Scaled Agile Framework Contract Job Trends in London

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Scaled Agile Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 266 212
Rank change year-on-year +50 -54 -4
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 169 111 206
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.18% 0.71% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 0.79% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 68 145
10th Percentile £407 £375 £450
25th Percentile £463 £430 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.51% -11.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £700 £582 £725
90th Percentile £768 £675 £813
England median daily rate £550 £550 £593
% change year-on-year - -7.17% -1.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,110 14,014 17,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.71% 89.83% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,647 9,052 12,526
10th Percentile £338 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £766 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 165 236
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%
75th Percentile £47.56 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Scaled Agile Framework job vacancy trend in London

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Scaled Agile Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Scaled Agile Framework

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in London

Scaled Agile Framework
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Scaled Agile Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Scaled Agile Framework

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Central London +5 21 £500 -6.54% 3
West London -14 4 £438 +16.67% 3
South London -7 1 - -
Scaled Agile Framework
England

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 38 (22.49%) Confluence
2 6 (3.55%) IIS
3 3 (1.78%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.59%) Drupal
4 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (5.92%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.96%) Chatbot
4 4 (2.37%) Trello
5 1 (0.59%) EPLAN
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (27.81%) Azure
2 34 (20.12%) AWS
3 22 (13.02%) GCP
4 16 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (7.10%) Miro
5 12 (7.10%) Snowflake
6 9 (5.33%) Power Platform
7 7 (4.14%) GitHub
8 5 (2.96%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (2.96%) SaaS
9 3 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.78%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.78%) Serverless
10 2 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.18%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.18%) PaaS
10 2 (1.18%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.59%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.33%) Firewall
2 7 (4.14%) VPN
3 6 (3.55%) SD-WAN
3 6 (3.55%) WAN
4 5 (2.96%) Cisco IPT
5 3 (1.78%) Network Security
6 2 (1.18%) DNS
6 2 (1.18%) NAS
6 2 (1.18%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.59%) DSL
7 1 (0.59%) FTP
7 1 (0.59%) HTTP
7 1 (0.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.92%) Data Vault
2 9 (5.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 8 (4.73%) Metadata
4 7 (4.14%) Power BI
5 4 (2.37%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.37%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.18%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.18%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.18%) Tableau
7 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.59%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.59%) Big Data
7 1 (0.59%) EDMS
7 1 (0.59%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.59%) Looker
7 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.59%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 66 (39.05%) JIRA
2 12 (7.10%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.92%) ER Studio
3 10 (5.92%) ERwin
3 10 (5.92%) PowerDesigner
4 7 (4.14%) GitLab
5 3 (1.78%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.18%) Git
6 2 (1.18%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (1.18%) Postman
6 2 (1.18%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.59%) Selenium
7 1 (0.59%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (42.60%) Social Skills
2 54 (31.95%) Finance
3 23 (13.61%) Banking
4 19 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (10.06%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.51%) Telecoms
7 9 (5.33%) Legal
8 7 (4.14%) Military
9 6 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.37%) Electronics
11 4 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.78%) Aviation
12 3 (1.78%) Back Office
12 3 (1.78%) Local Government
12 3 (1.78%) Publishing
12 3 (1.78%) Retail
13 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.18%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (11.83%) Analyst
