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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 403 375
Rank change year-on-year +136 -28 -26
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 289 176 361
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 0.41% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.48% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 111 249
10th Percentile £360 £363 £406
25th Percentile £433 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £607 £550 £588
90th Percentile £838 £650 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £463 £494
% change year-on-year +10.81% -6.33% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 11
10th Percentile £49.38 £52.63 -
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.69 £54.00
Median hourly rate £51.25 £58.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.77% -9.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £55.94 £62.19 £75.43
90th Percentile £67.36 £63.88 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - £67.93
% change year-on-year - - +13.22%

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 26,783 36,704 51,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.97% 86.15% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,188 23,629 35,390
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,099 2,440 1,690
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.99 £15.99
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +1.11% +38.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +113 204 £514 +2.29% 336
Work from Home +85 122 £500 +2.56% 206
London +74 118 £514 -1.20% 165
UK excluding London +88 94 £513 +10.81% 232
South East +55 30 £514 +20.94% 78
North of England +38 26 £500 -3.15% 61
North West +21 14 £513 +13.89% 30
Midlands +20 14 £540 +23.43% 27
Scotland +10 11 £470 -18.26% 5
West Midlands +8 11 £488 -7.14% 17
Yorkshire +24 10 £450 -10.00% 27
South West +45 8 £545 +70.31% 23
East of England +21 2 £400 +60.00% 19
East Midlands +11 2 £675 +82.43% 10
North East -5 2 £519 -2.58% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £625 - 5
Wales - 1 £331 - 18

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 53 (18.34%) Confluence
2 8 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.73%) CMS
4 3 (1.04%) Apache
5 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.69%) Drupal
5 2 (0.69%) WordPress
6 1 (0.35%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.35%) IIS
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 27 (9.34%) Trello
2 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.04%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.35%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.04%) Shopify
3 2 (0.69%) iTrent
4 1 (0.35%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
4 1 (0.35%) Endur
4 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 90 (31.14%) Azure
2 56 (19.38%) AWS
3 36 (12.46%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (11.07%) GCP
5 27 (9.34%) SaaS
6 19 (6.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 19 (6.57%) IaaS
6 19 (6.57%) PaaS
7 13 (4.50%) Power Platform
8 10 (3.46%) GitHub
9 7 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (2.08%) Datadog
10 6 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.73%) Miro
11 5 (1.73%) Serverless
12 3 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.04%) BigCommerce
12 3 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.69%) DNS
2 26 (9.00%) Firewall
3 25 (8.65%) DHCP
4 21 (7.27%) HTTP
4 21 (7.27%) TCP/IP
5 20 (6.92%) HTTPS
6 18 (6.23%) BGP
6 18 (6.23%) OSPF
7 4 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.04%) Broadband
8 3 (1.04%) DOCSIS
9 2 (0.69%) Network Security
9 2 (0.69%) VLAN
9 2 (0.69%) Wireless
10 1 (0.35%) LAN
10 1 (0.35%) Modbus
10 1 (0.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.11%) MongoDB
1 9 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.42%) Power BI
2 7 (2.42%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.08%) MySQL
4 4 (1.38%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.04%) Big Data
5 3 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.04%) Delta Lake
5 3 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.04%) InfluxDB
5 3 (1.04%) Looker
6 2 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.69%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.69%) Metadata
6 2 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 98 (33.91%) JIRA
2 41 (14.19%) Git
3 20 (6.92%) Jenkins
4 18 (6.23%) Postman
5 14 (4.84%) GitLab
6 12 (4.15%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.77%) REST Assured
8 7 (2.42%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.42%) JMeter
8 7 (2.42%) Selenium
9 4 (1.38%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.38%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (1.38%) webpack
10 3 (1.04%) ERwin
10 3 (1.04%) TestNG
10 3 (1.04%) Travis CI
10 3 (1.04%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.69%) Moq
11 2 (0.69%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 128 (44.29%) Social Skills
2 63 (21.80%) Public Sector
3 55 (19.03%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (11.07%) Finance
5 13 (4.50%) Banking
6 10 (3.46%) Marketing
7 6 (2.08%) Retail
7 6 (2.08%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.38%) Automotive
8 4 (1.38%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.04%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.04%) Front Office
10 2 (0.69%) Back Office
10 2 (0.69%) Electronics
10 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Law
10 2 (0.69%) Local Government
10 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (19.72%) Developer
2 47 (16.26%) Analyst
3 36 (12.46%) Business Analyst
3 36 (12.46%) Scrum Master
4 28 (9.69%) Senior
5 21 (7.27%) Architect
6 20 (6.92%) Lead
7 18 (6.23%) Cloud Architect
7 18 (6.23%) Cloud Native Architect
7 18 (6.23%) Technical Architect
8 17 (5.88%) Project Manager
9 11 (3.81%) .NET Developer
9 11 (3.81%) Delivery Manager
9 11 (3.81%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (3.46%) Product Owner
11 9 (3.11%) AWS Architect
11 9 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.11%) Network Security Architect
11 9 (3.11%) Security Technical Architect
11 9 (3.11%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.65%) RESTful
2 24 (8.30%) CSS
3 20 (6.92%) HTML
4 19 (6.57%) AngularJS
5 17 (5.88%) .NET
6 14 (4.84%) React
7 10 (3.46%) .NET Framework
7 10 (3.46%) HTML5
8 9 (3.11%) Entity Framework
8 9 (3.11%) REST
9 8 (2.77%) .NET Core
9 8 (2.77%) ASP.NET
10 7 (2.42%) Node.js
10 7 (2.42%) Vue
11 6 (2.08%) CSS3
11 6 (2.08%) Next.js
12 5 (1.73%) FastAPI
12 5 (1.73%) Godot
12 5 (1.73%) MapLibre
12 5 (1.73%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 64 (22.15%) Product Ownership
2 25 (8.65%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.15%) Virtual Team
4 10 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.08%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.73%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.73%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.04%) CMDB
8 3 (1.04%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.04%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.69%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.69%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.69%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.19%) Linux
2 4 (1.38%) Windows
3 3 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.04%) Rocky
4 2 (0.69%) Unix
5 1 (0.35%) AIX
5 1 (0.35%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (84.43%) Agile
2 127 (43.94%) Sprint Retrospective
3 126 (43.60%) Scrum
4 87 (30.10%) DevOps
5 81 (28.03%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (23.18%) User Stories
7 65 (22.49%) Test Automation
8 62 (21.45%) Sprint Review
9 61 (21.11%) CI/CD
10 60 (20.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (17.65%) Backlog Refinement
11 51 (17.65%) Kanban
12 48 (16.61%) Stakeholder Management
13 47 (16.26%) Acceptance Criteria
14 45 (15.57%) Backlog Management
14 45 (15.57%) User Experience
15 41 (14.19%) Product Backlog
16 35 (12.11%) Project Management
16 35 (12.11%) Roadmaps
17 33 (11.42%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 31 (10.73%) Python
2 27 (9.34%) JavaScript
3 23 (7.96%) Java
3 23 (7.96%) SQL
4 20 (6.92%) TypeScript
5 19 (6.57%) Bicep
6 18 (6.23%) C#
7 12 (4.15%) Bash
8 5 (1.73%) C++
9 4 (1.38%) C
9 4 (1.38%) PHP
10 3 (1.04%) Go
10 3 (1.04%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.69%) Ruby
11 2 (0.69%) Scala
11 2 (0.69%) SOQL
12 1 (0.35%) Korn
12 1 (0.35%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.35%) VB6
Qualifications
1 47 (16.26%) Security Cleared
2 35 (12.11%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.34%) Degree
4 13 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.73%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.38%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.04%) CCNA
7 3 (1.04%) CCNP
7 3 (1.04%) CEH
7 3 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.04%) CISSP
7 3 (1.04%) CSPO
7 3 (1.04%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.69%) IIBA
8 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.69%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.35%) APMP
9 1 (0.35%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (14.88%) QA
2 31 (10.73%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.08%) GRC
4 3 (1.04%) WCAG
5 2 (0.69%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.69%) NCSC
6 1 (0.35%) Automotive SPICE
6 1 (0.35%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.35%) EMIR
6 1 (0.35%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.35%) PMO
6 1 (0.35%) SEPA
6 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (6.92%) Docker
2 3 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.35%) Firmware
4 1 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 29 (10.03%) Terraform
2 26 (9.00%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.84%) Ansible
4 4 (1.38%) Kibana
5 3 (1.04%) Grafana
5 3 (1.04%) Puppet
6 2 (0.69%) Kustomize
6 2 (0.69%) Packer
6 2 (0.69%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.35%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 29 (10.03%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.30%) ServiceNow
3 23 (7.96%) Fortinet
4 19 (6.57%) Cisco
5 18 (6.23%) CheckPoint
5 18 (6.23%) Palo Alto
6 10 (3.46%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.77%) SAP
8 7 (2.42%) Databricks
8 7 (2.42%) Oracle
8 7 (2.42%) Splunk
9 6 (2.08%) Google
10 5 (1.73%) Infoblox
11 4 (1.38%) Adobe
11 4 (1.38%) Palantir
12 3 (1.04%) Sitecore
12 3 (1.04%) Virgin Media
12 3 (1.04%) Workday
13 2 (0.69%) Amplitude
13 2 (0.69%) Atlassian