Sprint Planning Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Sprint Planning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 275 297
Rank change year-on-year +92 +22 +14
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 119 72 172
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.20% 0.48% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 0.54% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 44 133
10th Percentile £340 £371 £406
25th Percentile £434 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -8.02% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £569
90th Percentile £838 £610 £670
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £58.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -10.64% -9.62% +8.33%

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 9,053 13,242 22,482
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.33% 88.03% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,200 8,878 15,879
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £774 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 571 516
10th Percentile £13.83 £15.00 £18.66
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.50 £30.00
Median hourly rate £35.45 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.57% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -22.16% +0.69% +41.16%

Sprint Planning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Sprint Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Sprint Planning trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Sprint Planning
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Sprint Planning.

Sprint Planning daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Sprint Planning
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Sprint Planning over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Sprint Planning daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Sprint Planning
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Sprint Planning.

Sprint Planning hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Sprint Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 29 (24.37%) Confluence
2 3 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.84%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (11.76%) Trello
2 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.84%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 48 (40.34%) Azure
2 36 (30.25%) AWS
3 25 (21.01%) GCP
4 19 (15.97%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (15.97%) SaaS
5 18 (15.13%) IaaS
5 18 (15.13%) PaaS
6 14 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.04%) GitHub
7 6 (5.04%) Power Platform
8 5 (4.20%) Miro
9 3 (2.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.68%) BrowserStack
10 2 (1.68%) Datadog
10 2 (1.68%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.68%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.68%) Sauce Labs
10 2 (1.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.65%) DNS
2 20 (16.81%) DHCP
2 20 (16.81%) TCP/IP
3 19 (15.97%) HTTP
4 18 (15.13%) BGP
4 18 (15.13%) Firewall
4 18 (15.13%) HTTPS
4 18 (15.13%) OSPF
5 2 (1.68%) DOCSIS
5 2 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.84%) Network Security
6 1 (0.84%) VLAN
6 1 (0.84%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 5 (4.20%) MySQL
2 5 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.36%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.68%) InfluxDB
4 2 (1.68%) Looker
4 2 (1.68%) Power BI
5 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.84%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.84%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.84%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.84%) Metadata
5 1 (0.84%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.84%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (40.34%) JIRA
2 10 (8.40%) Git
3 9 (7.56%) Jenkins
4 8 (6.72%) Postman
5 5 (4.20%) GitLab
5 5 (4.20%) REST Assured
6 4 (3.36%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.52%) JMeter
8 2 (1.68%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.84%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.84%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.84%) JUnit
9 1 (0.84%) Selenium
9 1 (0.84%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.84%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.84%) TestComplete
9 1 (0.84%) TestNG
9 1 (0.84%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.84%) Vite
9 1 (0.84%) webpack
General
1 60 (50.42%) Social Skills
2 28 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 17 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.56%) Finance
5 3 (2.52%) Automotive
5 3 (2.52%) Banking
6 2 (1.68%) Marketing
6 2 (1.68%) Retail
7 1 (0.84%) Back Office
7 1 (0.84%) Electronics
7 1 (0.84%) Front Office
7 1 (0.84%) Games
7 1 (0.84%) German Language
7 1 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.84%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.84%) Law
7 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.84%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 24 (20.17%) Developer
2 22 (18.49%) Analyst
2 22 (18.49%) Business Analyst
3 18 (15.13%) Architect
3 18 (15.13%) Cloud Architect
3 18 (15.13%) Cloud Native Architect
3 18 (15.13%) Technical Architect
4 13 (10.92%) Scrum Master
5 10 (8.40%) .NET Developer
6 9 (7.56%) AWS Architect
6 9 (7.56%) Network Security Architect
6 9 (7.56%) Security Architect
6 9 (7.56%) Security Technical Architect
7 8 (6.72%) Lead
8 7 (5.88%) Senior
9 6 (5.04%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (5.04%) Project Manager
10 5 (4.20%) Agile Business Analyst
10 5 (4.20%) Data Business Analyst
10 5 (4.20%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.24%) RESTful
2 10 (8.40%) .NET
3 9 (7.56%) AngularJS
4 7 (5.88%) .NET Framework
4 7 (5.88%) Entity Framework
5 5 (4.20%) CSS
6 4 (3.36%) Godot
6 4 (3.36%) React
6 4 (3.36%) Unreal Engine
6 4 (3.36%) Vue
7 3 (2.52%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.52%) ASP.NET
7 3 (2.52%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (2.52%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (2.52%) HTML
7 3 (2.52%) MapLibre
7 3 (2.52%) Playwright
7 3 (2.52%) REST
8 2 (1.68%) Kafka
8 2 (1.68%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (22.69%) Product Ownership
2 23 (19.33%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.20%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.68%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.68%) IoT
5 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.68%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.84%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.84%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.84%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.84%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.84%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.84%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.84%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.84%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.36%) Linux
2 1 (0.84%) Android
2 1 (0.84%) Unix
2 1 (0.84%) VyOS
2 1 (0.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (80.67%) Agile
2 55 (46.22%) Sprint Retrospective
3 54 (45.38%) Scrum
4 31 (26.05%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (26.05%) Test Automation
4 31 (26.05%) User Stories
5 27 (22.69%) Acceptance Criteria
5 27 (22.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (22.69%) Kanban
6 26 (21.85%) DevOps
7 24 (20.17%) CI/CD
8 22 (18.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (18.49%) Sprint Review
8 22 (18.49%) User Experience
9 20 (16.81%) Backlog Refinement
9 20 (16.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (15.97%) Product Backlog
10 19 (15.97%) User Research
11 17 (14.29%) Backlog Management
12 15 (12.61%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 19 (15.97%) Bicep
2 9 (7.56%) Python
3 8 (6.72%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.04%) Java
4 6 (5.04%) SQL
5 5 (4.20%) C#
5 5 (4.20%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.52%) Bash
7 2 (1.68%) C
7 2 (1.68%) C++
7 2 (1.68%) Go
7 2 (1.68%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.84%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.84%) Rust
8 1 (0.84%) Scala
8 1 (0.84%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 17 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.40%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.72%) Degree
4 4 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.68%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.68%) CSPO
6 2 (1.68%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (0.84%) CEH
7 1 (0.84%) CISSP
7 1 (0.84%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (19.33%) QA
2 18 (15.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.84%) Automotive SPICE
3 1 (0.84%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.84%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (0.84%) EMIR
3 1 (0.84%) GRC
3 1 (0.84%) ISO 26262
3 1 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (5.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (18.49%) Terraform
2 7 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.52%) Ansible
4 2 (1.68%) Grafana
4 2 (1.68%) Kibana
5 1 (0.84%) Cloudify
5 1 (0.84%) Puppet
5 1 (0.84%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 19 (15.97%) Cisco
2 18 (15.13%) CheckPoint
2 18 (15.13%) Fortinet
2 18 (15.13%) Palo Alto
3 10 (8.40%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.36%) Palantir
4 4 (3.36%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.68%) SAP
5 2 (1.68%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.68%) Splunk
6 1 (0.84%) Adobe
6 1 (0.84%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.84%) Databricks
6 1 (0.84%) Google
6 1 (0.84%) Juniper
6 1 (0.84%) Oracle
6 1 (0.84%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.84%) SendGrid
6 1 (0.84%) Typelevel
6 1 (0.84%) Workday