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

 6 months to
12 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 233 351
Rank change year-on-year +27 +118 +44
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 605 316 181
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.31% 1.13% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.25% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 230 117
10th Percentile £363 £350 £364
25th Percentile £440 £408 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £581 £575 £600
90th Percentile £716 £688 £674
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 14 2
10th Percentile £55.00 £43.45 £57.33
25th Percentile £62.50 £46.88 £58.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £62.26
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -19.69% -10.14%
75th Percentile - £54.13 £64.95
90th Percentile £71.13 £55.88 £66.19
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £62.26
% change year-on-year +40.00% -19.69% -10.14%

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 39,254 25,364 27,855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.88% 86.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,668 16,092 16,994
10th Percentile £325 £293 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,012 1,593 1,122
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.47 £44.81 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.45 £74.40
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -9.60%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 12 October 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 +13 312 £550 +5.77% 225
Midlands +25 101 £474 +20.32% 38
West Midlands +33 97 £473 +8.00% 19
North of England -35 85 £488 +9.92% 71
South East -22 78 £500 -4.76% 51
Yorkshire -18 37 £500 +3.63% 27
North East -10 34 £350 -34.88% 12
South West -16 22 £508 -4.47% 26
East of England -14 17 £460 - 12
North West -56 15 £450 +7.14% 32
East Midlands -22 3 £448 +24.36% 19
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
1 128 (21.16%) Confluence
2 17 (2.81%) CMS
3 13 (2.15%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.15%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.98%) Apache
5 8 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.83%) Documentum
6 5 (0.83%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.66%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.50%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.33%) Kentico
9 2 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.17%) Camunda
10 1 (0.17%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.17%) Mendix
10 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.99%) Notion
5 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.83%) Trello
6 3 (0.50%) Productboard
7 2 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.33%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.17%) Simulink
8 1 (0.17%) Sketch
8 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.65%) Salesforce CRM
2 9 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.66%) Magento
5 3 (0.50%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.33%) Primavera
6 2 (0.33%) Workfront
7 1 (0.17%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Utilities
7 1 (0.17%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.17%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.17%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.17%) Shopify
7 1 (0.17%) Siebel CRM
7 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 180 (29.75%) Azure
2 99 (16.36%) AWS
3 98 (16.20%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (8.10%) Power Platform
5 41 (6.78%) GitHub
6 34 (5.62%) GCP
7 33 (5.45%) OpenShift
8 31 (5.12%) Serverless
9 22 (3.64%) Amazon S3
9 22 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
10 21 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (3.47%) PowerApps
11 20 (3.31%) Power Automate
12 19 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (3.14%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
14 16 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (2.48%) Entra ID
16 13 (2.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.66%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.50%) Broadband
2 3 (0.50%) Firewall
3 2 (0.33%) SAN
3 2 (0.33%) WAN
3 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.17%) 4G
4 1 (0.17%) 5G
4 1 (0.17%) Intranet
4 1 (0.17%) IPv4
4 1 (0.17%) IPv6
4 1 (0.17%) Network Security
4 1 (0.17%) NFC
4 1 (0.17%) NGFW
4 1 (0.17%) PPP
4 1 (0.17%) UPnP
4 1 (0.17%) VPN
4 1 (0.17%) Wireless
4 1 (0.17%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.63%) Power BI
2 25 (4.13%) SQL Server
3 23 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (3.14%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.15%) Metadata
6 10 (1.65%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.16%) Big Data
7 7 (1.16%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.16%) Oracle Database
8 6 (0.99%) BigQuery
8 6 (0.99%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.99%) Delta Lake
9 5 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.83%) Ataccama
10 4 (0.66%) Spark SQL
11 3 (0.50%) ClickHouse
11 3 (0.50%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.50%) MySQL
11 3 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 206 (34.05%) JIRA
2 65 (10.74%) Git
3 51 (8.43%) Jenkins
4 40 (6.61%) SonarQube
5 18 (2.98%) Postman
6 14 (2.31%) Maven
7 13 (2.15%) GitLab
7 13 (2.15%) JUnit
8 11 (1.82%) Mockito
9 8 (1.32%) Selenium
10 6 (0.99%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.99%) JMeter
11 5 (0.83%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.66%) Gradle
12 4 (0.66%) Subversion
13 3 (0.50%) Protractor
13 3 (0.50%) WebDriver
14 2 (0.33%) Charles Proxy
14 2 (0.33%) git-flow
