Scaled Agile Framework Contracts in the West Midlands

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 83 93 125
Rank change year-on-year +10 +32 -10
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 14 18 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.04% 0.92% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.10% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 12
10th Percentile £496 £414 £500
25th Percentile £513 £625 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £675 £544
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +24.14% -1.14%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £575
90th Percentile £603 £838 £586
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the West Midlands

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the West Midlands

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the West Midlands

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Warwickshire +4 6 £600 -11.11% 6
Birmingham - 4 £550 - 3
Coventry 0 1 - - 4
Worcestershire 0 1 £515 -20.77% 1
Herefordshire - 1 - -
Staffordshire - 1 £525 -
Scaled Agile Framework
England

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Revit
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (7.14%) IaaS
2 1 (7.14%) PaaS
2 1 (7.14%) SonarCloud
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Snyk
2 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) General Ledger
3 1 (7.14%) Advertising
3 1 (7.14%) Humanities
3 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Architect
2 5 (35.71%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Product Owner
3 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Agile Coach
4 1 (7.14%) Agile Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Digital Product Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Implementation Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Product Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Project Implementation Manager
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow Manager
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow Project Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) ADO
2 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (64.29%) Scrum
3 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (21.43%) Project Management
5 3 (21.43%) Software Architecture
5 3 (21.43%) TOGAF
5 3 (21.43%) User Stories
6 2 (14.29%) Backlog Management
6 2 (14.29%) DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps
6 2 (14.29%) Microservices
6 2 (14.29%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Product Backlog
6 2 (14.29%) Product Vision
6 2 (14.29%) Quantitative Risk Management
6 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 2 (14.29%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) APMP
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (7.14%) SAFe Agilist
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Argo
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Autodesk
2 2 (14.29%) Bloomberg
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat