Sprint Planning Contracts in England

Sprint Planning
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Sprint Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sprint Planning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 399 365
Rank change year-on-year +105 -34 -13
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 199 143 319
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.82% 0.38% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.44% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 91 224
10th Percentile £400 £260 £406
25th Percentile £450 £403 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -5.21% +2.93%
75th Percentile £588 £559 £588
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 8
10th Percentile £51.50 £52.63 -
25th Percentile £53.75 £54.69 £54.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £58.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -6.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £65.94 £62.19 £69.38
90th Percentile £67.63 £63.88 £84.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +10.64% -6.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Sprint Planning 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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Sprint Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Sprint Planning in England

Sprint Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Sprint Planning in England

Sprint Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Planning in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sprint Planning in England

Sprint Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Sprint Planning in England

Sprint Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Sprint Planning in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Sprint Planning in England

Sprint Planning
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +63 111 £525 - 185
South East +62 31 £506 +9.46% 127
North of England +26 23 £506 +125.00% 101
Midlands +24 13 £550 +25.71% 81
North West +18 13 £513 +688.46% 48
West Midlands +16 10 £563 +7.14% 45
South West +52 8 £545 +70.31% 59
Yorkshire +14 8 £425 -22.73% 41
East of England +28 3 £400 +60.00% 64
East Midlands +9 2 £675 +82.43% 32
North East 0 2 £519 -2.58% 12
Sprint Planning
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Sprint Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 31 (15.58%) Confluence
2 7 (3.52%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.51%) CMS
4 2 (1.01%) Apache
4 2 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.01%) Appian
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.51%) Trello
3 2 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.50%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (3.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.51%) Shopify
3 1 (0.50%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
3 1 (0.50%) Endur
3 1 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 53 (26.63%) Azure
2 26 (13.07%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (12.56%) AWS
4 13 (6.53%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.03%) SaaS
6 8 (4.02%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (4.02%) GCP
7 7 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (3.02%) Datadog
9 4 (2.01%) GitHub
9 4 (2.01%) Miro
9 4 (2.01%) Serverless
10 3 (1.51%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.51%) BigCommerce
10 3 (1.51%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.51%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.01%) Akamai
11 2 (1.01%) Azure Stack
11 2 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.52%) DNS
2 8 (4.02%) Firewall
3 7 (3.52%) DHCP
4 4 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.51%) Broadband
5 3 (1.51%) DOCSIS
5 3 (1.51%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.01%) HTTP
6 2 (1.01%) Network Security
6 2 (1.01%) VLAN
6 2 (1.01%) Wireless
7 1 (0.50%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.50%) LAN
7 1 (0.50%) Multicast
7 1 (0.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.52%) MongoDB
1 7 (3.52%) Power BI
2 6 (3.02%) MySQL
2 6 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.51%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.51%) Big Data
4 3 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.51%) Delta Lake
4 3 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.51%) InfluxDB
4 3 (1.51%) Looker
4 3 (1.51%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.51%) Star Schema
5 2 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.01%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.01%) Metadata
5 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.50%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 57 (28.64%) JIRA
2 32 (16.08%) Git
3 19 (9.55%) Jenkins
4 14 (7.04%) Postman
5 9 (4.52%) GitLab
6 8 (4.02%) Cypress.io
7 7 (3.52%) Selenium
8 5 (2.51%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.51%) REST Assured
8 5 (2.51%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (2.01%) ERwin
9 4 (2.01%) JMeter
9 4 (2.01%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.51%) SpecFlow
10 3 (1.51%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.51%) TestNG
10 3 (1.51%) Travis CI
10 3 (1.51%) webpack
11 2 (1.01%) Balsamiq
11 2 (1.01%) Moq
General
1 92 (46.23%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (13.07%) Finance
4 25 (12.56%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.53%) Banking
6 9 (4.52%) Marketing
7 8 (4.02%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.51%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.51%) Retail
