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

 6 months to
24 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 237 366
Rank change year-on-year +38 +129 -11
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 654 317 170
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.43% 1.14% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 1.26% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 225 113
10th Percentile £391 £350 £355
25th Percentile £450 £405 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £697 £673
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £514
% change year-on-year +3.00% -2.72% -3.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 12 3
10th Percentile £56.25 £46.50 £58.00
25th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 £60.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £66.01
90th Percentile £71.13 £56.13 £66.62
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% +8.33%

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 38,743 25,202 28,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 90.84% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,962 16,051 18,351
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,572 1,476 1,524
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.25 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.17 £17.87 £18.08
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% -3.67%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +41 313 £550 +5.11% 73
North of England -31 104 £500 +10.25% 34
South East -12 96 £525 - 26
Midlands +9 87 £475 +18.45% 28
West Midlands +13 78 £475 -7.32% 16
North East -5 44 £550 +4.76% 15
Yorkshire -20 44 £500 +17.30% 9
East of England -7 27 £460 - 7
South West -22 26 £505 -0.25% 25
North West -59 20 £423 -2.54% 10
East Midlands -17 8 £454 +25.95% 11
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
1 114 (17.43%) Confluence
2 20 (3.06%) CMS
3 13 (1.99%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.38%) Apache
4 9 (1.38%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.76%) Documentum
6 3 (0.46%) SAS
7 2 (0.31%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.15%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) Mendix
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.15%) Traefik
8 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.07%) Trello
5 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.92%) Notion
6 2 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.15%) Mingle
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.22%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.76%) Magento
4 3 (0.46%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.31%) Primavera
5 2 (0.31%) Workfront
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Utilities
6 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.15%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.15%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.15%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.15%) Shopify
6 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 217 (33.18%) Azure
2 118 (18.04%) AWS
3 113 (17.28%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (7.03%) Power Platform
5 41 (6.27%) OpenShift
6 37 (5.66%) GitHub
7 35 (5.35%) GCP
8 34 (5.20%) Serverless
9 24 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (3.52%) Amazon S3
11 22 (3.36%) PowerApps
12 21 (3.21%) Power Automate
13 19 (2.91%) Entra ID
13 19 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
15 16 (2.45%) Azure AKS
16 15 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
16 15 (2.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.76%) Firewall
2 3 (0.46%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.46%) Network Security
3 2 (0.31%) Broadband
3 2 (0.31%) WAN
4 1 (0.15%) 5G
4 1 (0.15%) DNS
4 1 (0.15%) Intranet
4 1 (0.15%) NFC
4 1 (0.15%) NGFW
4 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.15%) SONET
4 1 (0.15%) SSL
4 1 (0.15%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.82%) Power BI
2 18 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (2.60%) SQL Server
4 15 (2.29%) Metadata
4 15 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.29%) Relational Database
5 9 (1.38%) Big Data
6 8 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (1.22%) MongoDB
6 8 (1.22%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.07%) BigQuery
8 6 (0.92%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.76%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.61%) Redis
11 3 (0.46%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.46%) MySQL
11 3 (0.46%) Spark SQL
11 3 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 223 (34.10%) JIRA
2 72 (11.01%) Git
3 52 (7.95%) Jenkins
4 42 (6.42%) SonarQube
5 34 (5.20%) Postman
6 12 (1.83%) Selenium
7 11 (1.68%) GitLab
8 9 (1.38%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.07%) JMeter
9 7 (1.07%) JUnit
10 6 (0.92%) Maven
11 5 (0.76%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.76%) Subversion
11 5 (0.76%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.61%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.61%) Gradle
13 3 (0.46%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.46%) Protractor
13 3 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (0.46%) Zephyr
General
1 295 (45.11%) Social Skills
2 137 (20.95%) Finance
3 109 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (15.44%) Public Sector
5 54 (8.26%) Retail
6 47 (7.19%) Banking
7 36 (5.50%) Marketing
8 23 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (1.83%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.68%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.38%) Legal
