Sprint Backlog Contract Job Trends in the South West

Sprint Backlogs
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Sprint Backlog skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Sprint Backlog 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.035% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £573 £543
% change year-on-year -17.03% +5.53% -3.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,336 1,556 2,656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 80.77% 90.31% 84.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,264 995 1,708
10th Percentile £305 £225 £270
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £529
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -0.71% -3.69%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £713
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 416 106 332
10th Percentile £15.94 £25.13 £14.42
25th Percentile £23.16 £55.00 £29.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +33.42% -20.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £66.26
90th Percentile £66.63 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £29.32 £35.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year -16.23% +3.63% -5.26%

Sprint Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Sprint Backlog job vacancy trend in the South West

Sprint Backlog
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Sprint Backlog
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 March 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
Bristol - 1 £450 - 4
Sprint Backlog
England

Sprint Backlog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Looker
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum Master
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum