Sprint Backlogs
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Sprint Backlog skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Sprint Backlog over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 848 919 1089
Rank change year-on-year +71 +170 -247
Permanent jobs citing Sprint Backlog 48 51 143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.049% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% 0.051% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 29 30 68
10th Percentile £41,200 £41,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,625 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £48,750 £72,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £53,750 £80,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Sprint Backlog 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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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%

Sprint Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Sprint Backlog in the UK

Sprint Backlog
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Sprint Backlog.

Salary trend for Sprint Backlog in the UK

Sprint Backlog
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Sprint Backlog over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Sprint Backlog in the UK

Sprint Backlog
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sprint Backlog within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +106 43 £45,500 -17.27% 11
UK excluding London -2 24 £47,500 -7.32% 7
London +140 17 £45,000 -33.33% 2
Work from Home +77 15 £45,000 -18.18% 5
North of England +62 13 £47,500 -25.49% 1
North West +20 10 £47,500 -25.49% 1
Midlands -6 8 £51,159 +20.37%
East Midlands - 6 - -
West Midlands +6 2 £51,159 +20.37%
South West - 2 £42,500 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £28,000 -
South East +16 1 £43,000 -28.33% 4
North East - 1 - -

Sprint Backlog
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 7 (14.58%) CMS
2 5 (10.42%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Trello
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.08%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.75%) Power Platform
2 5 (10.42%) Azure
3 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.17%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) AWS
5 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.08%) GCP
5 1 (2.08%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) HTTP
1 1 (2.08%) HTTPS
1 1 (2.08%) Kerberos
1 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (16.67%) Power BI
3 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 6 (12.50%) SQLite
4 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.08%) Metadata
4 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.08%) MySQL
4 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (39.58%) JIRA
2 6 (12.50%) Git
2 6 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 6 (12.50%) Octopus Deploy
2 6 (12.50%) SonarQube
2 6 (12.50%) TeamCity
3 2 (4.17%) Selenium
3 2 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.08%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.08%) JUnit
4 1 (2.08%) Mockito
General
1 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Finance
3 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.17%) Banking
5 2 (4.17%) Electronics
5 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.17%) Marketing
5 2 (4.17%) Police
5 2 (4.17%) Retail
6 1 (2.08%) Back Office
6 1 (2.08%) Games
6 1 (2.08%) Law
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.08%) Local Government
6 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) Lead
2 10 (20.83%) Agile Delivery Lead
2 10 (20.83%) Analyst
3 9 (18.75%) Developer
4 8 (16.67%) Business Analyst
5 6 (12.50%) Applications Developer
5 6 (12.50%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 6 (12.50%) Mobile Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Product Owner
7 2 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Embedded Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Lead Embedded Software Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Scrum Master
7 2 (4.17%) Test Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Web Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Website Manager
8 1 (2.08%) CRM Consultant
8 1 (2.08%) Data Manager
8 1 (2.08%) Security Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) .NET
1 6 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 4 (8.33%) RESTful
3 2 (4.17%) JSON
4 1 (2.08%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (2.08%) OpenAPI
4 1 (2.08%) React
4 1 (2.08%) REST
4 1 (2.08%) SOAP
4 1 (2.08%) Spring
4 1 (2.08%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.08%) Swagger
4 1 (2.08%) XML
4 1 (2.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 7 (14.58%) Social Media
3 6 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (12.50%) Mobile App
4 5 (10.42%) Management Information System
5 3 (6.25%) Educational Technology
6 2 (4.17%) Analogue Electronics
6 2 (4.17%) Device Driver
7 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Unix
2 1 (2.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (89.58%) Agile
2 22 (45.83%) Scrum
3 21 (43.75%) Roadmaps
4 18 (37.50%) Sprint Planning
4 18 (37.50%) User Experience
5 14 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (29.17%) Project Management
5 14 (29.17%) User Stories
6 12 (25.00%) Project Delivery
6 12 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
6 12 (25.00%) Sprint Review
7 11 (22.92%) Acceptance Criteria
7 11 (22.92%) Backlog Management
7 11 (22.92%) DevOps
8 10 (20.83%) CI/CD
8 10 (20.83%) Product Backlog
8 10 (20.83%) SDLC
9 9 (18.75%) Backlog Refinement
9 9 (18.75%) Migration
10 8 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.67%) C#
2 7 (14.58%) JavaScript
2 7 (14.58%) SQL
3 2 (4.17%) C
3 2 (4.17%) Embedded C
3 2 (4.17%) Go
3 2 (4.17%) Python
4 1 (2.08%) Java
4 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.17%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) AUTOSAR
2 2 (4.17%) SLA
3 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (16.67%) Google
2 6 (12.50%) Apple
3 3 (6.25%) Oracle
4 2 (4.17%) SAP
5 1 (2.08%) Adobe
5 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.08%) Facebook
5 1 (2.08%) Instagram
5 1 (2.08%) YouTube