Scaled Agile Framework Contracts in the Midlands

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 129 116
Rank change year-on-year +14 -13 -7
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 20 29 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.74% 0.88% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.00% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 28 59
10th Percentile £414 £509 £415
25th Percentile £578 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £581 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% +5.68% +14.58%
75th Percentile £743 £625 £709
90th Percentile £850 £665 £775
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +10.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,210 2,891 4,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.13% 88.14% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,487 2,028 3,224
10th Percentile £234 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £667
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 104 145
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.15 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.88 £13.73
Median hourly rate £18.00 £21.32 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.57% +21.83% +13.27%
75th Percentile £33.25 £32.77 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.63 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the Midlands

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the Midlands

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the Midlands

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
West Midlands +31 19 £675 +22.73% 11
East Midlands -2 1 £550 -8.33% 1
Scaled Agile Framework
England

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (15.00%) CMS
1 3 (15.00%) Drupal
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (10.00%) NetSuite
2 2 (10.00%) SAP CO
2 2 (10.00%) SAP FI
2 2 (10.00%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (10.00%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
1 3 (15.00%) Network Security
1 3 (15.00%) SAN
1 3 (15.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) JIRA
2 4 (20.00%) Artifactory
3 3 (15.00%) Git
3 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.00%) Selenium
3 3 (15.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (15.00%) Subversion
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (5.00%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Billing
5 1 (5.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (15.00%) Architect
1 3 (15.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Consultant
2 2 (10.00%) Developer
2 2 (10.00%) SAP CO Consultant
2 2 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
2 2 (10.00%) SAP FI Consultant
2 2 (10.00%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
2 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Platform Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Principal Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) SAP Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Scrum Master
3 1 (5.00%) Senior Programme Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Senior Test Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Test Automation Manager
3 1 (5.00%) Test Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (15.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (15.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) DataPower
2 2 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) Epics
2 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (30.00%) Scrum
4 5 (25.00%) DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) Kanban
4 5 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 4 (20.00%) SDLC
6 3 (15.00%) Business Strategy
6 3 (15.00%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (15.00%) ITIL
6 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (15.00%) Portfolio Management
6 3 (15.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) CCNA
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Ansible
2 4 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.00%) Puppet
3 1 (5.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) SAP
1 6 (30.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (15.00%) CheckPoint
3 3 (15.00%) Cisco
3 3 (15.00%) F5
4 2 (10.00%) Guidewire
4 2 (10.00%) IBM
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.00%) VMware