Sprint Retrospective Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Sprint Retrospectives
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Sprint Retrospective skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 471 620
Rank change year-on-year -24 +149 -59
Permanent jobs citing Sprint Retrospective 120 88 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.26% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.30% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59 58 73
10th Percentile £40,900 £38,925 £37,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,031 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +9.52% -16.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £69,000 £69,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -15.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Sprint Retrospective falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,249 29,752 58,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.69% 88.49% 80.20%
Number of salaries quoted 35,358 15,903 40,637
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,254 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%

Sprint Retrospective
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Sprint Retrospective relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Sprint Retrospective job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Sprint Retrospective
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Sprint Retrospective.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Sprint Retrospective

Sprint Retrospective
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Sprint Retrospective in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Sprint Retrospective in the UK excluding London

Sprint Retrospective
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sprint Retrospective within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -26 30 £62,500 +16.28% 15
Northern Ireland - 27 - - 1
South East -39 24 £65,000 - 13
South West -51 17 £52,500 +5.00% 6
Midlands -24 13 £53,750 -15.69% 13
North West -7 12 £80,000 +45.45% 10
Yorkshire -25 10 £62,500 +40.45% 3
West Midlands -13 8 £44,543 -40.61% 5
North East -42 8 £47,500 - 2
East of England -11 5 £65,000 +10.64% 4
East Midlands -27 4 £56,250 +15.38% 8
Wales -49 3 £75,000 +11.11% 3
Scotland -4 1 £85,000 +112.50% 3
Sprint Retrospective
UK

Sprint Retrospective
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (15.00%) Confluence
2 1 (0.83%) Apache
2 1 (0.83%) Apache Solr
2 1 (0.83%) CMS
2 1 (0.83%) IIS
2 1 (0.83%) SAS
2 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.83%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.83%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Trello
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.83%) Integrated Workplace Management System
1 1 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (36.67%) Azure
2 29 (24.17%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (21.67%) AWS
4 15 (12.50%) GitHub
5 10 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (6.67%) SaaS
7 7 (5.83%) GCP
8 5 (4.17%) Serverless
9 3 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.50%) Figma
10 2 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.67%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.67%) BlazeMeter
10 2 (1.67%) Lucidchart
11 1 (0.83%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.83%) BrowserStack
11 1 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.83%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.83%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.50%) DHCP
1 3 (2.50%) DNS
1 3 (2.50%) Firewall
2 1 (0.83%) 5G
2 1 (0.83%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.50%) MySQL
2 2 (1.67%) Big Data
2 2 (1.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.83%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (22.50%) JIRA
2 14 (11.67%) Git
3 12 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 9 (7.50%) GitLab
5 7 (5.83%) Cucumber
6 6 (5.00%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.17%) Maven
7 5 (4.17%) Postman
7 5 (4.17%) REST Assured
7 5 (4.17%) Selenium
8 4 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (3.33%) JMeter
8 4 (3.33%) JUnit
9 3 (2.50%) Claude Code
9 3 (2.50%) Mockito
10 2 (1.67%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.67%) Gradle
10 2 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.83%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.83%) WebDriver
General
1 45 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 30 (25.00%) Legal
3 28 (23.33%) Law
3 28 (23.33%) Legal Technology
4 23 (19.17%) Finance
5 18 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.83%) Banking
7 7 (5.83%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.33%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.50%) Marketing
9 3 (2.50%) Retail
10 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.67%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.67%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (37.50%) Developer
2 43 (35.83%) Senior
3 34 (28.33%) Senior Developer
4 16 (13.33%) Scrum Master
5 12 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 10 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
7 8 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (6.67%) Lead
8 7 (5.83%) Analyst
8 7 (5.83%) Java Developer
9 6 (5.00%) Test Engineer
10 4 (3.33%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.33%) Business Analyst
10 4 (3.33%) Senior Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.33%) Senior Manager
10 4 (3.33%) Tester
11 3 (2.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 3 (2.50%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 3 (2.50%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (2.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (28.33%) .NET
2 11 (9.17%) React
3 8 (6.67%) Playwright
4 7 (5.83%) Spring
5 5 (4.17%) REST
5 5 (4.17%) Vue
6 4 (3.33%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.33%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (3.33%) RESTful
6 4 (3.33%) Visualforce
7 3 (2.50%) HTML
7 3 (2.50%) JSON
7 3 (2.50%) Node.js
7 3 (2.50%) Ruby on Rails
7 3 (2.50%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.50%) YAML
8 2 (1.67%) Jest
8 2 (1.67%) NestJS
8 2 (1.67%) NgRx
8 2 (1.67%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 33 (27.50%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.83%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (3.33%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.33%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.33%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.50%) Life Science
6 3 (2.50%) NHS
6 3 (2.50%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.50%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.67%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.67%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.67%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.67%) PKI
8 1 (0.83%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.17%) Linux
2 2 (1.67%) Unix
2 2 (1.67%) Windows
3 1 (0.83%) Android
3 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (97.50%) Agile
2 116 (96.67%) Sprint Planning
3 77 (64.17%) CI/CD
4 68 (56.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 64 (53.33%) Scrum
6 54 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (37.50%) Acceptance Criteria
8 44 (36.67%) DevOps
8 44 (36.67%) Software Engineering
9 43 (35.83%) Software Testing
10 42 (35.00%) Microservices
11 34 (28.33%) Technology Strategy
11 34 (28.33%) Test Automation
12 33 (27.50%) Sprint Review
13 32 (26.67%) Kanban
14 31 (25.83%) Workflow
15 29 (24.17%) API Development
15 29 (24.17%) Architectural Patterns
15 29 (24.17%) Business Strategy
15 29 (24.17%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 33 (27.50%) C#
2 24 (20.00%) Java
3 21 (17.50%) JavaScript
3 21 (17.50%) Python
4 13 (10.83%) SQL
5 7 (5.83%) Ruby
5 7 (5.83%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.00%) Bash
7 4 (3.33%) Apex Code
7 4 (3.33%) C
8 3 (2.50%) C++
8 3 (2.50%) Groovy
8 3 (2.50%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.50%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.67%) PHP
9 2 (1.67%) Rust
10 1 (0.83%) Go
10 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.17%) Degree
3 16 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.50%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.50%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.83%) CSPO
7 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.83%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (40.83%) QA
2 9 (7.50%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.33%) WCAG
4 3 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (2.50%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.67%) GDPR
5 2 (1.67%) SLA
6 1 (0.83%) GRC
6 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.83%) PMO
6 1 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (12.50%) Docker
2 3 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.50%) Hyper-V
2 3 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.83%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (10.83%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.00%) Terraform
3 4 (3.33%) Ansible
3 4 (3.33%) Grafana
4 3 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.67%) Kibana
5 2 (1.67%) logstash
6 1 (0.83%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (7.50%) Salesforce
2 8 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.33%) Oracle
4 3 (2.50%) VMware
5 1 (0.83%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.83%) New Relic
5 1 (0.83%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.83%) Planon
5 1 (0.83%) Progress
5 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow