Sprint Retrospective Contracts in the North West

Sprint Retrospectives
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Sprint Retrospective skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sprint Retrospective over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 118 149
Rank change year-on-year +14 +31 +25
Contract jobs citing Sprint Retrospective 19 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.86% 0.29% 0.066%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.35% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 1
10th Percentile £360 £367 -
25th Percentile £386 £371 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £418 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -22.33% +10.26%
75th Percentile £456 £450 £556
90th Percentile £471 - -
England median daily rate £478 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -9.05% +2.44% -2.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,935 2,016 2,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.07% 84.67% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 1,233 1,853
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £401 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% - +0.40%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £593
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 181 170
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.90 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% -4.41% +49.45%
75th Percentile £57.57 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.38 £70.90 £63.08
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +62.40%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Sprint Retrospective as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Sprint Retrospective in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sprint Retrospective in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Sprint Retrospective in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sprint Retrospective in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Sprint Retrospective in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Cheshire -13 10 £445 +6.65% 1
Manchester +13 8 £402 - 8
Lancashire - 1 £400 - 8
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (21.05%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) GitHub
2 3 (15.79%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.26%) DB2
2 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) MySQL
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) JIRA
2 6 (31.58%) Git
3 5 (26.32%) Cucumber
3 5 (26.32%) GitLab
3 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
3 5 (26.32%) JUnit
4 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (57.89%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Back Office
3 3 (15.79%) Banking
3 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Lead
3 5 (26.32%) Java Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Scrum Master
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Agile Scrum Master
5 1 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Service Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Service Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) React
1 7 (36.84%) REST
1 7 (36.84%) RESTful
2 6 (31.58%) Kafka
2 6 (31.58%) Spring
2 6 (31.58%) Spring Boot
3 3 (15.79%) HTML
3 3 (15.79%) Node.js
4 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
4 2 (10.53%) CSS
4 2 (10.53%) CSS3
4 2 (10.53%) GraphQL
4 2 (10.53%) HTML5
5 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.26%) jBPM
5 1 (5.26%) RAML
5 1 (5.26%) SOAP
5 1 (5.26%) Vue
5 1 (5.26%) Web Services
5 1 (5.26%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Agile
2 18 (94.74%) Sprint Planning
3 16 (84.21%) Scrum
4 10 (52.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (36.84%) SDLC
6 6 (31.58%) Microservices
6 6 (31.58%) Migration
6 6 (31.58%) Planning and Forecasting
6 6 (31.58%) Project Management
6 6 (31.58%) Resource Allocation
6 6 (31.58%) Risk Management
6 6 (31.58%) Waterfall
7 5 (26.32%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (26.32%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (26.32%) Release Management
7 5 (26.32%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (26.32%) TDD
8 4 (21.05%) Acceptance Criteria
8 4 (21.05%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Java
1 8 (42.11%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (57.89%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) TIBCO