Scaled Agile Framework Job Trends

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Scaled Agile Framework skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 511 421
Rank change year-on-year -3 -90 -25
Permanent jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 310 170 397
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.34% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.38% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 162 66 238
10th Percentile £41,500 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,500 £60,313 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,500 £72,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -2.37% +5.36%
75th Percentile £95,938 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £101,875 £105,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £68,525 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.45% -2.11% +7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,265 44,296 59,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 89.00% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59,107 24,598 32,082
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Scaled Agile Framework job vacancy trend in the UK

Scaled Agile Framework
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Scaled Agile Framework.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Scaled Agile Framework

Scaled Agile Framework
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the UK

Scaled Agile Framework
Top 16 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 9 October 2026. 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
England -15 285 £80,000 +11.89% 382
UK excluding London -55 176 £75,000 +9.45% 233
London -22 111 £83,750 +3.08% 163
Work from Home +45 110 £70,000 -3.45% 209
South West -34 53 £72,500 +5.80% 37
North of England -54 48 £85,000 +21.43% 71
South East -37 44 £75,000 +11.11% 60
North West -7 37 £87,500 +37.25% 34
Midlands -46 11 £92,500 +48.00% 14
West Midlands -39 9 £92,500 +39.62% 11
Yorkshire -34 8 £82,500 +17.86% 27
East of England -36 8 £76,500 +6.99% 16
Wales - 7 £70,000 - 3
Scotland +7 5 £51,125 -39.85% 19
North East -63 3 - - 10
East Midlands -37 2 - - 3

