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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 304 412
Rank change year-on-year +90 +108 -32
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 474 170 136
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.26% 0.70% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 0.77% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 97 86
10th Percentile £358 £396 £280
25th Percentile £424 £450 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -5.22%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £564
90th Percentile £645 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -4.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 2 2
10th Percentile £52.50 £65.13 £52.63
25th Percentile £60.00 £65.31 £54.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.25 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +12.77% -9.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.81 £62.19
90th Percentile £74.26 £68.38 £63.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year -3.70% +14.89% -9.62%

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 32,394 22,046 32,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.25% 90.85% 86.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,755 14,514 21,646
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,983 845 2,157
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.30 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.55 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -1.52% -12.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.20 £76.25 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.81% -1.54% -9.72%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 +62 233 £513 -3.53% 58
North of England +3 87 £427 -16.78% 40
Midlands -9 63 £481 -11.70% 14
South East -20 52 £525 +6.28% 31
West Midlands -19 51 £491 -12.71% 10
North West -6 40 £390 -31.83% 14
South West -9 24 £525 -3.67% 16
Yorkshire -37 24 £500 +17.65% 8
North East +9 23 £513 -1.20% 18
East Midlands -22 12 £413 -8.33% 3
East of England -23 8 £475 +18.75% 16
Sprint Planning
UK

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 78 (16.46%) Confluence
2 20 (4.22%) SAS
3 15 (3.16%) CMS
4 4 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.63%) Apache
5 3 (0.63%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.63%) WordPress
6 2 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.42%) Drupal
6 2 (0.42%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.42%) Magnolia
7 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.21%) Mendix
7 1 (0.21%) nginx
7 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.27%) Adobe XD
2 6 (1.27%) Trello
3 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.63%) Sketch
5 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.21%) Mingle
6 1 (0.21%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.42%) Finacle
3 2 (0.42%) Maximo
3 2 (0.42%) Primavera
4 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 120 (25.32%) Azure
2 85 (17.93%) AWS
3 58 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (8.65%) OpenShift
5 30 (6.33%) GitHub
6 27 (5.70%) GCP
7 25 (5.27%) Serverless
8 24 (5.06%) Power Platform
9 22 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (4.43%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (3.38%) Amazon S3
12 15 (3.16%) Figma
13 11 (2.32%) Power Automate
14 10 (2.11%) Azure AKS
15 9 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.90%) Entra ID
15 9 (1.90%) SaaS
16 8 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
16 8 (1.69%) PowerApps
17 7 (1.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.05%) Network Security
2 3 (0.63%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.42%) Firewall
3 2 (0.42%) HTTP
3 2 (0.42%) SMS
4 1 (0.21%) 5G
4 1 (0.21%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.21%) DHCP
4 1 (0.21%) DNS
4 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.22%) Power BI
2 15 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.95%) Metadata
4 9 (1.90%) Tableau
5 8 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (1.69%) Oracle Database
5 8 (1.69%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.48%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.48%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 6 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.27%) Big Data
8 5 (1.05%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.84%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.84%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.63%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.63%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.63%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 2 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 150 (31.65%) JIRA
2 65 (13.71%) Git
3 64 (13.50%) Jenkins
4 40 (8.44%) GitLab
5 37 (7.81%) Selenium
6 30 (6.33%) Postman
7 29 (6.12%) SonarQube
8 28 (5.91%) JUnit
9 17 (3.59%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.11%) Cypress.io
10 10 (2.11%) REST Assured
10 10 (2.11%) WebDriver
11 6 (1.27%) Zephyr
12 5 (1.05%) Artifactory
12 5 (1.05%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (1.05%) TestRail
13 4 (0.84%) MLflow
13 4 (0.84%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.84%) Subversion
General
1 233 (49.16%) Social Skills
2 107 (22.57%) Finance
3 80 (16.88%) Public Sector
4 69 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (7.81%) Banking
6 18 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (3.38%) Marketing
8 15 (3.16%) Front Office
8 15 (3.16%) Retail
9 13 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.32%) Telecoms
11 10 (2.11%) Retail Banking
