Hybrid/Remote Sprint Planning Contract Job Trends

Sprint Planning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Sprint Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 218 310
Rank change year-on-year +47 +92 +42
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 152 100 82
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.49% 0.82% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 0.93% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 74 44
10th Percentile £358 £383 £65
25th Percentile £405 £420 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £518
Median % change year-on-year -10.95% +6.28% -1.43%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £589
90th Percentile £600 £738 £634
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £32.30 £58.88 £53.13
25th Percentile £39.18 £62.81 £55.96
Median hourly rate £67.75 £66.01 £61.29
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% +7.71% -7.49%
75th Percentile £93.75 £67.45 £65.99
90th Percentile - £68.23 £68.44
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £67.02 £69.29
% change year-on-year -25.40% -3.27% +6.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,282 10,741 15,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.14% 88.53% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,142 6,773 10,840
10th Percentile £325 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £724 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 222 384
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.58 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £41.59 £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -28.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Sprint Planning
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Sprint Planning and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Sprint Planning job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Sprint Planning
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Sprint Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Sprint Planning

Sprint Planning
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Sprint Planning over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Sprint Planning daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Sprint Planning
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Sprint Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Sprint Planning

Sprint Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Sprint Planning over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Sprint Planning hourly rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid working options

Sprint Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 23 (15.13%) Confluence
2 6 (3.95%) CMS
3 5 (3.29%) Apache
4 4 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.63%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.63%) SAS
4 4 (2.63%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.32%) Drupal
5 2 (1.32%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.32%) WordPress
6 1 (0.66%) Appian
Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.97%) UserZoom
3 2 (1.32%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.66%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.66%) Sketch
4 1 (0.66%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (4.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.32%) Primavera
3 1 (0.66%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 57 (37.50%) Azure
2 37 (24.34%) AWS
3 29 (19.08%) GitHub
4 26 (17.11%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (10.53%) Power Platform
7 11 (7.24%) GCP
7 11 (7.24%) Serverless
8 8 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (5.26%) Power Automate
9 7 (4.61%) SaaS
10 6 (3.95%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.95%) Azure AKS
10 6 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (3.95%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (3.95%) Miro
10 6 (3.95%) PaaS
10 6 (3.95%) PowerApps
10 6 (3.95%) Snowflake
11 5 (3.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.92%) HTTP
2 3 (1.97%) DNS
3 1 (0.66%) Network Security
3 1 (0.66%) SSL
3 1 (0.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.24%) Power BI
2 8 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.95%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.29%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.63%) Big Data
5 4 (2.63%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.63%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.63%) MySQL
5 4 (2.63%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.97%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.32%) Metadata
7 2 (1.32%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.32%) Tableau
8 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.66%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.66%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 45 (29.61%) JIRA
2 32 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 30 (19.74%) Git
4 18 (11.84%) GitLab
5 16 (10.53%) Selenium
6 12 (7.89%) Cucumber
6 12 (7.89%) Postman
7 11 (7.24%) JUnit
8 8 (5.26%) TestRail
8 8 (5.26%) Zephyr
9 6 (3.95%) SpecFlow
10 4 (2.63%) REST Assured
10 4 (2.63%) webpack
11 3 (1.97%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.97%) Browser DevTools
11 3 (1.97%) Gatling
11 3 (1.97%) JMeter
11 3 (1.97%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.97%) TestNG
11 3 (1.97%) Vite
General
1 69 (45.39%) Social Skills
2 34 (22.37%) Finance
3 22 (14.47%) Public Sector
4 17 (11.18%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.26%) Marketing
6 7 (4.61%) Banking
7 5 (3.29%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.32%) Back Office
10 2 (1.32%) Retail
11 1 (0.66%) Automotive
11 1 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.66%) Electronics
11 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.66%) Local Government
11 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (21.05%) Developer
2 18 (11.84%) Lead
3 16 (10.53%) Scrum Master
4 15 (9.87%) Senior
5 14 (9.21%) Product Owner
6 12 (7.89%) Analyst
7 10 (6.58%) Tester
8 9 (5.92%) Business Analyst
8 9 (5.92%) Java Developer
9 6 (3.95%) Data Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) Project Manager
10 5 (3.29%) Automation Tester
10 5 (3.29%) Software Developer
11 4 (2.63%) Architect
11 4 (2.63%) Penetration Tester
11 4 (2.63%) Python Data Engineer
11 4 (2.63%) Python Engineer
11 4 (2.63%) Senior Developer
11 4 (2.63%) Senior Manager
11 4 (2.63%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (17.11%) REST
2 21 (13.82%) RESTful
3 14 (9.21%) React
4 12 (7.89%) Spring
5 11 (7.24%) AngularJS
5 11 (7.24%) CSS
5 11 (7.24%) HTML
5 11 (7.24%) JSON
5 11 (7.24%) Spring Boot
6 8 (5.26%) .NET
6 8 (5.26%) XML
7 7 (4.61%) Playwright
7 7 (4.61%) Vue
8 6 (3.95%) Next.js
8 6 (3.95%) Node.js
9 5 (3.29%) HTML5
9 5 (3.29%) pytest
10 4 (2.63%) Jest
10 4 (2.63%) Kafka
10 4 (2.63%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 42 (27.63%) Product Ownership
2 13 (8.55%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.63%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.97%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (1.97%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.97%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.32%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.32%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.32%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.66%) PMI
7 1 (0.66%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.66%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.29%) Linux
2 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (89.47%) Agile
2 73 (48.03%) Scrum
2 73 (48.03%) Sprint Retrospective
3 65 (42.76%) CI/CD
4 61 (40.13%) DevOps
5 42 (27.63%) User Stories
6 38 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 37 (24.34%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (23.68%) Sprint Review
9 35 (23.03%) Backlog Refinement
10 31 (20.39%) Stakeholder Management
11 30 (19.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (17.76%) SDLC
13 25 (16.45%) Containerisation
14 23 (15.13%) Microservices
15 22 (14.47%) Acceptance Criteria
16 20 (13.16%) Backlog Prioritisation
16 20 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
16 20 (13.16%) Roadmaps
17 19 (12.50%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 28 (18.42%) Python
2 27 (17.76%) Java
3 20 (13.16%) JavaScript
4 17 (11.18%) SQL
5 11 (7.24%) C#
5 11 (7.24%) TypeScript
6 6 (3.95%) XPath
7 4 (2.63%) Bicep
8 3 (1.97%) Bash
9 2 (1.32%) PHP
9 2 (1.32%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.32%) Scala
10 1 (0.66%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.66%) Cypher
10 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.66%) Go
10 1 (0.66%) Korn
10 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (20.39%) Security Cleared
2 26 (17.11%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.55%) Degree
4 4 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.97%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.97%) MBA
6 2 (1.32%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.32%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.32%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.32%) PMP
7 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.66%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.66%) CSPO
7 1 (0.66%) GPEN
7 1 (0.66%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.66%) OSCE
7 1 (0.66%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (19.74%) QA
2 10 (6.58%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.61%) GDPR
4 6 (3.95%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.63%) WCAG
6 2 (1.32%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.66%) HL7
7 1 (0.66%) NIST
7 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.66%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 25 (16.45%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.21%) Terraform
3 7 (4.61%) Ansible
4 6 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (3.29%) Grafana
6 4 (2.63%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.32%) Istio
7 2 (1.32%) Kibana
8 1 (0.66%) linkerd
8 1 (0.66%) Puppet
8 1 (0.66%) vRealize
8 1 (0.66%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 24 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.58%) Salesforce
3 8 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.61%) Databricks
5 6 (3.95%) Google
6 3 (1.97%) Amplitude
6 3 (1.97%) Progress
7 2 (1.32%) Adobe
7 2 (1.32%) Cisco
7 2 (1.32%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.32%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.32%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.32%) Okta
7 2 (1.32%) Oracle
7 2 (1.32%) SAP
7 2 (1.32%) Workday
8 1 (0.66%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.66%) IBM
8 1 (0.66%) Pega
8 1 (0.66%) Sitecore