Sprint Retrospective Contracts

Sprint Retrospectives
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Sprint Retrospective skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sprint Retrospective over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 493 572 540
Rank change year-on-year +79 -32 +12
Contract jobs citing Sprint Retrospective 91 125 323
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.23% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.25% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 81 202
10th Percentile £373 £363 £388
25th Percentile £450 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year - -4.31% +16.11%
75th Percentile £549 £575 £617
90th Percentile £606 £663 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - £54.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year - -14.62% -9.64%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £67.25
90th Percentile - £77.19 £68.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.86 £64.13
% change year-on-year - +18.30% -8.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Retrospective over the 6 months to 12 June 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 12 June 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 +43 68 £510 -1.07% 35
London +47 39 £525 +1.94% 14
Work from Home +110 34 £500 +3.90% 20
UK excluding London +12 26 £475 -2.56% 27
North of England +23 11 £430 -17.11% 3
South East +13 9 £481 -0.26% 8
North East - 7 £480 - 1
North West +16 4 £385 -23.00%
Midlands +13 4 £518 +3.50% 4
West Midlands +15 2 £650 +26.83% 4
East Midlands +6 2 £370 -26.00%
Scotland +41 1 £475 +14.46% 4
East of England -1 1 - - 1

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 6 (6.59%) Confluence
2 1 (1.10%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (9.89%) Trello
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.38%) Azure
2 10 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (7.69%) AWS
4 3 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (3.30%) GitHub
4 3 (3.30%) PaaS
4 3 (3.30%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.20%) Azure API Management
5 2 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (2.20%) NuGet
5 2 (2.20%) SaaS
5 2 (2.20%) Veeva
6 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.10%) GCP
6 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.10%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.10%) IaaS
6 1 (1.10%) OCI
6 1 (1.10%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.89%) SSH
2 1 (1.10%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.30%) Power BI
2 2 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (1.10%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (34.07%) JIRA
2 9 (9.89%) Cucumber
2 9 (9.89%) JUnit
3 6 (6.59%) Git
4 4 (4.40%) Selenium
5 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.20%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.10%) ClearCase
6 1 (1.10%) ClearQuest
6 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.10%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.10%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (1.10%) Spinnaker
General
1 51 (56.04%) Social Skills
2 22 (24.18%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (15.38%) Finance
4 12 (13.19%) Banking
5 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.59%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.40%) Billing
7 4 (4.40%) Electronics
7 4 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.30%) Front Office
8 3 (3.30%) Marketing
8 3 (3.30%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Multimedia
10 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (29.67%) Scrum Master
2 16 (17.58%) Developer
3 11 (12.09%) Java Developer
4 10 (10.99%) Lead
5 9 (9.89%) Analyst
6 8 (8.79%) Business Analyst
6 8 (8.79%) Senior
7 6 (6.59%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (6.59%) Full Stack Developer
7 6 (6.59%) Product Owner
7 6 (6.59%) Project Manager
8 5 (5.49%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Agile Business Analyst
9 4 (4.40%) Scala Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Scala Software Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Senior Scala Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Data Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.09%) REST
1 11 (12.09%) SOAP
2 10 (10.99%) J2EE
2 10 (10.99%) XML
3 9 (9.89%) Hibernate
3 9 (9.89%) JPA
3 9 (9.89%) JSON
3 9 (9.89%) Spring
3 9 (9.89%) Web Services
4 5 (5.49%) CSS
4 5 (5.49%) HTML
4 5 (5.49%) Node.js
4 5 (5.49%) React
5 4 (4.40%) http4s
5 4 (4.40%) JWT
5 4 (4.40%) Lambda Expressions
5 4 (4.40%) RESTful
6 3 (3.30%) .NET
6 3 (3.30%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.20%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 38 (41.76%) Product Ownership
2 10 (10.99%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (9.89%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (6.59%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.40%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (4.40%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.40%) Video\Live Streaming
7 3 (3.30%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.30%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.20%) Credit Risk
8 2 (2.20%) Wiki
9 1 (1.10%) Blockchain
9 1 (1.10%) Digital Media
9 1 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (1.10%) PMI
9 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.09%) Linux
2 9 (9.89%) Unix
3 1 (1.10%) Windows
3 1 (1.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (94.51%) Agile
2 85 (93.41%) Sprint Planning
3 66 (72.53%) Scrum
4 53 (58.24%) Sprint Review
5 39 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (36.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (24.18%) Kanban
8 20 (21.98%) Acceptance Criteria
9 19 (20.88%) User Stories
10 18 (19.78%) Project Delivery
10 18 (19.78%) Project Management
11 17 (18.68%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (17.58%) SDLC
13 15 (16.48%) CI/CD
13 15 (16.48%) Decision-Making
14 14 (15.38%) Coaching
14 14 (15.38%) DevOps
14 14 (15.38%) Product Backlog
15 13 (14.29%) Computer Science
15 13 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 23 (25.27%) Java
2 16 (17.58%) SQL
3 9 (9.89%) Python
4 8 (8.79%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.59%) Perl
5 6 (6.59%) Scala
6 5 (5.49%) C#
7 4 (4.40%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.20%) Bicep
8 2 (2.20%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.10%) C
9 1 (1.10%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (14.29%) Degree
2 11 (12.09%) Security Cleared
3 10 (10.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (8.79%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.40%) CSPO
6 2 (2.20%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.10%) CBAP
7 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (25.27%) QA
2 3 (3.30%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.30%) PMO
3 2 (2.20%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (7.69%) Terraform
2 4 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.20%) Ansible
4 1 (1.10%) Grafana
4 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 5 (5.49%) Google
2 5 (5.49%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.40%) Okta
3 4 (4.40%) Roku
4 3 (3.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.20%) Oracle
6 1 (1.10%) Citrix
6 1 (1.10%) Databricks
6 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.10%) SAP