Scaled Agile Framework Contracts in the South East

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 119 136 126
Rank change year-on-year +17 -10 +17
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 40 69 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.33% 1.24% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.46% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 58 81
10th Percentile £475 £425 £450
25th Percentile £525 £515 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £594 £608 £638
90th Percentile £645 £683 £727
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £26.09
25th Percentile - - £32.00
Median hourly rate - - £42.58
75th Percentile - - £53.92
90th Percentile - - £60.27
England median hourly rate £62.50 £53.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +17.92% -37.65% +91.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the South East

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the South East

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the South East

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the South East

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Hampshire +10 19 £550 - 9
Thames Valley +41 16 £580 +5.45% 12
Berkshire +24 11 £600 +9.09% 6
Buckinghamshire - 3 £560 - 4
Surrey +12 2 - - 5
West Sussex +6 2 £450 -40.00% 4
Oxfordshire - 2 £588 - 6
Kent - 1 £675 -
Scaled Agile Framework
England

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (5.00%) Appian
2 1 (2.50%) Smallworld
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Primavera
2 1 (2.50%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 9 (22.50%) Azure
2 8 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.00%) AWS
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle CX
3 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (2.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (2.50%) 2G
2 1 (2.50%) 3G
2 1 (2.50%) 4G
2 1 (2.50%) 5G
2 1 (2.50%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) GIS
1 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) TestRail
2 2 (5.00%) Balsamiq
2 2 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (15.00%) Finance
1 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (2.50%) Billing
4 1 (2.50%) Marketing
4 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (32.50%) Analyst
2 9 (22.50%) Test Analyst
2 9 (22.50%) Test Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Applications Packager
3 6 (15.00%) DV Cleared Application Packager
4 5 (12.50%) Product Owner
4 5 (12.50%) Project Manager
5 4 (10.00%) Lead
5 4 (10.00%) Product Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) Business Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) Product Business Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) Senior
7 2 (5.00%) Agile Business Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Network Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Release Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Release Train Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared Project Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Project Manager
8 1 (2.50%) GIS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) GraphQL
1 1 (2.50%) gRPC
1 1 (2.50%) Kafka
1 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (2.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Product Ownership
2 6 (15.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) PMI
3 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Linux
1 6 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (15.00%) Windows
1 6 (15.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (92.50%) Agile
2 16 (40.00%) Scrum
3 9 (22.50%) Requirements Analysis
3 9 (22.50%) Test Management
4 8 (20.00%) DevOps
4 8 (20.00%) Project Management
5 7 (17.50%) Roadmaps
5 7 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (17.50%) User Stories
6 6 (15.00%) Application Packaging
6 6 (15.00%) Application Virtualisation
6 6 (15.00%) Epics
6 6 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 5 (12.50%) PRINCE2
8 4 (10.00%) B2B
8 4 (10.00%) Computer Science
8 4 (10.00%) Product Management
8 4 (10.00%) Product Roadmap
8 4 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.50%) Python
2 6 (15.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (15.00%) VBScript
3 1 (2.50%) Go
3 1 (2.50%) Java
3 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.50%) Magik
Qualifications
1 18 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (42.50%) DV Cleared
3 9 (22.50%) ISTQB
3 9 (22.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 6 (15.00%) Degree
5 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.00%) APMP
6 2 (5.00%) CISM
6 2 (5.00%) CISSP
6 2 (5.00%) ISEB
6 2 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (2.50%) CEH
7 1 (2.50%) CISA
7 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.50%) GIAC
7 1 (2.50%) OSCP
7 1 (2.50%) PgMP
7 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.50%) PMP
7 1 (2.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) PMO
1 3 (7.50%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
2 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) VMware
2 4 (10.00%) Oracle
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.00%) Blue Prism
4 2 (5.00%) Cisco
4 2 (5.00%) Nokia
4 2 (5.00%) Rakuten
5 1 (2.50%) Adobe
5 1 (2.50%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (2.50%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.50%) Cramer
5 1 (2.50%) Genesys
5 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.50%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.50%) Snow
5 1 (2.50%) Sparx