SAFe Agilist Contract Job Trends

SAFe Agilist (SA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SAFe Agilist qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 24 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 584 555 617
Rank change year-on-year -29 +62 +177
Contract jobs citing SAFe Agilist 8 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.023% 0.011% 0.013%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.068% 0.037% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £301 - £533
25th Percentile £303 £61 £592
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £63 £650
Median % change year-on-year +403.20% -90.38% +2.97%
75th Percentile £394 £64 £700
90th Percentile £518 - £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +23.81%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

SAFe Agilist falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,831 10,786 13,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.28% 29.48% 29.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,615 6,504 8,581
10th Percentile £303 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £719 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £523 £538
% change year-on-year -4.31% -2.79% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,025 523 770
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.75 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.38 £24.18 £27.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £53.58
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% -16.02% +19.07%
75th Percentile £45.46 £67.14 £68.73
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £46.71 £52.50
% change year-on-year -46.16% -11.02% +16.67%

SAFe Agilist
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAFe Agilist relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SAFe Agilist job vacancy trend in the UK

SAFe Agilist
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SAFe Agilist.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SAFe Agilist

SAFe Agilist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAFe Agilist over the 6 months to 24 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAFe Agilist in the UK

SAFe Agilist
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAFe Agilist within the UK over the 6 months to 24 November 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
UK excluding London - 7 £325 - 5
England -30 6 £315 - 5
Work from Home +15 2 £452 +623.20% 3
Midlands - 2 £304 - 2
North West - 2 £315 - 1
South West - 2 £600 -
North of England - 2 £315 - 2
London -11 1 £300 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £304 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Wales - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - - 1

SAFe Agilist
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (37.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Figma
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Law
4 1 (12.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
1 3 (37.50%) Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) PMO Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Banking Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Finance Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Finance Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow Manager
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ADO
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) CMDB
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) PMI
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
1 7 (87.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (50.00%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) Waterfall
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Kanban
4 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (25.00%) Change Management
5 2 (25.00%) Digital Banking
5 2 (25.00%) Fintech
5 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Project Management
5 2 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) PMI Certification
1 3 (37.50%) PMP
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) ISEB
3 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (12.50%) MBA
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) PMO
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Basel III
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) PSD2
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow