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

 6 months to
3 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 231 341
Rank change year-on-year +40 +110 +13
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 665 314 175
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.15% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.26% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 223 114
10th Percentile £400 £350 £356
25th Percentile £450 £407 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £696 £690 £675
UK median daily rate £516 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +3.18% -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 38,735 24,846 28,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.77% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,900 15,805 17,939
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,596 1,469 1,428
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.38 £17.87 £18.50
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 £65.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +35 312 £550 +5.47% 263
North of England -13 108 £500 +16.28% 69
Midlands +13 99 £481 +20.01% 41
South East -15 95 £525 - 50
West Midlands +18 91 £475 -7.32% 28
Yorkshire -21 48 £500 +17.30% 18
North East -4 45 £550 +2.33% 16
East of England -2 27 £460 - 9
South West -19 27 £508 +0.25% 34
North West -57 19 £445 +7.23% 35
East Midlands -25 7 £454 +25.95% 12
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
1 121 (18.20%) Confluence
2 19 (2.86%) CMS
3 13 (1.95%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.65%) Apache
5 10 (1.50%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.75%) 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 (2.26%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.20%) Trello
5 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.90%) Notion
6 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.15%) Mingle
8 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.20%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.75%) 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 (32.48%) Azure
2 124 (18.65%) AWS
3 115 (17.29%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (6.77%) Power Platform
5 41 (6.17%) OpenShift
6 39 (5.86%) GitHub
7 35 (5.26%) Serverless
8 34 (5.11%) GCP
9 26 (3.91%) Amazon S3
10 24 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (3.16%) PowerApps
12 20 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (3.01%) Power Automate
13 19 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (2.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
16 16 (2.41%) Amazon ECS
16 16 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
16 16 (2.41%) Snowflake
17 15 (2.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.60%) 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 (3.61%) Power BI
2 21 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (3.01%) Relational Database
3 20 (3.01%) SQL Server
4 14 (2.11%) Metadata
5 10 (1.50%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.35%) Big Data
6 9 (1.35%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (1.20%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.90%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.75%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.60%) Delta Lake
11 4 (0.60%) MySQL
11 4 (0.60%) Redis
11 4 (0.60%) Tableau
12 3 (0.45%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 228 (34.29%) JIRA
2 78 (11.73%) Git
3 55 (8.27%) Jenkins
4 48 (7.22%) SonarQube
5 32 (4.81%) Postman
6 12 (1.80%) JUnit
6 12 (1.80%) Maven
7 11 (1.65%) GitLab
7 11 (1.65%) Selenium
8 9 (1.35%) Bitbucket
8 9 (1.35%) Mockito
9 6 (0.90%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.90%) JMeter
10 5 (0.75%) Subversion
11 4 (0.60%) Gradle
11 4 (0.60%) 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 (46.62%) Social Skills
2 143 (21.50%) Finance
3 122 (18.35%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (16.84%) Public Sector
5 54 (8.12%) Retail
6 49 (7.37%) Banking
7 33 (4.96%) Marketing
8 27 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.80%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (1.80%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.35%) Front Office
12 9 (1.35%) Legal
13 8 (1.20%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.05%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.05%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 123 (18.50%) Developer
2 102 (15.34%) Senior
3 90 (13.53%) Analyst
4 81 (12.18%) Scrum Master
5 70 (10.53%) Lead
6 62 (9.32%) Business Analyst
6 62 (9.32%) Delivery Manager
7 52 (7.82%) Product Owner
8 43 (6.47%) Java Developer
9 40 (6.02%) Project Manager
10 31 (4.66%) Senior Manager
11 30 (4.51%) Product Manager
