Scaled Agile Framework Contracts with Work from Home Options

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Scaled Agile Framework skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scaled Agile Framework over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 227 219 208
Rank change year-on-year -8 -11 +62
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 119 281 591
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.78% 1.09% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.22% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 206 393
10th Percentile £425 £406 £413
25th Percentile £487 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% -0.43% +10.58%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 35
10th Percentile - £61.50 -
25th Percentile - £69.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate - £85.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year - +91.01% -24.58%
75th Percentile - - £49.25
90th Percentile - £87.25 £51.28
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £85.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.65% +91.01% -17.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Scaled Agile Framework is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,413 23,039 40,643
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.76% 91.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,290 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 529 544
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.58
25th Percentile £25.38 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Scaled Agile Framework
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scaled Agile Framework as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Scaled Agile Framework trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Scaled Agile Framework over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 16 (13.45%) Confluence
2 4 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.84%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.84%) Site Server
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.68%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.68%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.68%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.68%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (1.68%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.84%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 30 (25.21%) Azure
2 13 (10.92%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (9.24%) AWS
4 8 (6.72%) Power Platform
4 8 (6.72%) SaaS
5 6 (5.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 6 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (4.20%) GCP
6 5 (4.20%) PowerApps
7 4 (3.36%) Miro
8 3 (2.52%) Adobe Analytics
8 3 (2.52%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.52%) GitHub
8 3 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.52%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 3 (2.52%) Serverless
9 2 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.68%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.84%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.04%) Power BI
3 5 (4.20%) GIS
4 3 (2.52%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.68%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.68%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.68%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.68%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.68%) Tableau
6 1 (0.84%) Ataccama
6 1 (0.84%) Big Data
6 1 (0.84%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.84%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.84%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.84%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.84%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (22.69%) JIRA
2 4 (3.36%) Git
2 4 (3.36%) Selenium
3 3 (2.52%) Appium
3 3 (2.52%) CircleCI
3 3 (2.52%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.52%) eggPlant
3 3 (2.52%) JUnit
3 3 (2.52%) Postman
3 3 (2.52%) REST Assured
3 3 (2.52%) SoapUI
3 3 (2.52%) SOAtest
3 3 (2.52%) TestNG
3 3 (2.52%) WebDriver
4 2 (1.68%) GitLab
4 2 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.68%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.84%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.84%) Subversion
General
1 39 (32.77%) Social Skills
2 34 (28.57%) Finance
3 13 (10.92%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.24%) Banking
6 10 (8.40%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (6.72%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (5.04%) Legal
8 6 (5.04%) Marketing
9 5 (4.20%) Retail
10 4 (3.36%) Front Office
11 3 (2.52%) Automotive
11 3 (2.52%) Billing
11 3 (2.52%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.68%) Electronics
12 2 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.84%) Back Office
13 1 (0.84%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.84%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (16.81%) Analyst
2 17 (14.29%) Lead
3 14 (11.76%) Senior
4 13 (10.92%) Business Analyst
5 10 (8.40%) Developer
5 10 (8.40%) Product Owner
5 10 (8.40%) Scrum Master
6 8 (6.72%) Architect
6 8 (6.72%) Delivery Manager
7 7 (5.88%) Consultant
7 7 (5.88%) Transformation Manager
8 6 (5.04%) Project Delivery Manager
8 6 (5.04%) Project Manager
8 6 (5.04%) Service Design Manager
9 5 (4.20%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.36%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.36%) Senior Product Owner
10 4 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.52%) Agile Delivery Lead
11 3 (2.52%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.88%) React
2 6 (5.04%) .NET
2 6 (5.04%) HTML
3 5 (4.20%) CSS
3 5 (4.20%) HTML5
3 5 (4.20%) REST
4 4 (3.36%) GraphQL
5 3 (2.52%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.52%) Kafka
5 3 (2.52%) Node.js
5 3 (2.52%) SAPUI5
5 3 (2.52%) Web Services
6 2 (1.68%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.68%) ADO
6 2 (1.68%) Ember.js
6 2 (1.68%) Middleware
6 2 (1.68%) RESTful
6 2 (1.68%) Vue
7 1 (0.84%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.84%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.49%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.04%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.36%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.36%) Taxonomies
4 3 (2.52%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.68%) DataPower
5 2 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.68%) Life Science
5 2 (1.68%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.68%) Online Banking
5 2 (1.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.84%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.84%) Derivative
6 1 (0.84%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.84%) SCADA
6 1 (0.84%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.68%) Android
1 2 (1.68%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (90.76%) Agile
2 64 (53.78%) Scrum
3 30 (25.21%) Kanban
4 28 (23.53%) DevOps
5 26 (21.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 23 (19.33%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (12.61%) Roadmaps
8 14 (11.76%) Analytics
9 13 (10.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (10.92%) Product Management
9 13 (10.92%) Project Management
10 12 (10.08%) CRM
10 12 (10.08%) Process Improvement
11 11 (9.24%) Business Case
11 11 (9.24%) PRINCE2
11 11 (9.24%) Project Delivery
12 10 (8.40%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (8.40%) Coaching
12 10 (8.40%) Product Strategy
13 9 (7.56%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.13%) Java
2 14 (11.76%) SQL
3 11 (9.24%) JavaScript
4 10 (8.40%) Python
5 7 (5.88%) C#
5 7 (5.88%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.20%) Scala
7 2 (1.68%) Go
7 2 (1.68%) Groovy
7 2 (1.68%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.84%) ABAP
8 1 (0.84%) Korn
8 1 (0.84%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.84%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 19 (15.97%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.56%) Degree
4 4 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.52%) PMP
6 2 (1.68%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.68%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.68%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.84%) APMP
7 1 (0.84%) CSPO
7 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.84%) MBA
7 1 (0.84%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.40%) QA
2 3 (2.52%) P3O
3 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (1.68%) PMO
4 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.84%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.84%) GAMP
4 1 (0.84%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.84%) GxP
4 1 (0.84%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.84%) NCSC
4 1 (0.84%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.36%) Terraform
2 3 (2.52%) Ansible
3 2 (1.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (1.68%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.68%) SCCM
4 1 (0.84%) Grafana
4 1 (0.84%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.84%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (13.45%) SAP
2 13 (10.92%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.08%) Oracle
4 8 (6.72%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.04%) Databricks
6 4 (3.36%) ESRI
6 4 (3.36%) IBM
6 4 (3.36%) Informatica
7 3 (2.52%) Adobe
7 3 (2.52%) Google
7 3 (2.52%) StreamSets
8 2 (1.68%) Citrix
8 2 (1.68%) Confluent
8 2 (1.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.84%) CyberSource
9 1 (0.84%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.84%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.84%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.84%) Talend