Scaled Agile Framework
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 50 (16.13%) Confluence
2 8 (2.58%) Apache
2 8 (2.58%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.65%) nginx
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.32%) SAS
4 1 (0.32%) TPMS
Applications
1 19 (6.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 11 (3.55%) Microsoft Project
3 9 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.94%) Trello
5 4 (1.29%) Windchill
6 3 (0.97%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (6.45%) Workfront
2 6 (1.94%) Workday HCM
3 4 (1.29%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.65%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 87 (28.06%) AWS
2 70 (22.58%) Azure
3 38 (12.26%) SaaS
4 32 (10.32%) GCP
5 24 (7.74%) Serverless
6 23 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (7.10%) Miro
8 21 (6.77%) iPaaS
9 17 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (2.58%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.26%) Power Platform
14 6 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
15 5 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (1.61%) GitHub
16 4 (1.29%) Entra ID
17 3 (0.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 3 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
17 3 (0.97%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.13%) Broadband
2 8 (2.58%) AMQP
3 5 (1.61%) MQTT
4 4 (1.29%) LAN
4 4 (1.29%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.29%) WAN
5 3 (0.97%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.77%) Metadata
2 14 (4.52%) Big Data
3 8 (2.58%) Cloudera CDH
3 8 (2.58%) Hadoop
4 6 (1.94%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.61%) Power BI
5 5 (1.61%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.29%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.65%) Neo4j
7 2 (0.65%) Tableau
8 1 (0.32%) Adabas
8 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.32%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.32%) MySQL
8 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 59 (19.03%) JIRA
2 20 (6.45%) Git
3 8 (2.58%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.97%) IntelliJ
4 3 (0.97%) Maven
5 2 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.65%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.65%) git-flow
5 2 (0.65%) GitLab
5 2 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.32%) Mocha
6 1 (0.32%) Postman
6 1 (0.32%) RSpec
6 1 (0.32%) Selenium
6 1 (0.32%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.32%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 126 (40.65%) Social Skills
2 95 (30.65%) Finance
3 49 (15.81%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (13.87%) Public Sector
5 26 (8.39%) Marketing
6 25 (8.06%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (4.52%) Aerospace
9 11 (3.55%) Law
10 9 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.26%) Banking
12 6 (1.94%) Environmental Health
12 6 (1.94%) Legal
12 6 (1.94%) Military
12 6 (1.94%) Police
13 5 (1.61%) Aviation
13 5 (1.61%) Retail
14 4 (1.29%) Aeronautics
14 4 (1.29%) Games
Job Titles
1 40 (12.90%) Architect
2 39 (12.58%) Analyst
3 37 (11.94%) Lead
4 35 (11.29%) Product Owner
5 33 (10.65%) Business Analyst
5 33 (10.65%) Senior
6 30 (9.68%) Delivery Manager
6 30 (9.68%) Software Engineer
7 22 (7.10%) Product Manager
8 21 (6.77%) Senior Manager
9 19 (6.13%) Cloud Architect
10 18 (5.81%) Project Manager
11 13 (4.19%) Programme Manager
11 13 (4.19%) Scrum Master
12 12 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.90%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
14 8 (2.58%) Consultant
14 8 (2.58%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 8 (2.58%) Senior Product Manager
14 8 (2.58%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.68%) React
2 21 (6.77%) REST
3 20 (6.45%) Node.js
4 17 (5.48%) AngularJS
4 17 (5.48%) Terraform
5 11 (3.55%) Spring
5 11 (3.55%) Spring Boot
6 10 (3.23%) .NET
6 10 (3.23%) Kafka
7 9 (2.90%) gRPC
7 9 (2.90%) Middleware
7 9 (2.90%) OpenAPI
7 9 (2.90%) SOAP
8 8 (2.58%) Material-UI
8 8 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (2.58%) Swagger
9 4 (1.29%) Web Services
10 3 (0.97%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (0.97%) JSON
10 3 (0.97%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 101 (32.58%) Product Ownership
2 41 (13.23%) Cloud Native
3 23 (7.42%) Marketing Technology
4 19 (6.13%) Over-the-Top Content
4 19 (6.13%) Social Media
5 14 (4.52%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (4.52%) Virtual Team
6 10 (3.23%) Robotics
7 8 (2.58%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.26%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.26%) PMI
9 6 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.29%) e-Learning
11 4 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.97%) FPGA
12 3 (0.97%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.48%) Linux
2 8 (2.58%) CentOS
2 8 (2.58%) Debian
2 8 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (2.58%) Ubuntu
3 5 (1.61%) Windows
4 1 (0.32%) AIX
4 1 (0.32%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (89.68%) Agile
2 144 (46.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 142 (45.81%) Scrum
4 113 (36.45%) Roadmaps
5 107 (34.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 78 (25.16%) Decision-Making
6 78 (25.16%) DevOps
7 69 (22.26%) Kanban
8 64 (20.65%) CI/CD
9 62 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
10 58 (18.71%) AI
10 58 (18.71%) Microservices
11 55 (17.74%) Software Engineering
12 52 (16.77%) Coaching
13 51 (16.45%) Product Vision
14 48 (15.48%) User Stories
15 47 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
16 43 (13.87%) Containerisation
16 43 (13.87%) PRINCE2
17 41 (13.23%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (13.55%) Java
2 35 (11.29%) JavaScript
3 32 (10.32%) Python
4 18 (5.81%) C#
5 13 (4.19%) SQL
6 12 (3.87%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.94%) Bash
8 5 (1.61%) Rust
9 4 (1.29%) C++
10 3 (0.97%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.97%) SOQL
11 2 (0.65%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.65%) Ruby
12 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.32%) Natural
12 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 102 (32.90%) Security Cleared
2 55 (17.74%) SC Cleared
3 54 (17.42%) Degree
4 48 (15.48%) DV Cleared
5 34 (10.97%) PMI Certification
6 27 (8.71%) PMP
7 16 (5.16%) CSPO
8 10 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (3.23%) Master's Degree
9 8 (2.58%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 6 (1.94%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.94%) IIBA
11 5 (1.61%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.61%) SAFe Agilist
12 4 (1.29%) APMP
12 4 (1.29%) MBA
12 4 (1.29%) PgMP
13 3 (0.97%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.97%) QA
2 18 (5.81%) PMO
3 9 (2.90%) GDPR
4 7 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.94%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.94%) SLA
6 4 (1.29%) Def Stans
6 4 (1.29%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.29%) ISO 9000
6 4 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 3 (0.97%) GRC
7 3 (0.97%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.65%) WCAG
9 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (4.84%) Docker
2 6 (1.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (6.45%) Ansible
2 18 (5.81%) Kubernetes
3 11 (3.55%) Puppet
4 3 (0.97%) Grafana
5 2 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 37 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.74%) Adobe
3 10 (3.23%) Red Hat
3 10 (3.23%) Workday
4 9 (2.90%) Google
4 9 (2.90%) Oracle
5 8 (2.58%) SaltStack
6 7 (2.26%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.94%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.61%) OneLogin
9 4 (1.29%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.29%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.97%) Sage
10 3 (0.97%) Solace
11 2 (0.65%) IBM
11 2 (0.65%) Palantir
11 2 (0.65%) SAP
12 1 (0.32%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.32%) Foundry
12 1 (0.32%) Splunk