Sprint Review Contracts

Sprint Reviews
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Sprint Review skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sprint Review 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 446 515 640
Rank change year-on-year +69 +125 +18
Contract jobs citing Sprint Review 74 83 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.22% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 53 44
10th Percentile £360 £65 £402
25th Percentile £406 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £587 £540 £591
90th Percentile £688 £650 £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £454 £385 £500
% change year-on-year +17.79% -23.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £66.42 £58.25 -
25th Percentile £66.68 £65.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.36 £65.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.42% - -
75th Percentile £76.04 £65.75 -
90th Percentile £77.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.36 £65.50 -
% change year-on-year +7.42% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,648 37,562 53,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.33% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,170 24,188 37,115
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 £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,066 2,451 1,742
10th Percentile £14.35 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.26 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%
75th Percentile £61.50 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%

Sprint Review
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Sprint Review in the UK

Sprint Review
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Sprint Review in the UK

Sprint Review
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Review over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sprint Review in the UK

Sprint Review
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Sprint Review in the UK

Sprint Review
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 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
England +39 56 £513 +2.50% 135
London +33 27 £519 -1.19% 29
Work from Home +42 26 £463 +2.78% 114
UK excluding London +52 25 £454 +17.79% 122
North of England +23 11 £477 +633.46% 31
North West +12 7 £573 +780.77% 16
South East +40 4 £422 -10.03% 36
Midlands +18 4 £450 +2.86% 21
South West +45 3 £545 - 14
Yorkshire - 3 £447 - 9
East Midlands +14 2 £404 +9.19% 8
West Midlands +14 2 £575 -11.54% 12
East of England +24 1 - - 14
North East -3 1 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £413 - 5

Sprint Review
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 22 (29.73%) Confluence
2 5 (6.76%) Alfresco
2 5 (6.76%) Camunda
3 4 (5.41%) Apache
4 1 (1.35%) CMS
4 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Trello
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.35%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
2 1 (1.35%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.32%) AWS
2 17 (22.97%) Azure
3 8 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.41%) GCP
4 4 (5.41%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (4.05%) Datadog
5 3 (4.05%) Miro
6 2 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.70%) PaaS
7 1 (1.35%) Apigee
7 1 (1.35%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.35%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.35%) IaaS
7 1 (1.35%) Kong
7 1 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.35%) SaaS
7 1 (1.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.35%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.46%) DHCP
1 7 (9.46%) DNS
2 5 (6.76%) Firewall
3 3 (4.05%) DOCSIS
3 3 (4.05%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.05%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (2.70%) Network Security
4 2 (2.70%) VLAN
4 2 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.81%) MongoDB
1 8 (10.81%) MySQL
1 8 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.11%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.41%) GIS
4 3 (4.05%) InfluxDB
4 3 (4.05%) Looker
4 3 (4.05%) Power BI
5 2 (2.70%) Redis
6 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (39.19%) JIRA
2 11 (14.86%) Jenkins
3 10 (13.51%) JUnit
4 6 (8.11%) GitLab
5 3 (4.05%) Gradle
6 2 (2.70%) Git
6 2 (2.70%) Maven
7 1 (1.35%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (1.35%) Liquibase
7 1 (1.35%) Mockito
7 1 (1.35%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (1.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.27%) Public Sector
3 14 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.81%) Finance
5 5 (6.76%) Banking
6 3 (4.05%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.70%) Automotive
7 2 (2.70%) Electronics
7 2 (2.70%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.70%) Marketing
8 1 (1.35%) Back Office
8 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.35%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (25.68%) Analyst
2 16 (21.62%) Business Analyst
2 16 (21.62%) Developer
3 15 (20.27%) Scrum Master
4 8 (10.81%) Senior
5 6 (8.11%) Data Analyst
6 5 (6.76%) Project Manager
6 5 (6.76%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.41%) Data Business Analyst
7 4 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.05%) Automation Developer
8 3 (4.05%) AWS Developer
8 3 (4.05%) Consultant
8 3 (4.05%) Lead
8 3 (4.05%) Microsoft 365 Manager
9 2 (2.70%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 2 (2.70%) Digital Analyst
9 2 (2.70%) Digital Business Analyst
9 2 (2.70%) Technical Manager
9 2 (2.70%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.86%) Spring Boot
2 10 (13.51%) Spring
3 9 (12.16%) HTML
3 9 (12.16%) REST
4 8 (10.81%) AngularJS
4 8 (10.81%) Hibernate
4 8 (10.81%) JPA
5 7 (9.46%) Kafka
6 5 (6.76%) Keycloak
7 4 (5.41%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (5.41%) React
7 4 (5.41%) XML
8 3 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (4.05%) Swagger
9 2 (2.70%) ADO
9 2 (2.70%) OAuth
9 2 (2.70%) OpenAPI
9 2 (2.70%) OpenID
9 2 (2.70%) Vue
10 1 (1.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 27 (36.49%) Product Ownership
2 7 (9.46%) PKI
3 4 (5.41%) Virtual Team
4 3 (4.05%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.05%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (2.70%) IoT
6 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.35%) FMCG
6 1 (1.35%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.35%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.22%) Linux
2 3 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (4.05%) Rocky
3 1 (1.35%) VxWorks
3 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (83.78%) Agile
2 57 (77.03%) Sprint Planning
3 44 (59.46%) Sprint Retrospective
4 35 (47.30%) Scrum
5 25 (33.78%) DevOps
6 22 (29.73%) Product Backlog
7 21 (28.38%) Backlog Management
7 21 (28.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (27.03%) User Stories
9 19 (25.68%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (24.32%) Acceptance Criteria
11 16 (21.62%) Backlog Refinement
11 16 (21.62%) CI/CD
12 14 (18.92%) Coaching
12 14 (18.92%) Project Management
13 13 (17.57%) Kanban
13 13 (17.57%) Microservices
14 12 (16.22%) Mentoring
14 12 (16.22%) Observability
14 12 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.92%) Java
2 8 (10.81%) Python
3 5 (6.76%) Bash
4 4 (5.41%) C++
4 4 (5.41%) SQL
5 3 (4.05%) C
5 3 (4.05%) Go
5 3 (4.05%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.05%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.70%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.35%) C#
7 1 (1.35%) JSX
Qualifications
1 25 (33.78%) Security Cleared
2 20 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.05%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.05%) CCNA
3 3 (4.05%) CCNP
3 3 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (4.05%) Degree
4 2 (2.70%) CSPO
5 1 (1.35%) APMP
5 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.35%) IIBA
5 1 (1.35%) ISEB
5 1 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.35%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.16%) QA
2 2 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.35%) Automotive SPICE
3 1 (1.35%) ISO 26262
3 1 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (16.22%) Docker
2 3 (4.05%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 14 (18.92%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.76%) Ansible
3 4 (5.41%) Terraform
4 3 (4.05%) Grafana
5 2 (2.70%) Istio
6 1 (1.35%) Argo
6 1 (1.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (13.51%) ServiceNow
2 8 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.76%) Fortinet
3 5 (6.76%) Infoblox
4 4 (5.41%) Splunk
5 3 (4.05%) Palantir
5 3 (4.05%) SAP
6 2 (2.70%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.35%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.35%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.35%) Databricks
7 1 (1.35%) Google
7 1 (1.35%) OpenLink
7 1 (1.35%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.35%) Trayport
7 1 (1.35%) Virgin Media
7 1 (1.35%) Wind River
7 1 (1.35%) Workday