Sprint Retrospective Contracts

Sprint Retrospectives
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Sprint Retrospective skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sprint Retrospective over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 485 594
Rank change year-on-year +98 +109 -48
Contract jobs citing Sprint Retrospective 134 97 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.22% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.26% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 68 73
10th Percentile £340 £195 £363
25th Percentile £401 £430 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -2.44% +2.40%
75th Percentile £521 £549 £575
90th Percentile £588 £666 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £393 £463
% change year-on-year +25.86% -15.14% -6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.98 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £73.23 £52.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.48% -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £78.47 £53.75 £61.13
90th Percentile - - £73.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £73.23 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Sprint Retrospective
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Sprint Retrospective in the UK

Sprint Retrospective
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Sprint Retrospective in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Retrospective over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sprint Retrospective in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Sprint Retrospective in the UK

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Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +77 99 £497 -3.31% 108
Work from Home +61 55 £475 - 62
London +46 54 £500 -4.76% 51
UK excluding London +77 44 £494 +25.86% 80
South East +52 16 £494 +4.00% 27
North of England +21 13 £454 +597.69% 15
Midlands +24 7 £388 -40.38% 11
West Midlands +17 6 £388 -40.38% 6
Yorkshire - 6 £488 - 6
North West +13 5 £400 +515.38% 8
South West - 5 £513 - 9
Scotland +14 2 £519 +9.21% 5
North East 0 2 £519 -2.58% 1
East Midlands +9 1 £450 +21.62% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

Sprint Retrospective
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 42 (31.34%) Confluence
2 5 (3.73%) CMS
3 3 (2.24%) R Markdown
4 1 (0.75%) Apache
4 1 (0.75%) Camunda
4 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (12.69%) Trello
2 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Shopify
2 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (24.63%) Azure
2 18 (13.43%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (12.69%) AWS
4 11 (8.21%) SaaS
5 7 (5.22%) GCP
6 6 (4.48%) GitHub
6 6 (4.48%) Miro
7 4 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.24%) Datadog
8 3 (2.24%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.49%) Azure Stack
9 2 (1.49%) BigCommerce
9 2 (1.49%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.49%) PaaS
9 2 (1.49%) Sauce Labs
9 2 (1.49%) Serverless
10 1 (0.75%) Google Analytics
10 1 (0.75%) IaaS
10 1 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.22%) DNS
2 6 (4.48%) DHCP
3 3 (2.24%) Broadband
3 3 (2.24%) DOCSIS
3 3 (2.24%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.49%) Network Security
4 2 (1.49%) VLAN
4 2 (1.49%) Wireless
5 1 (0.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.24%) InfluxDB
2 3 (2.24%) Looker
2 3 (2.24%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.24%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.49%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.49%) Power BI
4 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 65 (48.51%) JIRA
2 22 (16.42%) Git
3 14 (10.45%) Jenkins
4 10 (7.46%) Cypress.io
4 10 (7.46%) Postman
5 8 (5.97%) Bitbucket
5 8 (5.97%) GitLab
6 7 (5.22%) REST Assured
7 6 (4.48%) JMeter
8 5 (3.73%) Selenium
9 4 (2.99%) TeamCity
9 4 (2.99%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (2.24%) TestNG
10 3 (2.24%) Travis CI
10 3 (2.24%) webpack
11 2 (1.49%) Balsamiq
11 2 (1.49%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.49%) Moq
11 2 (1.49%) SpecFlow
11 2 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 73 (54.48%) Social Skills
2 38 (28.36%) Public Sector
3 25 (18.66%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.19%) Finance
5 8 (5.97%) Marketing
6 7 (5.22%) Banking
7 6 (4.48%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.99%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.49%) Electronics
9 2 (1.49%) Local Government
9 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.49%) Retail
10 1 (0.75%) Automotive
10 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Law
10 1 (0.75%) Legal
10 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (21.64%) Scrum Master
2 28 (20.90%) Analyst
3 24 (17.91%) Developer
4 19 (14.18%) Business Analyst
5 12 (8.96%) Senior
6 10 (7.46%) Delivery Manager
7 8 (5.97%) Data Analyst
7 8 (5.97%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.22%) Lead
8 7 (5.22%) Project Manager
9 6 (4.48%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 6 (4.48%) Product Owner
9 6 (4.48%) Tester
10 5 (3.73%) .NET Developer
10 5 (3.73%) Digital Analyst
10 5 (3.73%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (3.73%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (3.73%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (2.99%) Automation Tester
11 4 (2.99%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.94%) CSS
2 15 (11.19%) AngularJS
3 14 (10.45%) HTML
4 11 (8.21%) React
5 10 (7.46%) HTML5
5 10 (7.46%) RESTful
6 7 (5.22%) .NET
6 7 (5.22%) ASP.NET
6 7 (5.22%) Vue
7 6 (4.48%) CSS3
8 5 (3.73%) .NET Core
8 5 (3.73%) Node.js
9 4 (2.99%) Next.js
9 4 (2.99%) YAML
10 3 (2.24%) .NET Framework
10 3 (2.24%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (2.24%) Entity Framework
10 3 (2.24%) Playwright
10 3 (2.24%) Sass
10 3 (2.24%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 49 (36.57%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.99%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.24%) Credit Risk
4 3 (2.24%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (2.24%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (1.49%) IoT
5 2 (1.49%) NHS
6 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.75%) Animation
6 1 (0.75%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.75%) FMCG
6 1 (0.75%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.48%) Linux
2 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.49%) Rocky
3 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (98.51%) Agile
2 120 (89.55%) Sprint Planning
3 74 (55.22%) Scrum
4 43 (32.09%) Sprint Review
5 42 (31.34%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (29.10%) Kanban
7 38 (28.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (28.36%) DevOps
7 38 (28.36%) Product Backlog
8 35 (26.12%) Acceptance Criteria
9 33 (24.63%) CI/CD
9 33 (24.63%) User Stories
10 30 (22.39%) Backlog Management
10 30 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
10 30 (22.39%) User Experience
11 29 (21.64%) Backlog Refinement
12 25 (18.66%) Project Management
12 25 (18.66%) User Research
13 22 (16.42%) Test Automation
14 21 (15.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.69%) JavaScript
1 17 (12.69%) TypeScript
2 11 (8.21%) C#
2 11 (8.21%) Python
3 10 (7.46%) Java
4 8 (5.97%) SQL
5 3 (2.24%) Bash
5 3 (2.24%) C
5 3 (2.24%) C++
5 3 (2.24%) Go
5 3 (2.24%) R
5 3 (2.24%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.49%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.49%) PHP
6 2 (1.49%) Ruby
7 1 (0.75%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 26 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.43%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.45%) Degree
4 6 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.24%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.24%) CEH
5 3 (2.24%) CISSP
5 3 (2.24%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.49%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.49%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.75%) CSPO
7 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (18.66%) Accessibility
2 23 (17.16%) QA
3 4 (2.99%) WCAG
4 3 (2.24%) GDPR
5 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.75%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (6.72%) Docker
2 2 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (7.46%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.99%) Ansible
2 4 (2.99%) Kibana
3 3 (2.24%) Grafana
3 3 (2.24%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (10.45%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.73%) SAP
3 4 (2.99%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.24%) Palantir
4 3 (2.24%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.24%) Splunk
5 2 (1.49%) Adobe
5 2 (1.49%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.49%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.75%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.75%) Brio
6 1 (0.75%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.75%) Databricks
6 1 (0.75%) Google
6 1 (0.75%) IBM
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle
6 1 (0.75%) Pega
6 1 (0.75%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.75%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.75%) Workday