Scaled Agile Framework Contracts in the Midlands

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 115 129
Rank change year-on-year +17 +14 -13
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 19 20 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.95% 0.74% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.90% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 28
10th Percentile £357 £414 £509
25th Percentile £472 £578 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £581
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +16.13% +5.68%
75th Percentile £600 £743 £625
90th Percentile - £850 £665
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,760 2,210 2,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.96% 82.13% 88.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,487 2,028
10th Percentile £200 £234 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £559 £600 £594
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 169 104
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.15
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.91 £14.88
Median hourly rate £18.51 £18.00 £21.32
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -15.57% +21.83%
75th Percentile £24.66 £33.25 £32.77
90th Percentile £41.97 £55.00 £54.63
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.29% +45.58%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the Midlands

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the Midlands

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the Midlands

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
West Midlands +2 16 £575 -14.81% 13
East Midlands +14 3 £356 -35.27% 3
Scaled Agile Framework
England

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (10.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Revit
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) AWS
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
1 3 (15.79%) SaaS
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.26%) IaaS
3 1 (5.26%) PaaS
3 1 (5.26%) SonarCloud
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) Snyk
2 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Advertising
3 1 (5.26%) Automotive
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) General Ledger
3 1 (5.26%) Humanities
3 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
1 5 (26.32%) Product Owner
2 4 (21.05%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Digital Product Owner
4 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Agile Coach
5 1 (5.26%) Agile Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Digital Product Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Implementation Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Implementation Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) JIRA Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Project Implementation Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Scrum Master
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) ADO
2 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Product Ownership
2 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Agile
2 13 (68.42%) Scrum
3 8 (42.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (42.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (31.58%) User Stories
6 4 (21.05%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
7 3 (15.79%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (15.79%) Analytics
7 3 (15.79%) Backlog Management
7 3 (15.79%) Business Process Modelling
7 3 (15.79%) Business Strategy
7 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
7 3 (15.79%) DevOps
7 3 (15.79%) Product Backlog
7 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
7 3 (15.79%) Software Architecture
7 3 (15.79%) TOGAF
7 3 (15.79%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) APMP
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.26%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Automotive SPICE
1 1 (5.26%) ISO 26262
1 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Ansible
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Autodesk
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.26%) Bloomberg
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat