Sprint Planning Contracts

Sprint Planning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Sprint Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sprint Planning over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 420 395 354
Rank change year-on-year -25 -41 +29
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 179 357 673
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.60% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.66% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 251 439
10th Percentile £317 £405 £408
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% +11.35%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £613
90th Percentile £660 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -7.89% - +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 18
10th Percentile £52.63 - £29.38
25th Percentile £54.69 £54.00 £52.19
Median hourly rate £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +4.17% +6.19%
75th Percentile £62.19 £69.38 £66.66
90th Percentile £63.88 £84.75 £70.41
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +12.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Sprint Planning 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 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Sprint Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Sprint Planning in the UK

Sprint Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Sprint Planning in the UK

Sprint Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Planning over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sprint Planning in the UK

Sprint Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Sprint Planning in the UK

Sprint Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Sprint Planning over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Sprint Planning in the UK

Sprint Planning
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sprint Planning within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -23 141 £503 -5.63% 89
London +3 86 £525 -4.55% 36
Work from Home +35 71 £488 -8.02% 39
UK excluding London -29 53 £438 -7.89% 65
North of England +14 16 £225 -51.35% 10
South East -15 14 £450 - 16
North West +7 12 £65 -85.95% 6
Midlands +21 10 £438 -14.63% 16
West Midlands +29 8 £525 - 15
Scotland +22 6 £575 +40.24% 7
East of England +14 5 £250 -42.86% 5
North East +19 2 £533 +21.71%
East Midlands +17 2 £370 -16.85% 1
Yorkshire +9 2 £550 +18.92% 4
South West +7 2 £320 -44.35% 10

Sprint Planning
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 16 (8.94%) Confluence
2 5 (2.79%) CMS
3 3 (1.68%) IIS
4 2 (1.12%) SAS
4 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.56%) JBoss
Applications
1 7 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.23%) Trello
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.91%) Primavera
2 2 (1.12%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.12%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.12%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.12%) SAP SD
2 2 (1.12%) VisionPLUS
2 2 (1.12%) Workfront
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (21.23%) Azure
2 30 (16.76%) AWS
3 25 (13.97%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (5.03%) GitHub
5 8 (4.47%) Serverless
6 7 (3.91%) Amazon Kinesis
6 7 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (3.91%) GCP
7 5 (2.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (2.79%) Amazon EventBridge
7 5 (2.79%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.79%) dbt
7 5 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.23%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (2.23%) PaaS
8 4 (2.23%) SaaS
9 3 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.68%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.68%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.91%) PPP
2 5 (2.79%) SSH
3 1 (0.56%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.91%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (2.79%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.68%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.12%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.12%) Power BI
4 2 (1.12%) Tableau
5 1 (0.56%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 56 (31.28%) JIRA
2 17 (9.50%) Git
3 9 (5.03%) Cucumber
3 9 (5.03%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.47%) JUnit
5 7 (3.91%) Cypress.io
5 7 (3.91%) Selenium
6 5 (2.79%) GitLab
6 5 (2.79%) WebDriver
7 4 (2.23%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.23%) SoapUI
7 4 (2.23%) TestNG
7 4 (2.23%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.68%) Gradle
8 3 (1.68%) JMeter
8 3 (1.68%) Maven
8 3 (1.68%) Mocha
8 3 (1.68%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.68%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 71 (39.66%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (10.06%) Finance
4 16 (8.94%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.59%) Banking
6 7 (3.91%) Marketing
6 7 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.79%) Billing
7 5 (2.79%) Electronics
7 5 (2.79%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.23%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.23%) Retail
9 3 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.68%) Law
9 3 (1.68%) Legal
9 3 (1.68%) Police
10 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.12%) Front Office
10 2 (1.12%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (21.79%) Scrum Master
2 23 (12.85%) Developer
3 17 (9.50%) Lead
3 17 (9.50%) Senior
4 16 (8.94%) Analyst
4 16 (8.94%) Product Owner
4 16 (8.94%) Project Manager
5 14 (7.82%) Business Analyst
6 12 (6.70%) Delivery Manager
7 10 (5.59%) Data Engineer
8 8 (4.47%) Java Developer
8 8 (4.47%) Technical Leader
9 7 (3.91%) Full Stack Developer
10 6 (3.35%) Senior Manager
11 5 (2.79%) AWS Data Engineer
11 5 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (2.79%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.79%) Software Developer
11 5 (2.79%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.79%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.38%) REST
2 12 (6.70%) React
3 11 (6.15%) SOAP
4 10 (5.59%) .NET
4 10 (5.59%) HTML
5 9 (5.03%) CSS
5 9 (5.03%) Node.js
5 9 (5.03%) Spring
5 9 (5.03%) XML
6 8 (4.47%) JSON
7 7 (3.91%) RESTful
8 6 (3.35%) Hibernate
8 6 (3.35%) J2EE
8 6 (3.35%) JPA
8 6 (3.35%) Spring Boot
8 6 (3.35%) Web Services
9 5 (2.79%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.79%) GraphQL
9 5 (2.79%) Lambda Expressions
9 5 (2.79%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 65 (36.31%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.35%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.79%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.79%) Wiki
5 4 (2.23%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.23%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.23%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.68%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.12%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.56%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.03%) Linux
2 5 (2.79%) Unix
3 1 (0.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (92.18%) Agile
2 104 (58.10%) Scrum
3 90 (50.28%) Sprint Retrospective
4 74 (41.34%) Sprint Review
5 47 (26.26%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (24.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 43 (24.02%) User Stories
7 41 (22.91%) DevOps
8 34 (18.99%) Backlog Refinement
9 33 (18.44%) Kanban
10 32 (17.88%) CI/CD
11 29 (16.20%) Acceptance Criteria
12 28 (15.64%) Product Backlog
13 27 (15.08%) Stakeholder Management
14 26 (14.53%) Backlog Management
15 25 (13.97%) Decision-Making
15 25 (13.97%) Project Delivery
16 24 (13.41%) Project Management
17 22 (12.29%) Coaching
17 22 (12.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.41%) Python
2 22 (12.29%) SQL
3 20 (11.17%) Java
4 16 (8.94%) JavaScript
5 11 (6.15%) C#
6 5 (2.79%) Perl
6 5 (2.79%) Scala
7 4 (2.23%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.68%) Bicep
8 3 (1.68%) C
8 3 (1.68%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.12%) R
10 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 32 (17.88%) Degree
2 29 (16.20%) Security Cleared
3 25 (13.97%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.79%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.23%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.23%) MBA
7 3 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.68%) CSPO
8 2 (1.12%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.56%) CBAP
9 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.56%) ISEB
9 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.56%) PgMP
9 1 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (16.20%) QA
2 3 (1.68%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.68%) PMO
3 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (5.03%) Docker
2 5 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.12%) LXC
Systems Management
1 20 (11.17%) Terraform
2 4 (2.23%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.12%) Proxmox
4 1 (0.56%) Ansible
4 1 (0.56%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (6.15%) Microsoft
1 11 (6.15%) Salesforce
2 5 (2.79%) Google
2 5 (2.79%) SAP
2 5 (2.79%) ServiceNow
3 4 (2.23%) Okta
3 4 (2.23%) Progress
3 4 (2.23%) Roku
4 3 (1.68%) Oracle
5 2 (1.12%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (1.12%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (1.12%) Zoho
6 1 (0.56%) Ariba
6 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.56%) Black Duck
6 1 (0.56%) Databricks
6 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.56%) NCR
6 1 (0.56%) Splunk