Sprint Planning Contracts in the North West

Sprint Planning
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 129 127
Rank change year-on-year +33 -2 +24
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 31 8 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.51% 0.29% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 0.34% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 4 21
10th Percentile £381 £367 £413
25th Percentile £402 £371 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £418 £463
Median % change year-on-year +8.62% -9.73% -
75th Percentile £519 £494 £500
90th Percentile £605 £573 £556
England median daily rate £505 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +1.00% -5.66% -1.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,820 2,330 2,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.74% 84.24% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,208 1,425 1,901
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.08% -1.00% +2.30%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £666 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 263 150
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £15.98
25th Percentile £19.13 £14.18 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.76 £28.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +13.43% -8.32% +29.71%
75th Percentile £61.50 £46.18 £45.90
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.61 £62.09
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

Sprint Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Sprint Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Sprint Planning in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sprint Planning in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Sprint Planning in the North West

Sprint Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Planning in the North West over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sprint Planning in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sprint Planning in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Sprint Planning in the North West

Sprint Planning
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Cheshire +8 18 £454 +20.93% 35
Manchester +18 11 £451 +0.28% 66
Lancashire - 2 £450 - 20
Sprint Planning
England

Sprint Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 6 (19.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) GitHub
2 4 (12.90%) Azure
2 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (9.68%) AWS
4 2 (6.45%) SaaS
4 2 (6.45%) Serverless
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.23%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
1 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.23%) Big Data
2 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.23%) DB2
2 1 (3.23%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.23%) Metadata
2 1 (3.23%) MySQL
2 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) JIRA
2 9 (29.03%) GitLab
3 8 (25.81%) Jenkins
4 7 (22.58%) Git
5 6 (19.35%) Cucumber
5 6 (19.35%) JUnit
6 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.23%) ERwin
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 11 (35.48%) Finance
3 9 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.90%) Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Back Office
5 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.23%) Automotive
6 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Java Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Scrum Master
3 5 (16.13%) Senior
4 4 (12.90%) Lead
5 3 (9.68%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Automation Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Product Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Product Owner
6 2 (6.45%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Technical Manager
7 1 (3.23%) .NET Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Architect
7 1 (3.23%) C# Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Integration Manager
7 1 (3.23%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) REST
2 8 (25.81%) React
2 8 (25.81%) RESTful
3 6 (19.35%) Kafka
3 6 (19.35%) Spring
3 6 (19.35%) Spring Boot
4 3 (9.68%) CSS
4 3 (9.68%) HTML
5 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.45%) HTML5
5 2 (6.45%) Node.js
6 1 (3.23%) .NET
6 1 (3.23%) CSS3
6 1 (3.23%) Express.js
6 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
6 1 (3.23%) RAML
6 1 (3.23%) SOAP
6 1 (3.23%) Vue
6 1 (3.23%) Web Services
6 1 (3.23%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) Agile
2 21 (67.74%) Scrum
3 17 (54.84%) Sprint Retrospective
4 14 (45.16%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (38.71%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (35.48%) DevOps
7 10 (32.26%) Sprint Review
8 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
8 8 (25.81%) Microservices
9 7 (22.58%) Backlog Management
9 7 (22.58%) Backlog Refinement
9 7 (22.58%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (22.58%) TDD
10 6 (19.35%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 6 (19.35%) Project Management
10 6 (19.35%) Release Management
10 6 (19.35%) SDLC
10 6 (19.35%) User Acceptance Testing
11 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
11 5 (16.13%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) Python
1 9 (29.03%) SQL
2 8 (25.81%) Java
3 4 (12.90%) Bash
4 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.23%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.45%) CCNA
2 2 (6.45%) CCNP
2 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) CSPO
3 1 (3.23%) Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (35.48%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Ansible
2 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Fortinet
2 4 (12.90%) Infoblox
2 4 (12.90%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) Adobe
4 1 (3.23%) Databricks
4 1 (3.23%) Informatica
4 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.23%) Talend
4 1 (3.23%) Virgin Media