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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 314 423
Rank change year-on-year +90 +109 -16
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 441 167 129
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.19% 0.68% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 0.75% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 93 78
10th Percentile £358 £400 £195
25th Percentile £424 £454 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £489
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +8.44% -5.10%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £549
90th Percentile £643 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £490
% change year-on-year -5.66% +8.16% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 2 1
10th Percentile £51.25 £65.13 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £65.31 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +26.19% -19.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.75 £68.38 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -3.70% +28.57% -19.23%

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 32,109 22,180 32,789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.44% 90.75% 86.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,603 14,473 21,697
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,967 822 2,143
10th Percentile £15.45 £15.07 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.04
Median hourly rate £32.50 £33.26 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +2.32% -12.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.47 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 20 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 6 months to 20 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 6 months to 20 March 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 +58 224 £515 -2.76% 82
North of England -14 74 £423 -19.43% 43
Midlands -15 60 £481 -10.90% 23
West Midlands -23 50 £490 -10.91% 10
South East -31 44 £525 +7.80% 62
North West 0 39 £388 -32.31% 15
South West -9 24 £525 -5.41% 22
Yorkshire -46 21 £500 +17.65% 13
North East -2 14 £513 -1.20% 15
East Midlands -27 10 £413 -8.33% 12
East of England -19 5 £475 +18.75% 34
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 74 (16.78%) Confluence
2 20 (4.54%) SAS
3 15 (3.40%) CMS
4 4 (0.91%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.68%) Apache
5 3 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.68%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.68%) WordPress
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.45%) Appian
6 2 (0.45%) Drupal
6 2 (0.45%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.45%) Magnolia
7 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.23%) Mendix
7 1 (0.23%) nginx
7 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.36%) Adobe XD
1 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.13%) Trello
3 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.68%) Sketch
5 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.23%) Mingle
6 1 (0.23%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.45%) Finacle
2 2 (0.45%) Maximo
2 2 (0.45%) Primavera
2 2 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 114 (25.85%) Azure
2 82 (18.59%) AWS
3 55 (12.47%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (8.16%) OpenShift
5 29 (6.58%) GitHub
6 25 (5.67%) GCP
6 25 (5.67%) Serverless
7 24 (5.44%) Power Platform
8 22 (4.99%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (3.63%) Figma
11 15 (3.40%) Amazon S3
12 11 (2.49%) Power Automate
13 10 (2.27%) SaaS
14 9 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (2.04%) Entra ID
15 8 (1.81%) Azure AKS
15 8 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (1.81%) PowerApps
16 7 (1.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.13%) Network Security
2 3 (0.68%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.45%) Firewall
3 2 (0.45%) HTTP
3 2 (0.45%) SMS
4 1 (0.23%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.23%) DHCP
4 1 (0.23%) DNS
4 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.54%) Power BI
2 15 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (2.49%) Metadata
4 8 (1.81%) Oracle Database
4 8 (1.81%) Tableau
5 7 (1.59%) Relational Database
5 7 (1.59%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 6 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.36%) Big Data
6 6 (1.36%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.91%) DynamoDB
8 4 (0.91%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.91%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.68%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.68%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.68%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 2 (0.45%) Looker
Development Applications
1 140 (31.75%) JIRA
2 59 (13.38%) Git
2 59 (13.38%) Jenkins
3 42 (9.52%) GitLab
4 39 (8.84%) Selenium
5 27 (6.12%) JUnit
6 25 (5.67%) Postman
7 24 (5.44%) SonarQube
8 18 (4.08%) Cucumber
9 10 (2.27%) Cypress.io
9 10 (2.27%) REST Assured
9 10 (2.27%) WebDriver
10 6 (1.36%) Zephyr
11 5 (1.13%) TestRail
12 4 (0.91%) MLflow
12 4 (0.91%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.91%) Subversion
13 3 (0.68%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.68%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.68%) JMeter
General
1 223 (50.57%) Social Skills
2 102 (23.13%) Finance
3 76 (17.23%) Public Sector
4 67 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (8.16%) Banking
6 18 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (3.63%) Marketing
8 15 (3.40%) Front Office
