Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Scaled Agile Framework skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 449 358 368
Rank change year-on-year -91 +10 +14
Permanent jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 537 920 1,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.93% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.97% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 327 288 621
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,750 £54,313 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £70,000 £73,449
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% -4.70% +17.52%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £97,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £68,497 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.84% -2.15% +16.67%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the UK

Scaled Agile Framework
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the UK

Scaled Agile Framework
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -86 446 £75,000 +7.14% 94
UK excluding London -115 384 £72,500 +5.84% 58
London +14 128 £75,000 -7.86% 35
Work from Home -132 123 £72,500 +7.41% 40
South East +16 116 £63,500 -9.29% 21
North of England -34 91 £85,000 +28.30% 8
North West +12 71 £90,000 +13.02% 2
Scotland -34 61 £65,000 -18.75%
South West -41 57 £105,000 +50.00% 10
Midlands -92 43 £69,250 +25.91% 13
West Midlands -70 32 £75,000 +36.36% 11
North East -1 12 £52,500 -
East Midlands -14 11 £67,500 +12.50% 1
Yorkshire -24 8 £70,000 -12.50% 6
East of England -47 7 - - 5
Wales -4 5 - - 3
Northern Ireland +16 3 - -
Isle of Man - 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 69 (12.85%) Confluence
2 27 (5.03%) Apache
2 27 (5.03%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.12%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.56%) SAS
5 2 (0.37%) CMS
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 22 (4.10%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.68%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 231 (43.02%) Azure
2 130 (24.21%) AWS
3 68 (12.66%) Azure DevOps
4 61 (11.36%) GCP
5 38 (7.08%) SaaS
5 38 (7.08%) Serverless
6 35 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 33 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
8 31 (5.77%) OpenShift
9 27 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (3.54%) PaaS
12 18 (3.35%) BlazeMeter
13 17 (3.17%) IaaS
14 13 (2.42%) GitHub
15 7 (1.30%) Collibra
15 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
16 5 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
17 3 (0.56%) Lucidchart
17 3 (0.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.03%) AMQP
2 20 (3.72%) Network Security
3 15 (2.79%) Firewall
4 6 (1.12%) Wireless
5 5 (0.93%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.56%) BIG-IP
6 3 (0.56%) Broadband
6 3 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.56%) Cisco Wireless
6 3 (0.56%) Internet
6 3 (0.56%) MPLS
6 3 (0.56%) NaaS
6 3 (0.56%) SAN
6 3 (0.56%) SSL
6 3 (0.56%) VPN
6 3 (0.56%) WAN
7 1 (0.19%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (8.57%) Data Vault
2 43 (8.01%) SQL Server
3 38 (7.08%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (6.15%) Big Data
5 32 (5.96%) Delta Lake
6 28 (5.21%) NoSQL
7 27 (5.03%) Cloudera CDH
7 27 (5.03%) Hadoop
8 24 (4.47%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.49%) Metadata
9 8 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.37%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.37%) Tableau
11 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.19%) GIS
11 1 (0.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 153 (28.49%) JIRA
2 19 (3.54%) JMeter
3 18 (3.35%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.79%) Selenium
5 13 (2.42%) WebDriver
6 12 (2.23%) TestRail
7 11 (2.05%) NUnit
7 11 (2.05%) Visual Studio
8 7 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.30%) Git
8 7 (1.30%) gulp
8 7 (1.30%) Spinnaker
9 6 (1.12%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.74%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.74%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.56%) Postman
11 3 (0.56%) Subversion
12 2 (0.37%) Appium
12 2 (0.37%) JUnit
General
1 159 (29.61%) Social Skills
2 123 (22.91%) Finance
3 82 (15.27%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (11.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (8.94%) Marketing
6 47 (8.75%) Law
7 43 (8.01%) Aerospace
8 42 (7.82%) Public Sector
9 24 (4.47%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (3.35%) Military
12 16 (2.98%) Banking
13 6 (1.12%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.93%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.74%) Legal
15 4 (0.74%) Retail
16 2 (0.37%) Electronics
16 2 (0.37%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.37%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 101 (18.81%) Architect
2 80 (14.90%) Analyst
3 70 (13.04%) Software Engineer
4 58 (10.80%) Senior
5 56 (10.43%) Data Engineer
