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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 460 345 364
Rank change year-on-year -115 +19 +21
Permanent jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 520 950 1,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.94% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.98% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 322 301 615
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,750 £53,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -6.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £99,500 £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 84,952 96,876 150,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,894 57,115 82,331
10th Percentile £29,002 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 12 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 12 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 -101 432 £75,000 +7.14% 108
UK excluding London -124 376 £72,500 +5.84% 72
London +9 120 £75,000 -7.86% 38
South East +18 113 £63,500 -9.29% 19
Work from Home -122 113 £72,500 +7.41% 67
North of England -35 90 £85,000 +36.00% 10
North West +11 70 £90,000 +20.30% 3
Scotland -26 61 £65,000 -18.75% 5
South West -39 57 £105,000 +50.00% 14
Midlands -96 41 £67,500 +22.73% 14
West Midlands -64 31 £70,000 +27.27% 11
North East 0 12 £52,500 -
East Midlands -17 10 £67,500 +12.50% 2
Yorkshire -27 8 £73,750 -7.81% 7
East of England -42 7 - - 6
Wales +3 4 - - 4
Northern Ireland +17 2 - - 1
Isle of Man - 1 - - 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 65 (12.50%) Confluence
2 26 (5.00%) Apache
2 26 (5.00%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.58%) SAS
5 2 (0.38%) CMS
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 22 (4.23%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.73%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 217 (41.73%) Azure
2 112 (21.54%) AWS
3 69 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
4 59 (11.35%) GCP
5 37 (7.12%) SaaS
6 36 (6.92%) Serverless
7 34 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 32 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (5.58%) OpenShift
10 26 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (3.46%) BlazeMeter
12 18 (3.46%) PaaS
13 16 (3.08%) IaaS
14 13 (2.50%) GitHub
15 7 (1.35%) Collibra
15 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
16 5 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
17 4 (0.77%) Snowflake
18 3 (0.58%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.00%) AMQP
2 20 (3.85%) Network Security
3 15 (2.88%) Firewall
4 6 (1.15%) Wireless
5 5 (0.96%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.58%) BIG-IP
6 3 (0.58%) Broadband
6 3 (0.58%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.58%) Cisco Wireless
6 3 (0.58%) Internet
6 3 (0.58%) MPLS
6 3 (0.58%) NaaS
6 3 (0.58%) SAN
6 3 (0.58%) SSL
6 3 (0.58%) VPN
6 3 (0.58%) WAN
7 1 (0.19%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (9.04%) Data Vault
2 46 (8.85%) SQL Server
3 34 (6.54%) Delta Lake
4 32 (6.15%) Big Data
5 27 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (5.19%) Hadoop
6 26 (5.00%) Cloudera CDH
7 25 (4.81%) NoSQL
8 24 (4.62%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.54%) Metadata
9 8 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.38%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.38%) Tableau
11 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.19%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.19%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.19%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.19%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 153 (29.42%) JIRA
2 19 (3.65%) JMeter
3 18 (3.46%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.88%) Selenium
5 13 (2.50%) WebDriver
6 11 (2.12%) NUnit
6 11 (2.12%) Visual Studio
7 10 (1.92%) TestRail
8 7 (1.35%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.35%) gulp
8 7 (1.35%) Spinnaker
9 6 (1.15%) Git
9 6 (1.15%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.77%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.77%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.58%) Postman
11 3 (0.58%) Subversion
12 2 (0.38%) JUnit
12 2 (0.38%) SoapUI
General
1 155 (29.81%) Social Skills
2 124 (23.85%) Finance
3 82 (15.77%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (9.23%) Marketing
6 47 (9.04%) Law
7 42 (8.08%) Public Sector
8 40 (7.69%) Aerospace
9 26 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (3.46%) Banking
11 18 (3.46%) Military
12 5 (0.96%) Legal
12 5 (0.96%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.77%) Retail
13 4 (0.77%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.38%) Electronics
14 2 (0.38%) Games
14 2 (0.38%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.38%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 86 (16.54%) Architect
2 79 (15.19%) Analyst
3 68 (13.08%) Software Engineer
4 59 (11.35%) Senior
5 57 (10.96%) Data Engineer
6 55 (10.58%) Lead
7 44 (8.46%) Solutions Architect
8 41 (7.88%) Business Analyst
9 35 (6.73%) Project Manager
10 28 (5.38%) Consultant
10 28 (5.38%) Java Engineer
11 26 (5.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 26 (5.00%) Informatica Engineer
12 25 (4.81%) Product Owner
13 24 (4.62%) Presales Solution Architect
14 23 (4.42%) Java Software Engineer
15 22 (4.23%) Full Stack Engineer
15 22 (4.23%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 19 (3.65%) Data Analyst
16 19 (3.65%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (13.08%) React
2 45 (8.65%) REST
3 39 (7.50%) Spring
4 38 (7.31%) Node.js
5 36 (6.92%) Spring Boot
6 32 (6.15%) Middleware
7 31 (5.96%) .NET
8 29 (5.58%) RabbitMQ
9 28 (5.38%) AngularJS
10 26 (5.00%) gRPC
10 26 (5.00%) Material-UI
10 26 (5.00%) OpenAPI
10 26 (5.00%) Swagger
11 21 (4.04%) PySpark
12 19 (3.65%) Kafka
13 14 (2.69%) .NET Core
14 12 (2.31%) JSON
14 12 (2.31%) XML
15 9 (1.73%) SOAP
16 8 (1.54%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 114 (21.92%) Product Ownership
2 72 (13.85%) Cloud Native
3 51 (9.81%) Data Structures
4 48 (9.23%) Public Cloud
5 42 (8.08%) Reinsurance
6 20 (3.85%) Cyber Defence
7 18 (3.46%) Market Risk
7 18 (3.46%) Security Operations Centre
8 15 (2.88%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.12%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.92%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.73%) IoT
12 8 (1.54%) Data Centre
13 6 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.96%) PMI
15 3 (0.58%) Algorithms
15 3 (0.58%) CMDB
15 3 (0.58%) PKI
15 3 (0.58%) TM Forum
15 3 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 75 (14.42%) Linux
2 34 (6.54%) Ubuntu
3 27 (5.19%) CentOS
3 27 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (5.00%) Debian
5 18 (3.46%) Windows
6 7 (1.35%) Solaris
6 7 (1.35%) Unix
7 3 (0.58%) Android
8 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 505 (97.12%) Agile
2 286 (55.00%) Scrum
3 132 (25.38%) DevOps
4 108 (20.77%) Software Engineering
5 103 (19.81%) Kanban
6 96 (18.46%) Mentoring
7 83 (15.96%) Coaching
8 82 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
9 78 (15.00%) Microservices
10 76 (14.62%) Decision-Making
11 74 (14.23%) Data Modelling
12 72 (13.85%) Collaborative Working
13 70 (13.46%) Project Management
14 69 (13.27%) Test Automation
15 67 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 57 (10.96%) Analytics
17 56 (10.77%) Data Management
17 56 (10.77%) Roadmaps
18 55 (10.58%) Data Analysis
19 53 (10.19%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 105 (20.19%) Java
2 95 (18.27%) Python
2 95 (18.27%) SQL
3 80 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 39 (7.50%) C#
5 21 (4.04%) Kotlin
6 13 (2.50%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.35%) C
8 6 (1.15%) Apex Code
8 6 (1.15%) SOQL
9 3 (0.58%) C++
10 2 (0.38%) Go
11 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.19%) R
11 1 (0.19%) Ruby
11 1 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 130 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 86 (16.54%) SC Cleared
3 82 (15.77%) Degree
4 65 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 30 (5.77%) PMI Certification
6 26 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
7 25 (4.81%) PMP
8 20 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (3.46%) AWS Certification
10 15 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (2.69%) Azure Certification
12 12 (2.31%) ISTQB
13 11 (2.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 10 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 8 (1.54%) AWS Certified Developer
15 8 (1.54%) Master's Degree
16 7 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (1.15%) CISSP
17 6 (1.15%) SAFe Agilist
18 5 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (11.15%) Data Quality
2 49 (9.42%) QA
3 18 (3.46%) NIST
3 18 (3.46%) NIST 800
4 11 (2.12%) PMO
5 8 (1.54%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.35%) ISO 13485
7 3 (0.58%) GRC
8 2 (0.38%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.38%) NCSC
9 1 (0.19%) GAMP
9 1 (0.19%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (1.92%) Docker
3 8 (1.54%) KVM
4 1 (0.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (7.69%) Terraform
2 38 (7.31%) Kubernetes
3 30 (5.77%) Ansible
4 26 (5.00%) Puppet
5 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.19%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.19%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 59 (11.35%) Oracle
2 52 (10.00%) Databricks
3 51 (9.81%) Informatica
4 47 (9.04%) Google
5 42 (8.08%) Microsoft
6 26 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 26 (5.00%) SaltStack
7 15 (2.88%) ServiceNow
8 14 (2.69%) Salesforce
9 13 (2.50%) Cisco
10 11 (2.12%) VMware
11 10 (1.92%) SAP
12 7 (1.35%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.15%) Apttus
13 6 (1.15%) Confluent
13 6 (1.15%) DocuSign
14 4 (0.77%) YouTube
15 3 (0.58%) Freshdesk
15 3 (0.58%) Palo Alto
15 3 (0.58%) Sparx