Sprint Retrospective Contract Job Trends in the South West

Sprint Retrospectives
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Sprint Retrospective skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 129 146
Rank change year-on-year +2 +17 +39
Contract jobs citing Sprint Retrospective 9 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.39% 0.044% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.051% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £470 - £560
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £519 - £628
90th Percentile £530 - £669
England median daily rate £486 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -11.59% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £91.25 - £64.25
Median hourly rate £92.50 £67.02 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.02% -2.16% -
75th Percentile £93.75 - £72.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £62.26 £71.75
% change year-on-year +19.27% -13.23% -4.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,965 1,950 2,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 84.95% 86.59% 87.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,166 1,176 1,765
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £410 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 141 270
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £20.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £36.00 £45.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.90%

Sprint Retrospective
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Sprint Retrospective job vacancy trend in the South West

Sprint Retrospective
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Sprint Retrospective
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Sprint Retrospective.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Sprint Retrospective

Sprint Retrospective
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 Retrospective within the South West region over the 6 months to 4 December 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
Bristol - 3 - - 4
Gloucestershire - 3 £488 - 1
Devon - 2 - -
Wiltshire - 1 £525 - 1
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England

Sprint Retrospective
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe XD
2 1 (11.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Figma
3 1 (11.11%) Google Analytics
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Scrum Master
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) React Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Facilities Management Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Facilities Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Facilities Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Scrum Master
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Software Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (22.22%) React
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
1 9 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
2 7 (77.78%) Scrum
3 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (44.44%) DevOps
4 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (44.44%) User Stories
5 3 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
5 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
5 3 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Backlog Refinement
6 2 (22.22%) Budget Management
6 2 (22.22%) Clean Code
6 2 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (22.22%) Programme Delivery
6 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (22.22%) Sprint Review
6 2 (22.22%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) Hotjar