Scaled Agile Framework Contracts

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 253 263 193
Rank change year-on-year +10 -70 +37
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 390 598 1,315
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 1.03% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.15% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 444 874
10th Percentile £413 £450 £413
25th Percentile £481 £513 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% +2.69% +12.20%
75th Percentile £661 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £588 £565
% change year-on-year -6.38% +3.98% +16.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 42
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% -17.10%
75th Percentile - £86.88 £49.25
90th Percentile - £89.25 £64.14
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.00 £85.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.65% +88.89% -30.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the UK

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the UK

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the UK

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the UK

Scaled Agile Framework
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +2 348 £550 -8.33% 107
UK excluding London -20 186 £550 -6.38% 71
London +49 175 £550 -12.00% 40
Work from Home +5 121 £550 -2.65% 65
South East -12 63 £550 -8.33% 21
South West +13 41 £669 +3.68% 14
North of England +17 31 £518 -5.91% 10
Midlands +15 20 £675 +19.47% 10
West Midlands +25 19 £675 +25.58% 7
Scotland +29 18 £479 -10.98% 6
North West +18 18 £510 -7.27% 3
East of England -6 13 £635 +8.22% 7
Yorkshire +7 11 £600 -1.23% 7
North East +16 2 £533 +3.90%
East Midlands +6 1 £550 -8.33% 2

