Sprint Retrospective Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Sprint Retrospectives
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Sprint Retrospective skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 107 110
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 +59
Contract jobs citing Sprint Retrospective 13 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.69% 0.16% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.19% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 4
10th Percentile £350 £529 £436
25th Percentile £381 £534 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £563 £545
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +3.21% +9.00%
75th Percentile £613 £584 £580
90th Percentile £705 £586 £588
England median daily rate £480 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -8.57% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.75 £62.26 £75.00
% change year-on-year +8.82% -16.99% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,711 1,557 1,727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 90.20% 82.95% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,081 980 1,162
10th Percentile £263 £231 £263
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 39 55
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.61 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.45 £16.38 £21.82
Median hourly rate £23.70 £23.60 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% -14.18% +55.19%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £53.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +33.65%

Sprint Retrospective
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Sprint Retrospective job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Sprint Retrospective
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Sprint Retrospective
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Retrospective in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 17 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sprint Retrospective in the West Midlands

Sprint Retrospective
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Sprint Retrospective.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Sprint Retrospective

Sprint Retrospective
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 Retrospective within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 October 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
Warwickshire +2 4 £563 -2.17%
Birmingham - 3 £575 - 2
Solihull - 3 £358 - 2
Shropshire - 2 £475 - 5
Coventry - 1 £388 - 2
Sprint Retrospective
England

Sprint Retrospective
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) CMS
2 1 (7.69%) nginx
2 1 (7.69%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (7.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) Asana
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Kong
3 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
3 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.69%) JUnit
2 1 (7.69%) Mockito
2 1 (7.69%) Postman
2 1 (7.69%) TestPartner
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Automotive
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Scrum Master
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) QA Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) QA Test Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Test Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (7.69%) Delivery Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Innovation Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Manual Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Portfolio Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Web Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Web Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
1 2 (15.38%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Camel
2 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
2 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (7.69%) CSS
2 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
2 1 (7.69%) LINQ
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) Spring
2 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.69%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Product Ownership
2 2 (15.38%) SCADA
3 1 (7.69%) Animation
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) IoT
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Agile
1 13 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
2 10 (76.92%) Scrum
3 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Servant Leadership
4 3 (23.08%) Sprint Review
5 2 (15.38%) Backlog Management
5 2 (15.38%) Budget Control
5 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
5 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (15.38%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (15.38%) Test Management
5 2 (15.38%) Test Scripting
5 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) C#
1 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) PMI Certification
1 2 (15.38%) PMP
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) Automotive SPICE
2 1 (7.69%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle
1 1 (7.69%) Sitecore