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

 6 months to
9 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 318 402
Rank change year-on-year +83 +84 +1
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 377 164 149
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.13% 0.63% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 0.70% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 82 91
10th Percentile £352 £413 £310
25th Percentile £420 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £570 £490
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +16.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £636 £575
90th Percentile £670 £700 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £490
% change year-on-year -13.04% +17.35% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 4
10th Percentile £43.60 £65.13 £55.15
25th Percentile £50.63 £65.31 £61.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £66.25 £71.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.98% -7.67% +10.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.81 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.95 £68.38 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £67.50 £71.75
% change year-on-year -18.52% -5.92% +10.38%

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 29,128 23,342 33,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.51% 89.73% 87.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,638 14,331 22,291
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £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 1,831 740 1,986
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.03 £16.54
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% - -
75th Percentile £60.13 £64.50 £61.62
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.66 £34.36
% change year-on-year -22.98% -4.95% +5.71%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +58 196 £510 -11.30% 36
North of England -11 61 £430 +1.18% 26
Midlands -15 46 £475 -15.56% 21
South East -15 34 £525 -8.70% 42
West Midlands -27 34 £486 -15.54% 13
North West +6 31 £388 -4.32% 16
South West -4 19 £525 -7.08% 23
Yorkshire -54 18 £500 +17.65% 3
North East -3 12 £500 -2.44% 7
East Midlands - 12 £348 - 7
East of England -13 8 £484 -15.83% 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 72 (19.10%) Confluence
2 15 (3.98%) SAS
3 11 (2.92%) CMS
4 5 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.33%) Appian
5 4 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.80%) Apache
6 3 (0.80%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.80%) WordPress
7 2 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.53%) Documentum
7 2 (0.53%) Drupal
7 2 (0.53%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.53%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.53%) nginx
8 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.27%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.59%) Adobe XD
3 6 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.80%) Sketch
5 3 (0.80%) Trello
6 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.53%) Finacle
3 2 (0.53%) Maximo
3 2 (0.53%) Primavera
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 99 (26.26%) Azure
2 66 (17.51%) AWS
3 48 (12.73%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (8.75%) GitHub
5 26 (6.90%) OpenShift
6 21 (5.57%) GCP
6 21 (5.57%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (5.57%) Power Platform
6 21 (5.57%) Serverless
7 18 (4.77%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (4.24%) Figma
9 13 (3.45%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.18%) SaaS
11 9 (2.39%) Power Automate
12 8 (2.12%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.86%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (1.86%) Entra ID
13 7 (1.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.80%) HTTP
1 3 (0.80%) Network Security
2 2 (0.53%) DNS
2 2 (0.53%) SMS
2 2 (0.53%) SSL
2 2 (0.53%) VPN
3 1 (0.27%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.27%) DHCP
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
3 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.04%) Power BI
2 12 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.12%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.12%) Oracle Database
3 8 (2.12%) Tableau
4 7 (1.86%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.59%) Metadata
5 6 (1.59%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 4 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.06%) Delta Lake
6 4 (1.06%) MySQL
7 3 (0.80%) Big Data
7 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.80%) DB2
7 3 (0.80%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.80%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.53%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.53%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 121 (32.10%) JIRA
2 48 (12.73%) Jenkins
3 42 (11.14%) Git
3 42 (11.14%) GitLab
4 36 (9.55%) Selenium
5 21 (5.57%) Postman
5 21 (5.57%) SonarQube
6 20 (5.31%) Cucumber
7 18 (4.77%) JUnit
8 8 (2.12%) Cypress.io
8 8 (2.12%) REST Assured
8 8 (2.12%) WebDriver
9 7 (1.86%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.59%) TestRail
10 6 (1.59%) Zephyr
11 5 (1.33%) Robot Framework
12 4 (1.06%) MLflow
12 4 (1.06%) webpack
13 3 (0.80%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.80%) Storybook
General
1 182 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 89 (23.61%) Finance
3 62 (16.45%) Public Sector
