Sprint Backlog Contracts in the UK excluding London

Sprint Backlogs
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Sprint Backlog skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sprint Backlog over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 381 426
Rank change year-on-year +46 +45 +61
Contract jobs citing Sprint Backlog 4 18 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.087% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.10% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 12
10th Percentile £523 £396 £515
25th Percentile £548 £498 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% -2.57% +7.27%
75th Percentile £624 £575 £615
90th Percentile £697 £588 £628
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £540
% change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £68.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £68.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Sprint Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Sprint Backlog as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Sprint Backlog in the UK excluding London

Sprint Backlog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sprint Backlog in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Sprint Backlog in the UK excluding London

Sprint Backlog
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Backlog in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sprint Backlog in the UK excluding London

Sprint Backlog
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sprint Backlog in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Sprint Backlog in the UK excluding London

Sprint Backlog
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
North of England +21 3 £573 +4.09% 3
North West +12 3 £573 +4.09% 2
South West - 1 £513 - 1
Sprint Backlog
UK

Sprint Backlog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Backlog Management
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (75.00%) Data Ingestion
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Sprint Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Sprint Review
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Data Collection
3 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) R
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNA
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (75.00%) Infoblox
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft