Sprint Backlog Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Sprint Backlogs
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Sprint Backlog skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 162 177
Rank change year-on-year -68 +15 +38
Contract jobs citing Sprint Backlog 3 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.048% 0.091% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% 0.10% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £351 - £504
25th Percentile £352 £561 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £354 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -38.17% +4.09% -
75th Percentile £356 £664 £575
90th Percentile £357 £713 £583
England median daily rate £450 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -18.00% -0.23% +1.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,258 2,980 3,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.55% 89.98% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,311 1,913 2,432
10th Percentile £313 £263 £300
25th Percentile £400 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £564 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
England median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 158 364
10th Percentile £16.07 £13.64 £11.07
25th Percentile £22.68 £18.51 £12.50
Median hourly rate £54.00 £27.31 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +97.71% +54.13% -38.90%
75th Percentile £71.50 £58.10 £45.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.74 £57.50
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

Sprint Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Sprint Backlog job vacancy trend in the North of England

Sprint Backlog
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Sprint Backlog.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Sprint Backlog

Sprint Backlog
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 11 May 2026. 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 West -42 3 £354 -38.17%
Sprint Backlog
England

Sprint Backlog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum Master
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Scrum Master
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce Scrum Master
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Coaching
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Release Management
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 2 (66.67%) Servant Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Review
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance