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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 482 573
Rank change year-on-year +90 +91 -18
Contract jobs citing Sprint Retrospective 137 89 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.21% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.24% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 63 72
10th Percentile £340 £400 £363
25th Percentile £400 £450 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% - -2.91%
75th Percentile £521 £540 £555
90th Percentile £574 £618 £671
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £475 £469
% change year-on-year +1.58% +1.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
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% -10.00%
75th Percentile £78.47 £53.75 £75.43
90th Percentile - - £78.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £73.23 - £75.86
% change year-on-year - - +23.10%

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 26,283 36,539 50,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.05% 86.04% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,842 23,560 35,264
10th Percentile £303 £300 £325
25th Percentile £409 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
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% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,070 2,438 1,684
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%
75th Percentile £59.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%

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

Sprint Retrospective
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Retrospective over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sprint Retrospective in the UK

Sprint Retrospective
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

Sprint Retrospective
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 22 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 +103 98 £494 -3.89% 152
Work from Home +68 58 £475 - 77
London +51 55 £500 -4.76% 71
UK excluding London +89 47 £483 +1.58% 106
North of England +29 16 £454 -7.68% 33
South East +50 13 £494 +4.00% 37
Midlands +17 8 £388 -25.12% 8
West Midlands +17 7 £388 -40.38% 5
North West +16 7 £395 -5.39% 16
Yorkshire - 7 £483 - 10
South West - 5 £513 - 7
Scotland +11 4 £550 +15.79% 5
North East +3 2 £519 -2.58% 8
East Midlands +4 1 £450 +21.62% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

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 45 (32.85%) Confluence
2 4 (2.92%) CMS
3 3 (2.19%) R Markdown
4 2 (1.46%) Apache
4 2 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.46%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.73%) Camunda
5 1 (0.73%) Drupal
5 1 (0.73%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (14.60%) Trello
2 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.73%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.73%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Shopify
2 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (22.63%) Azure
2 18 (13.14%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (12.41%) AWS
4 7 (5.11%) GitHub
4 7 (5.11%) SaaS
5 6 (4.38%) GCP
6 5 (3.65%) Miro
7 3 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.46%) Azure Stack
8 2 (1.46%) BigCommerce
8 2 (1.46%) BrowserStack
8 2 (1.46%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.46%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.46%) Sauce Labs
8 2 (1.46%) Serverless
9 1 (0.73%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.73%) IaaS
9 1 (0.73%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.65%) DNS
2 3 (2.19%) Broadband
2 3 (2.19%) DHCP
3 2 (1.46%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.92%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.19%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.46%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.46%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.73%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.73%) DB2
5 1 (0.73%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.73%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.73%) MySQL
5 1 (0.73%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 68 (49.64%) JIRA
2 21 (15.33%) Git
3 11 (8.03%) Jenkins
4 10 (7.30%) Postman
5 9 (6.57%) Cypress.io
6 8 (5.84%) GitLab
7 7 (5.11%) Bitbucket
7 7 (5.11%) REST Assured
8 6 (4.38%) JMeter
9 4 (2.92%) webpack
10 3 (2.19%) Selenium
10 3 (2.19%) TeamCity
10 3 (2.19%) TestNG
10 3 (2.19%) Travis CI
11 2 (1.46%) Browser DevTools
11 2 (1.46%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.46%) Grunt
11 2 (1.46%) Moq
11 2 (1.46%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (1.46%) Vite
General
1 78 (56.93%) Social Skills
2 38 (27.74%) Public Sector
3 26 (18.98%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (14.60%) Finance
5 11 (8.03%) Banking
6 9 (6.57%) Marketing
7 5 (3.65%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.92%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.19%) Retail
10 2 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.46%) Electronics
10 2 (1.46%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.46%) Local Government
10 2 (1.46%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.73%) Back Office
11 1 (0.73%) Front Office
11 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (24.09%) Scrum Master
2 28 (20.44%) Analyst
3 21 (15.33%) Business Analyst
3 21 (15.33%) Developer
4 11 (8.03%) Senior
5 10 (7.30%) Delivery Manager
6 9 (6.57%) Project Manager
7 8 (5.84%) Lead
8 7 (5.11%) Data Analyst
8 7 (5.11%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.38%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 6 (4.38%) Tester
10 5 (3.65%) .NET Developer
10 5 (3.65%) Digital Analyst
10 5 (3.65%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (2.92%) Data Business Analyst
11 4 (2.92%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (2.92%) Technical Manager
11 4 (2.92%) Technical Project Manager
11 4 (2.92%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.68%) CSS
2 13 (9.49%) AngularJS
2 13 (9.49%) HTML
3 10 (7.30%) HTML5
3 10 (7.30%) React
4 7 (5.11%) .NET
4 7 (5.11%) ASP.NET
4 7 (5.11%) RESTful
5 6 (4.38%) CSS3
5 6 (4.38%) Node.js
5 6 (4.38%) Vue
6 5 (3.65%) .NET Core
6 5 (3.65%) Next.js
7 4 (2.92%) Jest
7 4 (2.92%) Sass
8 3 (2.19%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (2.19%) GraphQL
8 3 (2.19%) Kafka
8 3 (2.19%) Shiny
8 3 (2.19%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 45 (32.85%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.65%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (3.65%) Virtual Team
3 3 (2.19%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.19%) Credit Risk
3 3 (2.19%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.46%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.46%) NHS
5 1 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.73%) Equities
5 1 (0.73%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.73%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.73%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.73%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.73%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.19%) Linux
2 2 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.46%) Rocky
2 2 (1.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (97.08%) Agile
2 121 (88.32%) Sprint Planning
3 75 (54.74%) Scrum
4 45 (32.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 45 (32.85%) Sprint Review
5 44 (32.12%) DevOps
5 44 (32.12%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (27.74%) Kanban
7 35 (25.55%) Product Backlog
8 33 (24.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (23.36%) Acceptance Criteria
9 32 (23.36%) CI/CD
10 31 (22.63%) Backlog Management
10 31 (22.63%) Backlog Refinement
10 31 (22.63%) User Stories
11 25 (18.25%) Project Management
11 25 (18.25%) User Experience
11 25 (18.25%) User Research
12 18 (13.14%) Coaching
12 18 (13.14%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 18 (13.14%) JavaScript
2 16 (11.68%) TypeScript
3 11 (8.03%) SQL
4 10 (7.30%) Python
5 9 (6.57%) C#
5 9 (6.57%) Java
6 3 (2.19%) Bash
6 3 (2.19%) PHP
6 3 (2.19%) R
7 2 (1.46%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.46%) Ruby
8 1 (0.73%) C++
8 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (18.25%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.41%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.76%) Degree
4 7 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.19%) CEH
5 3 (2.19%) CISSP
5 3 (2.19%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.46%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.73%) CSPO
7 1 (0.73%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.52%) Accessibility
2 20 (14.60%) QA
3 5 (3.65%) WCAG
4 3 (2.19%) GDPR
5 2 (1.46%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.73%) Automotive SPICE
6 1 (0.73%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.73%) EMIR
6 1 (0.73%) GRC
6 1 (0.73%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.73%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (8.03%) Docker
2 2 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (8.76%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.92%) Kibana
3 3 (2.19%) Ansible
3 3 (2.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (8.03%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.65%) SAP
3 4 (2.92%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.19%) Databricks
4 3 (2.19%) Google
4 3 (2.19%) Palantir
4 3 (2.19%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.46%) Adobe
5 2 (1.46%) Amplitude
5 2 (1.46%) Pega
5 2 (1.46%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.73%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.73%) Brio
6 1 (0.73%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.73%) Greenplum
6 1 (0.73%) IBM
6 1 (0.73%) Oracle
6 1 (0.73%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.73%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.73%) Workday