9 4 (2.01%) Local Government
10 3 (1.51%) Automotive
10 3 (1.51%) Front Office
10 3 (1.51%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.01%) Back Office
11 2 (1.01%) Billing
11 2 (1.01%) Electronics
11 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.01%) Games
11 2 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (22.11%) Developer
2 29 (14.57%) Analyst
3 25 (12.56%) Scrum Master
4 20 (10.05%) Business Analyst
4 20 (10.05%) Senior
5 18 (9.05%) Lead
6 14 (7.04%) Product Owner
7 10 (5.03%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (5.03%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (4.02%) Delivery Manager
8 8 (4.02%) Project Manager
9 7 (3.52%) .NET Developer
9 7 (3.52%) Data Analyst
9 7 (3.52%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.02%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 6 (3.02%) Angular Developer
10 6 (3.02%) Consultant
10 6 (3.02%) Technical Analyst
11 5 (2.51%) Data Business Analyst
11 5 (2.51%) Digital Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.55%) RESTful
2 16 (8.04%) CSS
3 15 (7.54%) AngularJS
4 14 (7.04%) HTML
5 13 (6.53%) .NET
6 10 (5.03%) React
7 8 (4.02%) ADO
7 8 (4.02%) HTML5
8 6 (3.02%) .NET Framework
8 6 (3.02%) YAML
9 5 (2.51%) ASP.NET
9 5 (2.51%) Entity Framework
9 5 (2.51%) FastAPI
9 5 (2.51%) Next.js
9 5 (2.51%) REST
10 4 (2.01%) .NET Core
10 4 (2.01%) CSS3
10 4 (2.01%) Vue
11 3 (1.51%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.51%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 45 (22.61%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.52%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.51%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (2.51%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.01%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.01%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.51%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.51%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.51%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (1.01%) Digital TV
7 2 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.01%) IoT
7 2 (1.01%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.01%) NHS
7 2 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.01%) STB
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.54%) Linux
2 5 (2.51%) Windows
3 4 (2.01%) Unix
4 3 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.51%) Rocky
5 1 (0.50%) Android
5 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.50%) VxWorks
5 1 (0.50%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (86.43%) Agile
2 87 (43.72%) Sprint Retrospective
3 85 (42.71%) Scrum
4 63 (31.66%) DevOps
5 59 (29.65%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (23.12%) CI/CD
6 46 (23.12%) Sprint Review
7 40 (20.10%) Backlog Refinement
8 39 (19.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (19.60%) User Stories
9 36 (18.09%) Test Automation
10 31 (15.58%) Acceptance Criteria
11 28 (14.07%) Kanban
11 28 (14.07%) Project Management
11 28 (14.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 26 (13.07%) Product Backlog
13 25 (12.56%) Backlog Management
13 25 (12.56%) Roadmaps
13 25 (12.56%) User Experience
14 19 (9.55%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 26 (13.07%) Python
2 19 (9.55%) Java
3 17 (8.54%) C#
3 17 (8.54%) SQL
4 16 (8.04%) TypeScript
5 13 (6.53%) Bash
5 13 (6.53%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.51%) C++
7 4 (2.01%) C
8 3 (1.51%) Go
8 3 (1.51%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.01%) PHP
9 2 (1.01%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.01%) SOQL
10 1 (0.50%) Bicep
10 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.50%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.50%) Rust
10 1 (0.50%) Scala
10 1 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 37 (18.59%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.57%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.06%) Degree
4 10 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.51%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.01%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.51%) CCNA
7 3 (1.51%) CCNP
7 3 (1.51%) CEH
7 3 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.51%) CISSP
7 3 (1.51%) CSPO
7 3 (1.51%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.01%) IIBA
9 1 (0.50%) APMP
9 1 (0.50%) CBAP
9 1 (0.50%) ISEB
9 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (16.58%) QA
2 13 (6.53%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.51%) GRC
3 3 (1.51%) PMO
4 2 (1.01%) WCAG
5 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (6.03%) Docker
2 2 (1.01%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.50%) Firmware
3 1 (0.50%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 19 (9.55%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.04%) Ansible
3 11 (5.53%) Terraform
4 4 (2.01%) Kibana
5 3 (1.51%) Grafana
5 3 (1.51%) Puppet
6 2 (1.01%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.01%) Packer
6 2 (1.01%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.50%) Cloudify
7 1 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.54%) ServiceNow
3 9 (4.52%) Databricks
3 9 (4.52%) Salesforce
4 7 (3.52%) SAP
4 7 (3.52%) Splunk
5 6 (3.02%) Infoblox
6 5 (2.51%) Fortinet
6 5 (2.51%) Oracle
7 4 (2.01%) Adobe
7 4 (2.01%) Cisco
8 3 (1.51%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.51%) Google
8 3 (1.51%) Palantir
8 3 (1.51%) Sitecore
8 3 (1.51%) Virgin Media
8 3 (1.51%) Workday
9 2 (1.01%) Blue Prism
9 2 (1.01%) Rakuten
9 2 (1.01%) VMware