Scaled Agile Framework Contracts in the North of England

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 146 155 165
Rank change year-on-year +9 +10 +26
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 20 30 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.61% 0.63% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.73% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 25 36
10th Percentile £392 £394 £463
25th Percentile £445 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -7.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £606
90th Percentile £743 £694 £669
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the North of England

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the North of England

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the North of England

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +7 8 £413 -19.12% 16
Yorkshire +5 7 £491 -18.13% 8
North East +3 5 £650 +22.07% 4
Scaled Agile Framework
England

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 5 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (10.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (5.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Asana
3 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.00%) Parquet
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Military
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Publishing
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Analyst
1 4 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Agile Coach
3 2 (10.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Programme Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Banking Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Digital Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Service Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Wintel Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) ADO
1 1 (5.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Android
1 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) Scrum
3 8 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (35.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (35.00%) Decision-Making
5 6 (30.00%) DevOps
5 6 (30.00%) Kanban
5 6 (30.00%) Project Management
6 5 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
7 4 (20.00%) Coaching
7 4 (20.00%) Dependency Management
7 4 (20.00%) PRINCE2
8 3 (15.00%) Change Management
8 3 (15.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
8 3 (15.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
1 1 (5.00%) VB
1 1 (5.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) PMP
3 1 (5.00%) CSPO
3 1 (5.00%) MCP
3 1 (5.00%) MCSA
3 1 (5.00%) MCSE
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) PMO
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) GRC
2 1 (5.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) BitLocker
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) McAfee
2 1 (5.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) Symantec
2 1 (5.00%) VMware