Scaled Agile Framework Job Trends in the North of England

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Scaled Agile Framework skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 225 210
Rank change year-on-year -10 -15 -30
Permanent jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 27 63 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.26% 0.65% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.73% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 34
10th Percentile £47,600 £59,375 £48,454
25th Percentile £50,000 £69,688 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,800 £60,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.17% +29.71% +1.67%
75th Percentile £86,250 £105,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,800 £110,000 £96,539
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Scaled Agile Framework falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,835 8,681 6,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.58% 89.45% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4,604 3,973 4,922
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,938 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% +2.86%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Scaled Agile Framework relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Scaled Agile Framework job vacancy trend in the North of England

Scaled Agile Framework
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Scaled Agile Framework.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Scaled Agile Framework

Scaled Agile Framework
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the North of England

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +41 22 £50,000 -41.18% 6
Yorkshire -2 4 £70,000 -9.68%
North East -26 1 £102,500 -
Scaled Agile Framework
England

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (11.11%) Apache
1 3 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.41%) Confluence
3 1 (3.70%) FileNet
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.70%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) AWS
2 9 (33.33%) Azure
3 6 (22.22%) GCP
4 3 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 3 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) IaaS
5 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) AMQP
2 2 (7.41%) OpenVPN
2 2 (7.41%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Big Data
1 3 (11.11%) Cloudera CDH
1 3 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.70%) GIS
3 1 (3.70%) Power BI
3 1 (3.70%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Git
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
General
1 11 (40.74%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Aerospace
4 3 (11.11%) Electronics
4 3 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Billing
5 2 (7.41%) Legal
5 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.70%) Marketing
6 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Business Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Software Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Payments Business Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) AWS Architect
4 3 (11.11%) AWS Solution Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Architect
4 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Payments Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Senior
4 3 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (11.11%) TOGAF Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Electronics Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Product Owner
5 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Scrum Master
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Electronics Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Agile Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) Node.js
1 5 (18.52%) Spring
1 5 (18.52%) Spring Boot
2 4 (14.81%) OpenAPI
2 4 (14.81%) REST
2 4 (14.81%) Swagger
3 3 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 3 (11.11%) gRPC
3 3 (11.11%) Material-UI
3 3 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (11.11%) React
4 2 (7.41%) Kafka
5 1 (3.70%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Management Information System
2 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.81%) Product Ownership
2 4 (14.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) CentOS
2 3 (11.11%) Debian
2 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (96.30%) Agile
2 13 (48.15%) Scrum
3 9 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 8 (29.63%) Business Analysis
5 7 (25.93%) Creative Thinking
5 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (25.93%) Product Backlog
6 6 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 6 (22.22%) Microservices
6 6 (22.22%) Product Vision
6 6 (22.22%) SDLC
6 6 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 5 (18.52%) Kanban
7 5 (18.52%) Product Roadmap
7 5 (18.52%) Use Case
7 5 (18.52%) Workflow
8 4 (14.81%) Epics
8 4 (14.81%) Requirements Workshops
8 4 (14.81%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) Java
1 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
2 3 (11.11%) Python
3 2 (7.41%) C
3 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) DV Cleared
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
3 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (7.41%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) SEPA
1 4 (14.81%) TARGET2
2 1 (3.70%) PMO
2 1 (3.70%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Ansible
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 3 (11.11%) Puppet
1 3 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Google
2 3 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 3 (11.11%) SaltStack
3 1 (3.70%) ESRI
3 1 (3.70%) IBM
3 1 (3.70%) SAP