5 56 (10.43%) Lead
5 56 (10.43%) Solutions Architect
6 39 (7.26%) Business Analyst
7 36 (6.70%) Presales Solution Architect
8 35 (6.52%) Project Manager
9 29 (5.40%) Java Engineer
10 27 (5.03%) Consultant
10 27 (5.03%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 27 (5.03%) Informatica Engineer
11 25 (4.66%) Product Owner
12 24 (4.47%) Java Software Engineer
13 22 (4.10%) Full Stack Engineer
13 22 (4.10%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 21 (3.91%) Data Analyst
15 20 (3.72%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (13.22%) React
2 47 (8.75%) REST
3 41 (7.64%) Node.js
3 41 (7.64%) Spring
4 38 (7.08%) Spring Boot
5 35 (6.52%) Middleware
6 32 (5.96%) .NET
7 30 (5.59%) AngularJS
7 30 (5.59%) RabbitMQ
8 27 (5.03%) gRPC
8 27 (5.03%) Material-UI
8 27 (5.03%) OpenAPI
8 27 (5.03%) Swagger
9 21 (3.91%) PySpark
10 19 (3.54%) Kafka
11 14 (2.61%) .NET Core
12 13 (2.42%) JSON
13 12 (2.23%) XML
14 9 (1.68%) HTML
14 9 (1.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 117 (21.79%) Product Ownership
2 85 (15.83%) Cloud Native
3 50 (9.31%) Data Structures
4 46 (8.57%) Public Cloud
5 43 (8.01%) Reinsurance
6 20 (3.72%) Cyber Defence
7 18 (3.35%) Market Risk
7 18 (3.35%) Security Operations Centre
8 15 (2.79%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.05%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.86%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.68%) IoT
12 8 (1.49%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.30%) PMI
14 6 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
15 3 (0.56%) Algorithms
15 3 (0.56%) CMDB
15 3 (0.56%) PKI
15 3 (0.56%) TM Forum
15 3 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 79 (14.71%) Linux
2 36 (6.70%) Ubuntu
3 28 (5.21%) CentOS
3 28 (5.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 27 (5.03%) Debian
5 19 (3.54%) Windows
6 8 (1.49%) Solaris
6 8 (1.49%) Unix
7 3 (0.56%) Android
8 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 524 (97.58%) Agile
2 301 (56.05%) Scrum
3 130 (24.21%) DevOps
4 114 (21.23%) Software Engineering
5 106 (19.74%) Kanban
6 93 (17.32%) Mentoring
7 83 (15.46%) Coaching
7 83 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
8 81 (15.08%) Microservices
9 75 (13.97%) Data Modelling
10 74 (13.78%) Collaborative Working
10 74 (13.78%) Decision-Making
10 74 (13.78%) Project Management
11 73 (13.59%) Test Automation
12 69 (12.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 59 (10.99%) Data Management
14 57 (10.61%) Roadmaps
15 54 (10.06%) Data Analysis
15 54 (10.06%) Project Delivery
16 53 (9.87%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 110 (20.48%) Java
2 99 (18.44%) SQL
3 96 (17.88%) Python
4 83 (15.46%) JavaScript
5 39 (7.26%) C#
6 23 (4.28%) Kotlin
7 13 (2.42%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.30%) C
9 6 (1.12%) Apex Code
9 6 (1.12%) SOQL
10 3 (0.56%) C++
11 2 (0.37%) Go
12 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 135 (25.14%) Security Cleared
2 89 (16.57%) SC Cleared
3 84 (15.64%) Degree
4 68 (12.66%) DV Cleared
5 38 (7.08%) TOGAF Certification
6 32 (5.96%) PMI Certification
7 25 (4.66%) PMP
8 22 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (3.72%) AWS Certification
10 16 (2.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (2.79%) Azure Certification
12 14 (2.61%) ISTQB
13 12 (2.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 11 (2.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 8 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
15 8 (1.49%) Master's Degree
16 7 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
18 5 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
18 5 (0.93%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (10.61%) Data Quality
2 49 (9.12%) QA
3 18 (3.35%) NIST
3 18 (3.35%) NIST 800
4 11 (2.05%) PMO
5 8 (1.49%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.30%) ISO 13485
7 3 (0.56%) GRC
8 2 (0.37%) GDPR
8 2 (0.37%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.37%) NCSC
9 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.19%) GAMP
System Software
1 12 (2.23%) Docker
2 11 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.49%) KVM
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (7.64%) Kubernetes
1 41 (7.64%) Terraform
2 31 (5.77%) Ansible
3 27 (5.03%) Puppet
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.19%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.19%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 56 (10.43%) Oracle
2 50 (9.31%) Databricks
2 50 (9.31%) Informatica
3 47 (8.75%) Google
4 42 (7.82%) Microsoft
5 27 (5.03%) Red Hat
5 27 (5.03%) SaltStack
6 14 (2.61%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.42%) Cisco
7 13 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.05%) VMware
9 10 (1.86%) SAP
10 7 (1.30%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.12%) Apttus
11 6 (1.12%) Confluent
11 6 (1.12%) DocuSign
12 4 (0.74%) YouTube
13 3 (0.56%) Freshdesk
13 3 (0.56%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.56%) Sparx