12 26 (3.91%) Senior Developer
13 25 (3.76%) Architect
14 22 (3.31%) Technical Manager
15 21 (3.16%) Agile Delivery Manager
16 18 (2.71%) Java Engineer
16 18 (2.71%) Software Engineer
16 18 (2.71%) Technical Analyst
17 16 (2.41%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (12.48%) REST
2 57 (8.57%) AngularJS
3 46 (6.92%) RESTful
4 45 (6.77%) Terraform
5 36 (5.41%) Quarkus
6 30 (4.51%) Spring
6 30 (4.51%) Spring Boot
7 29 (4.36%) .NET
8 27 (4.06%) React
9 26 (3.91%) JSON
10 25 (3.76%) SOAP
11 18 (2.71%) Kafka
12 16 (2.41%) HTML
13 15 (2.26%) Lightning Web Components
13 15 (2.26%) Node.js
13 15 (2.26%) Web Services
14 13 (1.95%) PySpark
15 11 (1.65%) Middleware
16 10 (1.50%) Hibernate
17 9 (1.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 267 (40.15%) Product Ownership
2 76 (11.43%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (3.31%) Virtual Team
4 21 (3.16%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.80%) Life Science
8 10 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.50%) NHS
9 9 (1.35%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.35%) FMCG
10 8 (1.20%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (0.90%) Derivative
11 6 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (0.90%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.80%) Windows
2 10 (1.50%) Linux
3 5 (0.75%) Unix
4 4 (0.60%) 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
1 623 (93.68%) Agile
2 358 (53.83%) Scrum
3 262 (39.40%) Sprint Retrospective
4 250 (37.59%) DevOps
5 233 (35.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 218 (32.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 203 (30.53%) Backlog Refinement
8 197 (29.62%) User Stories
9 186 (27.97%) Sprint Review
10 183 (27.52%) CI/CD
11 137 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
12 135 (20.30%) Test Automation
13 130 (19.55%) Acceptance Criteria
14 127 (19.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 119 (17.89%) Kanban
16 117 (17.59%) Backlog Management
16 117 (17.59%) Software Engineering
17 111 (16.69%) Roadmaps
18 103 (15.49%) SDLC
19 90 (13.53%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 109 (16.39%) Java
2 80 (12.03%) SQL
3 58 (8.72%) Python
4 54 (8.12%) JavaScript
5 40 (6.02%) C#
6 27 (4.06%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.26%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.75%) Bicep
8 5 (0.75%) Groovy
8 5 (0.75%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.60%) 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
1 210 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 169 (25.41%) SC Cleared
3 41 (6.17%) Degree
4 27 (4.06%) DV Cleared
5 25 (3.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.41%) PMI Certification
7 13 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.80%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.65%) PMP
10 9 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.90%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.90%) CSPO
12 5 (0.75%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.75%) SAFe Agilist
13 4 (0.60%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.60%) 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
1 132 (19.85%) QA
2 42 (6.32%) Data Quality
3 40 (6.02%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.95%) PMO
5 11 (1.65%) GDPR
6 10 (1.50%) GRC
7 9 (1.35%) GxP
8 7 (1.05%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 6 (0.90%) WCAG
10 4 (0.60%) NIST
11 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.45%) SLA
12 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.15%) GMP
13 1 (0.15%) HL7
13 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.15%) PERC
13 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 55 (8.27%) Docker
2 9 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.60%) 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 (11.73%) Kubernetes
2 38 (5.71%) Argo
3 11 (1.65%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.50%) Grafana
5 8 (1.20%) Ansible
6 4 (0.60%) 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 70 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.02%) ServiceNow
3 36 (5.41%) Red Hat
4 34 (5.11%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.31%) Databricks
6 21 (3.16%) SAP
7 16 (2.41%) Oracle
8 10 (1.50%) Adobe
8 10 (1.50%) Google
8 10 (1.50%) Okta
9 8 (1.20%) ForgeRock
10 7 (1.05%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.05%) VMware
11 4 (0.60%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.60%) CA Agile Central
11 4 (0.60%) Informatica
11 4 (0.60%) Splunk
12 3 (0.45%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.45%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.45%) Zscaler
447 Sprint Planning jobs in England