Scaled Agile Framework Contracts in the UK excluding London

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 239 217 199
Rank change year-on-year -22 -18 0
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 97 190 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.76% 0.91% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.08% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 121 233
10th Percentile £393 £425 £451
25th Percentile £513 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £638
90th Percentile £670 £700 £713
UK median daily rate £546 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -0.68% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 13
10th Percentile - - £49.70
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate - £53.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -37.65% +56.52%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £89.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £53.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +17.92% -37.65% +91.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Scaled Agile Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the UK excluding London

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the UK excluding London

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the UK excluding London

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the UK excluding London

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +17 40 £550 - 54
North of England +9 20 £510 - 27
Midlands +20 17 £550 -18.52% 16
South West +19 15 £575 -11.54% 18
West Midlands +10 14 £581 -13.89% 12
North West +7 8 £413 -19.12% 16
Yorkshire +5 7 £491 -18.13% 8
North East +3 5 £650 +22.07% 4
Scotland 0 4 £370 -21.28% 5
East Midlands +12 3 £356 -35.27% 3
East of England +18 1 £775 +18.32% 20
Scaled Agile Framework
UK

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (8.25%) Confluence
2 2 (2.06%) Appian
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.06%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.06%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.03%) Smallworld
Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.09%) Revit
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.06%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Primavera
2 1 (1.03%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.59%) Azure
2 11 (11.34%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (8.25%) AWS
4 7 (7.22%) SaaS
5 4 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.09%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.09%) GCP
6 3 (3.09%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.06%) GitHub
7 2 (2.06%) IaaS
7 2 (2.06%) Oracle CX
7 2 (2.06%) PaaS
8 1 (1.03%) Asana
8 1 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.03%) Serverless
8 1 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) DNS
1 2 (2.06%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.03%) 2G
2 1 (1.03%) 3G
2 1 (1.03%) 4G
2 1 (1.03%) 5G
2 1 (1.03%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.06%) Apache Hive
1 2 (2.06%) Hadoop
1 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.06%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.03%) Data Vault
2 1 (1.03%) DB2
2 1 (1.03%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.03%) GIS
2 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (1.03%) Parquet
2 1 (1.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (20.62%) JIRA
2 9 (9.28%) TestRail
3 2 (2.06%) Balsamiq
3 2 (2.06%) Git
3 2 (2.06%) GitLab
3 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.03%) MLflow
4 1 (1.03%) Selenium
4 1 (1.03%) Snyk
4 1 (1.03%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.03%) Zephyr
General
1 26 (26.80%) Finance
2 22 (22.68%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.46%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.28%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.15%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.06%) Banking
7 2 (2.06%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.06%) Legal
7 2 (2.06%) Publishing
8 1 (1.03%) Advertising
8 1 (1.03%) Aviation
8 1 (1.03%) Billing
8 1 (1.03%) Humanities
8 1 (1.03%) Marketing
8 1 (1.03%) Military
8 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (17.53%) Analyst
2 11 (11.34%) Project Manager
3 10 (10.31%) Product Owner
4 9 (9.28%) Architect
4 9 (9.28%) Test Analyst
4 9 (9.28%) Test Engineer
5 8 (8.25%) Senior
6 7 (7.22%) Delivery Manager
6 7 (7.22%) Lead
7 6 (6.19%) Applications Packager
7 6 (6.19%) DV Cleared Application Packager
7 6 (6.19%) Scrum Master
8 5 (5.15%) Business Analyst
8 5 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.12%) Configuration Manager
9 4 (4.12%) Product Analyst
10 3 (3.09%) Agile Business Analyst
10 3 (3.09%) Agile Coach
10 3 (3.09%) Agile Project Manager
10 3 (3.09%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.09%) ADO
2 2 (2.06%) Kafka
3 1 (1.03%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.03%) gRPC
3 1 (1.03%) JSON
3 1 (1.03%) PySpark
3 1 (1.03%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.03%) REST
3 1 (1.03%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.49%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.19%) Client/Server
3 5 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.03%) CMDB
6 1 (1.03%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.03%) PMI
6 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.31%) Windows
2 8 (8.25%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.22%) Linux
4 6 (6.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.06%) Android
5 2 (2.06%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.06%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.06%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.06%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (91.75%) Agile
2 45 (46.39%) Scrum
3 25 (25.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (19.59%) DevOps
5 19 (19.59%) Project Management
6 16 (16.49%) Decision-Making
7 15 (15.46%) User Stories
8 12 (12.37%) PRINCE2
8 12 (12.37%) Roadmaps
9 11 (11.34%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 11 (11.34%) Kanban
9 11 (11.34%) Project Delivery
10 10 (10.31%) CI/CD
10 10 (10.31%) Requirements Analysis
10 10 (10.31%) Sprint Planning
10 10 (10.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (10.31%) Test Management
11 9 (9.28%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.31%) PowerShell
2 9 (9.28%) Python
3 8 (8.25%) VBScript
4 4 (4.12%) SQL
5 3 (3.09%) Java
6 2 (2.06%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.06%) VB
7 1 (1.03%) Bash
7 1 (1.03%) Go
7 1 (1.03%) Magik
7 1 (1.03%) Perl
7 1 (1.03%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (34.02%) Security Cleared
2 19 (19.59%) DV Cleared
3 17 (17.53%) Degree
4 14 (14.43%) SC Cleared
5 10 (10.31%) ISTQB
5 10 (10.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (4.12%) APMP
6 4 (4.12%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.09%) PMP
8 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.06%) CISM
8 2 (2.06%) CISSP
8 2 (2.06%) ISEB
8 2 (2.06%) MCP
8 2 (2.06%) MCSA
8 2 (2.06%) MCSE
8 2 (2.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.15%) PMO
2 4 (4.12%) QA
3 2 (2.06%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (2.06%) NCSC
4 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.03%) GDPR
4 1 (1.03%) GRC
4 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.03%) NIST
4 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (8.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.09%) Docker
2 3 (3.09%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.06%) BitLocker
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (3.09%) Terraform
2 2 (2.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (2.06%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.06%) SCCM
3 1 (1.03%) Amdocs OSS
3 1 (1.03%) Ansible
3 1 (1.03%) Argo
3 1 (1.03%) Grafana
3 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (8.25%) Microsoft
1 8 (8.25%) VMware
2 7 (7.22%) Oracle
3 5 (5.15%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.09%) Autodesk
5 2 (2.06%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.06%) Blue Prism
5 2 (2.06%) Cisco
5 2 (2.06%) IBM
5 2 (2.06%) Informatica
5 2 (2.06%) McAfee
5 2 (2.06%) Nokia
5 2 (2.06%) Rakuten
5 2 (2.06%) StreamSets
5 2 (2.06%) Symantec
6 1 (1.03%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.03%) Confluent
6 1 (1.03%) Sparx
6 1 (1.03%) Spotify
6 1 (1.03%) Workday