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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 444 352 361
Rank change year-on-year -92 +9 +31
Permanent jobs citing Scaled Agile Framework 542 960 1,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.95% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.99% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 318 307 612
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,750 £54,750 £62,323
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,750 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.93% -6.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
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 £96,550
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 9 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 9 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 -81 445 £75,000 +3.48% 103
UK excluding London -105 396 £72,500 +5.84% 71
Work from Home -128 125 £72,500 +7.41% 62
London -12 120 £75,000 -9.09% 34
South East +11 118 £63,500 -9.29% 19
North of England -31 95 £85,000 +36.00% 10
North West +24 73 £90,000 +20.30% 3
Scotland -34 64 £65,000 -18.75% 6
South West -34 58 £105,000 +50.00% 15
Midlands -102 43 £67,500 +22.73% 11
West Midlands -77 31 £70,000 +27.27% 8
North East +1 12 £52,500 -
East Midlands -21 12 £67,500 +12.50% 2
Yorkshire -16 10 £73,750 -7.81% 7
East of England -39 7 - - 7
Wales -6 6 - - 2
Northern Ireland +23 4 - - 2
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 (11.99%) Confluence
2 26 (4.80%) Apache
2 26 (4.80%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.11%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.55%) SAS
5 2 (0.37%) CMS
6 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 22 (4.06%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.66%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 242 (44.65%) Azure
2 124 (22.88%) AWS
3 82 (15.13%) Azure DevOps
4 59 (10.89%) GCP
5 46 (8.49%) AWS CloudFormation
6 37 (6.83%) SaaS
7 36 (6.64%) Serverless
8 32 (5.90%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (5.35%) OpenShift
10 26 (4.80%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (3.32%) BlazeMeter
12 18 (3.32%) PaaS
13 16 (2.95%) IaaS
14 13 (2.40%) GitHub
15 7 (1.29%) Collibra
15 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
16 5 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
17 4 (0.74%) Snowflake
18 3 (0.55%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.80%) AMQP
2 20 (3.69%) Network Security
3 15 (2.77%) Firewall
4 6 (1.11%) Wireless
5 5 (0.92%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.55%) BIG-IP
6 3 (0.55%) Broadband
6 3 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (0.55%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (0.55%) Cisco Wireless
6 3 (0.55%) Internet
6 3 (0.55%) MPLS
6 3 (0.55%) NaaS
6 3 (0.55%) SAN
6 3 (0.55%) SSL
6 3 (0.55%) VPN
6 3 (0.55%) WAN
7 1 (0.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (8.67%) Data Vault
2 46 (8.49%) SQL Server
3 39 (7.20%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (6.27%) Delta Lake
5 32 (5.90%) Big Data
6 27 (4.98%) Hadoop
7 26 (4.80%) Cloudera CDH
8 25 (4.61%) NoSQL
9 24 (4.43%) Relational Database
10 12 (2.21%) InfluxDB
11 8 (1.48%) Metadata
11 8 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (0.37%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.37%) Tableau
13 1 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.18%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 153 (28.23%) JIRA
2 30 (5.54%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.51%) JMeter
4 16 (2.95%) Selenium
5 14 (2.58%) SonarQube
6 13 (2.40%) WebDriver
7 12 (2.21%) GitLab
8 11 (2.03%) NUnit
8 11 (2.03%) TestRail
8 11 (2.03%) Visual Studio
9 7 (1.29%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.29%) gulp
9 7 (1.29%) Spinnaker
10 6 (1.11%) Git
10 6 (1.11%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.74%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.74%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.55%) Postman
12 3 (0.55%) Subversion
General
1 153 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 124 (22.88%) Finance
3 83 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (11.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (8.86%) Marketing
6 44 (8.12%) Law
7 42 (7.75%) Public Sector
8 39 (7.20%) Aerospace
9 25 (4.61%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (3.32%) Banking
11 18 (3.32%) Military
12 6 (1.11%) Legal
13 5 (0.92%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.74%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.55%) Retail
16 2 (0.37%) Electronics
16 2 (0.37%) Games
16 2 (0.37%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 98 (18.08%) Architect
2 79 (14.58%) Analyst
3 71 (13.10%) Senior
4 68 (12.55%) Software Engineer
5 57 (10.52%) Data Engineer
6 56 (10.33%) Lead
6 56 (10.33%) Solutions Architect
7 40 (7.38%) Business Analyst
8 35 (6.46%) Project Manager
9 28 (5.17%) Java Engineer
10 26 (4.80%) Consultant
10 26 (4.80%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 26 (4.80%) Informatica Engineer
11 24 (4.43%) Presales Solution Architect
11 24 (4.43%) Product Owner
11 24 (4.43%) Senior Architect
12 23 (4.24%) Java Software Engineer
13 22 (4.06%) Full Stack Engineer
13 22 (4.06%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 21 (3.87%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (12.55%) React
2 45 (8.30%) REST
3 39 (7.20%) Spring
4 38 (7.01%) Node.js
5 36 (6.64%) Spring Boot
6 32 (5.90%) Middleware
7 31 (5.72%) .NET
8 29 (5.35%) RabbitMQ
9 28 (5.17%) AngularJS
10 26 (4.80%) gRPC
10 26 (4.80%) Material-UI
10 26 (4.80%) OpenAPI
10 26 (4.80%) Swagger
11 21 (3.87%) PySpark
12 19 (3.51%) Kafka
13 14 (2.58%) .NET Core
14 13 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
15 12 (2.21%) JSON
15 12 (2.21%) XML
16 9 (1.66%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 113 (20.85%) Product Ownership
2 84 (15.50%) Cloud Native
3 63 (11.62%) Data Structures
4 60 (11.07%) Public Cloud
5 42 (7.75%) Reinsurance
6 20 (3.69%) Cyber Defence
7 18 (3.32%) Market Risk
7 18 (3.32%) Security Operations Centre
8 15 (2.77%) Management Information System
9 13 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (2.03%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.85%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.66%) IoT
13 8 (1.48%) Data Centre
14 6 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
15 5 (0.92%) PMI
16 3 (0.55%) Algorithms
16 3 (0.55%) CMDB
16 3 (0.55%) PKI
16 3 (0.55%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 88 (16.24%) Linux
2 34 (6.27%) Ubuntu
3 31 (5.72%) Windows
4 28 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (4.98%) CentOS
6 26 (4.80%) Debian
7 7 (1.29%) Solaris
7 7 (1.29%) Unix
8 3 (0.55%) Android
9 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (97.05%) Agile
2 311 (57.38%) Scrum
3 142 (26.20%) DevOps
4 120 (22.14%) Software Engineering
5 114 (21.03%) Kanban
6 93 (17.16%) Mentoring
7 90 (16.61%) Microservices
8 82 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
9 80 (14.76%) Coaching
10 77 (14.21%) Decision-Making
11 74 (13.65%) Data Modelling
12 73 (13.47%) Actionable Insight
13 71 (13.10%) Collaborative Working
13 71 (13.10%) Test Automation
14 70 (12.92%) Project Management
15 69 (12.73%) Analytics
16 67 (12.36%) Data Analysis
17 66 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
18 62 (11.44%) CI/CD
19 57 (10.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 105 (19.37%) Java
2 96 (17.71%) Python
3 95 (17.53%) SQL
4 80 (14.76%) JavaScript
5 39 (7.20%) C#
6 21 (3.87%) Kotlin
7 13 (2.40%) PowerShell
7 13 (2.40%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.21%) Bash
9 7 (1.29%) C
10 6 (1.11%) Apex Code
10 6 (1.11%) SOQL
11 3 (0.55%) C++
12 2 (0.37%) Go
13 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.18%) R
13 1 (0.18%) Ruby
13 1 (0.18%) Scala
13 1 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 128 (23.62%) Security Cleared
2 86 (15.87%) SC Cleared
3 82 (15.13%) Degree
4 65 (11.99%) DV Cleared
5 38 (7.01%) TOGAF Certification
6 30 (5.54%) PMI Certification
7 25 (4.61%) PMP
8 20 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (3.32%) AWS Certification
10 15 (2.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (2.58%) Azure Certification
12 13 (2.40%) ISTQB
13 11 (2.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 11 (2.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 8 (1.48%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (1.48%) Master's Degree
15 7 (1.29%) CISSP
15 7 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (1.11%) SAFe Agilist
17 5 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (10.70%) Data Quality
2 50 (9.23%) QA
3 18 (3.32%) NIST
3 18 (3.32%) NIST 800
4 11 (2.03%) PMO
5 8 (1.48%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.29%) ISO 13485
7 3 (0.55%) GRC
8 2 (0.37%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.37%) NCSC
9 1 (0.18%) GAMP
9 1 (0.18%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (4.06%) Docker
2 12 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.48%) KVM
4 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (9.59%) Terraform
2 50 (9.23%) Kubernetes
3 42 (7.75%) Ansible
4 26 (4.80%) Puppet
5 12 (2.21%) Grafana
5 12 (2.21%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.18%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 59 (10.89%) Oracle
2 52 (9.59%) Databricks
3 51 (9.41%) Informatica
4 47 (8.67%) Google
5 42 (7.75%) Microsoft
6 26 (4.80%) Red Hat
6 26 (4.80%) SaltStack
7 15 (2.77%) ServiceNow
8 14 (2.58%) Salesforce
9 13 (2.40%) Cisco
10 12 (2.21%) VMware
11 10 (1.85%) SAP
12 7 (1.29%) Atlassian
13 6 (1.11%) Apttus
13 6 (1.11%) Confluent
13 6 (1.11%) DocuSign
14 4 (0.74%) YouTube
15 3 (0.55%) Freshdesk
15 3 (0.55%) Palo Alto
15 3 (0.55%) Sparx