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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 266 417 358
Rank change year-on-year +151 -59 -16
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 236 142 299
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.94% 0.38% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.44% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 91 218
10th Percentile £387 £340 £406
25th Percentile £431 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -5.21% -1.86%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £600
90th Percentile £684 £650 £699
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 14
10th Percentile £48.25 - -
25th Percentile £48.75 - £54.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +13.04% -9.09%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £75.00
90th Percentile £56.25 - £80.51
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +13.04% -6.69%

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 22,947 31,985 42,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.37% 85.42% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,830 20,733 29,654
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,102 2,360 1,544
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.25
25th Percentile £17.82 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.53 £64.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.54 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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 25 June 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
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 25 June 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 +85 125 £525 +2.14% 230
North of England +46 43 £475 +2.04% 104
South East +61 31 £513 +28.13% 106
North West +24 27 £469 +12.34% 53
Midlands +21 22 £402 -23.43% 53
Yorkshire +17 13 £466 -2.86% 44
West Midlands +7 11 £438 -20.45% 37
East Midlands +13 10 £400 +8.11% 14
South West +52 5 £506 +58.20% 40
North East -4 3 £525 +9.38% 7
East of England +22 2 £400 - 33
Sprint Planning
UK

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 32 (13.56%) Confluence
2 8 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.69%) CMS
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.85%) Oracle Service Bus
4 2 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.42%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.69%) Trello
2 3 (1.27%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.85%) Shopify
3 1 (0.42%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
3 1 (0.42%) Endur
3 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 60 (25.42%) Azure
2 31 (13.14%) AWS
3 24 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (8.05%) GitHub
5 13 (5.51%) GCP
5 13 (5.51%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.39%) SaaS
7 7 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.12%) Serverless
10 4 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.69%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.69%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.27%) Datadog
11 3 (1.27%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.27%) Google Analytics
12 2 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.39%) DNS
1 8 (3.39%) Firewall
2 4 (1.69%) DHCP
3 3 (1.27%) Broadband
3 3 (1.27%) HTTP
3 3 (1.27%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.85%) SSL
5 1 (0.42%) LAN
5 1 (0.42%) Modbus
5 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (3.81%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.97%) MySQL
4 6 (2.54%) Big Data
4 6 (2.54%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.54%) Power BI
5 5 (2.12%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.27%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.27%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.85%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.85%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.85%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 74 (31.36%) JIRA
2 39 (16.53%) Git
3 23 (9.75%) Jenkins
4 17 (7.20%) Postman
5 16 (6.78%) GitLab
6 12 (5.08%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.39%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.39%) Selenium
8 7 (2.97%) JUnit
9 5 (2.12%) REST Assured
9 5 (2.12%) webpack
10 4 (1.69%) JMeter
10 4 (1.69%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.69%) WebDriver
11 3 (1.27%) Browser DevTools
11 3 (1.27%) ERwin
11 3 (1.27%) TestNG
11 3 (1.27%) Travis CI
11 3 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (1.27%) Vite
General
1 107 (45.34%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.10%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (15.68%) Finance
4 21 (8.90%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.93%) Banking
6 10 (4.24%) Marketing
7 5 (2.12%) Automotive
7 5 (2.12%) Back Office
7 5 (2.12%) Retail
7 5 (2.12%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.69%) Front Office
8 4 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.27%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.85%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.85%) Billing
10 2 (0.85%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.85%) Games
10 2 (0.85%) Legal
11 1 (0.42%) Electronics
11 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 49 (20.76%) Developer
2 41 (17.37%) Scrum Master
3 35 (14.83%) Analyst
4 26 (11.02%) Business Analyst
5 23 (9.75%) Lead
6 22 (9.32%) Senior
7 11 (4.66%) Product Owner
7 11 (4.66%) Project Manager
8 9 (3.81%) Senior Developer
8 9 (3.81%) Test Engineer
9 8 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (2.97%) .NET Developer
10 7 (2.97%) Data Analyst
10 7 (2.97%) Delivery Manager
10 7 (2.97%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (2.97%) Java Developer
10 7 (2.97%) Software Developer
10 7 (2.97%) Technical Manager
11 6 (2.54%) Consultant
11 6 (2.54%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.59%) RESTful
2 23 (9.75%) REST
3 19 (8.05%) React
4 18 (7.63%) CSS
5 16 (6.78%) AngularJS
6 14 (5.93%) Spring Boot
7 13 (5.51%) .NET
7 13 (5.51%) HTML
8 11 (4.66%) Spring
9 9 (3.81%) HTML5
9 9 (3.81%) Kafka
9 9 (3.81%) Next.js
10 8 (3.39%) Node.js
11 7 (2.97%) Web Services
12 6 (2.54%) .NET Framework
12 6 (2.54%) Jest
13 5 (2.12%) ASP.NET
13 5 (2.12%) CSS3
13 5 (2.12%) Entity Framework
13 5 (2.12%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 63 (26.69%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (2.54%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.12%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.12%) Virtual Team
5 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.27%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.85%) Digital TV
7 2 (0.85%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.85%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.85%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.85%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (0.85%) STB
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.39%) Linux
2 3 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.27%) Rocky
3 1 (0.42%) Android
3 1 (0.42%) Unix
3 1 (0.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (89.83%) Agile
2 115 (48.73%) Scrum
3 109 (46.19%) Sprint Retrospective
4 69 (29.24%) DevOps
5 66 (27.97%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (24.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 54 (22.88%) Sprint Review
8 53 (22.46%) CI/CD
9 51 (21.61%) Backlog Refinement
10 48 (20.34%) User Stories
11 39 (16.53%) Test Automation
12 37 (15.68%) Acceptance Criteria
13 36 (15.25%) Backlog Management
14 33 (13.98%) Stakeholder Management
15 29 (12.29%) Project Management
16 28 (11.86%) SDLC
17 26 (11.02%) Product Backlog
18 25 (10.59%) Roadmaps
19 24 (10.17%) Backlog Prioritisation
19 24 (10.17%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 37 (15.68%) Java
2 33 (13.98%) SQL
3 28 (11.86%) Python
4 21 (8.90%) JavaScript
5 15 (6.36%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.93%) C#
7 11 (4.66%) Bash
8 3 (1.27%) PHP
9 2 (0.85%) C++
9 2 (0.85%) Korn
9 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.85%) Scala
9 2 (0.85%) SOQL
9 2 (0.85%) VBA
10 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.42%) Bicep
10 1 (0.42%) C
10 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 41 (17.37%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.47%) Degree
4 9 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.54%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.69%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.27%) CCNA
7 3 (1.27%) CCNP
7 3 (1.27%) CEH
7 3 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.27%) CISSP
7 3 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.85%) CSPO
8 2 (0.85%) IIBA
9 1 (0.42%) APMP
9 1 (0.42%) CBAP
9 1 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (19.07%) QA
2 14 (5.93%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.54%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.27%) NIST
4 3 (1.27%) NIST 800
4 3 (1.27%) WCAG
5 2 (0.85%) GDPR
5 2 (0.85%) GRC
5 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.42%) Automotive SPICE
6 1 (0.42%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.42%) EMIR
6 1 (0.42%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.42%) PMO
6 1 (0.42%) SEPA
6 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (5.08%) Docker
2 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (8.90%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.51%) Terraform
3 10 (4.24%) Ansible
4 5 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.69%) Kibana
6 2 (0.85%) Kustomize
6 2 (0.85%) Packer
6 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.85%) Puppet
7 1 (0.42%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 31 (13.14%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.36%) ServiceNow
3 10 (4.24%) Google
4 8 (3.39%) Databricks
4 8 (3.39%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.97%) Oracle
6 5 (2.12%) Fortinet
6 5 (2.12%) Infoblox
7 4 (1.69%) SAP
7 4 (1.69%) Splunk
8 3 (1.27%) Adobe
8 3 (1.27%) Amplitude
8 3 (1.27%) Palantir
8 3 (1.27%) Virgin Media
8 3 (1.27%) Workday
9 2 (0.85%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.85%) Okta
9 2 (0.85%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.42%) Talend
10 1 (0.42%) Trayport