Sprint Retrospective Contract Job Trends in the North East

Sprint Retrospectives
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Sprint Retrospective skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 33 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Sprint Retrospective 2 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.59% 1.72% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.87% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £458 £355 -
25th Percentile £469 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £410 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% - -
75th Percentile £506 £480 -
90th Percentile £518 £528 -
England median daily rate £491 £533 £500
% change year-on-year -7.79% +6.50% -5.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 290 267 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 86.05% 92.07% 88.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 109 152
10th Percentile £170 £312 £260
25th Percentile £350 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +0.89% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £575
90th Percentile £600 £658 £648
England median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.05% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 33 13
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% -6.97% +82.86%
75th Percentile £51.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £54.00 £66.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

Sprint Retrospective
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Sprint Retrospective job vacancy trend in the North East

Sprint Retrospective
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

Sprint Retrospective
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
Tyne and Wear -14 2 £488 +18.90% 4
Sprint Retrospective
England

Sprint Retrospective
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Usability Testing
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) User Research
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) WCAG