1 20 (11.83%) Architect
2 19 (11.24%) Business Analyst
2 19 (11.24%) Lead
3 16 (9.47%) Scrum Master
4 14 (8.28%) Senior
5 13 (7.69%) Consultant
5 13 (7.69%) Project Manager
6 12 (7.10%) Data Modeller
7 11 (6.51%) Product Owner
8 10 (5.92%) Delivery Manager
9 9 (5.33%) Product Manager
10 8 (4.73%) Senior Manager
11 7 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.55%) Coordinator
12 6 (3.55%) Security Assurance Coordinator
12 6 (3.55%) Technical Architect
13 5 (2.96%) CISSP Consultant
13 5 (2.96%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 5 (2.96%) Risk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.55%) REST
2 3 (1.78%) Kafka
2 3 (1.78%) RESTful
2 3 (1.78%) XML
3 2 (1.18%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.18%) JSON
3 2 (1.18%) Node.js
3 2 (1.18%) SOAP
3 2 (1.18%) Spring
4 1 (0.59%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.59%) Bootstrap
4 1 (0.59%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.59%) gRPC
4 1 (0.59%) Middleware
4 1 (0.59%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.59%) SAML
4 1 (0.59%) Swagger
4 1 (0.59%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.59%) Web Services
4 1 (0.59%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 42 (24.85%) Product Ownership
2 12 (7.10%) Data Structures
3 7 (4.14%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.14%) PKI
4 6 (3.55%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.55%) PMI
4 6 (3.55%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.96%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.96%) Reinsurance
6 4 (2.37%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.37%) NHS
7 3 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.78%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.78%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.18%) FMCG
8 2 (1.18%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.92%) Linux
2 4 (2.37%) Windows
3 2 (1.18%) Android
3 2 (1.18%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.18%) VMS
4 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (98.82%) Agile
2 88 (52.07%) Scrum
3 56 (33.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 50 (29.59%) Kanban
5 43 (25.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 43 (25.44%) Roadmaps
6 40 (23.67%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 25 (14.79%) DevOps
9 20 (11.83%) AI
9 20 (11.83%) CI/CD
9 20 (11.83%) Coaching
9 20 (11.83%) Data Modelling
9 20 (11.83%) Risk Management
9 20 (11.83%) Translating Business Requirements
10 19 (11.24%) Project Delivery
11 18 (10.65%) User Stories
12 17 (10.06%) Data Governance
12 17 (10.06%) Epics
12 17 (10.06%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.28%) Python
1 14 (8.28%) SQL
2 11 (6.51%) Java
3 5 (2.96%) Korn
4 4 (2.37%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.18%) C#
6 1 (0.59%) Bash
6 1 (0.59%) Go
6 1 (0.59%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.59%) R
6 1 (0.59%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (19.53%) Security Cleared
2 30 (17.75%) Degree
3 21 (12.43%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.69%) PMI Certification
5 12 (7.10%) DV Cleared
6 7 (4.14%) PMP
7 6 (3.55%) IISP
7 6 (3.55%) ISACA
7 6 (3.55%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.96%) CISM
8 5 (2.96%) CISSP
9 4 (2.37%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.78%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.78%) CSPO
11 2 (1.18%) CCNA
11 2 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.59%) CCNP
12 1 (0.59%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.65%) QA
2 15 (8.88%) Data Quality
3 11 (6.51%) GDPR
4 8 (4.73%) GRC
5 6 (3.55%) PMO
6 5 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 5 (2.96%) PERC
7 3 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.78%) NIST
8 2 (1.18%) P3O
8 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.59%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.59%) GxP
9 1 (0.59%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (2.37%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.59%) RACF
Systems Management
1 10 (5.92%) Terraform
2 8 (4.73%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.55%) Ansible
4 2 (1.18%) Grafana
4 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.18%) Rancher
5 1 (0.59%) CASB
5 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (8.28%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.92%) ServiceNow
3 6 (3.55%) Aruba
3 6 (3.55%) Cisco
3 6 (3.55%) Databricks
3 6 (3.55%) Fortinet
3 6 (3.55%) Salesforce
3 6 (3.55%) Sparx
4 5 (2.96%) Planview
5 3 (1.78%) Informatica
5 3 (1.78%) OneLogin
5 3 (1.78%) Oracle
5 3 (1.78%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.18%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.18%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.18%) F5
6 2 (1.18%) SAP
6 2 (1.18%) Splunk
6 2 (1.18%) Tenable
6 2 (1.18%) Zscaler