12 9 (1.90%) Legal
13 7 (1.48%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
16 4 (0.84%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.84%) Local Government
16 4 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 90 (18.99%) Developer
2 59 (12.45%) Analyst
3 50 (10.55%) Scrum Master
4 47 (9.92%) Senior
5 45 (9.49%) Business Analyst
6 39 (8.23%) Lead
6 39 (8.23%) Product Owner
7 26 (5.49%) Java Developer
8 22 (4.64%) Project Manager
9 21 (4.43%) Delivery Manager
10 19 (4.01%) Software Engineer
10 19 (4.01%) Test Specialist
11 17 (3.59%) Architect
11 17 (3.59%) Tester
12 16 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
13 13 (2.74%) Product Manager
13 13 (2.74%) Senior Manager
14 11 (2.32%) Test Automation Specialist
15 10 (2.11%) Java Engineer
15 10 (2.11%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (11.81%) REST
2 41 (8.65%) React
3 39 (8.23%) AngularJS
4 35 (7.38%) RESTful
5 22 (4.64%) pytest
6 20 (4.22%) Quarkus
7 17 (3.59%) Playwright
8 16 (3.38%) CSS
8 16 (3.38%) JSON
8 16 (3.38%) Node.js
8 16 (3.38%) Spring
9 13 (2.74%) HTML
9 13 (2.74%) Spring Boot
10 10 (2.11%) .NET
10 10 (2.11%) SOAP
11 9 (1.90%) Web Services
11 9 (1.90%) XML
12 8 (1.69%) CSS3
12 8 (1.69%) Middleware
12 8 (1.69%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 166 (35.02%) Product Ownership
2 32 (6.75%) Cloud Native
3 14 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (2.74%) Algorithms
4 13 (2.74%) Virtual Team
5 12 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.90%) NHS
8 8 (1.69%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.48%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.27%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.27%) PMI
11 5 (1.05%) FMCG
11 5 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.84%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.32%) Unix
2 8 (1.69%) Linux
3 6 (1.27%) Windows
4 4 (0.84%) VMS
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (92.41%) Agile
2 241 (50.84%) Scrum
3 222 (46.84%) Sprint Retrospective
4 146 (30.80%) DevOps
5 138 (29.11%) CI/CD
6 137 (28.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 135 (28.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 130 (27.43%) Sprint Review
9 116 (24.47%) User Stories
10 115 (24.26%) Test Automation
11 114 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
12 102 (21.52%) Backlog Refinement
13 99 (20.89%) Roadmaps
14 83 (17.51%) Acceptance Criteria
15 73 (15.40%) Backlog Prioritisation
16 69 (14.56%) Backlog Management
17 65 (13.71%) Kanban
18 64 (13.50%) Analytics
19 63 (13.29%) SDLC
20 61 (12.87%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 80 (16.88%) Python
2 77 (16.24%) Java
3 54 (11.39%) JavaScript
4 48 (10.13%) SQL
5 31 (6.54%) TypeScript
6 30 (6.33%) C#
7 6 (1.27%) Apex Code
7 6 (1.27%) Go
8 4 (0.84%) C++
8 4 (0.84%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.63%) Bicep
9 3 (0.63%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.63%) Ruby
9 3 (0.63%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.63%) XPath
10 2 (0.42%) Groovy
10 2 (0.42%) Korn
10 2 (0.42%) SOQL
10 2 (0.42%) SOSL
11 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 153 (32.28%) Security Cleared
2 132 (27.85%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.02%) Degree
4 17 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.16%) Master's Degree
5 15 (3.16%) PMI Certification
6 13 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.32%) PMP
8 9 (1.90%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.27%) CBAP
9 6 (1.27%) IIBA
10 5 (1.05%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.84%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.84%) CISM
11 4 (0.84%) CISSP
11 4 (0.84%) ISEB
12 3 (0.63%) SAFe Agilist
13 2 (0.42%) CREST Certified
13 2 (0.42%) CSPO
13 2 (0.42%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (20.04%) QA
2 37 (7.81%) Accessibility
3 19 (4.01%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.11%) WCAG
5 7 (1.48%) GDPR
6 6 (1.27%) GRC
6 6 (1.27%) NIST
6 6 (1.27%) SLA
7 5 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.84%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.63%) GxP
9 3 (0.63%) HL7
9 3 (0.63%) PMO
10 2 (0.42%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.42%) NCSC
10 2 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.21%) Basel III
11 1 (0.21%) GMP
11 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 55 (11.60%) Docker
2 3 (0.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.21%) HDFS
3 1 (0.21%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.21%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 81 (17.09%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.91%) Terraform
3 25 (5.27%) Argo
4 14 (2.95%) Ansible
5 13 (2.74%) Grafana
6 10 (2.11%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.63%) Istio
7 3 (0.63%) Kibana
7 3 (0.63%) Nagios
7 3 (0.63%) Puppet
8 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.21%) CASB
9 1 (0.21%) Rancher
9 1 (0.21%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 34 (7.17%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.06%) Salesforce
3 18 (3.80%) Red Hat
4 17 (3.59%) Oracle
5 16 (3.38%) Databricks
5 16 (3.38%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.32%) Adobe
6 11 (2.32%) SAP
7 6 (1.27%) Google
7 6 (1.27%) Guidewire
7 6 (1.27%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.05%) Okta
9 4 (0.84%) ForgeRock
9 4 (0.84%) Splunk
10 3 (0.63%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.63%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (0.63%) Cognizant
10 3 (0.63%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.63%) VMware
11 2 (0.42%) OutSystems