Scaled Agile Framework Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 185 227 222
Rank change year-on-year +42 -5 -15
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 119 118 290
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.20% 0.77% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 0.88% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 81 215
10th Percentile £377 £425 £409
25th Percentile £436 £487 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.51% -0.87%
75th Percentile £604 £638 £650
90th Percentile £690 £700 £745
UK median daily rate £546 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -0.68% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 12
10th Percentile £60.50 - £61.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £69.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £85.00
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile £64.50 - £87.25
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Scaled Agile Framework
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Scaled Agile Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Scaled Agile Framework trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Scaled Agile Framework.

Scaled Agile Framework daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Scaled Agile Framework over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Scaled Agile Framework daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Scaled Agile Framework
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Scaled Agile Framework.

Scaled Agile Framework hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 22 (18.49%) Confluence
2 4 (3.36%) CMS
3 3 (2.52%) Oracle Coherence
3 3 (2.52%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.68%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.68%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.84%) Apache
5 1 (0.84%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (10.08%) MS Visio
2 10 (8.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (5.04%) Trello
4 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.84%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.84%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Primavera
1 2 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.84%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.84%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.84%) SAP R/3
2 1 (0.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.01%) Azure
2 24 (20.17%) AWS
3 11 (9.24%) GCP
4 9 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.20%) Miro
6 3 (2.52%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.52%) SaaS
7 2 (1.68%) Contentful
7 2 (1.68%) GitHub
7 2 (1.68%) IaaS
7 2 (1.68%) PaaS
8 1 (0.84%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (0.84%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.84%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (0.84%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (0.84%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.84%) Figma
8 1 (0.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.84%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (0.84%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.68%) HTTP
1 2 (1.68%) POP3
1 2 (1.68%) SMTP
2 1 (0.84%) BGP
2 1 (0.84%) DHCP
2 1 (0.84%) DNS
2 1 (0.84%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.52%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (2.52%) Big Data
1 3 (2.52%) Power BI
2 2 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.68%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.84%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.84%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.84%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.84%) DocumentDB
3 1 (0.84%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.84%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (30.25%) JIRA
2 3 (2.52%) GitLab
2 3 (2.52%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.84%) Appium
4 1 (0.84%) Git
4 1 (0.84%) HP UFT
4 1 (0.84%) JUnit
4 1 (0.84%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.84%) Postman
4 1 (0.84%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.84%) RStudio
4 1 (0.84%) Selenium
4 1 (0.84%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (20.17%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.13%) Finance
3 15 (12.61%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.04%) Billing
6 6 (5.04%) Marketing
7 5 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.20%) Legal
8 3 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.68%) Aviation
10 1 (0.84%) Banking
10 1 (0.84%) French Language
10 1 (0.84%) German Language
10 1 (0.84%) Humanities
10 1 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (29.41%) Architect
2 30 (25.21%) Solutions Architect
3 18 (15.13%) Integration Architect
4 17 (14.29%) Project Manager
4 17 (14.29%) TOGAF Architect
5 15 (12.61%) Analyst
6 14 (11.76%) Cloud Architect
7 13 (10.92%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 12 (10.08%) Business Analyst
8 12 (10.08%) Technical Architect
9 11 (9.24%) Technical Solutions Architect
10 9 (7.56%) Scrum Master
11 8 (6.72%) Agile Business Analyst
11 8 (6.72%) Senior
12 7 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
12 7 (5.88%) SC Cleared Project Manager
13 6 (5.04%) Consultant
13 6 (5.04%) Developer
13 6 (5.04%) Senior Manager
14 5 (4.20%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.88%) REST
2 6 (5.04%) Kafka
3 4 (3.36%) ADO
4 3 (2.52%) JSON
5 2 (1.68%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.68%) Bootstrap
5 2 (1.68%) CSS
5 2 (1.68%) CSS3
5 2 (1.68%) HTML
5 2 (1.68%) LDAP
5 2 (1.68%) SOAP
5 2 (1.68%) Web Services
6 1 (0.84%) AWS Amplify
6 1 (0.84%) BAPI
6 1 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.84%) Playwright
6 1 (0.84%) pydantic
6 1 (0.84%) PySpark
6 1 (0.84%) Swagger
6 1 (0.84%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (25.21%) Product Ownership
2 10 (8.40%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.36%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.68%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.84%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.84%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.84%) Linux
1 1 (0.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (73.11%) Agile
2 52 (43.70%) Scrum
3 41 (34.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 32 (26.89%) TOGAF
5 30 (25.21%) MODAF
6 23 (19.33%) Kanban
6 23 (19.33%) Roadmaps
7 21 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (17.65%) Decision-Making
7 21 (17.65%) Project Management
8 20 (16.81%) DevOps
8 20 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (15.13%) User Stories
10 15 (12.61%) Project Delivery
11 13 (10.92%) Sprint Planning
11 13 (10.92%) User Experience
12 12 (10.08%) Acceptance Criteria
12 12 (10.08%) CI/CD
12 12 (10.08%) Coaching
13 11 (9.24%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.92%) Java
2 5 (4.20%) SQL
3 3 (2.52%) C#
4 2 (1.68%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.68%) Python
5 1 (0.84%) ABAP
5 1 (0.84%) Bash
5 1 (0.84%) Bicep
5 1 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (26.89%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.17%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.08%) Degree
4 4 (3.36%) CISSP
5 3 (2.52%) CISM
5 3 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.52%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.52%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.68%) CRISC
6 2 (1.68%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.68%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.68%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.84%) CCNP
7 1 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.84%) GIAC
7 1 (0.84%) ISEB
7 1 (0.84%) MBA
7 1 (0.84%) OSCP
7 1 (0.84%) PMP
7 1 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.20%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 3 (2.52%) PMO
2 3 (2.52%) QA
3 1 (0.84%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (1.68%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.52%) Terraform
2 2 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.84%) Argo
3 1 (0.84%) Grafana
Vendors
1 13 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.04%) Oracle
3 3 (2.52%) Databricks
3 3 (2.52%) SAP
4 2 (1.68%) Adobe
4 2 (1.68%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.68%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.84%) CheckPoint
5 1 (0.84%) Cisco
5 1 (0.84%) Conga
5 1 (0.84%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.84%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.84%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.84%) Snow
5 1 (0.84%) Sparx