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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 276 407
Rank change year-on-year +74 +131 -55
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 568 217 143
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.33% 0.88% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 0.97% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 138 91
10th Percentile £360 £397 £340
25th Percentile £430 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% +2.65% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £555
90th Percentile £646 £667 £671
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +2.48% +1.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 9 1
10th Percentile £57.00 £48.25 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% +13.04%
75th Percentile - £55.00 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% +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 36,362 22,469 32,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.16% 91.35% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,009 14,533 20,781
10th Percentile £325 £304 £300
25th Percentile £415 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,276 1,038 2,365
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.13 £16.02
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.85 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.76% -25.73% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.66 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.13 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.06% -25.68% +1.67%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +65 285 £525 - 74
North of England +4 105 £472 -5.60% 29
South East -21 72 £555 +7.98% 39
Midlands -19 55 £492 +9.39% 17
West Midlands -21 43 £493 +9.44% 13
North West -15 42 £380 -24.00% 13
North East +2 39 £550 +4.76% 7
Yorkshire -37 28 £519 +11.31% 9
South West -5 22 £490 -3.21% 21
East of England -10 19 £468 +16.88% 11
East Midlands -13 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 95 (16.73%) Confluence
2 21 (3.70%) CMS
3 8 (1.41%) SAS
4 5 (0.88%) Apache
4 5 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.53%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.35%) Documentum
6 2 (0.35%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) Drupal
7 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.18%) Traefik
7 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.06%) Trello
3 4 (0.70%) Notion
4 3 (0.53%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.18%) Mingle
5 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.88%) Magento
4 2 (0.35%) Finacle
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.35%) Primavera
4 2 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.35%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.18%) Maximo
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Utilities
5 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 167 (29.40%) Azure
2 105 (18.49%) AWS
3 73 (12.85%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (6.87%) OpenShift
5 25 (4.40%) Serverless
6 24 (4.23%) Power Platform
7 23 (4.05%) GCP
8 22 (3.87%) GitHub
9 21 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (3.17%) Amazon S3
11 16 (2.82%) Entra ID
12 15 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (2.64%) Azure AKS
12 15 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (2.29%) Snowflake
14 12 (2.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 11 (1.94%) SaaS
16 10 (1.76%) Figma
17 9 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
18 8 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.70%) Firewall
1 4 (0.70%) Network Security
2 3 (0.53%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.35%) 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%) SONET
4 1 (0.18%) SSL
4 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.18%) VPN
4 1 (0.18%) WAN
4 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.52%) Power BI
2 16 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.46%) Metadata
4 10 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (1.23%) Big Data
6 7 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.06%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.06%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.06%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.88%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.88%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.88%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.88%) Tableau
9 3 (0.53%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.53%) Redis
10 2 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.35%) Looker
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 192 (33.80%) JIRA
2 69 (12.15%) Git
3 49 (8.63%) Jenkins
4 41 (7.22%) SonarQube
5 38 (6.69%) Postman
6 22 (3.87%) GitLab
6 22 (3.87%) Selenium
7 11 (1.94%) JUnit
8 10 (1.76%) WebDriver
9 9 (1.58%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.58%) REST Assured
10 8 (1.41%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.88%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.88%) JMeter
11 5 (0.88%) Subversion
12 4 (0.70%) Storybook
13 3 (0.53%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.53%) git-flow
13 3 (0.53%) MLflow
13 3 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 231 (40.67%) Social Skills
2 113 (19.89%) Finance
3 79 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (13.38%) Public Sector
5 44 (7.75%) Banking
6 38 (6.69%) Retail
7 28 (4.93%) Marketing
8 18 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.11%) Retail Banking
