Sprint Planning Contracts

Sprint Planning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Sprint Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sprint Planning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 403 390
Rank change year-on-year +133 -13 -42
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 278 181 357
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.95% 0.42% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.48% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 114 251
10th Percentile £361 £318 £400
25th Percentile £440 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +0.96%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £588
90th Percentile £838 £659 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £444 £475
% change year-on-year +15.49% -6.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile £52.00 £52.63 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £54.69 £54.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% -6.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.75 £62.19 £69.38
90th Percentile £74.58 £63.88 £84.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.25 - £60.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Sprint Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Sprint Planning in the UK

Sprint Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Sprint Planning in the UK

Sprint Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Planning over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sprint Planning in the UK

Sprint Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sprint Planning.

Hourly rate trend for Sprint Planning in the UK

Sprint Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Sprint Planning over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Sprint Planning in the UK

Sprint Planning
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +105 199 £515 +3.00% 236
Work from Home +83 115 £500 +2.56% 156
London +63 111 £525 - 111
UK excluding London +100 92 £513 +15.49% 160
South East +62 31 £506 +9.46% 57
North of England +26 23 £506 +125.00% 31
Midlands +24 13 £550 +25.71% 21
North West +18 13 £513 +688.46% 17
Scotland +18 11 £470 -18.26% 5
West Midlands +16 10 £563 +7.14% 13
South West +52 8 £545 +70.31% 21
Yorkshire +14 8 £425 -22.73% 12
East of England +28 3 £400 +60.00% 12
East Midlands +9 2 £675 +82.43% 8
North East 0 2 £519 -2.58% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £625 - 2
Wales - 1 £331 - 13

Sprint 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:

Application Platforms
1 48 (17.27%) Confluence
2 7 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.80%) CMS
4 3 (1.08%) Apache
5 2 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.72%) Appian
6 1 (0.36%) IIS
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (8.63%) Trello
2 8 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.36%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.08%) Shopify
3 2 (0.72%) iTrent
4 1 (0.36%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
4 1 (0.36%) Endur
4 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 92 (33.09%) Azure
2 52 (18.71%) AWS
3 39 (14.03%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (10.79%) GCP
5 29 (10.43%) SaaS
6 20 (7.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (7.19%) PaaS
7 19 (6.83%) IaaS
8 14 (5.04%) Power Platform
9 8 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.88%) GitHub
10 7 (2.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (2.16%) Datadog
11 6 (2.16%) Miro
12 5 (1.80%) Serverless
13 3 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (1.08%) BigCommerce
13 3 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.71%) DNS
2 26 (9.35%) Firewall
3 25 (8.99%) DHCP
4 21 (7.55%) TCP/IP
5 20 (7.19%) HTTP
6 19 (6.83%) HTTPS
7 18 (6.47%) BGP
7 18 (6.47%) OSPF
8 4 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.08%) Broadband
9 3 (1.08%) DOCSIS
10 2 (0.72%) Network Security
10 2 (0.72%) VLAN
10 2 (0.72%) Wireless
11 1 (0.36%) LAN
11 1 (0.36%) Multicast
11 1 (0.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.60%) MongoDB
2 9 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.88%) Power BI
4 7 (2.52%) MySQL
4 7 (2.52%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.44%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.08%) Big Data
6 3 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.08%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.08%) InfluxDB
6 3 (1.08%) Looker
6 3 (1.08%) Star Schema
7 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.72%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.72%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.72%) Metadata
7 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 89 (32.01%) JIRA
2 38 (13.67%) Git
3 20 (7.19%) Jenkins
4 17 (6.12%) Postman
5 14 (5.04%) GitLab
6 11 (3.96%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.88%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.88%) REST Assured
8 7 (2.52%) JMeter
8 7 (2.52%) Selenium
9 5 (1.80%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (1.44%) ERwin
10 4 (1.44%) Visual Studio
11 3 (1.08%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.08%) SpecFlow
11 3 (1.08%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.08%) TestNG
11 3 (1.08%) Travis CI
11 3 (1.08%) webpack
12 2 (0.72%) Balsamiq
General
1 124 (44.60%) Social Skills
2 62 (22.30%) Public Sector
3 51 (18.35%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (11.87%) Finance
5 12 (4.32%) Banking
6 9 (3.24%) Marketing
7 8 (2.88%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.80%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.80%) Retail
9 4 (1.44%) Local Government
10 3 (1.08%) Automotive
10 3 (1.08%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.08%) Front Office
10 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.72%) Back Office
11 2 (0.72%) Billing
11 2 (0.72%) Electronics
11 2 (0.72%) Games
11 2 (0.72%) Law
11 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (19.78%) Developer
2 43 (15.47%) Analyst
3 33 (11.87%) Business Analyst
4 32 (11.51%) Scrum Master
5 27 (9.71%) Senior
6 20 (7.19%) Architect
6 20 (7.19%) Lead
7 18 (6.47%) Cloud Architect
7 18 (6.47%) Cloud Native Architect
7 18 (6.47%) Technical Architect
8 15 (5.40%) Product Owner
9 13 (4.68%) Project Manager
10 11 (3.96%) .NET Developer
10 11 (3.96%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (3.60%) Delivery Manager
11 10 (3.60%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.24%) AWS Architect
12 9 (3.24%) Product Manager
12 9 (3.24%) Security Architect
12 9 (3.24%) Security Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.99%) RESTful
2 21 (7.55%) CSS
3 20 (7.19%) AngularJS
4 18 (6.47%) .NET
4 18 (6.47%) HTML
5 13 (4.68%) React
6 11 (3.96%) .NET Framework
7 10 (3.60%) Entity Framework
8 9 (3.24%) HTML5
9 8 (2.88%) ADO
9 8 (2.88%) ASP.NET
10 7 (2.52%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.52%) Vue
11 6 (2.16%) REST
11 6 (2.16%) YAML
12 5 (1.80%) ASP.NET Web API
12 5 (1.80%) CSS3
12 5 (1.80%) FastAPI
12 5 (1.80%) Next.js
13 4 (1.44%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 65 (23.38%) Product Ownership
2 24 (8.63%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.88%) Virtual Team
4 7 (2.52%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.80%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (1.44%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.08%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.08%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.08%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (0.72%) CMDB
9 2 (0.72%) Digital TV
9 2 (0.72%) IoT
9 2 (0.72%) NHS
9 2 (0.72%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.72%) STB
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.47%) Linux
2 5 (1.80%) Windows
3 4 (1.44%) Unix
4 3 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.08%) Rocky
5 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.36%) AIX
6 1 (0.36%) Android
6 1 (0.36%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.36%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (82.73%) Agile
2 120 (43.17%) Sprint Retrospective
3 115 (41.37%) Scrum
4 83 (29.86%) DevOps
5 76 (27.34%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (23.74%) User Stories
7 61 (21.94%) Test Automation
8 60 (21.58%) CI/CD
9 56 (20.14%) Sprint Review
10 53 (19.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 53 (19.06%) Kanban
11 51 (18.35%) Backlog Refinement
12 48 (17.27%) User Experience
13 46 (16.55%) Acceptance Criteria
14 44 (15.83%) Backlog Management
14 44 (15.83%) Stakeholder Management
15 43 (15.47%) Product Backlog
16 40 (14.39%) Roadmaps
17 37 (13.31%) Project Management
18 33 (11.87%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 29 (10.43%) Python
2 22 (7.91%) JavaScript
2 22 (7.91%) SQL
3 21 (7.55%) Java
4 20 (7.19%) C#
4 20 (7.19%) TypeScript
5 19 (6.83%) Bicep
6 13 (4.68%) Bash
7 5 (1.80%) C++
8 4 (1.44%) C
9 3 (1.08%) Go
9 3 (1.08%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.72%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.72%) PHP
10 2 (0.72%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.72%) Ruby
10 2 (0.72%) SOQL
10 2 (0.72%) Swift
11 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.36%) VB6
Qualifications
1 45 (16.19%) Security Cleared
2 35 (12.59%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.71%) Degree
4 12 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.80%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.44%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.08%) CCNA
7 3 (1.08%) CCNP
7 3 (1.08%) CEH
7 3 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.08%) CISSP
7 3 (1.08%) CSPO
7 3 (1.08%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.72%) IIBA
8 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.72%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.36%) APMP
9 1 (0.36%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (14.39%) QA
2 30 (10.79%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.16%) GRC
4 3 (1.08%) PMO
5 2 (0.72%) NCSC
5 2 (0.72%) WCAG
6 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (6.12%) Docker
2 3 (1.08%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.36%) Firmware
4 1 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 31 (11.15%) Terraform
2 24 (8.63%) Kubernetes
3 16 (5.76%) Ansible
4 4 (1.44%) Kibana
5 3 (1.08%) Grafana
5 3 (1.08%) Puppet
6 2 (0.72%) Kustomize
6 2 (0.72%) Packer
6 2 (0.72%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.36%) Cloudify
7 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 34 (12.23%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.27%) Fortinet
2 23 (8.27%) ServiceNow
3 22 (7.91%) Cisco
4 18 (6.47%) CheckPoint
4 18 (6.47%) Palo Alto
5 10 (3.60%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.24%) Databricks
7 8 (2.88%) SAP
8 7 (2.52%) Oracle
8 7 (2.52%) Splunk
9 6 (2.16%) Infoblox
10 4 (1.44%) Adobe
10 4 (1.44%) Palantir
11 3 (1.08%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.08%) Google
11 3 (1.08%) Sitecore
11 3 (1.08%) Virgin Media
11 3 (1.08%) VMware
11 3 (1.08%) Workday