Sprint Planning Contract Job Trends in the North East

Sprint Planning
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Sprint Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 31 31
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 +30
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 6 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.78% 1.78% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 1.93% 0.49%
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 -
England median daily rate £500 £528 £513
% change year-on-year -5.21% +2.93% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £45.55 - -
25th Percentile £47.13 - -
Median hourly rate £51.50 - -
75th Percentile £54.13 - -
90th Percentile £54.65 - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £62.26 £69.29
% change year-on-year -19.69% -10.14% +4.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 290 259 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 86.05% 92.17% 87.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 104 150
10th Percentile £170 £311 £262
25th Percentile £350 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £575
90th Percentile £600 £676 £650
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 33 13
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% -6.97% +82.86%
75th Percentile £51.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £54.00 £66.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.04 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.88% -15.48% +28.57%

Sprint Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Sprint Planning job vacancy trend in the North East

Sprint Planning
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Sprint Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Sprint Planning

Sprint Planning
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Tyne and Wear -9 6 £538 +31.10% 9
Sprint Planning
England

Sprint Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) Gatling
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) JMeter
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) TestRail
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 2 (33.33%) Quarkus
2 1 (16.67%) Gherkin
2 1 (16.67%) JPA
2 1 (16.67%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (16.67%) Next.js
2 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
2 1 (16.67%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) SDLC
3 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (33.33%) Sprint Review
4 2 (33.33%) Usability Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (16.67%) Data Lineage
5 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (16.67%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
5 1 (16.67%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
5 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (16.67%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (16.67%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce