Sprint Review Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Sprint Reviews
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Sprint Review skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
12 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 323 368
Rank change year-on-year -9 +45 +86
Contract jobs citing Sprint Review 59 23 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.17% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.19% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 11 22
10th Percentile £347 £400 -
25th Percentile £447 £450 £65
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £375
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +40.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £542 £591 £513
90th Percentile £665 £600 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 2
10th Percentile £47.88 £66.40 £61.91
25th Percentile £52.19 £66.64 £63.27
Median hourly rate £55.00 £67.50 £66.04
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +2.22% -31.21%
75th Percentile £58.75 £73.61 £68.30
90th Percentile £60.00 £76.52 £69.36
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £67.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -18.52% +8.87% -35.42%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Sprint Review 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 15,291 12,110 17,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.17% 87.95% 87.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,354 7,075 10,854
10th Percentile £222 £239 £250
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,670 680 1,286
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.26 £20.00 £17.02
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.11 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -20.86% -31.42% +59.64%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.16 £73.75 £76.77
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.25 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.00% -20.38% +16.41%

Sprint Review
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Sprint Review relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Sprint Review job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Sprint Review
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Sprint Review.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Sprint Review

Sprint Review
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Review in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Sprint Review in the UK excluding London

Sprint Review
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Sprint Review.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Sprint Review

Sprint Review
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Sprint Review in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Sprint Review in the UK excluding London

Sprint Review
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 Review within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England -30 21 £485 +7.78% 7
South East -11 15 £525 -9.48% 6
East of England -9 11 £538 - 3
Yorkshire -31 9 £468 +3.89% 4
Scotland +8 6 £500 +25.00%
North West -26 6 £533 +18.33% 2
Midlands -42 6 £348 -39.57% 7
North East - 6 - - 1
East Midlands -17 4 £348 -
South West -16 3 £525 -3.67% 2
West Midlands -35 2 - - 7
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Sprint Review
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (16.95%) Confluence
2 4 (6.78%) Apache
2 4 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.78%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.78%) SAS
3 1 (1.69%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.69%) CMS
3 1 (1.69%) Drupal
3 1 (1.69%) Mendix
3 1 (1.69%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.64%) Azure
2 10 (16.95%) OpenShift
3 8 (13.56%) AWS
4 5 (8.47%) GCP
4 5 (8.47%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.78%) Snowflake
6 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.39%) GitHub
8 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.69%) Google Ads
8 1 (1.69%) iPaaS
8 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.69%) Oracle CX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.78%) Big Data
2 4 (6.78%) Cognos Framework Manager
2 4 (6.78%) Cognos Report Studio
2 4 (6.78%) Hadoop
2 4 (6.78%) Power BI
3 3 (5.08%) Cognos Transformer
3 3 (5.08%) OLAP
3 3 (5.08%) OLAP Cube
4 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (28.81%) JIRA
2 9 (15.25%) Git
3 6 (10.17%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.08%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.08%) JUnit
4 3 (5.08%) TestNG
5 2 (3.39%) Selenium
6 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.69%) Gradle
6 1 (1.69%) Maven
6 1 (1.69%) MSI
6 1 (1.69%) Postman
6 1 (1.69%) REST Assured
General
1 19 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.03%) Finance
3 10 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.86%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.78%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Marketing
7 1 (1.69%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.69%) Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 13 (22.03%) Product Owner
2 12 (20.34%) Developer
3 9 (15.25%) Scrum Master
4 4 (6.78%) Cognos Developer
4 4 (6.78%) Data Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
4 4 (6.78%) Java Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Lead
4 4 (6.78%) Python Data Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Python Engineer
4 4 (6.78%) Software Engineer
5 3 (5.08%) Analyst
5 3 (5.08%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.08%) Software Developer
6 2 (3.39%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) Project Manager
6 2 (3.39%) QA Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) Salesforce Analyst
6 2 (3.39%) Salesforce Business Analyst
6 2 (3.39%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.56%) RESTful
2 6 (10.17%) AngularJS
2 6 (10.17%) Quarkus
3 5 (8.47%) React
3 5 (8.47%) REST
4 4 (6.78%) Spring
5 2 (3.39%) Hibernate
5 2 (3.39%) Kafka
5 2 (3.39%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.69%) .NET
6 1 (1.69%) CSS
6 1 (1.69%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.69%) MUnit
6 1 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.69%) RAML
6 1 (1.69%) SOAP
6 1 (1.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 31 (52.54%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.78%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (6.78%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.39%) PMI
4 1 (1.69%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.69%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.69%) NHS
4 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (94.92%) Agile
2 48 (81.36%) Sprint Planning
3 33 (55.93%) Sprint Retrospective
4 30 (50.85%) Scrum
5 19 (32.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (30.51%) User Stories
7 16 (27.12%) Test Automation
8 15 (25.42%) Acceptance Criteria
8 15 (25.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (25.42%) DevOps
9 14 (23.73%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 13 (22.03%) Roadmaps
11 11 (18.64%) Backlog Management
11 11 (18.64%) CI/CD
11 11 (18.64%) Software Engineering
12 10 (16.95%) Product Backlog
13 9 (15.25%) Product Vision
14 8 (13.56%) Backlog Prioritisation
14 8 (13.56%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (13.56%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.03%) Java
2 8 (13.56%) Python
3 5 (8.47%) SQL
3 5 (8.47%) TypeScript
4 3 (5.08%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.69%) Bash
5 1 (1.69%) C#
5 1 (1.69%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (28.81%) Security Cleared
2 13 (22.03%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.78%) Degree
4 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.08%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.39%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.39%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.69%) CBAP
6 1 (1.69%) CSPO
6 1 (1.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.34%) QA
2 3 (5.08%) GDPR
2 3 (5.08%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.39%) PSD2
4 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.69%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (6.78%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (20.34%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.17%) Argo
3 3 (5.08%) Terraform
4 2 (3.39%) Grafana
5 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) Red Hat
3 4 (6.78%) Cognos
3 4 (6.78%) Databricks
3 4 (6.78%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.78%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.08%) IBM
4 3 (5.08%) Progress
5 2 (3.39%) DocuSign
5 2 (3.39%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.69%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.69%) Google
6 1 (1.69%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.69%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle
6 1 (1.69%) SAP
6 1 (1.69%) Splunk
27 Sprint Review jobs in the UK excluding London