550 - 42
Midlands +12 23 £515 -6.36% 30
North of England +6 20 £488 -4.41% 60
South West +19 18 £575 -2.13% 22
West Midlands +8 16 £563 -16.67% 21
Yorkshire -2 8 £491 -18.13% 16
North West -10 8 £420 -14.72% 39
East Midlands +5 7 £350 -10.60% 8
East of England +15 4 £663 +1.15% 11
North East +3 4 £588 +10.33% 5
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 31 (12.76%) Confluence
2 9 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.88%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.65%) Apache
4 4 (1.65%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.65%) CMS
4 4 (1.65%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.23%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.82%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.82%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.41%) Camunda
7 1 (0.41%) JBoss
7 1 (0.41%) Smallworld
Applications
1 13 (5.35%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (4.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (4.12%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (1.23%) Revit
6 3 (1.23%) Trello
7 1 (0.41%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.41%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 7 (2.88%) Primavera
1 7 (2.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.82%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (0.82%) SAP Convergent Charging
2 2 (0.82%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.41%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 55 (22.63%) Azure
2 45 (18.52%) AWS
3 15 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (5.76%) GCP
5 13 (5.35%) SaaS
6 12 (4.94%) Power Platform
7 10 (4.12%) GitHub
8 5 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.65%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.65%) IaaS
9 4 (1.65%) PaaS
9 4 (1.65%) Serverless
10 3 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.23%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.82%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.82%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.65%) SSH
2 3 (1.23%) DNS
2 3 (1.23%) HTTP
3 2 (0.82%) Firewall
3 2 (0.82%) Network Security
3 2 (0.82%) POP3
3 2 (0.82%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.82%) SMTP
4 1 (0.41%) 2G
4 1 (0.41%) 3G
4 1 (0.41%) 4G
4 1 (0.41%) 5G
4 1 (0.41%) ATM
4 1 (0.41%) BGP
4 1 (0.41%) DHCP
4 1 (0.41%) GPON
4 1 (0.41%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.94%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.12%) Power BI
3 6 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.06%) Delta Lake
4 5 (2.06%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.65%) Apache Hive
5 4 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.65%) MySQL
5 4 (1.65%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.65%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.23%) Big Data
6 3 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.82%) EDMS
7 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.41%) GIS
8 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 65 (26.75%) JIRA
2 11 (4.53%) Git
3 9 (3.70%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.47%) GitLab
4 6 (2.47%) TestRail
5 4 (1.65%) JUnit
5 4 (1.65%) RStudio
5 4 (1.65%) Selenium
5 4 (1.65%) Subversion
6 3 (1.23%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.82%) Appium
8 1 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.41%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.41%) ERwin
8 1 (0.41%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.41%) Snyk
8 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
General
1 72 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 66 (27.16%) Finance
3 26 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.00%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
5 12 (4.94%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.70%) Billing
7 7 (2.88%) Banking
7 7 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.88%) Retail
8 6 (2.47%) Legal
8 6 (2.47%) Marketing
9 5 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.23%) Automotive
10 3 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Aviation
11 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.82%) Publishing
12 1 (0.41%) German Language
12 1 (0.41%) Humanities
Job Titles
1 39 (16.05%) Architect
2 34 (13.99%) Project Manager
3 27 (11.11%) Analyst
4 22 (9.05%) Senior
5 18 (7.41%) Lead
6 17 (7.00%) Consultant
7 16 (6.58%) Business Analyst
7 16 (6.58%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (6.17%) Delivery Manager
8 15 (6.17%) Programme Manager
9 14 (5.76%) Developer
9 14 (5.76%) Product Owner
10 12 (4.94%) Senior Manager
10 12 (4.94%) Technical Architect
11 11 (4.53%) SC Cleared Project Manager
