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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 101 136
Rank change year-on-year -13 +35 +39
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 15 22 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.68% 0.92% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.09% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 13
10th Percentile £328 £379 £456
25th Percentile £398 £392 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -16.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £630 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -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 1,945 2,026 2,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.65% 84.31% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,257 1,215 1,795
10th Percentile £280 £311 £285
25th Percentile £375 £406 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £667 £678 £667
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 172 165
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.61 £30.76
Median % change year-on-year -21.98% +12.52% +38.91%
75th Percentile £58.27 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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
Manchester +5 6 £563 +4.65% 19
Cheshire -26 6 £523 +30.63% 3
Lancashire -3 3 £600 -14.59% 14
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 4 (26.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
1 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (20.00%) Smartsheet
2 2 (13.33%) Figma
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (86.67%) JIRA
2 3 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Banking
3 5 (33.33%) Finance
4 3 (20.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Senior
1 3 (20.00%) Senior PMO
1 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Agile Coach
3 1 (6.67%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Banking Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Data Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Digital Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
3 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) .NET
1 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
1 1 (6.67%) Kafka
1 1 (6.67%) RESTful
1 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) PMI
1 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (60.00%) Scrum
3 8 (53.33%) Kanban
4 7 (46.67%) DevOps
5 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (26.67%) Waterfall
7 3 (20.00%) Coaching
7 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
7 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (20.00%) Performance Management
7 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2
7 3 (20.00%) Programme Management
7 3 (20.00%) Project Management
7 3 (20.00%) Software Architecture
7 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
7 3 (20.00%) UML
7 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Bash
1 3 (20.00%) C++
1 3 (20.00%) Java
1 3 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 3 (20.00%) PMP
3 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.67%) CSPO
3 1 (6.67%) ISEB
3 1 (6.67%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) P3O
1 3 (20.00%) PMO
2 2 (13.33%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) PSD2
3 1 (6.67%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Ansible
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (20.00%) Podman
1 3 (20.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Planview
2 1 (6.67%) IBM
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) StreamSets