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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 408 372 353
Rank change year-on-year -36 -19 +16
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 176 362 659
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.63% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.70% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 250 422
10th Percentile £363 £406 £409
25th Percentile £434 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -7.50% +4.17% +9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 15
10th Percentile £52.63 - £41.50
25th Percentile £54.69 £54.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £58.75 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +8.33% +6.19%
75th Percentile £62.19 £75.43 £64.13
90th Percentile £63.88 £82.50 £73.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £67.93 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +13.22% +6.19%

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 36,644 51,414 79,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.11% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,622 55,798
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,693 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
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% -5.27%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 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 -45 140 £503 -4.29% 98
London +8 88 £520 -5.45% 35
Work from Home +18 71 £488 -9.72% 45
UK excluding London -46 51 £463 -7.50% 74
South East -17 16 £425 -5.56% 19
Midlands +19 11 £438 -14.63% 15
North of England +7 10 £516 +11.62% 13
West Midlands +20 8 £525 -0.47% 11
Scotland +29 6 £575 +38.55% 4
East of England +9 6 £250 -46.67% 11
North West -2 5 £450 -2.70% 7
East Midlands +18 3 £370 -26.00% 4
Yorkshire +10 3 £500 +8.11% 4
North East +14 2 £533 +21.71% 2
South West -3 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 17 (9.66%) Confluence
2 5 (2.84%) CMS
3 3 (1.70%) IIS
4 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.57%) JBoss
5 1 (0.57%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.27%) Trello
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) SAP CO
1 2 (1.14%) SAP FI
1 2 (1.14%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.14%) SAP SD
1 2 (1.14%) VisionPLUS
1 2 (1.14%) Workfront
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (22.16%) Azure
2 26 (14.77%) AWS
3 24 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (5.11%) GitHub
5 7 (3.98%) Serverless
6 6 (3.41%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (3.41%) GCP
7 5 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.27%) Amazon EventBridge
8 4 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (2.27%) dbt
8 4 (2.27%) SaaS
9 3 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.70%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (1.70%) Contentful
9 3 (1.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.98%) SSH
2 1 (0.57%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
1 6 (3.41%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.70%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.14%) Delta Lake
3 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.14%) Power BI
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 58 (32.95%) JIRA
2 15 (8.52%) Git
3 11 (6.25%) Cucumber
4 10 (5.68%) JUnit
5 9 (5.11%) Jenkins
6 8 (4.55%) Cypress.io
6 8 (4.55%) Selenium
7 6 (3.41%) WebDriver
8 5 (2.84%) GitLab
9 4 (2.27%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.27%) SoapUI
9 4 (2.27%) TestNG
9 4 (2.27%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.70%) Gradle
10 3 (1.70%) JMeter
10 3 (1.70%) Maven
10 3 (1.70%) Mocha
10 3 (1.70%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.70%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (1.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 65 (36.93%) Social Skills
2 24 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.07%) Finance
4 18 (10.23%) Public Sector
5 15 (8.52%) Banking
6 7 (3.98%) Marketing
7 6 (3.41%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.84%) Billing
8 5 (2.84%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.27%) Electronics
9 4 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.27%) Retail
10 3 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.14%) Front Office
11 2 (1.14%) Law
11 2 (1.14%) Legal
11 2 (1.14%) Police
11 2 (1.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (23.30%) Scrum Master
2 24 (13.64%) Developer
3 20 (11.36%) Analyst
4 17 (9.66%) Business Analyst
4 17 (9.66%) Lead
5 16 (9.09%) Product Owner
5 16 (9.09%) Senior
6 15 (8.52%) Project Manager
7 12 (6.82%) Delivery Manager
8 10 (5.68%) Java Developer
9 9 (5.11%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.55%) Technical Leader
11 7 (3.98%) Full Stack Developer
12 6 (3.41%) Senior Manager
13 5 (2.84%) Senior Developer
13 5 (2.84%) Software Developer
13 5 (2.84%) Software Engineer
13 5 (2.84%) Web Manager
14 4 (2.27%) Automation Tester
14 4 (2.27%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.09%) REST
2 13 (7.39%) React
3 12 (6.82%) SOAP
4 11 (6.25%) Spring
4 11 (6.25%) XML
5 10 (5.68%) .NET
5 10 (5.68%) HTML
5 10 (5.68%) JSON
6 9 (5.11%) CSS
6 9 (5.11%) Node.js
7 8 (4.55%) Hibernate
7 8 (4.55%) J2EE
7 8 (4.55%) JPA
7 8 (4.55%) Web Services
8 7 (3.98%) RESTful
9 6 (3.41%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.84%) .NET Core
10 5 (2.84%) AngularJS
11 4 (2.27%) Lambda Expressions
11 4 (2.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 66 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.98%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (3.41%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.27%) Video\Live Streaming
5 4 (2.27%) Wiki
6 3 (1.70%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.14%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.14%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.14%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.25%) Linux
2 7 (3.98%) Unix
3 1 (0.57%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (93.75%) Agile
2 103 (58.52%) Scrum
3 83 (47.16%) Sprint Retrospective
4 69 (39.20%) Sprint Review
5 47 (26.70%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (25.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (23.30%) User Stories
8 39 (22.16%) DevOps
9 35 (19.89%) Backlog Refinement
10 33 (18.75%) Acceptance Criteria
11 32 (18.18%) Product Backlog
12 30 (17.05%) CI/CD
13 28 (15.91%) Kanban
14 25 (14.20%) Roadmaps
15 24 (13.64%) Project Delivery
15 24 (13.64%) Project Management
15 24 (13.64%) SDLC
16 22 (12.50%) Coaching
16 22 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
17 21 (11.93%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (13.07%) Java
2 22 (12.50%) SQL
3 21 (11.93%) Python
4 17 (9.66%) JavaScript
5 11 (6.25%) C#
6 5 (2.84%) Perl
7 4 (2.27%) Scala
7 4 (2.27%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.70%) C
8 3 (1.70%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.14%) Bicep
10 1 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (14.77%) Degree
2 21 (11.93%) Security Cleared
3 17 (9.66%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.84%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.27%) CSPO
6 4 (2.27%) MBA
7 3 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.14%) CBAP
8 2 (1.14%) ISEB
8 2 (1.14%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.57%) IIBA
9 1 (0.57%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.57%) PgMP
9 1 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (18.18%) QA
2 3 (1.70%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.70%) PMO
3 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (5.11%) Docker
2 4 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.14%) LXC
Systems Management
1 17 (9.66%) Terraform
2 4 (2.27%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.14%) Proxmox
4 1 (0.57%) Ansible
4 1 (0.57%) Grafana
4 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (6.82%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.68%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.84%) SAP
4 4 (2.27%) Google
4 4 (2.27%) Okta
4 4 (2.27%) Progress
4 4 (2.27%) Roku
4 4 (2.27%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.70%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (1.70%) Oracle
6 2 (1.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (1.14%) Zoho
7 1 (0.57%) Ariba
7 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.57%) Black Duck
7 1 (0.57%) Databricks
7 1 (0.57%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.57%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.57%) NCR
7 1 (0.57%) Splunk