Planning Poker Contract Job Trends

Planning Poker
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Planning Poker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 - 638
Rank change year-on-year - - +187
Contract jobs citing Planning Poker 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.015% - 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% - 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £650
75th Percentile £575 - £675
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - -

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 30,120 32,351 42,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.53% 86.01% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,720 19,487 28,729
10th Percentile £296 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £623 £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 1,911 1,239 1,585
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%
75th Percentile £42.79 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £40.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -44.34% -8.88% +65.99%

Planning Poker
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Planning Poker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Planning Poker job vacancy trend in the UK

Planning Poker
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Planning Poker
Top 5 Contract Job 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 16 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
Yorkshire - 5 £550 -
England - 5 £550 - 1
UK excluding London - 5 £550 - 1
North of England - 5 £550 -
Work from Home - 4 - - 1

Planning Poker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Dynamics CRM
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 5 (100.00%) Burndown Charts
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (100.00%) Kanban
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 5 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 5 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) User Stories
2 3 (60.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 3 (60.00%) CRM
2 3 (60.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (60.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (60.00%) ERP
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft