Scaled Agile Framework Contracts in England

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 258 186
Rank change year-on-year +16 -72 +39
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 345 488 1,130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.95% 1.01% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.12% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 371 742
10th Percentile £413 £455 £425
25th Percentile £491 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +10.58%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 43
10th Percentile - £51.18 -
25th Percentile - £63.63 £39.75
Median hourly rate £53.00 £80.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.75% +79.78% -24.58%
75th Percentile - £87.50 £49.25
90th Percentile - £90.00 £67.47
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £80.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.75% +79.78% -17.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,438 43,665 64,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.37% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,622 30,640 45,549
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,250 1,536 1,740
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.96 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +48.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in England

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in England.

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in England

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in England

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in England.

Hourly rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in England

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 19 May 2024. 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
London +54 172 £550 -12.00% 36
South East -10 63 £550 -8.33% 23
South West +11 41 £600 -7.69% 8
North of England +16 33 £529 -3.86% 8
Midlands +14 20 £675 +16.13% 13
North West +12 20 £510 -7.27% 2
West Midlands +32 19 £675 +22.73% 11
East of England -6 13 £635 +12.09% 6
Yorkshire +6 11 £600 -2.44% 6
North East +15 2 £533 +3.90%
East Midlands +2 1 £550 -8.33% 1
Scaled Agile Framework
UK

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 31 (8.99%) Confluence
2 10 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.32%) Site Server
4 7 (2.03%) Apache
5 6 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.45%) Apache Spark
7 4 (1.16%) CMS
8 3 (0.87%) Drupal
9 2 (0.58%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.58%) IIS
10 1 (0.29%) Appian
10 1 (0.29%) SAS
10 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (7.83%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (7.54%) Microsoft Project
3 25 (7.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (7.25%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.58%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.58%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.58%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.58%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (0.58%) SAP IS-U
2 2 (0.58%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 94 (27.25%) Azure
2 51 (14.78%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (13.33%) AWS
4 23 (6.67%) GCP
5 15 (4.35%) SaaS
6 14 (4.06%) Amazon S3
7 13 (3.77%) Power Platform
8 9 (2.61%) IaaS
9 8 (2.32%) GitHub
9 8 (2.32%) Snowflake
10 7 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (2.03%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.03%) Serverless
11 6 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (1.74%) Miro
12 5 (1.45%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.61%) Network Security
2 6 (1.74%) Firewall
3 5 (1.45%) FTP
4 4 (1.16%) DNS
5 3 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.87%) SAN
5 3 (0.87%) SSL
6 2 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.58%) Internet
6 2 (0.58%) IOS XR
6 2 (0.58%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.29%) HTTP
7 1 (0.29%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.29%) RTP
7 1 (0.29%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.51%) Big Data
2 17 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (4.35%) GIS
4 11 (3.19%) Data Lake
5 10 (2.90%) Power BI
6 7 (2.03%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.45%) Tableau
8 3 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.87%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.58%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.58%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.58%) MySQL
9 2 (0.58%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.29%) Ataccama
10 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 94 (27.25%) JIRA
2 26 (7.54%) Git
3 22 (6.38%) Selenium
4 14 (4.06%) TestRail
5 12 (3.48%) Jenkins
6 11 (3.19%) Postman
6 11 (3.19%) SoapUI
7 10 (2.90%) Appium
7 10 (2.90%) Cucumber
7 10 (2.90%) eggPlant
7 10 (2.90%) JUnit
7 10 (2.90%) REST Assured
7 10 (2.90%) SOAtest
7 10 (2.90%) TestNG
7 10 (2.90%) WebDriver
8 6 (1.74%) Robot Framework
8 6 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.74%) Subversion
9 5 (1.45%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.16%) GitLab
General
1 124 (35.94%) Social Skills
2 112 (32.46%) Finance
3 80 (23.19%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (12.46%) Presentation Skills
5 30 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 21 (6.09%) Banking
7 17 (4.93%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (3.19%) Marketing
9 9 (2.61%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (2.32%) Front Office
11 7 (2.03%) Legal
11 7 (2.03%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.03%) Military
12 6 (1.74%) Games
12 6 (1.74%) Retail
12 6 (1.74%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.16%) Electronics
13 4 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.87%) Automotive
14 3 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 47 (13.62%) Analyst
2 44 (12.75%) Lead
3 38 (11.01%) Architect
4 34 (9.86%) Senior
5 32 (9.28%) Scrum Master
6 29 (8.41%) Project Manager
7 24 (6.96%) Project Leader
8 21 (6.09%) Developer
9 19 (5.51%) Business Analyst
9 19 (5.51%) Solutions Architect
10 15 (4.35%) Programme Manager
11 14 (4.06%) Test Analyst
12 13 (3.77%) Delivery Manager
12 13 (3.77%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
12 13 (3.77%) Principal Architect
13 12 (3.48%) Cloud Architect
13 12 (3.48%) Cloud Solutions Architect
14 11 (3.19%) Principal Solutions Architect
15 10 (2.90%) Consultant
15 10 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.96%) REST
2 23 (6.67%) .NET
3 12 (3.48%) HTML
4 11 (3.19%) CSS
5 9 (2.61%) .NET Framework
6 8 (2.32%) ADO
6 8 (2.32%) JSON
7 7 (2.03%) AngularJS
7 7 (2.03%) GraphQL
7 7 (2.03%) Kafka
8 6 (1.74%) React
8 6 (1.74%) XML
9 5 (1.45%) .NET Core
10 4 (1.16%) Lightning Web Components
10 4 (1.16%) Visualforce
10 4 (1.16%) Web Services
11 3 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (0.87%) gRPC
11 3 (0.87%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (0.87%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.86%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.35%) Client/Server
3 10 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.61%) PKI
4 9 (2.61%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.03%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.74%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.74%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (1.45%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.16%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.16%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.16%) Taxonomies
9 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.99%) Linux
2 20 (5.80%) Windows
3 17 (4.93%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.58%) Android
5 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (90.14%) Agile
2 138 (40.00%) Scrum
3 86 (24.93%) DevOps
4 76 (22.03%) Stakeholder Management
5 66 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (16.81%) Project Management
7 57 (16.52%) Kanban
8 53 (15.36%) Project Delivery
9 52 (15.07%) PRINCE2
10 44 (12.75%) Test Automation
11 36 (10.43%) CI/CD
12 35 (10.14%) Cybersecurity
13 34 (9.86%) Continuous Integration
14 33 (9.57%) Programme Management
14 33 (9.57%) Roadmaps
15 32 (9.28%) Coaching
15 32 (9.28%) Workshop Facilitation
16 31 (8.99%) Mentoring
17 30 (8.70%) Data Management
18 29 (8.41%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 46 (13.33%) Python
2 39 (11.30%) Java
3 37 (10.72%) PowerShell
4 31 (8.99%) SQL
5 29 (8.41%) C#
6 20 (5.80%) JavaScript
7 15 (4.35%) VBScript
8 8 (2.32%) Korn
9 7 (2.03%) C++
10 5 (1.45%) Scala
10 5 (1.45%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.16%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.16%) Go
12 2 (0.58%) C
13 1 (0.29%) Bash
13 1 (0.29%) Groovy
13 1 (0.29%) R
13 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 114 (33.04%) Security Cleared
2 76 (22.03%) DV Cleared
3 45 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 30 (8.70%) Degree
5 28 (8.12%) APMP
6 15 (4.35%) PMP
7 14 (4.06%) AWS Certification
7 14 (4.06%) ISTQB
7 14 (4.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 14 (4.06%) PMI Certification
8 12 (3.48%) CISM
8 12 (3.48%) CISSP
9 11 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.74%) CRISC
10 6 (1.74%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.74%) SANS
11 5 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.87%) CCNA
12 3 (0.87%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.28%) PMO
2 22 (6.38%) QA
3 7 (2.03%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.03%) NIST
4 6 (1.74%) NIST 800
5 4 (1.16%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.87%) GxP
6 3 (0.87%) P3O
7 2 (0.58%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.29%) COBIT
8 1 (0.29%) GAMP
8 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.29%) NCSC
8 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (2.61%) Docker
3 8 (2.32%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.29%) NFS
4 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (7.54%) Ansible
2 24 (6.96%) Terraform
3 14 (4.06%) Puppet
4 6 (1.74%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.87%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.58%) Podman
6 2 (0.58%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.58%) Rancher
7 1 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.29%) Grafana
7 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.29%) SCCM
7 1 (0.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 42 (12.17%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.09%) SAP
3 20 (5.80%) VMware
4 19 (5.51%) Salesforce
5 16 (4.64%) Oracle
6 13 (3.77%) ESRI
7 9 (2.61%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.32%) Databricks
8 8 (2.32%) Informatica
9 6 (1.74%) Google
9 6 (1.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 6 (1.74%) Talend
10 5 (1.45%) Cisco
10 5 (1.45%) F5
11 4 (1.16%) Adobe
12 3 (0.87%) ArcSight
12 3 (0.87%) Cadence
12 3 (0.87%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.87%) IBM
12 3 (0.87%) Splunk