Scaled Agile Framework Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Scaled Agile Framework skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 104 109
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +37
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 6 22 30
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.35% 1.02% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 1.19% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 17 25
10th Percentile £472 £519 £501
25th Percentile £487 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.13% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £574 £580 £619
90th Percentile £612 £620 £673
South East median daily rate £485 £550 £610
% change year-on-year -11.82% -9.84% +1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £63.10 - -
25th Percentile £65.88 - £61.50
Median hourly rate £71.00 - £63.00
75th Percentile £75.75 - £64.50
90th Percentile £78.30 - -
South East median hourly rate £71.00 - £66.54
% change year-on-year - - -1.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,532 1,851 2,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.38% 85.97% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 943 1,047 1,613
10th Percentile £263 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.49% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 73 92
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.71 £16.44
25th Percentile £15.91 £27.75 £25.19
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.30 £54.47
Median % change year-on-year -56.86% +7.03% +182.97%
75th Percentile £49.28 £63.00 £68.44
90th Percentile £73.65 £75.17 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £21.25 £58.49 £54.38
% change year-on-year -63.67% +7.56% +61.29%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scaled Agile Framework relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Scaled Agile Framework job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Scaled Agile Framework.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Scaled Agile Framework

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the Thames Valley

Scaled Agile Framework
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Scaled Agile Framework.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Scaled Agile Framework

Scaled Agile Framework
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the Thames Valley

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Berkshire -6 6 £511 -11.13% 9
Scaled Agile Framework
South East

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 3 (50.00%) IT Programme Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 3 (50.00%) Life Science
3 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
2 5 (83.33%) Roadmaps
2 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (66.67%) Business Continuity
3 4 (66.67%) Change Management
3 4 (66.67%) Conflict Resolution
3 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 4 (66.67%) Dependency Management
3 4 (66.67%) Migration
3 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Experimental Design
5 1 (16.67%) Logistics
5 1 (16.67%) PLM
5 1 (16.67%) Product Management
5 1 (16.67%) Product Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
5 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) Python