Sprint Planning Contract Job Trends in the South East

Sprint Planning
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Sprint Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 142 179
Rank change year-on-year -15 +37 -1
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 32 28 30
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.73% 0.76% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.86% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 13
10th Percentile £424 £385 £380
25th Percentile £461 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +35.29% -22.23%
75th Percentile £568 £613 £535
90th Percentile £608 £645 £592
England median daily rate £500 £569 £500
% change year-on-year -12.09% +13.75% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £67.02 £70.07
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -4.35% +7.80%
75th Percentile £52.50 - -
90th Percentile £54.00 - -
England median hourly rate £51.25 £66.01 £69.29
% change year-on-year -22.36% -4.73% +6.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,718 3,243 4,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.06% 88.29% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,430 2,018 2,885
10th Percentile £221 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +1.46%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £614
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 122 223
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.43 £18.59
25th Percentile £17.00 £25.99 £26.13
Median hourly rate £22.50 £46.12 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -51.22% -15.46% +45.49%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.00 £66.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.76 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +22.57%

Sprint Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Sprint Planning job vacancy trend in the South East

Sprint Planning
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Sprint Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Planning in the South East over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sprint Planning in the South East

Sprint Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Sprint Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Sprint Planning

Sprint Planning
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 22 December 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
Thames Valley -8 15 £525 -8.70% 8
Hampshire -15 12 £525 -10.26% 7
Berkshire -2 11 £525 +31.09% 2
Buckinghamshire +9 4 £525 -8.70% 4
Surrey -1 3 £525 +10.53%
Middlesex - 2 £560 - 1
Sprint Planning
England

Sprint Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 2 (6.25%) Confluence
1 2 (6.25%) Documentum
2 1 (3.13%) Appian
2 1 (3.13%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) Azure
1 7 (21.88%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (12.50%) GitHub
2 4 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (6.25%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
4 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle CX
4 1 (3.13%) Serverless
4 1 (3.13%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) DynamoDB
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.13%) Data Mart
2 1 (3.13%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) JIRA
2 5 (15.63%) Cucumber
3 4 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.50%) Postman
4 3 (9.38%) Git
4 3 (9.38%) GitLab
4 3 (9.38%) Selenium
5 2 (6.25%) SonarQube
5 2 (6.25%) WebDriver
6 1 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.13%) Gradle
6 1 (3.13%) JUnit
6 1 (3.13%) Maven
6 1 (3.13%) REST Assured
6 1 (3.13%) Robot Framework
6 1 (3.13%) TestNG
General
1 15 (46.88%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.50%) Marketing
4 3 (9.38%) Finance
5 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.13%) Law
6 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Product Owner
2 5 (15.63%) Scrum Master
3 2 (6.25%) Analyst
3 2 (6.25%) Architect
3 2 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Developer
3 2 (6.25%) Java Architect
3 2 (6.25%) Java Developer
3 2 (6.25%) Lead
3 2 (6.25%) Software Test Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Technical Product Owner
3 2 (6.25%) Test Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Business Analyst
4 1 (3.13%) Consultant
4 1 (3.13%) Digital Product Owner
4 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Junior Scrum Master
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Analyst
4 1 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) REST
1 4 (12.50%) RESTful
2 2 (6.25%) JSON
2 2 (6.25%) React
2 2 (6.25%) XML
3 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.13%) Flutter
3 1 (3.13%) Gherkin
3 1 (3.13%) Jinja
3 1 (3.13%) NETCONF
3 1 (3.13%) Node.js
3 1 (3.13%) Playwright
3 1 (3.13%) Quarkus
3 1 (3.13%) Spring
3 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.13%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 18 (56.25%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
2 1 (3.13%) VMS
2 1 (3.13%) Windows 7
2 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (90.63%) Agile
2 22 (68.75%) Scrum
3 18 (56.25%) Sprint Retrospective
4 15 (46.88%) Backlog Refinement
5 12 (37.50%) DevOps
5 12 (37.50%) User Stories
6 11 (34.38%) Roadmaps
6 11 (34.38%) Sprint Review
7 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
8 7 (21.88%) Acceptance Criteria
8 7 (21.88%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (18.75%) Backlog Management
9 6 (18.75%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 6 (18.75%) Kanban
9 6 (18.75%) Product Vision
9 6 (18.75%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (15.63%) Product Backlog
10 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 2 (6.25%) Python
2 2 (6.25%) SQL
3 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
3 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) DV Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (28.13%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.13%) PSD2
2 1 (3.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Ansible
2 1 (3.13%) Argo
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) Salesforce
2 2 (6.25%) HubSpot
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle
2 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco
3 1 (3.13%) Databricks
3 1 (3.13%) Veracode
3 1 (3.13%) VMware