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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 405 429 469
Rank change year-on-year +24 +40 +114
Permanent jobs citing Sprint Retrospective 110 139 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.37% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.42% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 36 47 52
10th Percentile £41,925 £43,850 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,438 £45,875 £44,722
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -7.69% +16.07%
75th Percentile £65,500 £67,500 £71,313
90th Percentile £74,375 £72,500 £79,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -3.70%

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 33,444 33,009 27,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.71% 88.20% 90.56%
Number of salaries quoted 19,110 15,194 20,646
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,760 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,435
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +56 61 £45,000 - 2
South East -9 23 £55,000 -15.38% 14
South West +11 11 £62,500 +4.17% 6
North of England -7 9 £65,000 +39.78% 8
West Midlands +32 6 £50,000 -16.67% 3
Midlands +29 6 £50,000 -16.67% 4
North West +5 3 £65,000 +39.78% 3
Yorkshire -5 3 £68,750 +50.27% 3
North East - 3 £57,500 - 2
Wales +5 1 £41,500 -9.78% 5
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 21 (19.09%) Confluence
2 1 (0.91%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (8.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.91%) Sketch
3 1 (0.91%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.91%) Primavera
1 1 (0.91%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (71.82%) Azure
2 68 (61.82%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (46.36%) GitHub
4 41 (37.27%) GitHub Copilot
5 27 (24.55%) Snowflake
6 19 (17.27%) dbt
7 12 (10.91%) Salesforce Einstein
8 10 (9.09%) AWS
8 10 (9.09%) Power Platform
8 10 (9.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 10 (9.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 6 (5.45%) SaaS
10 5 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.64%) Serverless
12 3 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.73%) GCP
13 2 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (1.82%) iPaaS
13 2 (1.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.45%) DHCP
1 6 (5.45%) DNS
1 6 (5.45%) Firewall
1 6 (5.45%) NAS
1 6 (5.45%) SAN
1 6 (5.45%) TCP/IP
1 6 (5.45%) VLAN
1 6 (5.45%) Wireless
2 1 (0.91%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.91%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.91%) RFID
2 1 (0.91%) SMS
2 1 (0.91%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (24.55%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (12.73%) Snowflake Schema
3 9 (8.18%) Power BI
4 8 (7.27%) Tableau
5 5 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.64%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.82%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.91%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 43 (39.09%) JIRA
2 8 (7.27%) Selenium
3 7 (6.36%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.45%) GitLab
5 4 (3.64%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.64%) Git
5 4 (3.64%) WebDriver
6 3 (2.73%) JUnit
7 2 (1.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.82%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.82%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.82%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.82%) TestRail
8 1 (0.91%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.91%) Gradle
General
1 64 (58.18%) Finance
2 57 (51.82%) Social Skills
3 45 (40.91%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (21.82%) Marketing
5 8 (7.27%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.64%) Front Office
6 4 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.64%) Law
7 2 (1.82%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.91%) Advertising
8 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Retail
8 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (34.55%) Senior
2 16 (14.55%) Analyst
3 13 (11.82%) Developer
4 8 (7.27%) Business Analyst
5 7 (6.36%) Product Owner
5 7 (6.36%) Software Engineer
6 6 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Project Manager
7 5 (4.55%) Software Developer
8 4 (3.64%) Data Business Analyst
8 4 (3.64%) Scrum Master
8 4 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (3.64%) Senior Business Analyst
8 4 (3.64%) Senior Manager
8 4 (3.64%) Senior Project Manager
8 4 (3.64%) Senior Technical Analyst
8 4 (3.64%) Systems Analyst
8 4 (3.64%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (3.64%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (23.64%) REST
2 23 (20.91%) SOAP
3 22 (20.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 10 (9.09%) .NET
5 7 (6.36%) React
5 7 (6.36%) Spring
6 5 (4.55%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.55%) CSS
6 5 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (4.55%) HTML
6 5 (4.55%) RESTful
7 4 (3.64%) HTML5
7 4 (3.64%) Playwright
7 4 (3.64%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.73%) ASP.NET
8 3 (2.73%) CSS3
8 3 (2.73%) Hibernate
8 3 (2.73%) Node.js
9 2 (1.82%) Express.js
9 2 (1.82%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 56 (50.91%) Product Ownership
2 25 (22.73%) Cloud Native
3 15 (13.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (8.18%) Onboarding
5 8 (7.27%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.82%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.82%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.91%) IoT
9 1 (0.91%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (100.00%) Agile
2 109 (99.09%) Sprint Planning
3 78 (70.91%) DevOps
4 70 (63.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 59 (53.64%) CI/CD
6 57 (51.82%) Asset Management
6 57 (51.82%) Coaching
7 54 (49.09%) AI
8 51 (46.36%) Test Automation
9 41 (37.27%) Clean Code
9 41 (37.27%) Data Modelling
10 33 (30.00%) Mentoring
11 29 (26.36%) Backlog Refinement
11 29 (26.36%) Observability
12 22 (20.00%) Analytics
12 22 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
12 22 (20.00%) Scrum
12 22 (20.00%) User Stories
13 21 (19.09%) Migration
14 19 (17.27%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 22 (20.00%) Apex Code
1 22 (20.00%) SQL
2 13 (11.82%) Python
3 12 (10.91%) C#
3 12 (10.91%) Java
4 8 (7.27%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.73%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.82%) Bash
6 2 (1.82%) C++
6 2 (1.82%) Delphi
7 1 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (10.00%) Degree
2 10 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.45%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.64%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.64%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.82%) CCNA
6 2 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.82%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.91%) CBAP
7 1 (0.91%) CSPO
7 1 (0.91%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.91%) PMP
7 1 (0.91%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.73%) Accessibility
2 11 (10.00%) QA
3 3 (2.73%) PMO
4 1 (0.91%) GDPR
4 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (5.45%) Docker
1 6 (5.45%) Hyper-V
1 6 (5.45%) Virtual Machines
1 6 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (5.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.64%) Grafana
3 2 (1.82%) Nessus
3 2 (1.82%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (20.91%) Salesforce
2 13 (11.82%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.45%) LogicMonitor
3 6 (5.45%) Palo Alto
3 6 (5.45%) VMware
4 4 (3.64%) Charles River
5 3 (2.73%) Oracle
5 3 (2.73%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.82%) Cisco
6 2 (1.82%) Databricks
6 2 (1.82%) Google
7 1 (0.91%) Adobe