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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 273 188
Rank change year-on-year +4 -85 +30
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 391 547 1,340
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 0.98% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.10% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 402 896
10th Percentile £400 £450 £413
25th Percentile £470 £513 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +10.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £762 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £590 £561
% change year-on-year -6.78% +5.12% +12.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 45
10th Percentile - £61.50 -
25th Percentile - £65.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £53.00 £80.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.75% +79.78% -31.54%
75th Percentile - £87.50 £49.25
90th Percentile - £90.00 £67.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.00 £80.00 £65.49
% change year-on-year -33.75% +22.16% -2.98%

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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +14 348 £550 -8.33% 93
London +47 183 £550 -8.33% 41
UK excluding London -14 178 £550 -6.78% 52
Work from Home +21 117 £550 -2.22% 47
South East -16 56 £550 -9.84% 13
South West +13 38 £588 -9.62% 9
North of England +15 37 £518 -5.91% 15
North West +14 22 £510 -7.27% 9
Scotland +35 20 £479 -10.98% 1
Midlands +12 18 £594 +1.06% 10
West Midlands +15 14 £675 +22.73% 9
Yorkshire +3 13 £600 -4.00% 5
East of England -18 12 £655 +22.20% 2
East Midlands 0 4 £383 -36.16% 1
North East +11 2 £533 +3.90% 1

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 36 (9.21%) Confluence
2 11 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.05%) Site Server
4 7 (1.79%) Apache
4 7 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.53%) SAS
6 5 (1.28%) Apache Spark
7 4 (1.02%) CMS
8 3 (0.77%) Drupal
9 2 (0.51%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.51%) IIS
10 1 (0.26%) Appian
10 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (7.16%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (6.65%) Microsoft Project
3 25 (6.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (6.39%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.51%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.51%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.51%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.51%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.51%) SAP IS-U
3 2 (0.51%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 93 (23.79%) Azure
2 49 (12.53%) AWS
2 49 (12.53%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (5.63%) GCP
4 19 (4.86%) SaaS
5 15 (3.84%) Amazon S3
6 8 (2.05%) GitHub
6 8 (2.05%) IaaS
6 8 (2.05%) Power Platform
6 8 (2.05%) Serverless
7 7 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (1.79%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.28%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (1.28%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.28%) Miro
9 4 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.02%) OpenShift
10 3 (0.77%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.30%) Network Security
2 6 (1.53%) Firewall
3 5 (1.28%) FTP
4 3 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (0.77%) DNS
4 3 (0.77%) SAN
4 3 (0.77%) SSL
5 2 (0.51%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.51%) IOS XR
5 2 (0.51%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.26%) HTTP
6 1 (0.26%) LAN
6 1 (0.26%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.26%) RTP
6 1 (0.26%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.86%) Big Data
2 17 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.09%) GIS
4 10 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 8 (2.05%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.28%) Tableau
7 4 (1.02%) Power BI
8 3 (0.77%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.77%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.77%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.77%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.77%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.51%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.51%) MySQL
9 2 (0.51%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.26%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.26%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 107 (27.37%) JIRA
2 26 (6.65%) Git
3 22 (5.63%) Selenium
4 13 (3.32%) Jenkins
5 11 (2.81%) Postman
5 11 (2.81%) SoapUI
5 11 (2.81%) TestRail
6 10 (2.56%) Appium
6 10 (2.56%) Cucumber
6 10 (2.56%) eggPlant
6 10 (2.56%) JUnit
6 10 (2.56%) REST Assured
6 10 (2.56%) SOAtest
6 10 (2.56%) TestNG
6 10 (2.56%) WebDriver
7 6 (1.53%) Robot Framework
7 6 (1.53%) Subversion
8 5 (1.28%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.02%) GitLab
General
1 135 (34.53%) Social Skills
2 124 (31.71%) Finance
3 81 (20.72%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (11.00%) Presentation Skills
5 40 (10.23%) Public Sector
6 36 (9.21%) Banking
7 21 (5.37%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.81%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (2.56%) Legal
10 9 (2.30%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.05%) Front Office
11 8 (2.05%) Retail
