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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 233 348
Rank change year-on-year +35 +115 +10
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 673 313 176
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.14% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.26% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 224 116
10th Percentile £400 £350 £356
25th Percentile £450 £407 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £694 £689 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.90% -3.85% -2.85%
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% +1.17%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £66.01
90th Percentile - £56.13 £66.62
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% +1.17%

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 38,940 24,864 27,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.85% 90.76% 85.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,004 15,800 17,728
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% -2.96% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £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 2,613 1,459 1,377
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.24 £14.43
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.88
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.35% +3.33%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +26 314 £550 +5.11% 206
North of England -22 112 £500 +16.28% 52
Midlands +10 101 £481 +20.01% 34
South East -17 95 £525 - 38
West Midlands +22 93 £475 -7.32% 24
Yorkshire -20 49 £500 +17.30% 15
North East -1 46 £550 +2.33% 11
East of England -3 27 £460 - 7
South West -17 27 £508 +0.25% 33
North West -68 21 £445 +7.23% 26
East Midlands -24 7 £454 +25.95% 9
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
1 125 (18.57%) Confluence
2 19 (2.82%) CMS
3 13 (1.93%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.63%) Apache
5 10 (1.49%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.74%) Documentum
8 3 (0.45%) SAS
9 2 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.30%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.30%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.15%) JBoss
10 1 (0.15%) Mendix
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.15%) Traefik
10 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (2.23%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.19%) Trello
5 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.89%) Notion
6 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.30%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.15%) Mingle
8 1 (0.15%) Sketch
8 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.19%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.74%) Magento
5 3 (0.45%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.30%) Primavera
6 2 (0.30%) 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
1 216 (32.10%) Azure
2 123 (18.28%) AWS
3 115 (17.09%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (6.69%) Power Platform
5 41 (6.09%) OpenShift
6 40 (5.94%) GitHub
7 34 (5.05%) GCP
7 34 (5.05%) Serverless
8 25 (3.71%) Amazon S3
9 23 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (3.12%) PowerApps
11 20 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (2.97%) Power Automate
12 19 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
15 16 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
16 15 (2.23%) Entra ID
16 15 (2.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.59%) Firewall
2 3 (0.45%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.30%) Broadband
3 2 (0.30%) Network Security
3 2 (0.30%) SAN
3 2 (0.30%) 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 24 (3.57%) Power BI
2 21 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (3.12%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (2.97%) Relational Database
3 20 (2.97%) SQL Server
4 17 (2.53%) Metadata
5 10 (1.49%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.34%) Big Data
6 9 (1.34%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (1.19%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.89%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.74%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.59%) Ataccama
11 4 (0.59%) Delta Lake
11 4 (0.59%) MySQL
11 4 (0.59%) Redis
11 4 (0.59%) Tableau
12 3 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 232 (34.47%) JIRA
2 79 (11.74%) Git
3 55 (8.17%) Jenkins
4 48 (7.13%) SonarQube
5 32 (4.75%) Postman
6 12 (1.78%) GitLab
6 12 (1.78%) JUnit
6 12 (1.78%) Maven
7 11 (1.63%) Selenium
8 9 (1.34%) Bitbucket
8 9 (1.34%) Mockito
9 6 (0.89%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.89%) JMeter
10 5 (0.74%) Subversion
11 4 (0.59%) Gradle
11 4 (0.59%) WebDriver
12 3 (0.45%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.45%) Protractor
12 3 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.45%) Zephyr
General
1 310 (46.06%) Social Skills
2 144 (21.40%) Finance
3 125 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (16.79%) Public Sector
5 54 (8.02%) Retail
6 48 (7.13%) Banking
7 33 (4.90%) Marketing
8 27 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (1.78%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.63%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.34%) Legal
14 8 (1.19%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.19%) Front Office
15 7 (1.04%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.04%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 124 (18.42%) Developer
