Sprint Retrospective Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Sprint Retrospectives
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Sprint Retrospective skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing Sprint Retrospective 2 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.70% 2.42% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 2.62% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £458 £355 -
25th Percentile £469 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £410 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% - -
75th Percentile £506 £480 -
90th Percentile £518 £528 -
North East median daily rate £488 £410 -
% change year-on-year +18.90% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 256 191 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 89.82% 92.27% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 87 105
10th Percentile £170 £312 £201
25th Percentile £350 £360 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £580
90th Percentile £600 £650 £716
North East median daily rate £450 £457 £450
% change year-on-year -1.53% +1.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 7
10th Percentile £14.13 £13.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £17.23 £15.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £17.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.26% +39.29%
75th Percentile £51.50 £50.00 £26.13
90th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £32.70
North East median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £32.00
% change year-on-year -35.34% -6.97% +82.86%

Sprint Retrospective
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Sprint Retrospective job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Sprint Retrospective
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Sprint Retrospective.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Sprint Retrospective

Sprint Retrospective
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -18 2 £488 +18.90% 3
Sprint Retrospective
North East

Sprint Retrospective
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Usability Testing
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) User Research
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) WCAG