Sprint Backlog Contract Job Trends in the South East

Sprint Backlogs
England > South East

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 168 190
Rank change year-on-year -8 +22 +44
Contract jobs citing Sprint Backlog 2 3 11
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.046% 0.088% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.099% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile - - £387
25th Percentile £375 £575 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £387 £600 £535
Median % change year-on-year -35.58% +12.15% -17.37%
75th Percentile £398 £625 £558
90th Percentile - - £563
England median daily rate £513 £510 £545
% change year-on-year +0.49% -6.42% -0.91%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,633 3,022 4,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.25% 88.93% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,385 1,876 2,828
10th Percentile £224 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £517
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% -1.24% +1.92%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £615
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 112 258
10th Percentile £14.80 £19.37 £17.70
25th Percentile £17.00 £25.56 £26.00
Median hourly rate £23.58 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.53% -22.73% +26.44%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.63 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

Sprint Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Sprint Backlog job vacancy trend in the South East

Sprint Backlog
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Sprint Backlog.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Sprint Backlog

Sprint Backlog
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Berkshire -2 2 £387 -35.58%
Thames Valley -7 2 £387 -35.58%
Sprint Backlog
England

Sprint Backlog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Junior
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Junior DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Junior Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ADO
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Transformation
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (100.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) PMO