Sprint Retrospective Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Sprint Retrospectives
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Sprint Retrospective skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 131 140
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 +50
Contract jobs citing Sprint Retrospective 29 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.04% 0.15% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.18% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 3 5
10th Percentile £314 £403 £440
25th Percentile £348 £449 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -32.95% +1.85% +17.39%
75th Percentile £482 £581 £575
90th Percentile £577 £585 £586
England median daily rate £480 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -8.57% +5.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.75 £62.26 £75.00
% change year-on-year +8.82% -16.99% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Sprint Retrospective 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,491 2,223 2,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 89.25% 83.48% 84.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,610 1,401 1,691
10th Percentile £250 £255 £249
25th Percentile £363 £373 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £667 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 67 109
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.68 £13.94
25th Percentile £17.69 £17.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £21.30 £23.60 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% -14.18% +56.61%
75th Percentile £26.51 £37.34 £51.50
90th Percentile £40.46 £53.50 £67.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

Sprint Retrospective
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Sprint Retrospective relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Sprint Retrospective job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Sprint Retrospective.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Sprint Retrospective

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Retrospective in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sprint Retrospective in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Sprint Retrospective.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Sprint Retrospective

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
West Midlands 0 17 £476 -15.42% 10
East Midlands -1 12 £358 -7.08% 6
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (24.14%) Confluence
2 4 (13.79%) SAS
3 1 (3.45%) CMS
3 1 (3.45%) nginx
3 1 (3.45%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) Azure
2 4 (13.79%) OpenShift
3 2 (6.90%) AWS
3 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) Asana
4 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) Kong
4 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.45%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Power BI
1 1 (3.45%) SAS Visual Analytics
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (34.48%) JIRA
2 5 (17.24%) Git
2 5 (17.24%) JUnit
3 4 (13.79%) GitLab
3 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 4 (13.79%) Selenium
4 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.45%) Mockito
4 1 (3.45%) Postman
4 1 (3.45%) TestPartner
General
1 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Marketing
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Automotive
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Scrum Master
2 4 (13.79%) Analyst
2 4 (13.79%) Lead
2 4 (13.79%) Test Automation Specialist
2 4 (13.79%) Test Specialist
3 3 (10.34%) Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Product Owner
4 2 (6.90%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.90%) QA Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) QA Test Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Salesforce Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Salesforce Business Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Test Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Data Analytics Specialist
5 1 (3.45%) Digital Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 1 (3.45%) Innovation Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) pytest
2 3 (10.34%) REST
3 2 (6.90%) .NET
3 2 (6.90%) HTML
3 2 (6.90%) RESTful
3 2 (6.90%) SOAP
3 2 (6.90%) Spring
3 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (3.45%) CSS
4 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.45%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.45%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.45%) LINQ
4 1 (3.45%) Middleware
4 1 (3.45%) Web Services
4 1 (3.45%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (37.93%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.34%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.90%) SCADA
4 1 (3.45%) Animation
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) IoT
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Agile
2 24 (82.76%) Sprint Planning
3 21 (72.41%) Scrum
4 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (31.03%) DevOps
5 9 (31.03%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (27.59%) Sprint Review
7 7 (24.14%) Backlog Management
7 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
7 7 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (24.14%) Decision-Making
8 6 (20.69%) Containerisation
8 6 (20.69%) Resource Allocation
8 6 (20.69%) SDLC
8 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
8 6 (20.69%) Test Strategy
8 6 (20.69%) User Stories
9 5 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (17.24%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 5 (17.24%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) Python
2 2 (6.90%) C#
2 2 (6.90%) Java
2 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
2 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) Degree
3 2 (6.90%) PMI Certification
3 2 (6.90%) PMP
4 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) Automotive SPICE
3 1 (3.45%) ISO 26262
3 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.45%) PSD2
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) DocuSign
2 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) Sitecore