Sprint Retrospective Contracts

Sprint Retrospectives
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Sprint Retrospective skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sprint Retrospective over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 594 546
Rank change year-on-year +109 -48 +7
Contract jobs citing Sprint Retrospective 97 124 320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.21% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.23% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 73 197
10th Percentile £195 £363 £388
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £501
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.40% +11.22%
75th Percentile £549 £575 £600
90th Percentile £666 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £393 £463 £495
% change year-on-year -15.14% -6.57% +10.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 10
10th Percentile - - £43.65
25th Percentile £51.25 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £54.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% -15.75%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.13 £60.00
90th Percentile - £73.95 £60.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -21.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Sprint Retrospective 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 37,597 53,655 80,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,227 37,238 56,437
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,746 1,926
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.98 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.34 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.72% +80.00% -8.00%

Sprint Retrospective
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sprint Retrospective as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sprint Retrospective in the UK

Sprint Retrospective
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sprint Retrospective.

Daily rate trend for Sprint Retrospective in the UK

Sprint Retrospective
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Retrospective over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sprint Retrospective in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sprint Retrospective.

Hourly rate trend for Sprint Retrospective in the UK

Sprint Retrospective
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sprint Retrospective within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +80 79 £514 -0.58% 52
London +80 46 £525 +1.74% 21
Work from Home +120 35 £475 -5.00% 22
UK excluding London +43 30 £393 -15.14% 35
North of England +38 11 £65 -87.00% 7
South East +13 10 £475 -7.77% 10
North West +27 9 £65 -86.67% 4
Midlands +31 5 £650 +30.00% 7
West Midlands +26 3 £650 +26.83% 7
East of England +9 3 £250 -56.99% 2
East Midlands +18 2 £370 -16.85%
North East - 2 £533 -
Scotland +23 1 £475 +15.85% 3

Sprint Retrospective
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 6 (6.19%) Confluence
2 1 (1.03%) JBoss
Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Primavera
2 2 (2.06%) VisionPLUS
3 1 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (20.62%) Azure
2 13 (13.40%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (12.37%) AWS
4 6 (6.19%) GCP
5 4 (4.12%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (4.12%) PaaS
6 3 (3.09%) Azure API Management
6 3 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (3.09%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (3.09%) GitHub
6 3 (3.09%) NuGet
6 3 (3.09%) SaaS
7 2 (2.06%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.06%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.06%) Veeva
8 1 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.03%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.03%) OCI
8 1 (1.03%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.22%) PPP
2 5 (5.15%) SSH
3 1 (1.03%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (2.06%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.06%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.06%) Power BI
1 2 (2.06%) Tableau
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (25.77%) JIRA
2 6 (6.19%) Git
3 5 (5.15%) Cucumber
3 5 (5.15%) JUnit
4 2 (2.06%) GitLab
4 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.03%) Jaeger
5 1 (1.03%) Selenium
5 1 (1.03%) Spinnaker
5 1 (1.03%) WebDriver
General
1 51 (52.58%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.28%) Finance
4 5 (5.15%) Banking
4 5 (5.15%) Electronics
5 4 (4.12%) Billing
5 4 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.12%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.06%) Front Office
7 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.06%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.06%) Marketing
7 2 (2.06%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.03%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (38.14%) Scrum Master
2 14 (14.43%) Developer
3 11 (11.34%) Senior
4 8 (8.25%) Lead
5 7 (7.22%) Full Stack Developer
5 7 (7.22%) Java Developer
5 7 (7.22%) Product Owner
6 6 (6.19%) Project Manager
7 5 (5.15%) Analyst
7 5 (5.15%) Business Analyst
7 5 (5.15%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (5.15%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Agile Product Owner
8 4 (4.12%) Scala Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Scala Software Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Senior Scala Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.25%) REST
1 8 (8.25%) SOAP
2 6 (6.19%) CSS
2 6 (6.19%) HTML
2 6 (6.19%) J2EE
2 6 (6.19%) Node.js
2 6 (6.19%) React
2 6 (6.19%) XML
3 5 (5.15%) GraphQL
3 5 (5.15%) Hibernate
3 5 (5.15%) http4s
3 5 (5.15%) JPA
3 5 (5.15%) JSON
3 5 (5.15%) Lambda Expressions
3 5 (5.15%) Spring
3 5 (5.15%) Web Services
4 4 (4.12%) JWT
4 4 (4.12%) RESTful
5 3 (3.09%) ADO
5 3 (3.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (47.42%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.25%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.19%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.15%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (5.15%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.12%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.12%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (3.09%) Wiki
7 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.03%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.03%) Digital Media
8 1 (1.03%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.03%) PMI
8 1 (1.03%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.25%) Linux
2 5 (5.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (94.85%) Agile
2 91 (93.81%) Sprint Planning
3 76 (78.35%) Scrum
4 64 (65.98%) Sprint Review
5 37 (38.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (31.96%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (27.84%) Kanban
8 26 (26.80%) User Stories
9 23 (23.71%) Coaching
10 21 (21.65%) Decision-Making
10 21 (21.65%) DevOps
11 19 (19.59%) Project Delivery
12 18 (18.56%) Backlog Refinement
12 18 (18.56%) CI/CD
12 18 (18.56%) Product Backlog
12 18 (18.56%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (17.53%) Backlog Management
13 17 (17.53%) Computer Science
14 15 (15.46%) Project Management
15 14 (14.43%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.49%) Java
2 14 (14.43%) SQL
3 11 (11.34%) Python
4 8 (8.25%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.15%) C#
5 5 (5.15%) Perl
5 5 (5.15%) Scala
6 4 (4.12%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.09%) Bicep
8 2 (2.06%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.03%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 24 (24.74%) Degree
2 17 (17.53%) Security Cleared
3 15 (15.46%) SC Cleared
4 11 (11.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.12%) CSPO
6 2 (2.06%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.06%) MBA
6 2 (2.06%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.03%) CBAP
7 1 (1.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.46%) QA
2 3 (3.09%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.06%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (5.15%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.06%) Docker
3 2 (2.06%) LXC
Systems Management
1 10 (10.31%) Terraform
2 4 (4.12%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.06%) Proxmox
4 1 (1.03%) Ansible
4 1 (1.03%) Grafana
4 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (5.15%) Google
1 5 (5.15%) Salesforce
2 4 (4.12%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.12%) Okta
2 4 (4.12%) Roku
2 4 (4.12%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (1.03%) Cadence
4 1 (1.03%) Databricks
4 1 (1.03%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle
4 1 (1.03%) VMware