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 35 (8.97%) Confluence
2 10 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.05%) Site Server
4 7 (1.79%) Apache
4 7 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.28%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.03%) CMS
7 3 (0.77%) Drupal
8 2 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.51%) IIS
9 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (6.92%) Microsoft Office
1 27 (6.92%) Microsoft Project
2 25 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (6.41%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.51%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.51%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.51%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (0.51%) SAP IS-U
2 2 (0.51%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.26%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 101 (25.90%) Azure
2 52 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (13.08%) AWS
4 23 (5.90%) GCP
5 20 (5.13%) SaaS
6 15 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 15 (3.85%) Power Platform
7 9 (2.31%) IaaS
8 8 (2.05%) GitHub
8 8 (2.05%) Serverless
8 8 (2.05%) Snowflake
9 7 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (1.79%) Miro
9 7 (1.79%) PowerApps
10 6 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (1.28%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (1.28%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.31%) Network Security
2 6 (1.54%) Firewall
3 5 (1.28%) FTP
4 4 (1.03%) DNS
5 3 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.77%) SAN
5 3 (0.77%) SSL
6 2 (0.51%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.51%) Internet
6 2 (0.51%) IOS XR
6 2 (0.51%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.26%) HTTP
7 1 (0.26%) LAN
7 1 (0.26%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.26%) RTP
7 1 (0.26%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.13%) Big Data
2 17 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.10%) GIS
4 11 (2.82%) Data Lake
4 11 (2.82%) Power BI
4 11 (2.82%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.28%) Tableau
6 4 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.77%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.77%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.77%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.77%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.77%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.51%) Apache Hive
8 2 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.51%) MySQL
8 2 (0.51%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 110 (28.21%) JIRA
2 26 (6.67%) Git
3 22 (5.64%) Selenium
4 14 (3.59%) TestRail
5 13 (3.33%) Jenkins
6 11 (2.82%) Postman
6 11 (2.82%) SoapUI
7 10 (2.56%) Appium
7 10 (2.56%) Cucumber
7 10 (2.56%) eggPlant
7 10 (2.56%) JUnit
7 10 (2.56%) REST Assured
7 10 (2.56%) SOAtest
7 10 (2.56%) TestNG
7 10 (2.56%) WebDriver
8 6 (1.54%) Robot Framework
8 6 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.54%) Subversion
9 5 (1.28%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.28%) GitLab
General
1 130 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 120 (30.77%) Finance
3 85 (21.79%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 43 (11.03%) Presentation Skills
6 26 (6.67%) Banking
7 23 (5.90%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (3.08%) Pharmaceutical
9 11 (2.82%) Marketing
10 10 (2.56%) Legal
11 9 (2.31%) Manufacturing
12 8 (2.05%) Front Office
13 7 (1.79%) Military
13 7 (1.79%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.54%) Games
14 6 (1.54%) Retail
15 4 (1.03%) Automotive
15 4 (1.03%) Electronics
15 4 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (14.62%) Lead
2 55 (14.10%) Analyst
3 38 (9.74%) Architect
4 36 (9.23%) Senior
5 35 (8.97%) Scrum Master
6 30 (7.69%) Project Manager
7 24 (6.15%) Business Analyst
7 24 (6.15%) Developer
7 24 (6.15%) Project Leader
8 20 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (3.85%) Programme Manager
10 14 (3.59%) Consultant
10 14 (3.59%) Delivery Manager
10 14 (3.59%) Test Analyst
11 13 (3.33%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
11 13 (3.33%) Principal Architect
12 12 (3.08%) Cloud Architect
12 12 (3.08%) Cloud Solutions Architect
13 11 (2.82%) Principal Solutions Architect
13 11 (2.82%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.15%) REST
2 23 (5.90%) .NET
3 15 (3.85%) HTML
4 14 (3.59%) CSS
5 9 (2.31%) .NET Framework
5 9 (2.31%) React
6 8 (2.05%) ADO
6 8 (2.05%) JSON
6 8 (2.05%) Kafka
7 7 (1.79%) AngularJS
7 7 (1.79%) GraphQL
7 7 (1.79%) XML
8 5 (1.28%) .NET Core
8 5 (1.28%) HTML5
8 5 (1.28%) Web Services
9 4 (1.03%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (1.03%) Node.js
9 4 (1.03%) Visualforce
10 3 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.77%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.51%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.85%) Client/Server
3 10 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (2.56%) PKI
3 10 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 8 (2.05%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.05%) Mobile App
5 7 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.54%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (1.54%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.28%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.03%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.03%) Taxonomies
9 3 (0.77%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.77%) Online Banking
9 3 (0.77%) PMI
9 3 (0.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.95%) Linux
2 20 (5.13%) Windows
3 17 (4.36%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.51%) Android
5 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (90.26%) Agile
2 171 (43.85%) Scrum
3 90 (23.08%) DevOps
4 83 (21.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 76 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
6 64 (16.41%) Kanban
6 64 (16.41%) Project Management
7 56 (14.36%) PRINCE2
7 56 (14.36%) Project Delivery
8 49 (12.56%) Roadmaps
9 46 (11.79%) Test Automation
10 43 (11.03%) Coaching
11 40 (10.26%) CI/CD
12 36 (9.23%) Cybersecurity
12 36 (9.23%) Programme Management
13 35 (8.97%) Continuous Integration
14 33 (8.46%) Workshop Facilitation
15 32 (8.21%) Mentoring
16 31 (7.95%) SDLC
17 30 (7.69%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (12.31%) Python
2 44 (11.28%) Java
3 37 (9.49%) PowerShell
4 34 (8.72%) SQL
5 29 (7.44%) C#
6 24 (6.15%) JavaScript
7 15 (3.85%) VBScript
8 9 (2.31%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.05%) Korn
10 7 (1.79%) C++
11 5 (1.28%) Scala
12 4 (1.03%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.03%) Go
13 2 (0.51%) C
13 2 (0.51%) Groovy
14 1 (0.26%) ABAP
14 1 (0.26%) Bash
14 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.26%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 118 (30.26%) Security Cleared
2 77 (19.74%) DV Cleared
3 46 (11.79%) SC Cleared
4 32 (8.21%) Degree
5 27 (6.92%) APMP
6 16 (4.10%) PMP
7 14 (3.59%) AWS Certification
7 14 (3.59%) ISTQB
7 14 (3.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 14 (3.59%) PMI Certification
8 12 (3.08%) CISM
8 12 (3.08%) CISSP
9 11 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.79%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.54%) CRISC
11 6 (1.54%) SANS
12 5 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.77%) CCNA
13 3 (0.77%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.46%) PMO
2 26 (6.67%) QA
3 9 (2.31%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.79%) NIST
5 6 (1.54%) NIST 800
6 4 (1.03%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (1.03%) P3O
7 3 (0.77%) GxP
8 2 (0.51%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 1 (0.26%) COBIT
9 1 (0.26%) GAMP
9 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.26%) NCSC
9 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (2.31%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.31%) Docker
3 1 (0.26%) NFS
3 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (6.67%) Ansible
2 24 (6.15%) Terraform
3 14 (3.59%) Puppet
4 6 (1.54%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.51%) Podman
6 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.51%) Rancher
6 2 (0.51%) SCCM
7 1 (0.26%) Grafana
7 1 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 50 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.67%) SAP
3 23 (5.90%) Oracle
4 20 (5.13%) Salesforce
4 20 (5.13%) VMware
5 13 (3.33%) ESRI
6 10 (2.56%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.31%) Databricks
7 9 (2.31%) Informatica
8 6 (1.54%) Google
8 6 (1.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 6 (1.54%) Talend
9 5 (1.28%) Adobe
9 5 (1.28%) Cisco
9 5 (1.28%) F5
10 4 (1.03%) IBM
10 4 (1.03%) Splunk
11 3 (0.77%) ArcSight
11 3 (0.77%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.77%) Guidewire