Sprint Planning Contract Job Trends in England

Sprint Planning
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Sprint Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
24 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 234 342
Rank change year-on-year +33 +108 +23
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 647 326 180
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.39% 1.17% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.29% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 238 115
10th Percentile £390 £350 £353
25th Percentile £450 £408 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £604
90th Percentile £700 £692 £669
UK median daily rate £507 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.30% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 13 2
10th Percentile £55.75 £43.65 £57.33
25th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 £58.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £62.26
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -19.69% -10.14%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £64.95
90th Percentile - £56.00 £66.19
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £62.26
% change year-on-year +40.00% -19.69% -10.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,443 25,283 28,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.86% 86.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,053 16,051 17,283
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,529 1,252
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.09
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -

Sprint Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Sprint Planning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Sprint Planning job vacancy trend in England

Sprint Planning
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Sprint Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Sprint Planning

Sprint Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Planning in England over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Sprint Planning in England

Sprint Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Sprint Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Sprint Planning

Sprint Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Sprint Planning in England over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Sprint Planning in England

Sprint Planning
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 24 September 2026. 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
London +14 313 £550 +5.77% 281
Midlands +20 103 £475 +18.45% 49
North of England -26 101 £500 +15.34% 103
West Midlands +35 99 £475 +5.56% 28
South East -14 90 £525 - 66
North East -5 45 £430 -20.00% 14
Yorkshire -13 45 £500 +17.30% 32
East of England -13 25 £460 - 19
South West -22 23 £510 -4.00% 30
North West -67 15 £450 +7.78% 57
East Midlands -29 3 £448 +23.59% 21
Sprint Planning
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Sprint Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 131 (20.25%) Confluence
2 18 (2.78%) CMS
3 13 (2.01%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.55%) Apache
4 10 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.77%) Documentum
6 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.46%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.46%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.31%) nginx
7 2 (0.31%) SAS
8 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.15%) Camunda
8 1 (0.15%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) Mendix
8 1 (0.15%) Traefik
8 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.93%) Notion
5 5 (0.77%) Trello
6 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.62%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.31%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.15%) Sketch
8 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.55%) Salesforce CRM
2 9 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.77%) Magento
5 3 (0.46%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.31%) Primavera
6 2 (0.31%) Workfront
7 1 (0.15%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Utilities
7 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.15%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.15%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.15%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.15%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.15%) Shopify
7 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 199 (30.76%) Azure
2 120 (18.55%) AWS
3 106 (16.38%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (7.11%) Power Platform
5 43 (6.65%) GitHub
6 39 (6.03%) OpenShift
7 33 (5.10%) Serverless
8 32 (4.95%) GCP
9 26 (4.02%) Amazon S3
10 24 (3.71%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
13 21 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 21 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (3.25%) PowerApps
14 20 (3.09%) Power Automate
15 17 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
16 16 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
16 16 (2.47%) Entra ID
17 15 (2.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.62%) Firewall
1 4 (0.62%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.46%) Broadband
3 2 (0.31%) 5G
3 2 (0.31%) SAN
3 2 (0.31%) WAN
3 2 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.15%) DNS
4 1 (0.15%) Intranet
4 1 (0.15%) IPv4
4 1 (0.15%) IPv6
4 1 (0.15%) Network Security
4 1 (0.15%) NFC
4 1 (0.15%) PPP
4 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.15%) SONET
4 1 (0.15%) SSL
4 1 (0.15%) UPnP
4 1 (0.15%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.86%) Power BI
2 24 (3.71%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (3.40%) SQL Server
4 21 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (2.94%) Relational Database
6 17 (2.63%) Metadata
7 10 (1.55%) MongoDB
8 8 (1.24%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.08%) Big Data
9 7 (1.08%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.93%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.77%) Ataccama
11 5 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.62%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.62%) MySQL
12 4 (0.62%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.62%) Redis
12 4 (0.62%) Spark SQL
12 4 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 226 (34.93%) JIRA
2 73 (11.28%) Git
3 54 (8.35%) Jenkins
4 46 (7.11%) SonarQube
5 27 (4.17%) Postman
6 14 (2.16%) GitLab
6 14 (2.16%) Maven
7 13 (2.01%) JUnit
8 11 (1.70%) Mockito
9 8 (1.24%) Selenium
10 7 (1.08%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.93%) JMeter
12 5 (0.77%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.62%) Gradle
13 4 (0.62%) Subversion
14 3 (0.46%) Protractor
14 3 (0.46%) WebDriver
15 2 (0.31%) Charles Proxy
15 2 (0.31%) git-flow
15 2 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 293 (45.29%) Social Skills
2 136 (21.02%) Finance
3 125 (19.32%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (17.31%) Public Sector
5 52 (8.04%) Banking
6 45 (6.96%) Retail
7 31 (4.79%) Marketing
8 28 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.01%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.70%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.39%) Front Office
13 9 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.24%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.24%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.08%) Law
15 7 (1.08%) Legal
Job Titles
1 127 (19.63%) Developer
2 98 (15.15%) Senior
3 84 (12.98%) Analyst
4 80 (12.36%) Scrum Master
5 75 (11.59%) Lead
6 63 (9.74%) Delivery Manager
7 56 (8.66%) Business Analyst
8 48 (7.42%) Product Owner
9 46 (7.11%) Java Developer
10 40 (6.18%) Project Manager
11 31 (4.79%) Product Manager
12 29 (4.48%) Senior Developer
13 27 (4.17%) Senior Manager
14 26 (4.02%) Architect
15 20 (3.09%) Technical Manager
16 19 (2.94%) Agile Delivery Manager
17 18 (2.78%) Technical Analyst
18 17 (2.63%) Technical Leader
19 16 (2.47%) Data Engineer
19 16 (2.47%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (13.14%) REST
2 54 (8.35%) AngularJS
3 49 (7.57%) RESTful
4 41 (6.34%) Terraform
5 36 (5.56%) Spring
5 36 (5.56%) Spring Boot
6 33 (5.10%) Quarkus
7 28 (4.33%) .NET
8 27 (4.17%) JSON
9 26 (4.02%) SOAP
10 22 (3.40%) React
11 20 (3.09%) Web Services
12 19 (2.94%) HTML
13 17 (2.63%) Kafka
13 17 (2.63%) Node.js
14 14 (2.16%) Hibernate
15 13 (2.01%) Lightning Web Components
16 12 (1.85%) CSS
16 12 (1.85%) PySpark
17 11 (1.70%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 264 (40.80%) Product Ownership
2 73 (11.28%) Cloud Native
3 26 (4.02%) Onboarding
4 25 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (3.40%) Virtual Team
6 14 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.55%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.55%) Marketing Technology
9 10 (1.55%) NHS
10 9 (1.39%) Life Science
11 7 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.08%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.93%) FMCG
12 6 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (0.93%) Taxonomies
13 5 (0.77%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.85%) Windows
2 9 (1.39%) Linux
3 4 (0.62%) Android
4 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.31%) Unix
4 2 (0.31%) VMS
4 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 607 (93.82%) Agile
2 350 (54.10%) Scrum
3 248 (38.33%) Sprint Retrospective
4 236 (36.48%) DevOps
5 228 (35.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 222 (34.31%) Stakeholder Management
7 200 (30.91%) Backlog Refinement
8 186 (28.75%) CI/CD
8 186 (28.75%) User Stories
9 175 (27.05%) Sprint Review
10 140 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
11 137 (21.17%) Test Automation
12 125 (19.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 123 (19.01%) Acceptance Criteria
14 115 (17.77%) Backlog Management
15 114 (17.62%) Kanban
15 114 (17.62%) Software Engineering
16 109 (16.85%) Roadmaps
17 107 (16.54%) SDLC
18 94 (14.53%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 104 (16.07%) Java
2 77 (11.90%) SQL
3 54 (8.35%) Python
4 52 (8.04%) JavaScript
5 36 (5.56%) C#
6 29 (4.48%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.01%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.77%) Bicep
8 5 (0.77%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.62%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.46%) Groovy
11 2 (0.31%) Bash
11 2 (0.31%) R
12 1 (0.15%) ABAP
12 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.15%) Korn
12 1 (0.15%) PHP
12 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 214 (33.08%) Security Cleared
2 176 (27.20%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.03%) Degree
4 31 (4.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (4.02%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.47%) PMI Certification
7 15 (2.32%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.85%) PMP
10 7 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.93%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.93%) CSPO
12 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.62%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.62%) SAFe Agilist
13 3 (0.46%) CAPM
13 3 (0.46%) IIBA
13 3 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (19.17%) QA
2 39 (6.03%) Data Quality
3 37 (5.72%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.85%) PMO
5 10 (1.55%) GDPR
6 9 (1.39%) GRC
7 7 (1.08%) WCAG
8 6 (0.93%) GxP
9 5 (0.77%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 3 (0.46%) SLA
11 2 (0.31%) NIST
12 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.15%) HL7
12 1 (0.15%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.15%) NCSC
12 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 56 (8.66%) Docker
2 9 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Ceph
5 1 (0.15%) Squid
5 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 72 (11.13%) Kubernetes
2 36 (5.56%) Argo
3 13 (2.01%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.85%) Grafana
5 6 (0.93%) Ansible
6 2 (0.31%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (0.31%) Packer
6 2 (0.31%) Puppet
7 1 (0.15%) Istio
7 1 (0.15%) Kibana
7 1 (0.15%) Nagios
7 1 (0.15%) Nessus
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (11.13%) Microsoft
2 37 (5.72%) ServiceNow
3 34 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 32 (4.95%) Salesforce
5 24 (3.71%) Databricks
6 17 (2.63%) Oracle
6 17 (2.63%) SAP
7 12 (1.85%) Adobe
8 11 (1.70%) Okta
9 9 (1.39%) Google
10 8 (1.24%) ForgeRock
11 7 (1.08%) Informatica
12 6 (0.93%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.93%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.93%) VMware
13 5 (0.77%) Splunk
14 3 (0.46%) PagerDuty
14 3 (0.46%) Pega
14 3 (0.46%) UiPath
14 3 (0.46%) Zscaler
551 Sprint Planning jobs in England