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

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 219 210
Rank change year-on-year -3 -9 -30
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 148 155 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.96% 0.85% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.03% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 94 173
10th Percentile £309 £384 £438
25th Percentile £363 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% +1.77%
75th Percentile £600 £593 £638
90th Percentile £650 £699 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile £63.10 - £43.53
25th Percentile £65.88 - £57.81
Median hourly rate £71.00 £53.00 £75.42
Median % change year-on-year +33.96% -29.73% -0.99%
75th Percentile £75.75 - £85.00
90th Percentile £78.30 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £53.00 £79.00
% change year-on-year +22.64% -32.91% +19.37%

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 13,803 15,081 19,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.30% 83.02% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,279 9,085 12,938
10th Percentile £240 £250 £260
25th Percentile £368 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,371 1,516 1,195
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.48
Median hourly rate £23.00 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.88% +13.33% +70.45%
75th Percentile £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.27
% change year-on-year -38.57% -0.80% +55.74%

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 17 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 17 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
South East +6 42 £550 - 31
North of England -7 35 £500 - 44
Midlands +3 30 £463 -15.91% 25
West Midlands +4 19 £550 -18.52% 19
Scotland -1 19 £358 -27.46% 10
South West +11 18 £575 +3.37% 18
Yorkshire -6 16 £500 -6.98% 15
North West -14 15 £600 +42.86% 27
East Midlands +1 11 £352 -11.05% 6
East of England +6 5 £650 +52.94% 16
North East - 4 £588 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7
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 18 (12.16%) Confluence
2 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.68%) Camunda
2 1 (0.68%) Smallworld
Applications
1 10 (6.76%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.03%) Revit
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.73%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (2.70%) Primavera
3 1 (0.68%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.68%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 23 (15.54%) Azure
2 18 (12.16%) AWS
3 9 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (5.41%) SaaS
5 7 (4.73%) GCP
6 5 (3.38%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (2.70%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.03%) GitHub
8 3 (2.03%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.03%) Smartsheet
9 2 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.35%) Datadog
9 2 (1.35%) Figma
9 2 (1.35%) OCI
9 2 (1.35%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.68%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.68%) IaaS
10 1 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.35%) Firewall
2 1 (0.68%) GPON
2 1 (0.68%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.03%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.35%) Apache Hive
3 2 (1.35%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.35%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.35%) Power BI
4 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.68%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.68%) DB2
4 1 (0.68%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.68%) GIS
4 1 (0.68%) MySQL
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.68%) Parquet
4 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.68%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 40 (27.03%) JIRA
2 13 (8.78%) Git
3 12 (8.11%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.73%) GitLab
5 6 (4.05%) Subversion
5 6 (4.05%) TestRail
6 3 (2.03%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (1.35%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.68%) Selenium
8 1 (0.68%) Snyk
8 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.68%) Zephyr
General
1 49 (33.11%) Social Skills
2 36 (24.32%) Finance
3 21 (14.19%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.11%) Banking
6 7 (4.73%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.38%) Retail
8 4 (2.70%) Legal
9 3 (2.03%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.35%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.35%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.35%) Marketing
10 2 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Automotive
11 1 (0.68%) Billing
11 1 (0.68%) Humanities
11 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (11.49%) Analyst
1 17 (11.49%) Product Owner
2 15 (10.14%) Project Manager
3 14 (9.46%) Lead
3 14 (9.46%) Senior
4 12 (8.11%) Delivery Manager
5 11 (7.43%) Scrum Master
6 10 (6.76%) Developer
7 9 (6.08%) Product Manager
8 8 (5.41%) Agile Coach
8 8 (5.41%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.73%) Programme Manager
9 7 (4.73%) Senior Manager
9 7 (4.73%) Test Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Architect
10 6 (4.05%) Test Analyst
11 5 (3.38%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 5 (3.38%) Senior Project Manager
11 5 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (2.70%) Senior PMO
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.08%) Kafka
2 7 (4.73%) GraphQL
2 7 (4.73%) gRPC
2 7 (4.73%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (4.73%) REST
3 2 (1.35%) RESTful
4 1 (0.68%) .NET
4 1 (0.68%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.68%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.68%) JSON
4 1 (0.68%) PySpark
4 1 (0.68%) React
4 1 (0.68%) Web Services
4 1 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.92%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (4.05%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.05%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.05%) PMI
4 5 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.38%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.03%) Life Science
7 2 (1.35%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.35%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.35%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.35%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.08%) Windows
2 7 (4.73%) Linux
3 5 (3.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (97.97%) Agile
2 83 (56.08%) Scrum
3 52 (35.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 37 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (19.59%) Kanban
6 28 (18.92%) Roadmaps
7 26 (17.57%) Project Management
8 24 (16.22%) DevOps
8 24 (16.22%) Waterfall
9 23 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (14.86%) CI/CD
10 22 (14.86%) Risk Management
10 22 (14.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 21 (14.19%) User Stories
12 20 (13.51%) Decision-Making
12 20 (13.51%) Sprint Planning
13 18 (12.16%) Sprint Retrospective
14 16 (10.81%) PRINCE2
14 16 (10.81%) Project Delivery
15 15 (10.14%) Agile Coaching
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.76%) Python
2 8 (5.41%) Java
3 7 (4.73%) Go
4 6 (4.05%) SQL
5 3 (2.03%) Bash
5 3 (2.03%) C++
5 3 (2.03%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.03%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.35%) C#
6 2 (1.35%) VBScript
7 1 (0.68%) Magik
7 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 42 (28.38%) Security Cleared
2 26 (17.57%) SC Cleared
3 23 (15.54%) Degree
4 20 (13.51%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.73%) PMI Certification
6 6 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (4.05%) ISTQB
6 6 (4.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (3.38%) PMP
7 5 (3.38%) SAFe Agilist
8 4 (2.70%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.03%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.03%) CSPO
9 3 (2.03%) ISEB
9 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.35%) APMG
10 2 (1.35%) APMP
10 2 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.78%) PMO
2 6 (4.05%) P3O
3 4 (2.70%) PSD2
4 3 (2.03%) GDPR
4 3 (2.03%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.35%) COBIT
6 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.68%) Automotive SPICE
6 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.68%) GRC
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.68%) NIST
6 1 (0.68%) QA
6 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (9.46%) Docker
2 3 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (6.76%) Ansible
2 9 (6.08%) Terraform
3 8 (5.41%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.03%) Grafana
4 3 (2.03%) Podman
4 3 (2.03%) SELinux
5 2 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.68%) Argo
Vendors
1 18 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.05%) CA Agile Central
2 6 (4.05%) Oracle
3 4 (2.70%) Dynatrace
3 4 (2.70%) Planview
4 3 (2.03%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.03%) Autodesk
4 3 (2.03%) IBM
4 3 (2.03%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.03%) Spotify
4 3 (2.03%) StreamSets
5 2 (1.35%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (1.35%) CheckPoint
5 2 (1.35%) Databricks
5 2 (1.35%) Dell
5 2 (1.35%) F5
5 2 (1.35%) HP
5 2 (1.35%) Informatica
5 2 (1.35%) SAP
5 2 (1.35%) VMware