Hybrid/Remote Sprint Retrospective Contract Job Trends

Sprint Retrospectives
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Sprint Retrospective skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 270 322
Rank change year-on-year +25 +52 +134
Contract jobs citing Sprint Retrospective 73 54 37
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.71% 0.47% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.52% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 43 20
10th Percentile £354 £357 -
25th Percentile £400 £420 £65
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £522 £591 £488
90th Percentile £542 £638 £600
UK median daily rate £485 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -7.62% +10.53% -12.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £32.30 £57.33 -
25th Percentile £39.18 £58.94 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.75 £62.26 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +18.59% -30.00%
75th Percentile £93.75 £64.95 £53.75
90th Percentile - £66.19 -
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £67.02 £71.75
% change year-on-year +10.80% -6.59% -4.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,280 10,293 14,823
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.63% 89.30% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,119 6,460 10,109
10th Percentile £331 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 210 372
10th Percentile £15.47 £18.04 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.36 £22.00 £27.19
Median hourly rate £43.00 £35.63 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.70% -32.78% -7.83%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.01 £70.02
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

Sprint Retrospective
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Sprint Retrospective and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Sprint Retrospective job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Sprint Retrospective
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Sprint Retrospective.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Sprint Retrospective

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Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Sprint Retrospective over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Sprint Retrospective daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Sprint Retrospective.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Sprint Retrospective

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Sprint Retrospective over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Sprint Retrospective hourly rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid working options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 22 (30.14%) Confluence
2 4 (5.48%) SAS
3 1 (1.37%) CMS
3 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.37%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.37%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.37%) Sketch
3 1 (1.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.74%) Primavera
2 1 (1.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 24 (32.88%) Azure
2 15 (20.55%) GitHub
3 13 (17.81%) AWS
4 12 (16.44%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (12.33%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (6.85%) CloudBees
6 5 (6.85%) OpenShift
7 4 (5.48%) SaaS
8 3 (4.11%) Figma
8 3 (4.11%) GCP
8 3 (4.11%) Google Analytics
8 3 (4.11%) Lucidchart
9 2 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.74%) Cohesity
9 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.74%) PaaS
9 2 (2.74%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.74%) Serverless
10 1 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.37%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.96%) HTTP
2 2 (2.74%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.74%) MySQL
1 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database
1 2 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.37%) Metadata
2 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.37%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 35 (47.95%) JIRA
2 22 (30.14%) Jenkins
3 17 (23.29%) Git
4 13 (17.81%) GitLab
5 11 (15.07%) Selenium
6 10 (13.70%) Postman
7 7 (9.59%) Cucumber
7 7 (9.59%) TestRail
7 7 (9.59%) Zephyr
8 6 (8.22%) SpecFlow
9 4 (5.48%) JUnit
10 3 (4.11%) webpack
11 2 (2.74%) Bitbucket
11 2 (2.74%) Browser DevTools
11 2 (2.74%) REST Assured
11 2 (2.74%) Vite
12 1 (1.37%) Cypress.io
12 1 (1.37%) JMeter
12 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
12 1 (1.37%) Subversion
General
1 30 (41.10%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.07%) Public Sector
3 10 (13.70%) Finance
4 8 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.22%) Marketing
6 4 (5.48%) Banking
7 3 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.11%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.74%) Back Office
8 2 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.74%) Retail
9 1 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.37%) Local Government
9 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (12.33%) Developer
2 8 (10.96%) Scrum Master
3 7 (9.59%) Automation Engineer
3 7 (9.59%) Lead
3 7 (9.59%) Product Owner
3 7 (9.59%) Tester
4 6 (8.22%) Project Manager
5 5 (6.85%) Automation Tester
5 5 (6.85%) Data Protection Engineer
5 5 (6.85%) Senior
6 4 (5.48%) Analyst
6 4 (5.48%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Test Specialist
7 3 (4.11%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.11%) Technical Manager
8 2 (2.74%) Manual Tester
8 2 (2.74%) Senior Manager
8 2 (2.74%) Senior Project Manager
8 2 (2.74%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.18%) REST
2 10 (13.70%) JSON
3 8 (10.96%) CSS
3 8 (10.96%) HTML
4 7 (9.59%) XML
5 6 (8.22%) Playwright
6 5 (6.85%) pytest
6 5 (6.85%) React
6 5 (6.85%) RESTful
7 4 (5.48%) Vue
8 3 (4.11%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.11%) HTML5
8 3 (4.11%) Jest
8 3 (4.11%) Spring
8 3 (4.11%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.74%) .NET
9 2 (2.74%) Laravel
9 2 (2.74%) Next.js
9 2 (2.74%) Sass
9 2 (2.74%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 30 (41.10%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (4.11%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.74%) Blog
3 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.74%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.37%) Animation
4 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.37%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (90.41%) Agile
2 63 (86.30%) Sprint Planning
3 51 (69.86%) Scrum
4 32 (43.84%) DevOps
5 30 (41.10%) CI/CD
6 28 (38.36%) User Stories
7 25 (34.25%) Test Automation
8 21 (28.77%) Backlog Refinement
9 19 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (24.66%) SDLC
10 18 (24.66%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (23.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (20.55%) Sprint Review
13 13 (17.81%) User Experience
14 11 (15.07%) Acceptance Criteria
14 11 (15.07%) Analytics
14 11 (15.07%) Containerisation
14 11 (15.07%) Kanban
15 10 (13.70%) API Testing
15 10 (13.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (26.03%) Python
2 11 (15.07%) Java
3 9 (12.33%) JavaScript
4 7 (9.59%) C#
5 6 (8.22%) Bash
5 6 (8.22%) SQL
5 6 (8.22%) XPath
6 3 (4.11%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.74%) PHP
8 1 (1.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) Degree
4 2 (2.74%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.74%) PMP
5 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.37%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.07%) Accessibility
2 8 (10.96%) QA
3 5 (6.85%) WCAG
4 3 (4.11%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.74%) GDPR
6 1 (1.37%) PMO
6 1 (1.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (13.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (12.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.59%) Ansible
2 7 (9.59%) NetBackup
3 2 (2.74%) Puppet
3 2 (2.74%) Terraform
4 1 (1.37%) Grafana
4 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (9.59%) Commvault
1 7 (9.59%) Red Hat
2 6 (8.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.22%) Salesforce
3 5 (6.85%) Veritas
4 3 (4.11%) Google
4 3 (4.11%) Progress
5 2 (2.74%) Adobe
5 2 (2.74%) Amplitude
5 2 (2.74%) Oracle
6 1 (1.37%) Databricks
6 1 (1.37%) FNZ
6 1 (1.37%) Hotjar
6 1 (1.37%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.37%) SAP
6 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.37%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.37%) Snow