14 2 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 287 (47.44%) Social Skills
2 143 (23.64%) Finance
3 133 (21.98%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (17.69%) Public Sector
5 65 (10.74%) Banking
6 42 (6.94%) Retail
7 30 (4.96%) Organisational Skills
8 26 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (4.30%) Marketing
9 14 (2.31%) Investment Banking
10 13 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.98%) Front Office
11 12 (1.98%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.65%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (1.16%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.16%) Billing
16 6 (0.99%) Military
Job Titles
1 123 (20.33%) Developer
2 87 (14.38%) Senior
3 82 (13.55%) Analyst
4 71 (11.74%) Scrum Master
5 69 (11.40%) Lead
6 55 (9.09%) Business Analyst
7 51 (8.43%) Product Owner
8 50 (8.26%) Delivery Manager
9 44 (7.27%) Java Developer
10 43 (7.11%) Project Manager
11 29 (4.79%) Product Manager
12 28 (4.63%) Senior Developer
13 24 (3.97%) Architect
14 20 (3.31%) Technical Manager
15 18 (2.98%) Technical Analyst
16 17 (2.81%) Data Engineer
16 17 (2.81%) Senior Manager
16 17 (2.81%) Technical Leader
17 15 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
18 14 (2.31%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (12.73%) REST
2 47 (7.77%) AngularJS
3 45 (7.44%) RESTful
4 35 (5.79%) Spring
4 35 (5.79%) Spring Boot
5 34 (5.62%) .NET
6 28 (4.63%) Quarkus
7 24 (3.97%) JSON
7 24 (3.97%) SOAP
7 24 (3.97%) Terraform
8 23 (3.80%) Web Services
9 18 (2.98%) HTML
10 17 (2.81%) Kafka
10 17 (2.81%) React
11 16 (2.64%) Node.js
12 14 (2.31%) Hibernate
13 13 (2.15%) Lightning Web Components
14 12 (1.98%) PySpark
15 11 (1.82%) CSS
15 11 (1.82%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 250 (41.32%) Product Ownership
2 62 (10.25%) Cloud Native
3 26 (4.30%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (3.14%) Virtual Team
6 14 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.98%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.32%) Life Science
11 8 (1.32%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.32%) NHS
12 7 (1.16%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.16%) Market Risk
13 6 (0.99%) FMCG
13 6 (0.99%) Taxonomies
14 5 (0.83%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.15%) Windows
2 10 (1.65%) Linux
3 4 (0.66%) Android
4 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.33%) Unix
4 2 (0.33%) VMS
4 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (94.88%) Agile
2 327 (54.05%) Scrum
3 235 (38.84%) Sprint Retrospective
4 226 (37.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 224 (37.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 219 (36.20%) DevOps
7 198 (32.73%) Backlog Refinement
8 182 (30.08%) User Stories
9 176 (29.09%) CI/CD
10 159 (26.28%) Sprint Review
11 144 (23.80%) Problem-Solving
12 123 (20.33%) Test Automation
13 120 (19.83%) Acceptance Criteria
14 111 (18.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 107 (17.69%) Backlog Management
15 107 (17.69%) Roadmaps
16 106 (17.52%) Software Engineering
17 103 (17.02%) Kanban
17 103 (17.02%) SDLC
18 92 (15.21%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 95 (15.70%) Java
2 81 (13.39%) SQL
3 53 (8.76%) Python
4 49 (8.10%) JavaScript
5 38 (6.28%) C#
6 26 (4.30%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.98%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.83%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.66%) Bicep
10 2 (0.33%) Groovy
10 2 (0.33%) R
11 1 (0.17%) ABAP
11 1 (0.17%) Bash
11 1 (0.17%) C
11 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.17%) Korn
11 1 (0.17%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.17%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 196 (32.40%) Security Cleared
2 161 (26.61%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.45%) Degree
4 28 (4.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (3.64%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.64%) PMI Certification
7 15 (2.48%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.98%) PMP
10 10 (1.65%) CSPO
11 6 (0.99%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.99%) IIBA
12 5 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (0.66%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.66%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.66%) SAFe Agilist
14 3 (0.50%) CAPM
14 3 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (19.67%) QA
2 40 (6.61%) Accessibility
3 37 (6.12%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.82%) PMO
5 10 (1.65%) WCAG
6 8 (1.32%) GDPR
7 7 (1.16%) GRC
8 5 (0.83%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 5 (0.83%) GxP
9 3 (0.50%) SLA
10 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.17%) IFRS
10 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.17%) NCSC
10 1 (0.17%) NIST
10 1 (0.17%) PERC
10 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 54 (8.93%) Docker
2 8 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (10.74%) Kubernetes
2 29 (4.79%) Argo
3 12 (1.98%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.82%) Grafana
5 4 (0.66%) Ansible
6 2 (0.33%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (0.33%) Kibana
6 2 (0.33%) Packer
6 2 (0.33%) Puppet
7 1 (0.17%) Istio
7 1 (0.17%) Nessus
7 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.12%) Salesforce
3 30 (4.96%) Red Hat
4 25 (4.13%) Databricks
4 25 (4.13%) ServiceNow
5 19 (3.14%) SAP
6 18 (2.98%) Oracle
7 10 (1.65%) Adobe
7 10 (1.65%) Okta
8 9 (1.49%) Google
9 6 (0.99%) Atlassian
9 6 (0.99%) ForgeRock
9 6 (0.99%) Informatica
9 6 (0.99%) UiPath
10 5 (0.83%) VMware
11 4 (0.66%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.66%) Sitecore
11 4 (0.66%) Splunk
12 3 (0.50%) Pega
12 3 (0.50%) Ping Identity
443 Sprint Planning jobs in England