Sprint Backlog Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Sprint Backlogs
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Sprint Backlog skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 - 113
Rank change year-on-year - - +33
Contract jobs citing Sprint Backlog 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.11% - 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £456 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £588
75th Percentile £531 - £606
90th Percentile £543 - -
England median daily rate £475 £573 £543
% change year-on-year -17.03% +5.53% -3.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,371 1,243 1,593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.86% 90.27% 84.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,571 810 1,053
10th Percentile £300 £208 £275
25th Percentile £402 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 52 113
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £12.20
25th Percentile £16.10 £14.70 £16.54
Median hourly rate £21.52 £18.63 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.54% -19.02% +29.80%
75th Percentile £27.21 £29.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £47.50 £35.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £29.32 £35.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year -16.23% +3.63% -5.26%

Sprint Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Sprint Backlog relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Sprint Backlog job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Sprint Backlog
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Sprint Backlog.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Sprint Backlog

Sprint Backlog
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 March 2026. 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
Birmingham - 3 £500 - 2
Sprint Backlog
England

Sprint Backlog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Looker
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Law
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum Master
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Backlog Management
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Data Deduplication
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Intapp
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce