Sprint Planning Contracts in England

Sprint Planning
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Sprint Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sprint Planning over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 391 363
Rank change year-on-year +139 -28 -35
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 272 151 299
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.00% 0.41% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.48% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 96 213
10th Percentile £371 £333 £401
25th Percentile £423 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £585 £567 £597
90th Percentile £688 £653 £685
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £528
% change year-on-year - -5.21% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 15
10th Percentile £48.50 £57.13 £52.35
25th Percentile £49.06 £58.44 £54.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +11.36% -13.04%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.44 £75.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £64.38 £79.84
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £61.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.37% +11.36% -13.04%

All Process and 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 24,763 31,420 42,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.70% 85.66% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,919 20,386 29,994
10th Percentile £300 £308 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £669
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,287 2,225 1,532
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.93 £16.25 £17.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -5.88% +55.77%
75th Percentile £54.38 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.90 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +53.85%

Sprint Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Sprint Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Sprint Planning in England

Sprint Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sprint Planning in England.

Daily rate trend for Sprint Planning in England

Sprint Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Planning in England over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sprint Planning in England

Sprint Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sprint Planning in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 July 2025. 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 +84 140 £521 +0.14% 151
North of England +43 51 £469 +4.22% 43
South East +63 36 £513 +28.13% 80
North West +32 32 £445 +6.65% 20
Midlands +17 27 £425 -19.05% 38
Yorkshire +16 16 £500 +4.17% 20
West Midlands +14 16 £450 -18.18% 27
East Midlands +6 10 £400 +8.11% 10
South West +41 6 £513 +60.16% 23
East of England +17 4 £400 - 13
North East -7 3 £525 +17.98% 3
Sprint Planning
UK

Sprint Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 35 (12.87%) Confluence
2 9 (3.31%) CMS
2 9 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.10%) WordPress
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.74%) Drupal
4 2 (0.74%) Oracle Service Bus
4 2 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.74%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 7 (2.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (2.57%) Trello
2 3 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.10%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (2.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.10%) Shopify
3 2 (0.74%) Endur
3 2 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.37%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
4 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (24.26%) Azure
2 37 (13.60%) AWS
3 27 (9.93%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (7.72%) GitHub
5 17 (6.25%) GCP
6 16 (5.88%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (2.94%) SaaS
9 6 (2.21%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.84%) Miro
10 5 (1.84%) Serverless
11 4 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.47%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.47%) Google Analytics
11 4 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.47%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.10%) Datadog
12 3 (1.10%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.31%) DNS
2 8 (2.94%) Firewall
3 4 (1.47%) DHCP
3 4 (1.47%) HTTP
4 3 (1.10%) Broadband
4 3 (1.10%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.74%) SSL
6 1 (0.37%) LAN
6 1 (0.37%) Modbus
6 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (4.04%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.31%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.57%) MySQL
4 7 (2.57%) Power BI
5 6 (2.21%) Big Data
6 5 (1.84%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.10%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.10%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.74%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.74%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.74%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 88 (32.35%) JIRA
2 40 (14.71%) Git
3 28 (10.29%) Jenkins
4 20 (7.35%) Postman
5 18 (6.62%) GitLab
6 14 (5.15%) Cucumber
7 9 (3.31%) Cypress.io
7 9 (3.31%) Selenium
8 7 (2.57%) webpack
9 6 (2.21%) JUnit
10 5 (1.84%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.84%) WebDriver
11 4 (1.47%) Browser DevTools
11 4 (1.47%) JMeter
11 4 (1.47%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.47%) Vite
12 3 (1.10%) ERwin
12 3 (1.10%) TestNG
12 3 (1.10%) Travis CI
12 3 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 123 (45.22%) Social Skills
2 47 (17.28%) Finance
3 40 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.09%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.25%) Marketing
6 16 (5.88%) Banking
7 6 (2.21%) Automotive
7 6 (2.21%) Back Office
7 6 (2.21%) Retail
7 6 (2.21%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.47%) Front Office
9 4 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.74%) Billing
10 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.74%) Games
10 2 (0.74%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.74%) Legal
10 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (19.49%) Developer
2 44 (16.18%) Analyst
3 42 (15.44%) Scrum Master
4 29 (10.66%) Business Analyst
5 26 (9.56%) Lead
6 23 (8.46%) Senior
7 17 (6.25%) Product Owner
8 15 (5.51%) Project Manager
9 11 (4.04%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (3.68%) Test Engineer
11 9 (3.31%) Delivery Manager
11 9 (3.31%) Senior Developer
11 9 (3.31%) Technical Analyst
11 9 (3.31%) Technical Manager
12 7 (2.57%) .NET Developer
12 7 (2.57%) Consultant
12 7 (2.57%) Data Analyst
12 7 (2.57%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (2.57%) Java Developer
12 7 (2.57%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.29%) REST
2 27 (9.93%) RESTful
3 22 (8.09%) React
4 20 (7.35%) CSS
5 19 (6.99%) AngularJS
6 17 (6.25%) HTML
7 15 (5.51%) .NET
8 14 (5.15%) Spring Boot
9 12 (4.41%) HTML5
10 11 (4.04%) Next.js
10 11 (4.04%) Spring
11 10 (3.68%) Node.js
12 9 (3.31%) Kafka
12 9 (3.31%) Web Services
13 8 (2.94%) Sass
14 7 (2.57%) CSS3
14 7 (2.57%) Jest
15 6 (2.21%) .NET Framework
15 6 (2.21%) ADO
15 6 (2.21%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 77 (28.31%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.78%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (2.57%) Cloud Native
3 7 (2.57%) Virtual Team
4 6 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.84%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
6 4 (1.47%) SCADA
7 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.74%) Digital TV
8 2 (0.74%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.74%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.74%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.74%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.74%) STB
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.94%) Linux
2 3 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.10%) Rocky
3 2 (0.74%) Windows
4 1 (0.37%) Unix
4 1 (0.37%) VMS
4 1 (0.37%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (88.60%) Agile
2 136 (50.00%) Scrum
3 126 (46.32%) Sprint Retrospective
4 78 (28.68%) DevOps
5 73 (26.84%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 59 (21.69%) User Stories
8 57 (20.96%) Backlog Refinement
8 57 (20.96%) CI/CD
9 56 (20.59%) Sprint Review
10 43 (15.81%) Test Automation
11 40 (14.71%) Acceptance Criteria
12 38 (13.97%) Backlog Management
12 38 (13.97%) Project Management
13 36 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (12.13%) SDLC
15 31 (11.40%) Product Backlog
16 30 (11.03%) Backlog Prioritisation
16 30 (11.03%) Roadmaps
17 29 (10.66%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 38 (13.97%) Java
2 37 (13.60%) SQL
3 30 (11.03%) Python
4 25 (9.19%) JavaScript
5 19 (6.99%) TypeScript
6 15 (5.51%) C#
7 11 (4.04%) Bash
8 3 (1.10%) PHP
9 2 (0.74%) C++
9 2 (0.74%) Korn
9 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.74%) Scala
9 2 (0.74%) SOQL
9 2 (0.74%) VBA
10 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.37%) Bicep
10 1 (0.37%) C
10 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 47 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 33 (12.13%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.19%) Degree
4 9 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.21%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.47%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.47%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.47%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.10%) CCNA
7 3 (1.10%) CCNP
7 3 (1.10%) CEH
7 3 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.10%) CISSP
7 3 (1.10%) CSPO
7 3 (1.10%) PMP
8 2 (0.74%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.74%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (22.43%) QA
2 17 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.57%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.47%) NIST
4 4 (1.47%) WCAG
5 3 (1.10%) GRC
5 3 (1.10%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.74%) EMIR
6 2 (0.74%) GDPR
6 2 (0.74%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.37%) Automotive SPICE
7 1 (0.37%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.37%) MiFID
7 1 (0.37%) PMO
7 1 (0.37%) RMADS
7 1 (0.37%) SEPA
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (5.15%) Docker
2 3 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.51%) Terraform
3 10 (3.68%) Ansible
4 5 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.47%) Kibana
6 2 (0.74%) Kustomize
6 2 (0.74%) Packer
6 2 (0.74%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.74%) Puppet
7 1 (0.37%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 39 (14.34%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.51%) ServiceNow
3 11 (4.04%) Google
3 11 (4.04%) Oracle
4 9 (3.31%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.57%) Databricks
6 5 (1.84%) Fortinet
6 5 (1.84%) Infoblox
6 5 (1.84%) SAP
6 5 (1.84%) Sitecore
7 4 (1.47%) Adobe
7 4 (1.47%) Amplitude
7 4 (1.47%) Splunk
7 4 (1.47%) Workday
8 3 (1.10%) Palantir
8 3 (1.10%) Virgin Media
9 2 (0.74%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.74%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.74%) Okta
10 1 (0.37%) Snow