Planning Poker Contracts

Planning Poker
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Planning Poker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Planning Poker over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 - 672
Rank change year-on-year - - +191
Contract jobs citing Planning Poker 4 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% - 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% - 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £513
25th Percentile - - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile - - £675
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £638
% change year-on-year - - -1.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Planning Poker 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,778 33,530 47,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.41% 85.52% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,631 21,488 32,626
10th Percentile £300 £310 £322
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £731 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,664 1,872 1,558
10th Percentile £14.15 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.14 £18.57
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.95 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.82% +2.35% +85.19%

Planning Poker
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Planning Poker in the UK

Planning Poker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Planning Poker.

Daily rate trend for Planning Poker in the UK

Planning Poker
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Planning Poker within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire - 4 - -
England - 4 - - 2
Work from Home - 4 - - 2
UK excluding London - 4 - -
North of England - 4 - -

Planning Poker
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 4 (100.00%) Burndown Charts
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) Kanban
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 4 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) User Stories
2 2 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (50.00%) Business Agility
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Backlog
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft