Sprint Planning Contracts

Sprint Planning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Sprint Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sprint Planning over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 383 346
Rank change year-on-year -31 -37 +24
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 179 364 657
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.63% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.70% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 252 418
10th Percentile £355 £406 £408
25th Percentile £427 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.45% +10.40%
75th Percentile £550 £582 £618
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% +8.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 16
10th Percentile £52.63 - £40.86
25th Percentile £54.69 £54.00 £54.06
Median hourly rate £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +4.17% +6.19%
75th Percentile £62.19 £72.50 £63.25
90th Percentile £63.88 £83.25 £72.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +1.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Sprint Planning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Sprint Planning in the UK

Sprint Planning
Top 15 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 9 May 2024. 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 -41 142 £500 -4.76% 92
London -3 88 £520 -5.45% 37
Work from Home +31 73 £488 -8.02% 39
UK excluding London -44 53 £450 -7.69% 66
South East -14 15 £425 -5.56% 16
North of England +7 13 £450 -2.70% 9
Midlands +31 11 £438 -15.66% 16
West Midlands +18 8 £525 -0.47% 14
North West +2 8 £225 -51.35% 3
Scotland +31 6 £575 +38.55% 4
East of England +5 6 £250 -42.86% 8
East Midlands +24 3 £370 -16.85% 2
Yorkshire +9 3 £500 +8.11% 6
North East +12 2 £533 +21.71%
South West +1 2 £320 -44.35% 10

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 18 (10.06%) Confluence
2 5 (2.79%) CMS
3 3 (1.68%) IIS
4 2 (1.12%) SAS
4 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.56%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.23%) Trello
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Primavera
2 2 (1.12%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.12%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.12%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.12%) SAP SD
2 2 (1.12%) VisionPLUS
2 2 (1.12%) Workfront
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (21.79%) Azure
2 27 (15.08%) AWS
3 24 (13.41%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (5.03%) GitHub
5 8 (4.47%) Serverless
6 7 (3.91%) Amazon Kinesis
6 7 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (3.35%) GCP
8 5 (2.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.79%) Amazon EventBridge
8 5 (2.79%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (2.79%) dbt
8 5 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.23%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (2.23%) PaaS
9 4 (2.23%) SaaS
10 3 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.68%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.68%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.35%) SSH
2 3 (1.68%) PPP
3 1 (0.56%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.91%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (3.35%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.68%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.12%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.12%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.12%) Power BI
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 60 (33.52%) JIRA
2 17 (9.50%) Git
3 10 (5.59%) Cucumber
4 9 (5.03%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.03%) JUnit
5 7 (3.91%) Cypress.io
5 7 (3.91%) Selenium
6 5 (2.79%) GitLab
6 5 (2.79%) WebDriver
7 4 (2.23%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.23%) SoapUI
7 4 (2.23%) TestNG
7 4 (2.23%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.68%) Gradle
8 3 (1.68%) JMeter
8 3 (1.68%) Maven
8 3 (1.68%) Mocha
8 3 (1.68%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.68%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 70 (39.11%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.85%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (11.73%) Finance
4 17 (9.50%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.82%) Banking
6 7 (3.91%) Marketing
7 6 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.79%) Billing
8 5 (2.79%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.79%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.23%) Electronics
9 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.23%) Retail
10 3 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.68%) Law
10 3 (1.68%) Legal
10 3 (1.68%) Police
11 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.12%) Front Office
11 2 (1.12%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (23.46%) Scrum Master
2 23 (12.85%) Developer
3 20 (11.17%) Analyst
4 17 (9.50%) Business Analyst
4 17 (9.50%) Lead
5 16 (8.94%) Senior
6 15 (8.38%) Product Owner
6 15 (8.38%) Project Manager
7 12 (6.70%) Delivery Manager
8 10 (5.59%) Data Engineer
9 9 (5.03%) Java Developer
10 8 (4.47%) Technical Leader
11 7 (3.91%) Full Stack Developer
12 6 (3.35%) Senior Manager
13 5 (2.79%) AWS Data Engineer
13 5 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
13 5 (2.79%) Senior Developer
13 5 (2.79%) Software Developer
13 5 (2.79%) Software Engineer
13 5 (2.79%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.94%) REST
2 13 (7.26%) React
3 12 (6.70%) SOAP
4 10 (5.59%) .NET
4 10 (5.59%) HTML
4 10 (5.59%) Spring
4 10 (5.59%) XML
5 9 (5.03%) CSS
5 9 (5.03%) JSON
5 9 (5.03%) Node.js
6 7 (3.91%) Hibernate
6 7 (3.91%) J2EE
6 7 (3.91%) JPA
6 7 (3.91%) RESTful
6 7 (3.91%) Web Services
7 6 (3.35%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.79%) .NET Core
8 5 (2.79%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.79%) GraphQL
8 5 (2.79%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 65 (36.31%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.35%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (3.35%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.79%) Wiki
6 4 (2.23%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.23%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.23%) Video\Live Streaming
7 3 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.12%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.12%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.12%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.59%) Linux
2 6 (3.35%) Unix
3 1 (0.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (93.30%) Agile
2 106 (59.22%) Scrum
3 86 (48.04%) Sprint Retrospective
4 72 (40.22%) Sprint Review
5 46 (25.70%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (25.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 43 (24.02%) User Stories
8 40 (22.35%) DevOps
9 35 (19.55%) Backlog Refinement
10 32 (17.88%) Acceptance Criteria
10 32 (17.88%) CI/CD
11 31 (17.32%) Kanban
11 31 (17.32%) Product Backlog
12 25 (13.97%) Project Delivery
13 24 (13.41%) Backlog Management
13 24 (13.41%) Project Management
13 24 (13.41%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (12.85%) Roadmaps
14 23 (12.85%) SDLC
15 22 (12.29%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.41%) Python
2 23 (12.85%) SQL
3 21 (11.73%) Java
4 16 (8.94%) JavaScript
5 11 (6.15%) C#
6 5 (2.79%) Perl
7 4 (2.23%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.23%) Scala
8 3 (1.68%) Bicep
8 3 (1.68%) C
8 3 (1.68%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.12%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (15.64%) Degree
2 24 (13.41%) Security Cleared
3 20 (11.17%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.79%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.23%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.23%) CSPO
6 4 (2.23%) MBA
7 3 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.12%) CBAP
8 2 (1.12%) ISEB
8 2 (1.12%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.56%) IIBA
9 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.56%) PgMP
9 1 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (16.76%) QA
2 3 (1.68%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.68%) PMO
3 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (5.03%) Docker
2 4 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.12%) LXC
Systems Management
1 19 (10.61%) Terraform
2 4 (2.23%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.12%) Proxmox
4 1 (0.56%) Ansible
4 1 (0.56%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (6.70%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.59%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.79%) SAP
3 5 (2.79%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.23%) Google
4 4 (2.23%) Okta
4 4 (2.23%) Progress
4 4 (2.23%) Roku
5 3 (1.68%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (1.68%) Oracle
6 2 (1.12%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (1.12%) Zoho
7 1 (0.56%) Ariba
7 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.56%) Black Duck
7 1 (0.56%) Databricks
7 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.56%) NCR
7 1 (0.56%) Splunk