Sprint Retrospective Contracts

Sprint Retrospectives
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Sprint Retrospective skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sprint Retrospective over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 487 560 551
Rank change year-on-year +73 -9 -40
Contract jobs citing Sprint Retrospective 89 124 315
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.22% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.24% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 71 196
10th Percentile £400 £363 £388
25th Percentile £450 £414 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year - -1.72% +13.06%
75th Percentile £540 £560 £614
90th Percentile £618 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +1.33% -6.25% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - - £55.00
25th Percentile £51.25 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £54.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% -12.09%
75th Percentile £53.75 £75.43 £63.25
90th Percentile - £78.52 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.86 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +26.43% -14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Sprint Retrospective is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

Sprint Retrospective
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sprint Retrospective as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sprint Retrospective in the UK

Sprint Retrospective
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sprint Retrospective.

Daily rate trend for Sprint Retrospective in the UK

Sprint Retrospective
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Retrospective over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sprint Retrospective in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sprint Retrospective.

Hourly rate trend for Sprint Retrospective in the UK

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Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
England +75 70 £514 -0.19% 35
London +82 45 £525 +2.19% 12
Work from Home +106 32 £475 -5.00% 20
UK excluding London +28 23 £475 +1.33% 27
South East +10 10 £475 -7.77% 9
North of England +23 5 £491 -1.75% 4
Midlands +23 4 £518 +3.50% 4
North West +20 3 £418 -14.36% 4
East of England +7 3 £250 -56.99% 1
West Midlands +23 2 £650 +26.83% 4
East Midlands +12 2 £370 -26.00%
North East - 2 £533 -
Scotland +24 1 £475 +15.85% 4

Sprint Retrospective
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.49%) Confluence
2 1 (1.12%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.85%) Azure
2 10 (11.24%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (8.99%) AWS
4 5 (5.62%) GCP
5 3 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (3.37%) GitHub
5 3 (3.37%) PaaS
6 2 (2.25%) Azure API Management
6 2 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.25%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (2.25%) NuGet
6 2 (2.25%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.25%) SaaS
6 2 (2.25%) Veeva
7 1 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.12%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.12%) IaaS
7 1 (1.12%) OCI
7 1 (1.12%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.87%) SSH
2 1 (1.12%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (2.25%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.25%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.25%) Power BI
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (26.97%) JIRA
2 7 (7.87%) Cucumber
2 7 (7.87%) JUnit
3 5 (5.62%) Git
4 2 (2.25%) GitLab
4 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.25%) Selenium
4 2 (2.25%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.12%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.12%) Jaeger
5 1 (1.12%) Spinnaker
General
1 42 (47.19%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.36%) Finance
4 9 (10.11%) Banking
5 5 (5.62%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.49%) Billing
6 4 (4.49%) Electronics
6 4 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.49%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.37%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Front Office
8 2 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.25%) Marketing
8 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.12%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (40.45%) Scrum Master
2 15 (16.85%) Developer
3 9 (10.11%) Java Developer
4 8 (8.99%) Lead
4 8 (8.99%) Senior
5 7 (7.87%) Full Stack Developer
5 7 (7.87%) Product Owner
6 6 (6.74%) Project Manager
7 5 (5.62%) Analyst
7 5 (5.62%) Business Analyst
7 5 (5.62%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (5.62%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Scala Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Scala Software Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Senior Scala Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Applications Manager
9 3 (3.37%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.11%) REST
1 9 (10.11%) SOAP
2 8 (8.99%) J2EE
2 8 (8.99%) XML
3 7 (7.87%) Hibernate
3 7 (7.87%) JPA
3 7 (7.87%) JSON
3 7 (7.87%) Spring
3 7 (7.87%) Web Services
4 6 (6.74%) CSS
4 6 (6.74%) HTML
4 6 (6.74%) Node.js
4 6 (6.74%) React
5 4 (4.49%) GraphQL
5 4 (4.49%) http4s
5 4 (4.49%) JWT
5 4 (4.49%) Lambda Expressions
5 4 (4.49%) RESTful
6 3 (3.37%) .NET
7 2 (2.25%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 45 (50.56%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.99%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.87%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (5.62%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.49%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (4.49%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.49%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (2.25%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.25%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.25%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.25%) Wiki
7 1 (1.12%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.12%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.12%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.12%) PMI
7 1 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.24%) Linux
2 7 (7.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (95.51%) Agile
2 83 (93.26%) Sprint Planning
3 68 (76.40%) Scrum
4 58 (65.17%) Sprint Review
5 36 (40.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (34.83%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (24.72%) Coaching
8 19 (21.35%) Kanban
8 19 (21.35%) User Stories
9 18 (20.22%) Product Backlog
10 17 (19.10%) DevOps
10 17 (19.10%) Project Delivery
11 16 (17.98%) Backlog Refinement
11 16 (17.98%) CI/CD
11 16 (17.98%) Computer Science
12 15 (16.85%) Acceptance Criteria
12 15 (16.85%) SDLC
13 14 (15.73%) Decision-Making
14 13 (14.61%) Continuous Integration
14 13 (14.61%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.22%) Java
2 15 (16.85%) SQL
3 10 (11.24%) Python
4 9 (10.11%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.62%) C#
5 5 (5.62%) Perl
6 4 (4.49%) Scala
7 3 (3.37%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.37%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (17.98%) Degree
2 10 (11.24%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (11.24%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.99%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.49%) CSPO
5 2 (2.25%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.25%) MBA
6 1 (1.12%) CBAP
6 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (21.35%) QA
2 2 (2.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.25%) PMO
3 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (4.49%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.25%) Docker
2 2 (2.25%) LXC
Systems Management
1 8 (8.99%) Terraform
2 4 (4.49%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.25%) Proxmox
4 1 (1.12%) Ansible
4 1 (1.12%) Grafana
4 1 (1.12%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (6.74%) Salesforce
2 5 (5.62%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.49%) Google
3 4 (4.49%) Okta
3 4 (4.49%) Roku
4 3 (3.37%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.25%) Oracle
5 2 (2.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Databricks
6 1 (1.12%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.12%) SAP