Scaled Agile Framework Contracts in the West Midlands

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 87 118 109
Rank change year-on-year +31 -9 -14
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 19 11 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.01% 0.49% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 0.55% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 45
10th Percentile £414 £490 £459
25th Percentile £630 £514 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £770 £575 £650
90th Percentile £865 £611 £775
England median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +10.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,582 1,992 3,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.70% 88.26% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 1,359 2,336
10th Percentile £272 £263 £273
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +4.52% +15.94%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £576
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 51 65
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.03 £13.51 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +24.64% +0.03%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £47.50 £22.15
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the West Midlands

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the West Midlands

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the West Midlands

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Coventry +12 9 £675 +22.73% 1
Warwickshire - 6 £675 - 4
Birmingham +13 1 £638 +27.50% 3
Scaled Agile Framework
England

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (15.79%) CMS
1 3 (15.79%) Drupal
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (10.53%) NetSuite
2 2 (10.53%) SAP CO
2 2 (10.53%) SAP FI
2 2 (10.53%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (10.53%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) GCP
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub
4 1 (5.26%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (15.79%) DNS
1 3 (15.79%) Firewall
1 3 (15.79%) Network Security
1 3 (15.79%) SAN
1 3 (15.79%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) JIRA
2 4 (21.05%) Artifactory
3 3 (15.79%) Git
3 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.79%) Selenium
3 3 (15.79%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (15.79%) Subversion
4 2 (10.53%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
2 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Billing
5 1 (5.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (15.79%) Architect
1 3 (15.79%) Network Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Consultant
2 2 (10.53%) Developer
2 2 (10.53%) SAP CO Consultant
2 2 (10.53%) SAP Consultant
2 2 (10.53%) SAP FI Consultant
2 2 (10.53%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Principal Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Programme Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) SAP Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Programme Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Test Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Test Automation Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Test Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Test Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
1 3 (15.79%) Mobile App
1 3 (15.79%) Private Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) DataPower
2 2 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Agile
2 6 (31.58%) Epics
2 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (26.32%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) Project Delivery
3 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
3 5 (26.32%) Scrum
4 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (21.05%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (21.05%) Incident Management
4 4 (21.05%) Kanban
4 4 (21.05%) SDLC
5 3 (15.79%) Business Strategy
5 3 (15.79%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (15.79%) ITIL
5 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Portfolio Management
5 3 (15.79%) Software Assurance
5 3 (15.79%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) CCNA
1 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Ansible
2 4 (21.05%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.26%) Puppet
3 1 (5.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) SAP
1 6 (31.58%) ServiceNow
2 5 (26.32%) Salesforce
3 3 (15.79%) CheckPoint
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco
3 3 (15.79%) F5
4 2 (10.53%) Guidewire
4 2 (10.53%) IBM
4 2 (10.53%) Oracle
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.26%) VMware