15 8 (1.22%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.07%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.07%) Front Office
16 7 (1.07%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 116 (17.74%) Developer
2 95 (14.53%) Senior
3 89 (13.61%) Analyst
4 80 (12.23%) Scrum Master
5 67 (10.24%) Lead
6 61 (9.33%) Business Analyst
7 58 (8.87%) Delivery Manager
8 52 (7.95%) Product Owner
9 41 (6.27%) Project Manager
10 40 (6.12%) Java Developer
11 31 (4.74%) Product Manager
11 31 (4.74%) Senior Manager
12 26 (3.98%) Architect
13 21 (3.21%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 21 (3.21%) Senior Developer
14 20 (3.06%) Technical Analyst
14 20 (3.06%) Technical Manager
15 19 (2.91%) Software Engineer
16 18 (2.75%) Java Engineer
17 17 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (10.70%) REST
2 50 (7.65%) AngularJS
3 44 (6.73%) Terraform
4 40 (6.12%) RESTful
5 36 (5.50%) Quarkus
6 28 (4.28%) .NET
7 27 (4.13%) React
8 25 (3.82%) JSON
8 25 (3.82%) Spring
9 24 (3.67%) Spring Boot
10 17 (2.60%) Kafka
11 16 (2.45%) Lightning Web Components
12 15 (2.29%) Node.js
13 14 (2.14%) HTML
13 14 (2.14%) SOAP
14 13 (1.99%) PySpark
15 11 (1.68%) Middleware
16 9 (1.38%) OAuth
16 9 (1.38%) XML
17 8 (1.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 266 (40.67%) Product Ownership
2 66 (10.09%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.21%) Onboarding
3 21 (3.21%) Virtual Team
4 17 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.83%) Life Science
8 11 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.53%) NHS
10 9 (1.38%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.38%) FMCG
11 8 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.22%) Operational Technology
12 7 (1.07%) Data Structures
13 6 (0.92%) Derivative
13 6 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.83%) Windows
2 10 (1.53%) Linux
3 5 (0.76%) Unix
4 4 (0.61%) Android
5 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 611 (93.43%) Agile
2 344 (52.60%) Scrum
3 265 (40.52%) Sprint Retrospective
4 249 (38.07%) DevOps
5 231 (35.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 215 (32.87%) Stakeholder Management
7 190 (29.05%) User Stories
8 187 (28.59%) Backlog Refinement
9 183 (27.98%) Sprint Review
10 174 (26.61%) CI/CD
11 134 (20.49%) Acceptance Criteria
12 127 (19.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 126 (19.27%) Test Automation
14 123 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
15 114 (17.43%) Software Engineering
16 112 (17.13%) Kanban
17 111 (16.97%) Roadmaps
18 110 (16.82%) Backlog Management
19 94 (14.37%) SDLC
20 92 (14.07%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 105 (16.06%) Java
2 75 (11.47%) SQL
3 51 (7.80%) Python
4 47 (7.19%) JavaScript
5 39 (5.96%) C#
6 20 (3.06%) TypeScript
7 16 (2.45%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.76%) Bicep
8 5 (0.76%) Groovy
8 5 (0.76%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.61%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.46%) C++
10 3 (0.46%) Korn
11 2 (0.31%) Bash
11 2 (0.31%) SOQL
11 2 (0.31%) SOSL
12 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.15%) PHP
12 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 203 (31.04%) Security Cleared
2 165 (25.23%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.12%) Degree
4 26 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 26 (3.98%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.45%) PMI Certification
6 13 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (1.99%) PMP
7 10 (1.53%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.92%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.92%) CSPO
10 5 (0.76%) CISSP
10 5 (0.76%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.76%) SAFe Agilist
11 4 (0.61%) CISM
11 4 (0.61%) IIBA
11 4 (0.61%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (19.57%) QA
2 39 (5.96%) Accessibility
2 39 (5.96%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.14%) GDPR
4 12 (1.83%) PMO
5 11 (1.68%) GRC
6 9 (1.38%) GxP
7 7 (1.07%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 7 (1.07%) NIST
8 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.92%) SLA
8 6 (0.92%) WCAG
9 4 (0.61%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.15%) GMP
11 1 (0.15%) HL7
11 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.15%) PERC
11 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (7.03%) Docker
2 9 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Ceph
5 1 (0.15%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.15%) Squid
5 1 (0.15%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 79 (12.08%) Kubernetes
2 38 (5.81%) Argo
3 11 (1.68%) Ansible
4 5 (0.76%) Grafana
4 5 (0.76%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.61%) Puppet
6 3 (0.46%) Istio
7 2 (0.31%) Packer
8 1 (0.15%) Nagios
8 1 (0.15%) Nessus
8 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 72 (11.01%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.81%) ServiceNow
3 36 (5.50%) Red Hat
4 35 (5.35%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.36%) SAP
6 20 (3.06%) Databricks
7 16 (2.45%) Oracle
8 14 (2.14%) Okta
9 12 (1.83%) ForgeRock
10 11 (1.68%) Google
11 10 (1.53%) Adobe
12 7 (1.07%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.61%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.61%) CA Agile Central
13 4 (0.61%) Informatica
13 4 (0.61%) Splunk
13 4 (0.61%) VMware
14 3 (0.46%) PagerDuty
14 3 (0.46%) Progress
14 3 (0.46%) Sitecore
177 Sprint Planning jobs in England