11 11 (4.53%) Scrum Master
12 10 (4.12%) Integration Architect
13 9 (3.70%) Technical Solutions Architect
14 7 (2.88%) Technical Manager
14 7 (2.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.17%) REST
2 12 (4.94%) JSON
2 12 (4.94%) Kafka
3 9 (3.70%) Web Services
4 6 (2.47%) GraphQL
4 6 (2.47%) SOAP
5 5 (2.06%) CSS
5 5 (2.06%) gRPC
5 5 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (2.06%) XML
5 5 (2.06%) YAML
6 4 (1.65%) ADO
6 4 (1.65%) HTML
6 4 (1.65%) pydantic
6 4 (1.65%) PySpark
7 3 (1.23%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.23%) Bootstrap
7 3 (1.23%) WSDL
8 2 (0.82%) CSS3
8 2 (0.82%) React
Miscellaneous
1 39 (16.05%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.53%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.06%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.06%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.06%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.06%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.06%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.65%) Marketing Technology
6 4 (1.65%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.23%) Life Science
8 2 (0.82%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.82%) PMI
8 2 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.88%) Linux
2 7 (2.88%) Windows
3 6 (2.47%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.23%) Android
4 3 (1.23%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.82%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.82%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (92.18%) Agile
2 108 (44.44%) Scrum
3 80 (32.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 53 (21.81%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (21.40%) Roadmaps
6 43 (17.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 40 (16.46%) DevOps
8 36 (14.81%) Project Management
9 34 (13.99%) Kanban
9 34 (13.99%) Project Delivery
10 33 (13.58%) PRINCE2
11 28 (11.52%) Decision-Making
12 27 (11.11%) Waterfall
13 26 (10.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 24 (9.88%) CI/CD
14 24 (9.88%) User Stories
15 20 (8.23%) TOGAF
16 18 (7.41%) Analytics
16 18 (7.41%) Computer Science
16 18 (7.41%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (11.93%) Java
2 16 (6.58%) Python
3 15 (6.17%) SQL
4 13 (5.35%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.88%) C#
6 6 (2.47%) Bash
6 6 (2.47%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.06%) Go
8 4 (1.65%) Scala
8 4 (1.65%) VBScript
9 3 (1.23%) ABAP
10 2 (0.82%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.82%) VB
11 1 (0.41%) Bicep
11 1 (0.41%) Korn
11 1 (0.41%) Magik
11 1 (0.41%) PHP
11 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 46 (18.93%) Degree
3 42 (17.28%) SC Cleared
4 21 (8.64%) DV Cleared
5 13 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (5.35%) PMI Certification
6 12 (4.94%) PMP
7 10 (4.12%) ISTQB
8 9 (3.70%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.88%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.47%) CISM
10 6 (2.47%) CISSP
10 6 (2.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (2.06%) SAFe Agilist
12 4 (1.65%) APMP
12 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (1.23%) CRISC
13 3 (1.23%) CSPO
13 3 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.53%) QA
2 8 (3.29%) PMO
3 5 (2.06%) GDPR
4 4 (1.65%) GRC
4 4 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 3 (1.23%) P3O
6 2 (0.82%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.82%) NCSC
7 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.41%) Automotive SPICE
7 1 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.41%) NIST
7 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (4.12%) Docker
2 9 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.82%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.82%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 9 (3.70%) Terraform
2 5 (2.06%) Ansible
3 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.23%) Grafana
4 3 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.82%) SCCM
6 1 (0.41%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.41%) Argo
Vendors
1 40 (16.46%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.41%) Oracle
3 10 (4.12%) SAP
4 8 (3.29%) Databricks
4 8 (3.29%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.47%) CA Agile Central
5 6 (2.47%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.65%) VMware
7 3 (1.23%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.23%) Autodesk
7 3 (1.23%) Google
8 2 (0.82%) Adobe
8 2 (0.82%) Cisco
8 2 (0.82%) Dell
8 2 (0.82%) McAfee
8 2 (0.82%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.82%) Splunk
8 2 (0.82%) Symantec
9 1 (0.41%) Genesys
9 1 (0.41%) IBM