4 59 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (9.55%) Banking
6 16 (4.24%) Front Office
6 16 (4.24%) Telecoms
7 14 (3.71%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.39%) Marketing
10 7 (1.86%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.33%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.33%) Legal
12 3 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.80%) Law
12 3 (0.80%) Local Government
12 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.53%) Electronics
13 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 76 (20.16%) Developer
2 48 (12.73%) Analyst
3 39 (10.34%) Business Analyst
4 38 (10.08%) Product Owner
5 36 (9.55%) Senior
6 31 (8.22%) Lead
6 31 (8.22%) Scrum Master
7 18 (4.77%) Java Developer
8 15 (3.98%) Project Manager
8 15 (3.98%) Test Specialist
8 15 (3.98%) Tester
9 14 (3.71%) Architect
10 13 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (2.65%) Product Manager
12 9 (2.39%) Senior Manager
12 9 (2.39%) Software Engineer
13 8 (2.12%) Delivery Manager
13 8 (2.12%) React Developer
13 8 (2.12%) Senior Developer
13 8 (2.12%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.73%) REST
2 35 (9.28%) React
3 26 (6.90%) AngularJS
3 26 (6.90%) RESTful
4 23 (6.10%) CSS
5 22 (5.84%) JSON
6 20 (5.31%) HTML
7 17 (4.51%) pytest
8 15 (3.98%) Node.js
9 14 (3.71%) Playwright
9 14 (3.71%) XML
10 11 (2.92%) SOAP
11 10 (2.65%) Gherkin
11 10 (2.65%) Spring
11 10 (2.65%) Spring Boot
12 9 (2.39%) HTML5
12 9 (2.39%) Vue
13 8 (2.12%) CSS3
13 8 (2.12%) FIX Protocol
13 8 (2.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 126 (33.42%) Product Ownership
2 21 (5.57%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.71%) Algorithms
4 13 (3.45%) Virtual Team
5 11 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.39%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.12%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.59%) NHS
9 6 (1.59%) PMI
10 5 (1.33%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.06%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.39%) Unix
2 8 (2.12%) Windows
3 7 (1.86%) Linux
4 4 (1.06%) VMS
5 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (91.78%) Agile
2 194 (51.46%) Scrum
3 183 (48.54%) Sprint Retrospective
4 119 (31.56%) CI/CD
5 118 (31.30%) DevOps
6 105 (27.85%) Problem-Solving
7 102 (27.06%) Stakeholder Management
8 101 (26.79%) Sprint Review
9 93 (24.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 93 (24.67%) User Stories
10 88 (23.34%) Test Automation
11 82 (21.75%) Roadmaps
12 78 (20.69%) Backlog Refinement
13 62 (16.45%) Acceptance Criteria
14 61 (16.18%) Analytics
15 57 (15.12%) Backlog Management
16 56 (14.85%) Kanban
17 54 (14.32%) User Experience
18 48 (12.73%) Containerisation
19 47 (12.47%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 79 (20.95%) Python
2 59 (15.65%) JavaScript
3 55 (14.59%) Java
4 43 (11.41%) SQL
5 31 (8.22%) TypeScript
6 25 (6.63%) C#
7 7 (1.86%) Go
8 6 (1.59%) Bicep
8 6 (1.59%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.80%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.80%) PHP
9 3 (0.80%) Ruby
9 3 (0.80%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.80%) XPath
10 2 (0.53%) Bash
10 2 (0.53%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.27%) C++
11 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 103 (27.32%) Security Cleared
2 86 (22.81%) SC Cleared
3 32 (8.49%) Degree
4 12 (3.18%) Master's Degree
5 11 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.65%) PMI Certification
7 8 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.59%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.59%) CBAP
9 5 (1.33%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.33%) PMP
10 4 (1.06%) IIBA
10 4 (1.06%) ISEB
11 3 (0.80%) CSPO
11 3 (0.80%) GPEN
11 3 (0.80%) OSCP
12 2 (0.53%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.53%) OSCE
12 2 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (18.04%) QA
2 35 (9.28%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.45%) GDPR
4 12 (3.18%) WCAG
5 10 (2.65%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.06%) GRC
6 4 (1.06%) PSD2
7 3 (0.80%) HL7
7 3 (0.80%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.53%) NCSC
8 2 (0.53%) NIST
8 2 (0.53%) PMO
8 2 (0.53%) SLA
9 1 (0.27%) Basel III
9 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.27%) SEPA
9 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (14.59%) Docker
2 4 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 58 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.84%) Terraform
3 17 (4.51%) Ansible
4 14 (3.71%) Argo
5 10 (2.65%) Grafana
6 7 (1.86%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.80%) Kibana
8 3 (0.80%) Nagios
9 1 (0.27%) CASB
9 1 (0.27%) Istio
9 1 (0.27%) Puppet
9 1 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 43 (11.41%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 17 (4.51%) Databricks
4 15 (3.98%) Oracle
5 11 (2.92%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.39%) Adobe
6 9 (2.39%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.12%) Cisco
8 7 (1.86%) Google
9 6 (1.59%) Guidewire
9 6 (1.59%) SAP
9 6 (1.59%) Veracode
10 5 (1.33%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.33%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.33%) Splunk
11 3 (0.80%) Cognizant
11 3 (0.80%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.80%) IBM
11 3 (0.80%) Progress
12 2 (0.53%) DocuSign
147 Sprint Planning jobs in England