12 7 (1.79%) Games
12 7 (1.79%) Marketing
12 7 (1.79%) Military
13 6 (1.53%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.28%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.77%) Automotive
15 3 (0.77%) Electronics
15 3 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (15.86%) Analyst
2 57 (14.58%) Lead
3 38 (9.72%) Architect
3 38 (9.72%) Senior
4 35 (8.95%) Scrum Master
5 31 (7.93%) Project Manager
6 29 (7.42%) Developer
7 26 (6.65%) Business Analyst
8 24 (6.14%) Project Leader
9 20 (5.12%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (3.58%) Consultant
10 14 (3.58%) Programme Manager
11 13 (3.32%) Delivery Manager
12 12 (3.07%) Product Owner
12 12 (3.07%) Senior Analyst
13 11 (2.81%) Cloud Architect
13 11 (2.81%) Cloud Solutions Architect
13 11 (2.81%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
13 11 (2.81%) Principal Architect
13 11 (2.81%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.39%) REST
2 23 (5.88%) .NET
3 14 (3.58%) HTML
4 13 (3.32%) CSS
5 10 (2.56%) ADO
6 9 (2.30%) .NET Framework
7 8 (2.05%) AngularJS
7 8 (2.05%) JSON
7 8 (2.05%) Kafka
8 7 (1.79%) GraphQL
8 7 (1.79%) React
8 7 (1.79%) XML
9 5 (1.28%) .NET Core
9 5 (1.28%) Web Services
10 4 (1.02%) Lightning Web Components
10 4 (1.02%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 4 (1.02%) Visualforce
11 3 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (0.77%) HTML5
11 3 (0.77%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.46%) Product Ownership
2 16 (4.09%) Client/Server
3 10 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.30%) Credit Risk
4 9 (2.30%) Public Cloud
5 7 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.79%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.53%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.53%) Cyber Defence
6 6 (1.53%) PKI
6 6 (1.53%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.02%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.02%) Taxonomies
9 3 (0.77%) Online Banking
9 3 (0.77%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.42%) Linux
2 19 (4.86%) Windows
3 18 (4.60%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.51%) Android
5 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (90.54%) Agile
2 169 (43.22%) Scrum
3 84 (21.48%) DevOps
4 83 (21.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 72 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
6 69 (17.65%) Project Management
7 65 (16.62%) Kanban
8 59 (15.09%) Coaching
9 56 (14.32%) Project Delivery
10 55 (14.07%) PRINCE2
11 49 (12.53%) Roadmaps
12 42 (10.74%) Test Automation
13 39 (9.97%) CI/CD
14 36 (9.21%) Workshop Facilitation
15 34 (8.70%) Waterfall
16 32 (8.18%) Continuous Integration
16 32 (8.18%) Cybersecurity
16 32 (8.18%) Mentoring
17 31 (7.93%) Data Management
17 31 (7.93%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (13.30%) Python
2 42 (10.74%) Java
3 37 (9.46%) PowerShell
4 35 (8.95%) SQL
5 29 (7.42%) C#
6 23 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 16 (4.09%) VBScript
8 8 (2.05%) C++
8 8 (2.05%) Korn
8 8 (2.05%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.53%) R
10 4 (1.02%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.02%) Go
11 3 (0.77%) C
12 2 (0.51%) Groovy
13 1 (0.26%) ABAP
13 1 (0.26%) Bash
13 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.26%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 111 (28.39%) Security Cleared
2 71 (18.16%) DV Cleared
3 44 (11.25%) SC Cleared
4 31 (7.93%) Degree
5 29 (7.42%) APMP
6 15 (3.84%) PMP
7 14 (3.58%) PMI Certification
8 13 (3.32%) AWS Certification
9 12 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (2.81%) ISTQB
10 11 (2.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 10 (2.56%) CISM
11 10 (2.56%) CISSP
12 6 (1.53%) Master's Degree
13 5 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.28%) CRISC
13 5 (1.28%) SANS
14 4 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.77%) CCNA
15 3 (0.77%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.18%) PMO
2 26 (6.65%) QA
3 7 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.53%) NIST
4 6 (1.53%) NIST 800
4 6 (1.53%) P3O
5 5 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.51%) GRC
7 2 (0.51%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.26%) GAMP
8 1 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.26%) GxP
8 1 (0.26%) NCSC
8 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (4.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (2.30%) Docker
3 7 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (6.14%) Ansible
2 23 (5.88%) Terraform
3 13 (3.32%) Puppet
4 6 (1.53%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.51%) Podman
6 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.51%) Rancher
7 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.26%) Grafana
7 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 51 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.14%) Oracle
3 21 (5.37%) Salesforce
4 20 (5.12%) SAP
5 19 (4.86%) VMware
6 13 (3.32%) ESRI
7 10 (2.56%) ServiceNow
8 9 (2.30%) Informatica
9 6 (1.53%) Google
9 6 (1.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 5 (1.28%) Cisco
10 5 (1.28%) F5
10 5 (1.28%) Talend
11 4 (1.02%) Adobe
11 4 (1.02%) ArcSight
11 4 (1.02%) IBM
12 3 (0.77%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (0.77%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.77%) Guidewire
12 3 (0.77%) Splunk