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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 510 620
Rank change year-on-year +69 +110 +26
Contract jobs citing Sprint Review 84 75 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.20% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 45 45
10th Percentile £360 £373 £403
25th Percentile £402 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.15% -4.76% -0.47%
75th Percentile £584 £549 £615
90th Percentile £676 £650 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £464
% change year-on-year - -2.96% -10.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £58.25 -
25th Percentile £67.98 £65.25 -
Median hourly rate £73.23 £65.50 £75.86
Median % change year-on-year +11.79% -13.66% +37.93%
75th Percentile £78.47 £65.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £73.23 £65.50 £75.86
% change year-on-year +11.79% -13.66% +37.93%

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 26,222 36,703 50,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.02% 85.70% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,758 23,654 34,954
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% - +3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,099 2,498 1,668
10th Percentile £14.19 £12.74 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.80 £16.00 £15.70
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £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 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 29 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 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 Review within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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 +66 63 £513 +2.50% 323
UK excluding London +67 32 £450 - 313
London +50 30 £538 +4.57% 50
Work from Home +43 28 £437 -5.57% 281
North of England +21 17 £447 -2.56% 84
North West +15 13 £437 +16.47% 41
South East +38 5 £422 -10.03% 89
South West +46 4 £548 - 35
Midlands +11 4 £450 +2.86% 52
Yorkshire - 3 £447 - 34
West Midlands +14 2 £575 -11.54% 29
East Midlands +7 2 £404 +9.19% 20
North East -2 1 - - 9
Scotland - 1 £413 - 14
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

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 25 (29.76%) Confluence
2 6 (7.14%) Alfresco
2 6 (7.14%) Camunda
3 4 (4.76%) Apache
4 2 (2.38%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.19%) Drupal
5 1 (1.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (8.33%) Trello
2 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.19%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
2 1 (1.19%) Endur
2 1 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.24%) AWS
2 13 (15.48%) Azure
3 9 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.19%) Apigee
6 1 (1.19%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (1.19%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.19%) GCP
6 1 (1.19%) IaaS
6 1 (1.19%) Kong
6 1 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.19%) Miro
6 1 (1.19%) SaaS
6 1 (1.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.95%) Firewall
2 4 (4.76%) DHCP
2 4 (4.76%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (10.71%) MongoDB
2 9 (10.71%) MySQL
3 8 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.76%) GIS
5 2 (2.38%) Power BI
5 2 (2.38%) Redis
5 2 (2.38%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (35.71%) JIRA
2 11 (13.10%) JUnit
3 9 (10.71%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.14%) GitLab
5 3 (3.57%) Git
5 3 (3.57%) Gradle
6 2 (2.38%) Maven
6 2 (2.38%) Storybook
7 1 (1.19%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.19%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (1.19%) Liquibase
7 1 (1.19%) Mockito
7 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.24%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (17.86%) Finance
3 15 (17.86%) Public Sector
4 11 (13.10%) Banking
5 3 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Back Office
6 2 (2.38%) Electronics
6 2 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.38%) Marketing
6 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.19%) Automotive
7 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.19%) Front Office
7 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (23.81%) Analyst
1 20 (23.81%) Developer
2 19 (22.62%) Business Analyst
3 18 (21.43%) Scrum Master
4 9 (10.71%) Senior
5 6 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 5 (5.95%) Data Analyst
6 5 (5.95%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.76%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (3.57%) Automation Developer
8 3 (3.57%) AWS Developer
8 3 (3.57%) Consultant
8 3 (3.57%) Designer
8 3 (3.57%) Lead
8 3 (3.57%) Microsoft 365 Manager
8 3 (3.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (2.38%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (2.38%) IAM Project Manager
9 2 (2.38%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.29%) Spring
1 12 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 11 (13.10%) HTML
3 10 (11.90%) Hibernate
3 10 (11.90%) REST
4 9 (10.71%) AngularJS
4 9 (10.71%) JPA
5 8 (9.52%) Kafka
6 6 (7.14%) Keycloak
6 6 (7.14%) React
7 5 (5.95%) XML
8 4 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (3.57%) Node.js
9 3 (3.57%) Swagger
10 2 (2.38%) CSS
10 2 (2.38%) OAuth
10 2 (2.38%) OpenAPI
10 2 (2.38%) OpenID
10 2 (2.38%) Vue
11 1 (1.19%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 29 (34.52%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.52%) PKI
3 5 (5.95%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.19%) CMDB
6 1 (1.19%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.19%) Equities
6 1 (1.19%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.19%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.19%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.19%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.52%) Linux
2 3 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.57%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (76.19%) Agile
2 59 (70.24%) Sprint Planning
3 45 (53.57%) Sprint Retrospective
4 38 (45.24%) Scrum
5 28 (33.33%) DevOps
6 25 (29.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (27.38%) Backlog Management
7 23 (27.38%) User Stories
8 22 (26.19%) Product Backlog
9 21 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (22.62%) Acceptance Criteria
11 18 (21.43%) Backlog Refinement
12 15 (17.86%) Microservices
13 14 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
13 14 (16.67%) CI/CD
14 13 (15.48%) Stakeholder Management
15 12 (14.29%) Coaching
15 12 (14.29%) Project Management
15 12 (14.29%) SOLID
16 11 (13.10%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.67%) Java
2 6 (7.14%) Python
3 5 (5.95%) Bash
3 5 (5.95%) JavaScript
3 5 (5.95%) SQL
3 5 (5.95%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.19%) C#
4 1 (1.19%) JSX
4 1 (1.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 21 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.95%) Degree
4 3 (3.57%) CCNA
4 3 (3.57%) CCNP
4 3 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.57%) CSPO
5 1 (1.19%) APMP
5 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.19%) IIBA
5 1 (1.19%) ISEB
5 1 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.19%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.33%) QA
2 2 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.19%) Automotive SPICE
3 1 (1.19%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (1.19%) EMIR
3 1 (1.19%) ISO 26262
3 1 (1.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (19.05%) Docker
2 3 (3.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 17 (20.24%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.95%) Ansible
3 4 (4.76%) Terraform
4 2 (2.38%) Istio
5 1 (1.19%) Argo
5 1 (1.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (13.10%) ServiceNow
2 5 (5.95%) Fortinet
2 5 (5.95%) Infoblox
2 5 (5.95%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.57%) Palantir
3 3 (3.57%) SAP
4 2 (2.38%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.19%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.19%) Databricks
5 1 (1.19%) Google
5 1 (1.19%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.19%) OutSystems
5 1 (1.19%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.19%) Splunk
5 1 (1.19%) Trayport
5 1 (1.19%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.19%) Workday