12 11 (1.94%) Legal
13 9 (1.58%) Front Office
14 8 (1.41%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.06%) Aerospace
16 6 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
16 6 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.88%) Billing
Job Titles
1 95 (16.73%) Developer
2 80 (14.08%) Analyst
3 73 (12.85%) Senior
4 67 (11.80%) Scrum Master
5 55 (9.68%) Lead
6 52 (9.15%) Business Analyst
7 51 (8.98%) Product Owner
8 49 (8.63%) Delivery Manager
9 34 (5.99%) Java Developer
10 33 (5.81%) Project Manager
11 27 (4.75%) Senior Manager
12 23 (4.05%) Software Engineer
13 22 (3.87%) Architect
13 22 (3.87%) Product Manager
14 18 (3.17%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 18 (3.17%) Technical Analyst
15 17 (2.99%) Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (2.99%) Java Engineer
15 17 (2.99%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 17 (2.99%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (8.80%) REST
2 47 (8.27%) AngularJS
3 40 (7.04%) React
4 35 (6.16%) RESTful
5 33 (5.81%) Quarkus
6 17 (2.99%) .NET
6 17 (2.99%) JSON
6 17 (2.99%) Node.js
7 16 (2.82%) Spring
8 15 (2.64%) CSS
9 13 (2.29%) HTML
9 13 (2.29%) Spring Boot
10 12 (2.11%) OAuth
10 12 (2.11%) Playwright
11 11 (1.94%) Lightning Web Components
12 10 (1.76%) CSS3
12 10 (1.76%) HTML5
13 9 (1.58%) Kafka
13 9 (1.58%) Middleware
13 9 (1.58%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 209 (36.80%) Product Ownership
2 50 (8.80%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (3.35%) Virtual Team
4 18 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.41%) FMCG
10 8 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.23%) Distributed Applications
11 7 (1.23%) Life Science
12 6 (1.06%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.06%) NHS
13 5 (0.88%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.88%) PMI
13 5 (0.88%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.06%) Windows
2 4 (0.70%) Linux
3 3 (0.53%) Unix
3 3 (0.53%) VMS
4 1 (0.18%) Android
4 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (92.43%) Agile
2 295 (51.94%) Scrum
3 263 (46.30%) Sprint Retrospective
4 179 (31.51%) DevOps
5 177 (31.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 154 (27.11%) Sprint Review
7 151 (26.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 148 (26.06%) User Stories
9 145 (25.53%) CI/CD
10 136 (23.94%) Backlog Refinement
11 112 (19.72%) Test Automation
12 108 (19.01%) Acceptance Criteria
13 106 (18.66%) Roadmaps
14 99 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
15 94 (16.55%) Backlog Management
15 94 (16.55%) Backlog Prioritisation
16 87 (15.32%) Kanban
17 85 (14.96%) SDLC
18 82 (14.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 80 (14.08%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 87 (15.32%) Java
2 60 (10.56%) Python
3 54 (9.51%) SQL
4 39 (6.87%) JavaScript
5 30 (5.28%) C#
6 27 (4.75%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.58%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.88%) Bicep
8 5 (0.88%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.70%) Groovy
10 3 (0.53%) C++
11 2 (0.35%) Korn
11 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.35%) R
11 2 (0.35%) SOQL
11 2 (0.35%) SOSL
12 1 (0.18%) Bash
12 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.18%) Scala
12 1 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 163 (28.70%) Security Cleared
2 138 (24.30%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.51%) Degree
4 19 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.99%) PMI Certification
6 14 (2.46%) PMP
7 11 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.41%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.88%) CBAP
9 5 (0.88%) CISSP
9 5 (0.88%) IIBA
10 4 (0.70%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.70%) CISM
10 4 (0.70%) CSPO
10 4 (0.70%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.70%) ISEB
10 4 (0.70%) SAFe Agilist
11 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (19.01%) QA
2 36 (6.34%) Accessibility
3 30 (5.28%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.58%) GDPR
5 8 (1.41%) GRC
5 8 (1.41%) SLA
6 6 (1.06%) NIST
7 5 (0.88%) GxP
7 5 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.88%) WCAG
8 4 (0.70%) PMO
8 4 (0.70%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.53%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.35%) NCSC
10 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.18%) Basel III
11 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.18%) GMP
11 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (7.04%) Docker
2 6 (1.06%) 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 79 (13.91%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.39%) Terraform
3 37 (6.51%) Argo
4 11 (1.94%) Ansible
5 7 (1.23%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.06%) Grafana
7 3 (0.53%) Nagios
7 3 (0.53%) Puppet
8 2 (0.35%) Istio
8 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.18%) Kibana
9 1 (0.18%) Packer
9 1 (0.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 38 (6.69%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.34%) ServiceNow
3 32 (5.63%) Red Hat
4 26 (4.58%) Salesforce
5 17 (2.99%) Databricks
6 15 (2.64%) Oracle
7 14 (2.46%) SAP
8 13 (2.29%) Okta
9 12 (2.11%) ForgeRock
10 8 (1.41%) Adobe
11 6 (1.06%) Guidewire
11 6 (1.06%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.88%) VMware
13 4 (0.70%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.53%) CA Agile Central
14 3 (0.53%) Cognizant
14 3 (0.53%) Google
14 3 (0.53%) Progress
14 3 (0.53%) Sitecore
15 2 (0.35%) Ping Identity