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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 288 403
Rank change year-on-year +87 +115 -44
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 514 198 141
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.26% 0.81% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 0.89% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 119 91
10th Percentile £360 £400 £260
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £559
90th Percentile £625 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -0.49% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 5 2
10th Percentile £55.00 - £52.63
25th Percentile £62.50 £50.00 £54.69
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -6.38% -6.00%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £62.19
90th Percentile - £67.25 £63.88
UK median hourly rate £69.25 £60.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year +15.42% +2.13% -6.00%

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 34,459 22,249 31,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.20% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,987 14,574 20,950
10th Percentile £319 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 932 2,245
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.67 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -0.96%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.33% +0.42%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +67 246 £518 -1.43% 84
North of England +12 99 £447 -11.80% 38
South East -22 58 £550 +7.16% 52
Midlands -26 58 £492 -10.50% 24
West Midlands -21 46 £493 -12.44% 17
North West -13 42 £380 -25.85% 15
North East +9 30 £550 +6.02% 15
Yorkshire -35 30 £500 +17.65% 8
South West -17 25 £525 -3.67% 14
East of England -18 19 £475 +18.75% 16
East Midlands -19 12 £413 -38.89% 7
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 85 (16.54%) Confluence
2 17 (3.31%) CMS
3 8 (1.56%) SAS
4 6 (1.17%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.97%) Apache
6 3 (0.58%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.39%) Drupal
7 2 (0.39%) nginx
7 2 (0.39%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Mendix
8 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.19%) Traefik
8 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.36%) Trello
3 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.78%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.19%) Mingle
7 1 (0.19%) Notion
7 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.58%) Magento
4 2 (0.39%) Finacle
4 2 (0.39%) Maximo
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Utilities
5 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.19%) Primavera
5 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 151 (29.38%) Azure
2 103 (20.04%) AWS
3 65 (12.65%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (6.61%) OpenShift
5 27 (5.25%) GCP
5 27 (5.25%) GitHub
6 26 (5.06%) Serverless
7 22 (4.28%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (4.28%) Power Platform
8 20 (3.89%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (3.50%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.11%) Azure AKS
11 14 (2.72%) Entra ID
12 13 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (2.33%) Figma
14 10 (1.95%) Snowflake
15 8 (1.56%) Power Automate
15 8 (1.56%) SaaS
16 7 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.97%) Network Security
2 3 (0.58%) Firewall
2 3 (0.58%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.39%) DNS
3 2 (0.39%) HTTP
3 2 (0.39%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) 5G
4 1 (0.19%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.19%) DHCP
4 1 (0.19%) NFC
4 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.19%) SONET
4 1 (0.19%) SSL
4 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.70%) Power BI
2 14 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.53%) Metadata
4 9 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (1.56%) Big Data
5 8 (1.56%) Tableau
6 7 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.36%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.97%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.97%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.78%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.78%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.58%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.58%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.58%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.39%) Redis
10 2 (0.39%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 169 (32.88%) JIRA
2 69 (13.42%) Git
3 56 (10.89%) Jenkins
4 35 (6.81%) Postman
4 35 (6.81%) SonarQube
5 27 (5.25%) GitLab
6 23 (4.47%) Selenium
7 14 (2.72%) Cucumber
8 12 (2.33%) JUnit
9 10 (1.95%) WebDriver
10 9 (1.75%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.56%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.36%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.97%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.97%) Subversion
14 4 (0.78%) MLflow
14 4 (0.78%) Storybook
14 4 (0.78%) TestRail
14 4 (0.78%) Zephyr
General
1 220 (42.80%) Social Skills
2 102 (19.84%) Finance
3 79 (15.37%) Public Sector
4 70 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (6.81%) Banking
6 25 (4.86%) Marketing
7 22 (4.28%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (3.89%) Retail
9 13 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (2.14%) Retail Banking
11 9 (1.75%) Legal
11 9 (1.75%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.56%) Front Office
13 7 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.36%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
14 5 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.78%) Back Office
15 4 (0.78%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 96 (18.68%) Developer
2 66 (12.84%) Analyst
3 65 (12.65%) Senior
4 58 (11.28%) Scrum Master
5 46 (8.95%) Lead
6 44 (8.56%) Business Analyst
7 41 (7.98%) Product Owner
8 38 (7.39%) Delivery Manager
9 28 (5.45%) Java Developer
9 28 (5.45%) Project Manager
10 26 (5.06%) Senior Manager
11 22 (4.28%) Software Engineer
12 20 (3.89%) Architect
13 18 (3.50%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (3.31%) Product Manager
15 16 (3.11%) Agile Delivery Manager
16 14 (2.72%) Java Engineer
16 14 (2.72%) Technical Analyst
16 14 (2.72%) Tester
17 12 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (9.53%) REST
2 44 (8.56%) AngularJS
3 41 (7.98%) React
4 36 (7.00%) RESTful
5 25 (4.86%) Quarkus
6 18 (3.50%) Node.js
7 17 (3.31%) CSS
7 17 (3.31%) JSON
8 16 (3.11%) Spring
9 15 (2.92%) Playwright
10 14 (2.72%) HTML
11 13 (2.53%) .NET
11 13 (2.53%) Spring Boot
12 11 (2.14%) SOAP
13 10 (1.95%) Kafka
14 9 (1.75%) CSS3
14 9 (1.75%) HTML5
14 9 (1.75%) pytest
14 9 (1.75%) Web Services
14 9 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 183 (35.60%) Product Ownership
2 46 (8.95%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.11%) Virtual Team
4 14 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.14%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.75%) NHS
8 8 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.17%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.17%) Distributed Applications
10 6 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.17%) PMI
11 5 (0.97%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.97%) FMCG
11 5 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.97%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.17%) Linux
2 5 (0.97%) Unix
3 4 (0.78%) VMS
3 4 (0.78%) Windows
4 2 (0.39%) Android
5 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (92.61%) Agile
2 262 (50.97%) Scrum
3 238 (46.30%) Sprint Retrospective
4 170 (33.07%) DevOps
5 153 (29.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 147 (28.60%) CI/CD
7 145 (28.21%) Sprint Review
8 131 (25.49%) Stakeholder Management
9 124 (24.12%) User Stories
10 115 (22.37%) Backlog Refinement
11 110 (21.40%) Test Automation
12 101 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
13 100 (19.46%) Roadmaps
14 89 (17.32%) Acceptance Criteria
15 88 (17.12%) Backlog Prioritisation
16 80 (15.56%) Backlog Management
17 74 (14.40%) SDLC
17 74 (14.40%) Software Engineering
18 72 (14.01%) Kanban
19 69 (13.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 84 (16.34%) Java
2 70 (13.62%) Python
3 51 (9.92%) SQL
4 50 (9.73%) JavaScript
5 30 (5.84%) TypeScript
6 29 (5.64%) C#
7 7 (1.36%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.17%) Apex Code
8 6 (1.17%) Go
9 4 (0.78%) Bicep
9 4 (0.78%) C++
9 4 (0.78%) Groovy
10 3 (0.58%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.58%) XPath
11 2 (0.39%) Bash
11 2 (0.39%) Korn
11 2 (0.39%) Ruby
11 2 (0.39%) SOQL
11 2 (0.39%) SOSL
12 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 147 (28.60%) Security Cleared
2 122 (23.74%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.59%) Degree
4 19 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (3.11%) PMI Certification
7 13 (2.53%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.33%) Master's Degree
8 12 (2.33%) PMP
9 6 (1.17%) CBAP
9 6 (1.17%) IIBA
10 4 (0.78%) CISM
10 4 (0.78%) CISSP
10 4 (0.78%) ISEB
10 4 (0.78%) SAFe Agilist
11 3 (0.58%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.39%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.39%) CSPO
12 2 (0.39%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (19.26%) QA
2 35 (6.81%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.67%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.75%) GDPR
5 7 (1.36%) NIST
6 6 (1.17%) SLA
6 6 (1.17%) WCAG
7 5 (0.97%) GRC
7 5 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.97%) PMO
8 4 (0.78%) GxP
8 4 (0.78%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.39%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (0.39%) HL7
9 2 (0.39%) NCSC
10 1 (0.19%) Basel III
10 1 (0.19%) GMP
10 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (8.75%) Docker
2 3 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Ceph
3 1 (0.19%) HDFS
3 1 (0.19%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.19%) Squid
3 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.19%) Varnish
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 78 (15.18%) Kubernetes
2 41 (7.98%) Terraform
3 32 (6.23%) Argo
4 16 (3.11%) Ansible
5 12 (2.33%) Grafana
6 10 (1.95%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.78%) Nagios
8 3 (0.58%) Istio
8 3 (0.58%) Puppet
9 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.19%) CASB
10 1 (0.19%) Kibana
10 1 (0.19%) Rancher
10 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 32 (6.23%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.84%) ServiceNow
3 23 (4.47%) Red Hat
3 23 (4.47%) Salesforce
4 17 (3.31%) Databricks
5 14 (2.72%) SAP
6 12 (2.33%) Oracle
7 11 (2.14%) ForgeRock
7 11 (2.14%) Okta
8 10 (1.95%) Adobe
9 6 (1.17%) Guidewire
9 6 (1.17%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.97%) Google
11 4 (0.78%) VMware
12 3 (0.58%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.58%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (0.58%) Cognizant
12 3 (0.58%) Sitecore
13 2 (0.39%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.39%) OutSystems