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 3 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 232 337
Rank change year-on-year +45 +105 -45
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 276 100 71
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.33% 0.83% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 0.91% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 58 41
10th Percentile £350 £387 £356
25th Percentile £421 £436 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £505
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +1.24% +1.00%
75th Percentile £575 £571 £575
90th Percentile £625 £658 £671
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 1
10th Percentile £60.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £69.25 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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 17,769 10,955 17,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.82% 91.35% 85.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,457 7,204 11,688
10th Percentile £325 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,044 435 1,523
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.32 £12.15
25th Percentile £21.01 £18.17 £15.39
Median hourly rate £50.00 £31.64 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.03% +5.47% -20.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £62.75 £56.91
90th Percentile £83.00 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £47.00 £31.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +51.61% +1.64% -18.67%

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 3 months to 28 March 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 3 months to 28 March 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 3 months to 28 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +5 131 £513 +0.24% 58
North of England -14 56 £408 -22.38% 40
South East -13 37 £560 +14.99% 31
Midlands -29 30 £492 -0.61% 14
North West -8 28 £387 -29.57% 14
West Midlands -35 23 £493 +28.76% 10
North East +6 19 £513 -1.20% 18
South West -16 12 £475 -7.32% 16
East of England -15 9 £468 +16.88% 16
Yorkshire -32 9 £550 +22.22% 8
East Midlands -14 7 £364 -19.17% 3
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 78 (16.32%) Confluence
2 20 (4.18%) SAS
3 15 (3.14%) CMS
4 4 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.63%) Apache
5 3 (0.63%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.63%) WordPress
6 2 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.42%) Drupal
6 2 (0.42%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.42%) Magnolia
7 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.21%) Mendix
7 1 (0.21%) nginx
7 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.26%) Adobe XD
2 6 (1.26%) Trello
3 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.63%) Sketch
5 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.21%) Mingle
6 1 (0.21%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.42%) Finacle
3 2 (0.42%) Maximo
3 2 (0.42%) Primavera
4 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 121 (25.31%) Azure
2 87 (18.20%) AWS
3 57 (11.92%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (9.00%) OpenShift
5 30 (6.28%) GitHub
6 28 (5.86%) GCP
7 26 (5.44%) Serverless
8 25 (5.23%) Power Platform
9 22 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (3.56%) Amazon S3
11 15 (3.14%) Figma
12 11 (2.30%) Power Automate
13 10 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (2.09%) Azure AKS
13 10 (2.09%) SaaS
14 9 (1.88%) Entra ID
15 8 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (1.67%) PowerApps
16 7 (1.46%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.05%) Network Security
2 3 (0.63%) Firewall
2 3 (0.63%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.42%) DNS
3 2 (0.42%) HTTP
3 2 (0.42%) SMS
4 1 (0.21%) 5G
4 1 (0.21%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.21%) DHCP
4 1 (0.21%) SSL
4 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.39%) Power BI
2 15 (3.14%) Metadata
2 15 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.88%) Tableau
4 8 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (1.67%) Oracle Database
4 8 (1.67%) Relational Database
5 7 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.46%) NoSQL
5 7 (1.46%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 6 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.26%) Big Data
7 5 (1.05%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.84%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.84%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.63%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.63%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.63%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 2 (0.42%) Looker
Development Applications
1 152 (31.80%) JIRA
2 66 (13.81%) Git
3 64 (13.39%) Jenkins
4 40 (8.37%) GitLab
5 37 (7.74%) Selenium
6 31 (6.49%) SonarQube
7 30 (6.28%) Postman
8 28 (5.86%) JUnit
9 17 (3.56%) Cucumber
10 10 (2.09%) Cypress.io
10 10 (2.09%) REST Assured
10 10 (2.09%) WebDriver
11 6 (1.26%) Zephyr
12 5 (1.05%) Artifactory
12 5 (1.05%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (1.05%) TestRail
13 4 (0.84%) MLflow
13 4 (0.84%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.84%) Subversion
General
1 232 (48.54%) Social Skills
2 105 (21.97%) Finance
3 78 (16.32%) Public Sector
4 69 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (7.74%) Banking
6 18 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (3.35%) Marketing
8 15 (3.14%) Front Office
8 15 (3.14%) Retail
9 13 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.30%) Telecoms
11 10 (2.09%) Retail Banking
