Scaled Agile Framework Contracts in Scotland

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 106 129
Rank change year-on-year -5 +23 -1
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 9 18 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.55% 0.86% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.98% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 21
10th Percentile £313 £428 £428
25th Percentile £359 £455 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £376 £479 £538
Median % change year-on-year -21.37% -10.98% -2.71%
75th Percentile £422 £487 £590
90th Percentile £453 £499 -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.78% +2.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,540 1,842 2,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.73% 87.76% 92.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 885 1,145 1,746
10th Percentile £263 £220 £260
25th Percentile £375 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 93 55
10th Percentile £15.95 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.67 £11.25
Median hourly rate £19.97 £19.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% +34.48% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £35.00
90th Percentile £50.06 £60.75 £65.94
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £36.13
% change year-on-year -23.71% -0.22% +40.67%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in Scotland

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in Scotland

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in Scotland

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 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
Edinburgh +5 6 £383 -21.46% 11
Glasgow -9 3 £358 -22.17% 19
Scaled Agile Framework
UK

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Apache Hive
1 2 (22.22%) Hadoop
1 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) DB2
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Agile Coach
1 2 (22.22%) Release Manager
1 2 (22.22%) Release Train Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Data Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Environment Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Scrum Master
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Release Train
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Agile Coaching
4 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Change Data Capture
4 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Programme Management
4 2 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Agile Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 1 (11.11%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CBAP
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) IIBA
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) IBM
1 3 (33.33%) StreamSets
2 2 (22.22%) Informatica
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Confluent
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle