Sprint Planning Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Sprint Planning
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 36 27 26
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 +31
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 4 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.65% 2.53% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 2.78% 0.71%
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 -
North East median daily rate £538 £410 -
% change year-on-year +31.10% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 211 180 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 87.19% 90.91% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 77 103
10th Percentile £225 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -2.06% -8.49%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £600
90th Percentile £643 £693 £718
North East median daily rate £475 £475 £448
% change year-on-year - +6.15% -14.76%
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% +30.61%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £26.13
90th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 £32.70
North East median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £20.00
% change year-on-year -35.34% +48.85% +14.29%

Sprint Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Sprint Planning job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Sprint Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Sprint Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Sprint Planning

Sprint Planning
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -10 4 £538 +31.10% 5
Sprint Planning
North East

Sprint Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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