Sprint Backlog Contracts with Work from Home Options

Sprint Backlogs
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Sprint Backlog skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sprint Backlog over the 6 months to 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 453 580
Rank change year-on-year +119 +127 -92
Contract jobs citing Sprint Backlog 10 10 36
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.068% 0.041% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.046% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 24
10th Percentile £448 £479 £431
25th Percentile £470 £505 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £544 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% -9.38% +26.32%
75th Percentile £564 £564 £738
90th Percentile £591 £578 -
UK median daily rate £545 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -0.91% -2.22% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Sprint Backlog 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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,938 40,174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.66% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,680 15,535 29,175
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £634
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 510 537
10th Percentile £14.66 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.44 £27.48 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.27 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +7.00%

Sprint Backlog
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Sprint Backlog as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Sprint Backlog trend for jobs with a WFH option

Sprint Backlog
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Sprint Backlog.

Sprint Backlog daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle CX
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Service Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Billing
1 1 (10.00%) Retail
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Product Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Software Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Software Product Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Product Owner
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum Master
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) ADO
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) Swagger
2 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (40.00%) Product Backlog
3 4 (40.00%) Systems Analysis
3 4 (40.00%) Test Planning
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
5 2 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (20.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 1 (10.00%) API Development
6 1 (10.00%) API Management
6 1 (10.00%) Backlog Refinement
6 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
6 1 (10.00%) Creative Thinking
6 1 (10.00%) Customer Experience
6 1 (10.00%) Product Vision
6 1 (10.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C#
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Genesys
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Ariba
3 1 (10.00%) Avaya
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) SAP