12 9 (1.88%) Legal
13 7 (1.46%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
16 4 (0.84%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.84%) Local Government
16 4 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 90 (18.83%) Developer
2 59 (12.34%) Analyst
3 50 (10.46%) Scrum Master
4 47 (9.83%) Senior
5 45 (9.41%) Business Analyst
6 39 (8.16%) Product Owner
7 38 (7.95%) Lead
8 26 (5.44%) Java Developer
9 22 (4.60%) Delivery Manager
9 22 (4.60%) Project Manager
10 21 (4.39%) Software Engineer
11 19 (3.97%) Test Specialist
12 18 (3.77%) Architect
13 17 (3.56%) Tester
14 16 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
15 14 (2.93%) Product Manager
16 13 (2.72%) Senior Manager
17 12 (2.51%) Java Engineer
18 11 (2.30%) Test Automation Specialist
19 10 (2.09%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (11.92%) REST
2 41 (8.58%) AngularJS
2 41 (8.58%) React
3 35 (7.32%) RESTful
4 22 (4.60%) pytest
4 22 (4.60%) Quarkus
5 17 (3.56%) JSON
5 17 (3.56%) Playwright
6 16 (3.35%) CSS
6 16 (3.35%) Node.js
6 16 (3.35%) Spring
7 13 (2.72%) HTML
7 13 (2.72%) Spring Boot
8 11 (2.30%) .NET
9 10 (2.09%) SOAP
10 9 (1.88%) Web Services
10 9 (1.88%) XML
11 8 (1.67%) CSS3
11 8 (1.67%) Middleware
11 8 (1.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 166 (34.73%) Product Ownership
2 34 (7.11%) Cloud Native
3 14 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (2.72%) Algorithms
4 13 (2.72%) Virtual Team
5 12 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.88%) NHS
8 8 (1.67%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.67%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.26%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.26%) PMI
11 5 (1.05%) Distributed Applications
11 5 (1.05%) FMCG
11 5 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.05%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.30%) Unix
2 8 (1.67%) Linux
3 6 (1.26%) Windows
4 4 (0.84%) VMS
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (92.26%) Agile
2 244 (51.05%) Scrum
3 223 (46.65%) Sprint Retrospective
4 146 (30.54%) DevOps
5 138 (28.87%) CI/CD
5 138 (28.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 135 (28.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 132 (27.62%) Sprint Review
8 116 (24.27%) User Stories
9 115 (24.06%) Test Automation
10 114 (23.85%) Problem-Solving
11 103 (21.55%) Backlog Refinement
12 99 (20.71%) Roadmaps
13 83 (17.36%) Acceptance Criteria
14 73 (15.27%) Backlog Prioritisation
15 70 (14.64%) Backlog Management
16 65 (13.60%) Analytics
16 65 (13.60%) Kanban
16 65 (13.60%) SDLC
17 63 (13.18%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 80 (16.74%) Python
2 79 (16.53%) Java
3 54 (11.30%) JavaScript
4 48 (10.04%) SQL
5 31 (6.49%) TypeScript
6 30 (6.28%) C#
7 6 (1.26%) Apex Code
7 6 (1.26%) Go
8 5 (1.05%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.84%) C++
10 3 (0.63%) Bicep
10 3 (0.63%) Groovy
10 3 (0.63%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.63%) Ruby
10 3 (0.63%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.63%) XPath
11 2 (0.42%) Bash
11 2 (0.42%) Korn
11 2 (0.42%) SOQL
11 2 (0.42%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 153 (32.01%) Security Cleared
2 131 (27.41%) SC Cleared
3 38 (7.95%) Degree
4 17 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.14%) Master's Degree
5 15 (3.14%) PMI Certification
6 13 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.30%) PMP
8 9 (1.88%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.26%) CBAP
9 6 (1.26%) IIBA
10 5 (1.05%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.84%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.84%) CISM
11 4 (0.84%) CISSP
11 4 (0.84%) ISEB
12 3 (0.63%) SAFe Agilist
13 2 (0.42%) CREST Certified
13 2 (0.42%) CSPO
13 2 (0.42%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (20.08%) QA
2 37 (7.74%) Accessibility
3 20 (4.18%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.09%) WCAG
5 8 (1.67%) GDPR
6 6 (1.26%) GRC
6 6 (1.26%) NIST
6 6 (1.26%) SLA
7 5 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.84%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.63%) GxP
9 3 (0.63%) HL7
9 3 (0.63%) PMO
10 2 (0.42%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.42%) NCSC
10 2 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.21%) Basel III
11 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.21%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
System Software
1 55 (11.51%) Docker
2 4 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.21%) HDFS
3 1 (0.21%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.21%) Squid
3 1 (0.21%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 83 (17.36%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.86%) Terraform
3 27 (5.65%) Argo
4 14 (2.93%) Ansible
5 13 (2.72%) Grafana
6 10 (2.09%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.63%) Istio
7 3 (0.63%) Kibana
7 3 (0.63%) Nagios
7 3 (0.63%) Puppet
8 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.21%) CASB
9 1 (0.21%) Rancher
9 1 (0.21%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 34 (7.11%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.02%) Salesforce
3 20 (4.18%) Red Hat
4 17 (3.56%) Databricks
4 17 (3.56%) Oracle
5 16 (3.35%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.30%) Adobe
6 11 (2.30%) SAP
7 7 (1.46%) MuleSoft
8 6 (1.26%) Google
8 6 (1.26%) Guidewire
9 5 (1.05%) Okta
10 4 (0.84%) ForgeRock
10 4 (0.84%) Splunk
11 3 (0.63%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.63%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (0.63%) Cognizant
11 3 (0.63%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.63%) Talend
11 3 (0.63%) VMware