Hybrid/Remote Sprint Review Contract Job Trends

Sprint Reviews
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Sprint Review skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 285 333
Rank change year-on-year +11 +48 +152
Contract jobs citing Sprint Review 46 33 40
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.45% 0.28% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.32% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 17 23
10th Percentile £371 £412 -
25th Percentile £456 £420 £65
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £613
90th Percentile £640 £615 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £58.25 £53.13
25th Percentile - £61.25 £55.96
Median hourly rate £27.71 £67.02 £61.29
Median % change year-on-year -58.65% +9.36% -38.72%
75th Percentile - £67.89 £65.99
90th Percentile - £68.40 £68.44
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £67.26 £62.00
% change year-on-year -21.94% +8.48% -35.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,299 10,367 15,093
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.82% 89.19% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,130 6,519 10,315
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 £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 210 363
10th Percentile £15.30 £18.04 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £28.32
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.63 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.30% -34.63% -1.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.01 £70.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.30
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

Sprint Review
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Sprint Review job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Sprint Review over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Sprint Review 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 Review.

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

Sprint Review
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 7 (15.22%) Confluence
2 4 (8.70%) Apache
2 4 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (8.70%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.17%) CMS
4 1 (2.17%) Drupal
4 1 (2.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.17%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 18 (39.13%) Azure
2 11 (23.91%) AWS
2 11 (23.91%) GitHub
3 9 (19.57%) Power Platform
4 8 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (13.04%) GCP
5 6 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (10.87%) Azure AKS
6 5 (10.87%) OpenShift
7 4 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (8.70%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (8.70%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (8.70%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (8.70%) Snowflake
7 4 (8.70%) Vertex AI
8 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
8 3 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.52%) Power Automate
8 3 (6.52%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) Power BI
2 4 (8.70%) Big Data
2 4 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (8.70%) DynamoDB
2 4 (8.70%) Hadoop
2 4 (8.70%) MongoDB
2 4 (8.70%) MySQL
2 4 (8.70%) NoSQL
2 4 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.52%) Star Schema
4 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.17%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.17%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (2.17%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 12 (26.09%) Git
1 12 (26.09%) Jenkins
2 10 (21.74%) JIRA
3 8 (17.39%) GitLab
4 5 (10.87%) JUnit
4 5 (10.87%) Snyk
5 4 (8.70%) Gatling
5 4 (8.70%) JMeter
5 4 (8.70%) Mockito
5 4 (8.70%) SonarQube
6 3 (6.52%) Postman
7 2 (4.35%) Bitbucket
7 2 (4.35%) Selenium
8 1 (2.17%) Storybook
8 1 (2.17%) TestNG
General
1 16 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 12 (26.09%) Finance
3 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.52%) Banking
6 3 (6.52%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.35%) Marketing
8 1 (2.17%) Back Office
8 1 (2.17%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.17%) Local Government
8 1 (2.17%) Retail
8 1 (2.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Developer
2 8 (17.39%) Product Owner
3 6 (13.04%) Java Developer
3 6 (13.04%) Lead
4 5 (10.87%) Data Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Python Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Senior
5 4 (8.70%) Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Business Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Python Data Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Finance Business Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Penetration Tester
6 2 (4.35%) PHP Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Product Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Scrum Master
6 2 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (30.43%) RESTful
2 10 (21.74%) REST
3 9 (19.57%) Spring
4 8 (17.39%) JSON
4 8 (17.39%) Spring Boot
5 6 (13.04%) Kafka
6 4 (8.70%) PyTorch
6 4 (8.70%) scikit-learn
6 4 (8.70%) Spring Cloud
6 4 (8.70%) TensorFlow
7 3 (6.52%) CSS
7 3 (6.52%) HTML
7 3 (6.52%) Vue
8 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
8 2 (4.35%) Laravel
8 2 (4.35%) LDAP
8 2 (4.35%) React
8 2 (4.35%) SailPoint
8 2 (4.35%) SOAP
8 2 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (36.96%) Product Ownership
2 7 (15.22%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.35%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (86.96%) Agile
2 35 (76.09%) Sprint Planning
3 23 (50.00%) Scrum
4 22 (47.83%) DevOps
5 19 (41.30%) CI/CD
6 15 (32.61%) Sprint Retrospective
7 14 (30.43%) Product Backlog
7 14 (30.43%) User Stories
8 12 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (23.91%) Acceptance Criteria
9 11 (23.91%) Backlog Refinement
10 10 (21.74%) Containerisation
10 10 (21.74%) Microservices
10 10 (21.74%) Roadmaps
10 10 (21.74%) Test Automation
11 9 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (19.57%) Data Modelling
11 9 (19.57%) DevSecOps
11 9 (19.57%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (17.39%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.91%) Python
2 10 (21.74%) Java
3 6 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.52%) SQL
5 2 (4.35%) Bash
5 2 (4.35%) PHP
5 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.17%) Bicep
6 1 (2.17%) C#
6 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.17%) R
6 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.57%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) Degree
4 2 (4.35%) CSPO
4 2 (4.35%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.35%) MBA
5 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.17%) CBAP
5 1 (2.17%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.17%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.17%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) GDPR
1 3 (6.52%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.35%) HIPAA
2 2 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.17%) SLA
3 1 (2.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (26.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (21.74%) Kubernetes
1 10 (21.74%) Terraform
2 5 (10.87%) Ansible
3 3 (6.52%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (4.35%) Grafana
4 2 (4.35%) Kibana
4 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.17%) Istio
5 1 (2.17%) linkerd
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) ServiceNow
2 5 (10.87%) Databricks
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.52%) Progress
4 2 (4.35%) CyberArk
4 2 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.35%) Okta
4 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.17%) Google
5 1 (2.17%) HubSpot
5 1 (2.17%) Hyperion
5 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle
5 1 (2.17%) Snow
5 1 (2.17%) Tagetik