Sprint Planning Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Sprint Planning
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Sprint Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 25 25
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 +30
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 4 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.79% 2.94% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 3.25% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile £473 £355 -
25th Percentile £506 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £410 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.10% - -
75th Percentile £575 £480 -
90th Percentile - £528 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £538 £410 -
% change year-on-year +31.10% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 196 154 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 87.50% 90.59% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 66 96
10th Percentile £255 £320 £350
25th Percentile £410 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -5.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £579 £600
90th Percentile £646 £698 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 7
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -5.13% +22.95%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £26.13
90th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 £32.70
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +4.05% -5.13% +30.61%

Sprint Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Sprint Planning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Sprint Planning job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Sprint Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Sprint Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Sprint Planning

Sprint Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Gatling
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Designer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (25.00%) JPA
1 1 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (25.00%) Next.js
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Usability Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Stress Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) User Research
3 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (25.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce