Sprint Backlog Contracts in England

Sprint Backlogs
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Sprint Backlog skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sprint Backlog over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 503 597
Rank change year-on-year +2 +94 +124
Contract jobs citing Sprint Backlog 11 22 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.040% 0.066% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% 0.076% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 17
10th Percentile £474 £386 £393
25th Percentile £511 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £544 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.29% +1.16% -10.42%
75th Percentile £613 £566 £588
90th Percentile £714 £604 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -10.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Sprint Backlog falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,027 28,787 40,527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.71% 85.92% 89.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,013 18,800 28,287
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £405 £420 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £666
90th Percentile £738 £758 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,396 1,684 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.15 £18.90
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% - +61.35%
75th Percentile £51.10 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.08 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Sprint Backlog in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Sprint Backlog in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Backlog in England over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sprint Backlog in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Sprint Backlog in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sprint Backlog within the England region over the 6 months to 4 August 2025. 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
North of England - 6 £636 - 2
London -3 3 £463 -2.63% 7
Yorkshire - 3 £700 - 1
North West - 3 £573 -
South West - 1 £513 -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Delta Lake
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
1 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) MLflow
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Project Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Automation Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Scrum Master
3 1 (9.09%) Agile Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Data Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow Manager
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Onboarding
2 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (90.91%) Scrum
3 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) Sprint Planning
4 6 (54.55%) Backlog Management
4 6 (54.55%) Backlog Refinement
4 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (45.45%) DevOps
5 5 (45.45%) Kanban
5 5 (45.45%) Sprint Retrospective
5 5 (45.45%) Sprint Review
5 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
6 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (36.36%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
6 4 (36.36%) Validation
7 3 (27.27%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) R
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) CCNA
1 3 (27.27%) CCNP
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
2 1 (9.09%) PMP
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) ServiceNow
2 4 (36.36%) Fortinet
2 4 (36.36%) Infoblox
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft