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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 317 402
Rank change year-on-year +91 +85 -2
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 371 174 150
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.17% 0.65% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 0.73% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 94 89
10th Percentile £354 £404 £302
25th Percentile £413 £467 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £675 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £565 £500
% change year-on-year -11.50% +13.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 5
10th Percentile £32.30 £65.25 £56.45
25th Percentile £45.88 £65.63 £64.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £67.02 £70.07
Median % change year-on-year -17.93% -4.35% +5.77%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.89 £77.50
90th Percentile £87.90 £68.40 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £67.26 £70.07
% change year-on-year -18.23% -4.01% +5.77%

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 28,048 23,994 32,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.18% 89.29% 87.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,911 14,725 21,701
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,747 781 1,610
10th Percentile £15.14 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.29 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -18.75% +17.96%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +79 200 £511 -11.09% 41
North of England -9 63 £408 -4.12% 48
Midlands -14 42 £463 -17.78% 30
West Midlands -16 31 £477 -15.29% 11
Yorkshire -36 30 £476 +13.39% 18
South East -20 29 £525 -8.70% 70
North West -8 23 £388 -13.89% 21
South West +8 18 £525 -7.08% 32
East Midlands -11 11 £358 - 19
North East - 10 £525 - 10
East of England -9 7 £475 -20.83% 29
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 66 (17.79%) Confluence
2 14 (3.77%) SAS
3 11 (2.96%) CMS
4 5 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.35%) Appian
4 5 (1.35%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.81%) Apache
5 3 (0.81%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.81%) WordPress
6 2 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.54%) Documentum
6 2 (0.54%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.54%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.54%) nginx
7 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.27%) Drupal
7 1 (0.27%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.62%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.35%) Adobe XD
4 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.81%) Sketch
6 2 (0.54%) Trello
7 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.27%) Notion
Business Applications
1 8 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.54%) Finacle
3 2 (0.54%) Maximo
3 2 (0.54%) Primavera
4 1 (0.27%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 94 (25.34%) Azure
2 67 (18.06%) AWS
3 43 (11.59%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (9.70%) GitHub
5 24 (6.47%) GCP
5 24 (6.47%) OpenShift
6 23 (6.20%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (6.20%) Power Platform
6 23 (6.20%) Serverless
7 19 (5.12%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (3.77%) Amazon S3
8 14 (3.77%) Figma
9 12 (3.23%) SaaS
10 10 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (2.70%) Power Automate
11 9 (2.43%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (1.89%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.81%) HTTP
2 2 (0.54%) Network Security
2 2 (0.54%) SMS
2 2 (0.54%) SSL
2 2 (0.54%) VPN
3 1 (0.27%) DNS
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.12%) Power BI
2 14 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.43%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.16%) Tableau
5 7 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.89%) Oracle Database
6 6 (1.62%) Metadata
6 6 (1.62%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.62%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.35%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 4 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.08%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.08%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.08%) MySQL
9 3 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.81%) Big Data
9 3 (0.81%) DB2
9 3 (0.81%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.81%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.54%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 115 (31.00%) JIRA
2 48 (12.94%) Jenkins
3 38 (10.24%) Git
4 36 (9.70%) GitLab
5 34 (9.16%) Selenium
6 22 (5.93%) Cucumber
7 21 (5.66%) JUnit
7 21 (5.66%) SonarQube
8 19 (5.12%) Postman
9 7 (1.89%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.89%) webpack
10 6 (1.62%) TestRail
10 6 (1.62%) Zephyr
11 5 (1.35%) Cypress.io
11 5 (1.35%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.35%) Robot Framework
11 5 (1.35%) TestNG
11 5 (1.35%) WebDriver
12 4 (1.08%) Babel
13 3 (0.81%) Gatling
General
1 183 (49.33%) Social Skills
2 89 (23.99%) Finance
3 59 (15.90%) Public Sector
4 54 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (11.05%) Banking
6 17 (4.58%) Telecoms
7 14 (3.77%) Front Office
8 13 (3.50%) Marketing
9 12 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.62%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.35%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.08%) Legal
13 4 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.81%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.81%) Law
15 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.54%) Military
15 2 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 77 (20.75%) Developer
2 48 (12.94%) Analyst
3 41 (11.05%) Business Analyst
4 38 (10.24%) Product Owner
5 32 (8.63%) Scrum Master
5 32 (8.63%) Senior
6 30 (8.09%) Lead
7 17 (4.58%) Java Developer
8 14 (3.77%) Project Manager
8 14 (3.77%) Test Specialist
9 13 (3.50%) Architect
10 12 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (3.23%) Tester
11 9 (2.43%) Product Manager
11 9 (2.43%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.16%) Software Engineer
13 7 (1.89%) QA Engineer
13 7 (1.89%) Senior Manager
13 7 (1.89%) Software Developer
13 7 (1.89%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (12.67%) REST
2 38 (10.24%) React
3 30 (8.09%) RESTful
4 24 (6.47%) AngularJS
5 23 (6.20%) CSS
6 21 (5.66%) HTML
7 18 (4.85%) JSON
7 18 (4.85%) Node.js
8 15 (4.04%) pytest
9 13 (3.50%) XML
10 11 (2.96%) SOAP
10 11 (2.96%) Spring
11 10 (2.70%) Gherkin
11 10 (2.70%) HTML5
11 10 (2.70%) Playwright
12 9 (2.43%) CSS3
12 9 (2.43%) Spring Boot
12 9 (2.43%) Vue
13 8 (2.16%) .NET
13 8 (2.16%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 123 (33.15%) Product Ownership
2 17 (4.58%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.77%) Algorithms
4 12 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 11 (2.96%) Virtual Team
6 9 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.89%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.62%) NHS
10 5 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.35%) PMI
11 4 (1.08%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.08%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.08%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.81%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.43%) Unix
2 8 (2.16%) Windows
3 7 (1.89%) Linux
4 2 (0.54%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.27%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (90.57%) Agile
2 186 (50.13%) Scrum
3 176 (47.44%) Sprint Retrospective
4 121 (32.61%) DevOps
5 112 (30.19%) CI/CD
6 104 (28.03%) Sprint Review
7 103 (27.76%) Problem-Solving
8 93 (25.07%) Stakeholder Management
9 92 (24.80%) Test Automation
10 90 (24.26%) User Stories
11 89 (23.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 82 (22.10%) Roadmaps
13 78 (21.02%) Backlog Refinement
14 58 (15.63%) Analytics
14 58 (15.63%) Kanban
15 56 (15.09%) Backlog Management
16 54 (14.56%) User Experience
17 53 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
17 53 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 47 (12.67%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 71 (19.14%) Python
2 56 (15.09%) JavaScript
3 55 (14.82%) Java
4 39 (10.51%) SQL
5 30 (8.09%) TypeScript
6 21 (5.66%) C#
7 7 (1.89%) Go
8 6 (1.62%) Bicep
9 5 (1.35%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.08%) Bash
11 3 (0.81%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.81%) PHP
11 3 (0.81%) Ruby
11 3 (0.81%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.81%) XPath
12 2 (0.54%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.27%) C++
13 1 (0.27%) Cypher
13 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 96 (25.88%) Security Cleared
2 79 (21.29%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.55%) Degree
4 9 (2.43%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.16%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.16%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.62%) CBAP
7 5 (1.35%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.08%) CSPO
8 4 (1.08%) IIBA
8 4 (1.08%) ISEB
8 4 (1.08%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.08%) PMP
9 3 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.81%) GPEN
9 3 (0.81%) OSCP
10 2 (0.54%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.54%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (18.33%) QA
2 32 (8.63%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.77%) GDPR
4 11 (2.96%) WCAG
5 9 (2.43%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.62%) GRC
7 4 (1.08%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.08%) PSD2
8 3 (0.81%) HL7
9 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.54%) NCSC
9 2 (0.54%) NIST
9 2 (0.54%) SLA
10 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.27%) PMO
10 1 (0.27%) SEPA
10 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (14.82%) Docker
2 4 (1.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 26 (7.01%) Terraform
3 17 (4.58%) Ansible
4 11 (2.96%) Argo
5 10 (2.70%) Grafana
6 6 (1.62%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.54%) Istio
8 2 (0.54%) Kibana
9 1 (0.27%) CASB
9 1 (0.27%) linkerd
9 1 (0.27%) Nagios
9 1 (0.27%) Puppet
9 1 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 45 (12.13%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.20%) Salesforce
3 13 (3.50%) Databricks
4 12 (3.23%) Oracle
4 12 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.43%) Adobe
6 8 (2.16%) Cisco
6 8 (2.16%) Google
6 8 (2.16%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.35%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.35%) Guidewire
7 5 (1.35%) SAP
7 5 (1.35%) Splunk
7 5 (1.35%) Veracode
8 4 (1.08%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.81%) Cognizant
9 3 (0.81%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.81%) IBM
9 3 (0.81%) Progress
10 2 (0.54%) DocuSign