9 14 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.95%) Retail
11 12 (2.72%) Telecoms
12 11 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (2.27%) Retail Banking
14 7 (1.59%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.59%) Legal
15 6 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (1.13%) Corporate Banking
17 4 (0.91%) Local Government
17 4 (0.91%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 83 (18.82%) Developer
2 56 (12.70%) Analyst
3 48 (10.88%) Scrum Master
4 42 (9.52%) Business Analyst
5 39 (8.84%) Product Owner
5 39 (8.84%) Senior
6 36 (8.16%) Lead
7 24 (5.44%) Java Developer
8 21 (4.76%) Project Manager
9 19 (4.31%) Test Specialist
10 18 (4.08%) Delivery Manager
11 17 (3.85%) Tester
12 16 (3.63%) Architect
12 16 (3.63%) Software Engineer
13 15 (3.40%) Full-Stack Developer
14 13 (2.95%) Product Manager
15 11 (2.49%) Senior Manager
15 11 (2.49%) Test Automation Specialist
16 10 (2.27%) Technical Analyst
17 9 (2.04%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (10.66%) REST
2 41 (9.30%) React
3 32 (7.26%) AngularJS
4 29 (6.58%) RESTful
5 22 (4.99%) pytest
6 17 (3.85%) CSS
6 17 (3.85%) Playwright
7 16 (3.63%) JSON
7 16 (3.63%) Spring
8 14 (3.17%) HTML
8 14 (3.17%) Node.js
8 14 (3.17%) Quarkus
9 13 (2.95%) Spring Boot
10 11 (2.49%) XML
11 10 (2.27%) .NET
12 9 (2.04%) CSS3
12 9 (2.04%) HTML5
12 9 (2.04%) SOAP
12 9 (2.04%) Web Services
13 8 (1.81%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 157 (35.60%) Product Ownership
2 25 (5.67%) Cloud Native
3 13 (2.95%) Algorithms
4 12 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (2.72%) Virtual Team
5 10 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.81%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.59%) NHS
9 6 (1.36%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.36%) PMI
10 5 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.13%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (0.91%) FMCG
11 4 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.04%) Unix
2 6 (1.36%) Linux
2 6 (1.36%) Windows
3 4 (0.91%) VMS
4 1 (0.23%) Android
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (92.74%) Agile
2 227 (51.47%) Scrum
3 210 (47.62%) Sprint Retrospective
4 139 (31.52%) DevOps
5 132 (29.93%) CI/CD
6 130 (29.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 130 (29.48%) Stakeholder Management
7 122 (27.66%) Sprint Review
8 111 (25.17%) Problem-Solving
9 108 (24.49%) User Stories
10 99 (22.45%) Test Automation
11 98 (22.22%) Roadmaps
12 97 (22.00%) Backlog Refinement
13 75 (17.01%) Acceptance Criteria
14 69 (15.65%) Backlog Prioritisation
15 67 (15.19%) Backlog Management
16 63 (14.29%) Kanban
17 61 (13.83%) Analytics
18 56 (12.70%) SDLC
19 55 (12.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 79 (17.91%) Python
2 69 (15.65%) Java
3 56 (12.70%) JavaScript
4 45 (10.20%) SQL
5 31 (7.03%) TypeScript
6 29 (6.58%) C#
7 6 (1.36%) Go
8 5 (1.13%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.91%) C++
9 4 (0.91%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.68%) Bicep
10 3 (0.68%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.68%) Ruby
10 3 (0.68%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.68%) XPath
11 2 (0.45%) Korn
11 2 (0.45%) SOQL
11 2 (0.45%) SOSL
12 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 139 (31.52%) Security Cleared
2 121 (27.44%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.62%) Degree
4 17 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.40%) Master's Degree
6 14 (3.17%) PMI Certification
7 12 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.27%) PMP
9 8 (1.81%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.36%) CBAP
10 6 (1.36%) IIBA
11 5 (1.13%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.91%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.91%) ISEB
13 3 (0.68%) CISM
13 3 (0.68%) CISSP
13 3 (0.68%) SAFe Agilist
14 2 (0.45%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.45%) CSPO
14 2 (0.45%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (20.18%) QA
2 37 (8.39%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.17%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.27%) WCAG
5 6 (1.36%) GDPR
5 6 (1.36%) GRC
5 6 (1.36%) SLA
6 5 (1.13%) NIST
7 4 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.68%) GxP
8 3 (0.68%) HL7
8 3 (0.68%) PMO
8 3 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.45%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (0.45%) NCSC
9 2 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.23%) Basel III
10 1 (0.23%) GMP
10 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 54 (12.24%) Docker
2 3 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) HDFS
3 1 (0.23%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 73 (16.55%) Kubernetes
2 26 (5.90%) Terraform
3 20 (4.54%) Argo
4 14 (3.17%) Ansible
5 13 (2.95%) Grafana
6 10 (2.27%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.68%) Kibana
7 3 (0.68%) Nagios
8 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.23%) CASB
9 1 (0.23%) Istio
9 1 (0.23%) Puppet
9 1 (0.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 34 (7.71%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.99%) Salesforce
3 17 (3.85%) Oracle
4 16 (3.63%) Databricks
5 14 (3.17%) Red Hat
5 14 (3.17%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.49%) Adobe
7 10 (2.27%) SAP
8 6 (1.36%) Guidewire
9 5 (1.13%) Google
9 5 (1.13%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.13%) Okta
10 4 (0.91%) ForgeRock
10 4 (0.91%) Splunk
11 3 (0.68%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (0.68%) Cisco
11 3 (0.68%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.68%) Veracode
11 3 (0.68%) VMware