2 102 (15.16%) Senior
3 91 (13.52%) Analyst
4 82 (12.18%) Scrum Master
5 72 (10.70%) Lead
6 64 (9.51%) Delivery Manager
7 62 (9.21%) Business Analyst
8 53 (7.88%) Product Owner
9 43 (6.39%) Java Developer
10 40 (5.94%) Project Manager
11 31 (4.61%) Senior Manager
12 30 (4.46%) Product Manager
13 26 (3.86%) Senior Developer
14 25 (3.71%) Architect
15 24 (3.57%) Technical Manager
16 21 (3.12%) Agile Delivery Manager
17 18 (2.67%) Java Engineer
17 18 (2.67%) Software Engineer
17 18 (2.67%) Technical Analyst
18 17 (2.53%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (12.48%) REST
2 57 (8.47%) AngularJS
3 46 (6.84%) RESTful
4 45 (6.69%) Terraform
5 36 (5.35%) Quarkus
6 30 (4.46%) Spring
6 30 (4.46%) Spring Boot
7 29 (4.31%) .NET
8 28 (4.16%) React
9 26 (3.86%) JSON
10 25 (3.71%) SOAP
11 18 (2.67%) HTML
11 18 (2.67%) Kafka
12 16 (2.38%) Node.js
13 15 (2.23%) Lightning Web Components
13 15 (2.23%) Web Services
14 13 (1.93%) PySpark
15 11 (1.63%) CSS
15 11 (1.63%) Middleware
16 10 (1.49%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 270 (40.12%) Product Ownership
2 75 (11.14%) Cloud Native
3 23 (3.42%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (3.27%) Virtual Team
5 15 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.78%) Life Science
9 10 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.49%) NHS
10 9 (1.34%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.34%) FMCG
11 8 (1.19%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.19%) Marketing Technology
12 6 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (0.89%) Operational Technology
13 5 (0.74%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.78%) Windows
2 10 (1.49%) Linux
3 5 (0.74%) Unix
4 4 (0.59%) Android
5 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 631 (93.76%) Agile
2 362 (53.79%) Scrum
3 267 (39.67%) Sprint Retrospective
4 252 (37.44%) DevOps
5 236 (35.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 224 (33.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 205 (30.46%) Backlog Refinement
8 199 (29.57%) User Stories
9 187 (27.79%) Sprint Review
10 186 (27.64%) CI/CD
11 139 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
12 135 (20.06%) Test Automation
13 133 (19.76%) Acceptance Criteria
14 130 (19.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 119 (17.68%) Backlog Management
15 119 (17.68%) Kanban
16 118 (17.53%) Software Engineering
17 114 (16.94%) Roadmaps
18 106 (15.75%) SDLC
19 91 (13.52%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 109 (16.20%) Java
2 79 (11.74%) SQL
3 57 (8.47%) Python
4 56 (8.32%) JavaScript
5 40 (5.94%) C#
6 28 (4.16%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.23%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.74%) Bicep
8 5 (0.74%) Groovy
8 5 (0.74%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.59%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.45%) C++
10 3 (0.45%) Korn
11 2 (0.30%) Bash
11 2 (0.30%) R
11 2 (0.30%) SOQL
11 2 (0.30%) SOSL
12 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.15%) PHP
12 1 (0.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 211 (31.35%) Security Cleared
2 170 (25.26%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.94%) Degree
4 28 (4.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (4.01%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.38%) PMI Certification
7 13 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.78%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.63%) PMP
10 8 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.89%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.89%) CSPO
12 5 (0.74%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.74%) SAFe Agilist
13 4 (0.59%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.45%) CAPM
14 3 (0.45%) CISSP
14 3 (0.45%) IIBA
14 3 (0.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (20.06%) QA
2 44 (6.54%) Data Quality
3 41 (6.09%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.93%) PMO
5 11 (1.63%) GDPR
6 10 (1.49%) GRC
7 9 (1.34%) GxP
8 7 (1.04%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 7 (1.04%) WCAG
9 4 (0.59%) NIST
10 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.45%) SLA
11 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.15%) GMP
12 1 (0.15%) HL7
12 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.15%) PERC
12 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 55 (8.17%) Docker
2 9 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
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 78 (11.59%) Kubernetes
2 38 (5.65%) Argo
3 11 (1.63%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.49%) Grafana
5 8 (1.19%) Ansible
6 4 (0.59%) Puppet
7 3 (0.45%) Istio
8 2 (0.30%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.30%) Packer
9 1 (0.15%) Kibana
9 1 (0.15%) Nagios
9 1 (0.15%) Nessus
9 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 72 (10.70%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.94%) ServiceNow
3 36 (5.35%) Red Hat
4 34 (5.05%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.27%) Databricks
6 21 (3.12%) SAP
7 16 (2.38%) Oracle
8 11 (1.63%) Adobe
9 10 (1.49%) Google
9 10 (1.49%) Okta
10 8 (1.19%) ForgeRock
11 7 (1.04%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.04%) VMware
12 6 (0.89%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.89%) Informatica
13 4 (0.59%) CA Agile Central
13 4 (0.59%) Splunk
14 3 (0.45%) PagerDuty
14 3 (0.45%) Sitecore
14 3 (0.45%) Zscaler