Scaled Agile Framework Contracts in the North West

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 112 119 132
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 +23
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 8 18 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% 0.65% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.76% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 22
10th Percentile £346 £390 £464
25th Percentile £390 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.12% -7.27% -6.38%
75th Percentile £600 £530 £573
90th Percentile - £641 £600
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the North West

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the North West

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the North West

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire -9 4 £365 -25.94% 4
Lancashire +3 3 £600 -14.59% 12
Manchester +16 1 - - 19
Scaled Agile Framework
England

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Military
2 1 (12.50%) Publishing
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Coach
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Banking Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum Master
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
1 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) Kanban
4 3 (37.50%) Coaching
5 2 (25.00%) Agile Coaching
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2
5 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Project Management
5 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 1 (12.50%) Backlog Management
6 1 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 1 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
6 1 (12.50%) FinOps
6 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (12.50%) Sprint Retrospective
6 1 (12.50%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) VB
1 1 (12.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) MCP
2 1 (12.50%) MCSA
2 1 (12.50%) MCSE
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GRC
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) BitLocker
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) McAfee
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Symantec
1 1 (12.50%) VMware