Sprint Backlog Contracts

Sprint Backlogs
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 544 657
Rank change year-on-year +37 +113 +104
Contract jobs citing Sprint Backlog 12 28 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.065% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.076% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 19
10th Percentile £436 £405 £413
25th Percentile £457 £470 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% -0.91% -5.66%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £600
90th Percentile £758 £588 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £573 £550 £567
% change year-on-year +4.09% -3.00% +5.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £68.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £68.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,538 36,713 50,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.00% 85.58% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,936 23,592 34,845
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £408 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,114 2,515 1,670
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.85 £36.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year -23.70% -0.73% +43.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%

Sprint Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sprint Backlog as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sprint Backlog in the UK

Sprint Backlog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sprint Backlog.

Daily rate trend for Sprint Backlog in the UK

Sprint Backlog
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Backlog over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sprint Backlog in the UK

Sprint Backlog
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sprint Backlog.

Hourly rate trend for Sprint Backlog in the UK

Sprint Backlog
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 31 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
England +39 9 £573 +4.09% 13
London +49 4 £525 - 7
UK excluding London +40 4 £573 +4.09% 6
North of England +16 3 £573 +4.09%
North West +8 3 £573 +4.09%
Work from Home +34 1 £440 -12.44% 15
South West - 1 £513 - 3

Sprint Backlog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (8.33%) Apache
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) GCP
1 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) MLflow
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Dutch Language
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) French Language
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Automation Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Agile Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Data Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Data Science Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Scrum Master
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (83.33%) Scrum
3 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (50.00%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Backlog Management
4 5 (41.67%) Sprint Planning
4 5 (41.67%) Sprint Review
4 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
5 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 4 (33.33%) Kanban
5 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 4 (33.33%) Task Automation
5 4 (33.33%) Validation
6 3 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) R
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) CCNA
1 3 (25.00%) CCNP
1 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow
2 4 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 4 (33.33%) Infoblox
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft