Iteration Planning Contracts

Iteration Planning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Iteration Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Iteration Planning over the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 572 648
Rank change year-on-year +25 +76 +190
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Iteration Planning 7 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.003% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.003% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £290 - £509
25th Percentile £331 - £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £615
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.96%
75th Percentile £513 - £663
90th Percentile £546 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - £605
% change year-on-year - - -6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Iteration 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,891 33,155 45,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.47% 85.35% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,602 21,005 31,286
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,765 1,705 1,531
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.87 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.13 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% -3.67% +57.41%
75th Percentile £47.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £39.58
% change year-on-year -46.75% +7.39% +79.89%

Iteration Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Iteration Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Iteration Planning in the UK

Iteration Planning
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Iteration Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Iteration Planning

Iteration Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Iteration Planning over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Iteration Planning in the UK

Iteration Planning
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Iteration Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Iteration Planning

Iteration Planning
Top 9 DemandTrendContract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Iteration Planning within the UK over the 6 months to 24 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +21 7 £500 - 11
UK excluding London - 6 £500 - 7
North of England - 3 £531 - 1
Midlands - 3 £338 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £500 -
East Midlands - 2 £313 -
London +30 1 - - 4
North East - 1 £563 -
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 2

Iteration Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Artifactory
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
1 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Product Owner
2 2 (28.57%) Digital Product Owner
2 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Coach
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Developer
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Node.js
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Apache CXF
2 1 (14.29%) Dropwizard
2 1 (14.29%) JAX-RS
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) Acceptance Criteria
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) User Stories
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) User Experience
4 2 (28.57%) Backlog Management
4 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (28.57%) High Availability
4 2 (28.57%) Product Backlog
4 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft