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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 276 413
Rank change year-on-year +78 +137 -68
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 544 218 143
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.29% 0.90% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.99% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 141 92
10th Percentile £360 £400 £327
25th Percentile £428 £434 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% +2.80% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £549
90th Percentile £638 £664 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +0.49% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 7 1
10th Percentile £57.75 £48.75 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £49.38 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -19.23% +13.04%
75th Percentile - £55.63 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -19.23% +13.04%

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 35,884 22,080 31,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.08% 91.32% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,739 14,300 20,579
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,242 984 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.82
25th Percentile £20.80 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.53 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.52% -23.93% +1.99%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.45 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £74.63 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.76 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.36% -23.95% +1.39%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +48 272 £525 - 98
North of England -12 99 £466 -6.80% 35
South East -25 66 £555 +7.98% 48
Midlands -16 55 £492 +12.51% 17
West Midlands -24 43 £493 +1.03% 13
North West -20 42 £380 -24.00% 18
North East +1 31 £550 +4.76% 9
Yorkshire -44 30 £517 +14.84% 8
South West -10 21 £550 +8.64% 24
East of England -9 19 £468 +16.88% 12
East Midlands -18 11 £364 -9.51% 4
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 94 (17.28%) Confluence
2 20 (3.68%) CMS
3 8 (1.47%) SAS
4 5 (0.92%) Apache
4 5 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.55%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.37%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) Documentum
7 1 (0.18%) Drupal
7 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.18%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.10%) Trello
3 4 (0.74%) Notion
4 3 (0.55%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.18%) Mingle
5 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.92%) Magento
3 2 (0.37%) Finacle
3 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.37%) Primavera
4 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.18%) Maximo
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Utilities
4 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.18%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 164 (30.15%) Azure
2 101 (18.57%) AWS
3 72 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (5.88%) OpenShift
5 25 (4.60%) GCP
6 24 (4.41%) GitHub
7 23 (4.23%) Power Platform
7 23 (4.23%) Serverless
8 19 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (2.94%) Amazon S3
9 16 (2.94%) Entra ID
9 16 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (2.76%) Azure AKS
11 13 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (2.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 12 (2.21%) Snowflake
13 11 (2.02%) SaaS
14 10 (1.84%) Figma
15 7 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
16 6 (1.10%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.92%) Network Security
2 3 (0.55%) Firewall
2 3 (0.55%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.37%) DNS
4 1 (0.18%) 5G
4 1 (0.18%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.18%) DHCP
4 1 (0.18%) NFC
4 1 (0.18%) NGFW
4 1 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.18%) SMS
4 1 (0.18%) SONET
4 1 (0.18%) SSL
4 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.18%) VPN
4 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.49%) Power BI
2 16 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.57%) Metadata
4 10 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (1.29%) Big Data
6 7 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.29%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.10%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.92%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.92%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.92%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.74%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.74%) Tableau
10 3 (0.55%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.55%) Redis
11 2 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.37%) MySQL
11 2 (0.37%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 185 (34.01%) JIRA
2 67 (12.32%) Git
3 50 (9.19%) Jenkins
4 38 (6.99%) Postman
5 32 (5.88%) SonarQube
6 23 (4.23%) GitLab
7 22 (4.04%) Selenium
8 11 (2.02%) JUnit
9 10 (1.84%) WebDriver
10 9 (1.65%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.65%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.47%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.92%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.92%) JMeter
12 5 (0.92%) Subversion
13 4 (0.74%) Storybook
14 3 (0.55%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.55%) git-flow
14 3 (0.55%) MLflow
14 3 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 229 (42.10%) Social Skills
2 112 (20.59%) Finance
3 78 (14.34%) Public Sector
4 77 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (7.35%) Banking
6 33 (6.07%) Retail
7 29 (5.33%) Marketing
8 18 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (2.21%) Legal
10 12 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.21%) Retail Banking
11 8 (1.47%) Front Office
12 6 (1.10%) Corporate Banking
12 6 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.10%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.92%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 90 (16.54%) Developer
2 78 (14.34%) Analyst
3 72 (13.24%) Senior
4 62 (11.40%) Scrum Master
5 54 (9.93%) Lead
6 51 (9.38%) Business Analyst
7 47 (8.64%) Product Owner
8 45 (8.27%) Delivery Manager
9 33 (6.07%) Project Manager
10 29 (5.33%) Java Developer
11 27 (4.96%) Senior Manager
12 22 (4.04%) Product Manager
13 20 (3.68%) Architect
13 20 (3.68%) Software Engineer
14 18 (3.31%) Agile Delivery Manager
15 17 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
16 16 (2.94%) Technical Analyst
16 16 (2.94%) Technical Manager
17 13 (2.39%) Java Engineer
17 13 (2.39%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.19%) REST
2 39 (7.17%) React
3 38 (6.99%) AngularJS
4 36 (6.62%) RESTful
5 24 (4.41%) Quarkus
6 19 (3.49%) JSON
7 17 (3.13%) Node.js
8 16 (2.94%) .NET
8 16 (2.94%) CSS
9 15 (2.76%) Spring
10 14 (2.57%) HTML
11 12 (2.21%) OAuth
11 12 (2.21%) Playwright
11 12 (2.21%) Spring Boot
12 11 (2.02%) Lightning Web Components
13 10 (1.84%) CSS3
13 10 (1.84%) HTML5
14 9 (1.65%) pytest
14 9 (1.65%) SOAP
14 9 (1.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 201 (36.95%) Product Ownership
2 48 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (3.49%) Virtual Team
4 18 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.29%) Distributed Applications
9 7 (1.29%) FMCG
9 7 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.29%) Life Science
10 6 (1.10%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.10%) NHS
10 6 (1.10%) PMI
11 5 (0.92%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.92%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.74%) Unix
1 4 (0.74%) Windows
2 3 (0.55%) Linux
2 3 (0.55%) VMS
3 1 (0.18%) Android
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (93.01%) Agile
2 284 (52.21%) Scrum
3 258 (47.43%) Sprint Retrospective
4 175 (32.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 174 (31.99%) DevOps
6 143 (26.29%) CI/CD
6 143 (26.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 142 (26.10%) Sprint Review
7 142 (26.10%) User Stories
8 132 (24.26%) Backlog Refinement
9 106 (19.49%) Acceptance Criteria
10 104 (19.12%) Test Automation
11 102 (18.75%) Roadmaps
12 99 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
13 92 (16.91%) Backlog Management
13 92 (16.91%) Backlog Prioritisation
14 86 (15.81%) Kanban
15 80 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 75 (13.79%) SDLC
17 72 (13.24%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 77 (14.15%) Java
2 56 (10.29%) Python
3 53 (9.74%) SQL
4 40 (7.35%) JavaScript
5 29 (5.33%) C#
6 26 (4.78%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.65%) Apex Code
8 6 (1.10%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.92%) Bicep
10 4 (0.74%) Groovy
11 3 (0.55%) C++
12 2 (0.37%) Korn
12 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.37%) SOQL
12 2 (0.37%) SOSL
13 1 (0.18%) Bash
13 1 (0.18%) Go
13 1 (0.18%) PHP
13 1 (0.18%) R
13 1 (0.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 152 (27.94%) Security Cleared
2 127 (23.35%) SC Cleared
3 36 (6.62%) Degree
4 20 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.31%) PMI Certification
6 14 (2.57%) PMP
7 12 (2.21%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.92%) CBAP
9 5 (0.92%) CISSP
9 5 (0.92%) IIBA
10 4 (0.74%) CISM
10 4 (0.74%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.74%) ISEB
10 4 (0.74%) SAFe Agilist
11 3 (0.55%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.55%) CSPO
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (18.38%) QA
2 37 (6.80%) Accessibility
3 30 (5.51%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.65%) GDPR
5 8 (1.47%) GRC
6 7 (1.29%) SLA
7 6 (1.10%) NIST
8 5 (0.92%) GxP
8 5 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.92%) WCAG
9 4 (0.74%) PMO
9 4 (0.74%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.55%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 2 (0.37%) NCSC
11 2 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.18%) Basel III
12 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.18%) GMP
12 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (7.17%) Docker
2 6 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Ceph
3 1 (0.18%) HDFS
3 1 (0.18%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.18%) Squid
3 1 (0.18%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.18%) Varnish
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (13.05%) Kubernetes
2 39 (7.17%) Terraform
3 28 (5.15%) Argo
4 10 (1.84%) Ansible
5 7 (1.29%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.10%) Grafana
7 3 (0.55%) Nagios
8 2 (0.37%) Istio
8 2 (0.37%) Puppet
8 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.18%) Kibana
9 1 (0.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 38 (6.99%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 26 (4.78%) Salesforce
4 22 (4.04%) Red Hat
5 16 (2.94%) Databricks
6 14 (2.57%) Oracle
7 13 (2.39%) Okta
7 13 (2.39%) SAP
8 12 (2.21%) ForgeRock
9 9 (1.65%) Adobe
10 7 (1.29%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.10%) Guidewire
12 5 (0.92%) VMware
13 3 (0.55%) CA Agile Central
13 3 (0.55%) Cognizant
13 3 (0.55%) Google
13 3 (0.55%) Progress
13 3 (0.55%) Sitecore
14 2 (0.37%) OutSystems
14 2 (0.37%) Talend