Scaled Agile Framework Contracts in the South East

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Scaled Agile Framework skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scaled Agile Framework over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 130 150
Rank change year-on-year -14 +20 -35
Contract jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 56 86 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.97% 1.52% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.71% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 73 94
10th Percentile £425 £450 £431
25th Percentile £515 £520 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £583 £638 £638
90th Percentile £638 £698 £685
England median daily rate £550 £600 £579
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.67% +10.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year - -6.47% -
England median hourly rate £53.00 £80.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.75% +79.78% -31.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Scaled Agile Framework falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Scaled Agile Framework
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the South East

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the South East

Scaled Agile Framework
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scaled Agile Framework in the South East

Scaled Agile Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Scaled Agile Framework in the South East

Scaled Agile Framework
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Hampshire -6 27 £550 -5.34% 3
Thames Valley -11 17 £540 -1.82% 4
Berkshire -28 17 £540 -1.82% 3
West Sussex +13 7 £750 +22.95% 1
Kent - 4 £625 - 3
Surrey -1 1 £550 -12.00% 3
Scaled Agile Framework
England

Scaled Agile Framework
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (7.14%) SAS
2 1 (1.79%) Apache
2 1 (1.79%) Appian
2 1 (1.79%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (39.29%) Azure
2 18 (32.14%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (3.57%) Azure Storage
3 2 (3.57%) SaaS
4 1 (1.79%) GCP
4 1 (1.79%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.79%) PaaS
4 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.79%) Big Data
2 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.79%) MySQL
2 1 (1.79%) Power BI
2 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (19.64%) TestRail
2 6 (10.71%) Robot Framework
2 6 (10.71%) Selenium
3 5 (8.93%) Git
4 4 (7.14%) JIRA
5 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.57%) Subversion
6 1 (1.79%) GitLab
6 1 (1.79%) VersionOne
6 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (30.36%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (16.07%) Finance
3 5 (8.93%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Billing
6 1 (1.79%) Legal
6 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (32.14%) Analyst
2 11 (19.64%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
2 11 (19.64%) Test Analyst
3 7 (12.50%) Developer
3 7 (12.50%) Scrum Master
3 7 (12.50%) Senior
4 6 (10.71%) Senior Developer
5 5 (8.93%) Solutions Analyst
6 4 (7.14%) Applications Packager
6 4 (7.14%) Architect
6 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Technical Architect
8 2 (3.57%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared Application Packager
8 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 2 (3.57%) Lead
8 2 (3.57%) Product Owner
8 2 (3.57%) Senior .NET Developer
9 1 (1.79%) React Developer
9 1 (1.79%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) .NET
1 5 (8.93%) GraphQL
2 3 (5.36%) Kafka
2 3 (5.36%) REST
3 2 (3.57%) .NET Framework
3 2 (3.57%) CSS
3 2 (3.57%) Entity Framework
3 2 (3.57%) gRPC
3 2 (3.57%) HTML
3 2 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.57%) React
4 1 (1.79%) DOM
4 1 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.79%) jQuery
4 1 (1.79%) JWT
4 1 (1.79%) Node.js
4 1 (1.79%) OAuth
4 1 (1.79%) OpenID
4 1 (1.79%) Redux
4 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (28.57%) Client/Server
2 4 (7.14%) Credit Risk
2 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.57%) PMI
4 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (30.36%) Linux
2 16 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 16 (28.57%) Windows
2 16 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (85.71%) Agile
2 26 (46.43%) Scrum
3 21 (37.50%) DevOps
4 20 (35.71%) Test Automation
5 16 (28.57%) Application Packaging
5 16 (28.57%) Application Virtualisation
6 15 (26.79%) Continuous Integration
7 12 (21.43%) Test Management
8 10 (17.86%) Coaching
8 10 (17.86%) Kanban
8 10 (17.86%) Requirements Analysis
9 7 (12.50%) Microservices
9 7 (12.50%) Release Management
10 6 (10.71%) Analytics
10 6 (10.71%) CI/CD
10 6 (10.71%) TDD
11 5 (8.93%) Architectural Patterns
11 5 (8.93%) SIEM
11 5 (8.93%) SOLID
11 5 (8.93%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 27 (48.21%) Python
2 16 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 16 (28.57%) VBScript
3 7 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 7 (12.50%) SQL
4 6 (10.71%) C#
4 6 (10.71%) Java
5 4 (7.14%) R
6 2 (3.57%) Go
6 2 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.79%) Bash
Qualifications
1 37 (66.07%) Security Cleared
2 27 (48.21%) DV Cleared
3 11 (19.64%) ISTQB
3 11 (19.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 9 (16.07%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.36%) Degree
6 2 (3.57%) PgMP
6 2 (3.57%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) GxP
1 1 (1.79%) QA
1 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.57%) Docker
3 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.79%) Ansible
2 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (28.57%) VMware
2 4 (7.14%) ArcSight
3 2 (3.57%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.79%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.79%) Cisco
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.79%) Nokia
4 1 (1.79%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle
4 1 (1.79%) Rakuten
4 1 (1.79%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow