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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 240 357
Rank change year-on-year +45 +117 -4
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 671 311 176
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.14% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.26% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 222 115
10th Percentile £400 £350 £356
25th Percentile £450 £407 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £694 £690 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £517
% change year-on-year +3.00% -3.29% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 12 3
10th Percentile £56.25 £46.50 £58.00
25th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 £60.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% +1.17%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £66.01
90th Percentile - £56.13 £66.62
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% +1.17%

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 38,742 24,707 27,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.77% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,892 15,711 17,811
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,598 1,453 1,393
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.41
25th Percentile £18.34 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +25 313 £550 +5.11% 263
North of England -29 111 £500 +16.28% 69
Midlands +17 101 £481 +20.01% 40
South East -17 95 £525 - 46
West Midlands +26 93 £475 -7.32% 27
Yorkshire -18 49 £500 +17.30% 19
North East +1 46 £550 +2.33% 14
East of England +1 27 £460 - 11
South West -25 27 £508 +0.25% 34
North West -57 20 £444 +7.05% 36
East Midlands -27 7 £454 +25.95% 12
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
1 124 (18.48%) Confluence
2 19 (2.83%) CMS
3 13 (1.94%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.64%) Apache
5 10 (1.49%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.75%) Documentum
8 3 (0.45%) SAS
9 2 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.30%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.30%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.15%) JBoss
10 1 (0.15%) Mendix
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.15%) Traefik
10 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (2.24%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.19%) Trello
5 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.89%) Notion
6 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.15%) Mingle
8 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.19%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.75%) Magento
5 3 (0.45%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.30%) Primavera
6 2 (0.30%) Workfront
7 1 (0.15%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Utilities
7 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.15%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.15%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.15%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.15%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.15%) Shopify
7 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 216 (32.19%) Azure
2 123 (18.33%) AWS
3 115 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (6.71%) Power Platform
5 41 (6.11%) OpenShift
6 39 (5.81%) GitHub
7 34 (5.07%) GCP
7 34 (5.07%) Serverless
8 25 (3.73%) Amazon S3
9 23 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (3.13%) PowerApps
11 20 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (2.98%) Power Automate
12 19 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
15 16 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
16 15 (2.24%) Entra ID
16 15 (2.24%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.60%) Firewall
2 3 (0.45%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.30%) Broadband
3 2 (0.30%) Network Security
3 2 (0.30%) SAN
3 2 (0.30%) WAN
4 1 (0.15%) 5G
4 1 (0.15%) DNS
4 1 (0.15%) Intranet
4 1 (0.15%) NFC
4 1 (0.15%) NGFW
4 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.15%) SONET
4 1 (0.15%) SSL
4 1 (0.15%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.58%) Power BI
2 21 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (2.98%) Relational Database
3 20 (2.98%) SQL Server
4 17 (2.53%) Metadata
5 10 (1.49%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.34%) Big Data
6 9 (1.34%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (1.19%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.89%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.75%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.60%) Ataccama
11 4 (0.60%) Delta Lake
11 4 (0.60%) MySQL
11 4 (0.60%) Redis
11 4 (0.60%) Tableau
12 3 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 231 (34.43%) JIRA
2 78 (11.62%) Git
3 55 (8.20%) Jenkins
4 48 (7.15%) SonarQube
5 32 (4.77%) Postman
6 12 (1.79%) JUnit
6 12 (1.79%) Maven
7 11 (1.64%) GitLab
7 11 (1.64%) Selenium
8 9 (1.34%) Bitbucket
8 9 (1.34%) Mockito
9 6 (0.89%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.89%) JMeter
10 5 (0.75%) Subversion
11 4 (0.60%) Gradle
11 4 (0.60%) WebDriver
12 3 (0.45%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.45%) Protractor
12 3 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.45%) Zephyr
General
1 309 (46.05%) Social Skills
2 143 (21.31%) Finance
3 124 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (16.84%) Public Sector
5 54 (8.05%) Retail
6 48 (7.15%) Banking
7 33 (4.92%) Marketing
8 27 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (1.79%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.64%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.34%) Legal
14 8 (1.19%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.19%) Front Office
15 7 (1.04%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.04%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 123 (18.33%) Developer
2 102 (15.20%) Senior
3 91 (13.56%) Analyst
4 82 (12.22%) Scrum Master
5 72 (10.73%) Lead
6 63 (9.39%) Delivery Manager
7 62 (9.24%) Business Analyst
8 53 (7.90%) Product Owner
9 43 (6.41%) Java Developer
10 40 (5.96%) Project Manager
11 31 (4.62%) Senior Manager
12 30 (4.47%) Product Manager
13 26 (3.87%) Senior Developer
14 25 (3.73%) Architect
15 23 (3.43%) Technical Manager
16 21 (3.13%) Agile Delivery Manager
17 18 (2.68%) Java Engineer
17 18 (2.68%) Software Engineer
17 18 (2.68%) Technical Analyst
18 17 (2.53%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (12.37%) REST
2 57 (8.49%) AngularJS
3 46 (6.86%) RESTful
4 45 (6.71%) Terraform
5 36 (5.37%) Quarkus
6 30 (4.47%) Spring
6 30 (4.47%) Spring Boot
7 29 (4.32%) .NET
8 27 (4.02%) React
9 26 (3.87%) JSON
10 25 (3.73%) SOAP
11 18 (2.68%) Kafka
12 17 (2.53%) HTML
13 16 (2.38%) Node.js
14 15 (2.24%) Lightning Web Components
14 15 (2.24%) Web Services
15 13 (1.94%) PySpark
16 11 (1.64%) Middleware
17 10 (1.49%) CSS
17 10 (1.49%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 268 (39.94%) Product Ownership
2 75 (11.18%) Cloud Native
3 23 (3.43%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (3.28%) Virtual Team
5 14 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.79%) Life Science
8 10 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.49%) NHS
9 9 (1.34%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.34%) FMCG
10 8 (1.19%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.19%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (0.89%) Operational Technology
12 5 (0.75%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.79%) Windows
2 10 (1.49%) Linux
3 5 (0.75%) Unix
4 4 (0.60%) Android
5 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 629 (93.74%) Agile
2 360 (53.65%) Scrum
3 266 (39.64%) Sprint Retrospective
4 250 (37.26%) DevOps
5 235 (35.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 223 (33.23%) Stakeholder Management
7 204 (30.40%) Backlog Refinement
8 198 (29.51%) User Stories
9 187 (27.87%) Sprint Review
10 184 (27.42%) CI/CD
11 138 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
12 135 (20.12%) Test Automation
13 132 (19.67%) Acceptance Criteria
14 130 (19.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 119 (17.73%) Backlog Management
16 118 (17.59%) Kanban
16 118 (17.59%) Software Engineering
17 114 (16.99%) Roadmaps
18 105 (15.65%) SDLC
19 90 (13.41%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 109 (16.24%) Java
2 79 (11.77%) SQL
3 57 (8.49%) Python
4 55 (8.20%) JavaScript
5 40 (5.96%) C#
6 27 (4.02%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.24%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.75%) Bicep
8 5 (0.75%) Groovy
8 5 (0.75%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.60%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.45%) C++
10 3 (0.45%) Korn
11 2 (0.30%) Bash
11 2 (0.30%) R
11 2 (0.30%) SOQL
11 2 (0.30%) SOSL
12 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.15%) PHP
12 1 (0.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 211 (31.45%) Security Cleared
2 170 (25.34%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.96%) Degree
4 27 (4.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 27 (4.02%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.38%) PMI Certification
6 13 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.79%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.64%) PMP
9 8 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (0.89%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.89%) CSPO
11 5 (0.75%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.75%) SAFe Agilist
12 4 (0.60%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.45%) CAPM
13 3 (0.45%) CISSP
13 3 (0.45%) IIBA
13 3 (0.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (20.12%) QA
2 44 (6.56%) Data Quality
3 40 (5.96%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.94%) PMO
5 11 (1.64%) GDPR
6 10 (1.49%) GRC
7 9 (1.34%) GxP
8 7 (1.04%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 6 (0.89%) WCAG
10 4 (0.60%) NIST
11 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.45%) SLA
12 2 (0.30%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.15%) GMP
13 1 (0.15%) HL7
13 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.15%) PERC
13 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 55 (8.20%) Docker
2 9 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.15%) Ceph
5 1 (0.15%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.15%) Squid
5 1 (0.15%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 78 (11.62%) Kubernetes
2 38 (5.66%) Argo
3 11 (1.64%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.49%) Grafana
5 8 (1.19%) Ansible
6 4 (0.60%) Puppet
7 3 (0.45%) Istio
8 2 (0.30%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.30%) Packer
9 1 (0.15%) Kibana
9 1 (0.15%) Nagios
9 1 (0.15%) Nessus
9 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 72 (10.73%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.96%) ServiceNow
3 36 (5.37%) Red Hat
4 34 (5.07%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.28%) Databricks
6 21 (3.13%) SAP
7 16 (2.38%) Oracle
8 10 (1.49%) Adobe
8 10 (1.49%) Google
8 10 (1.49%) Okta
9 8 (1.19%) ForgeRock
10 7 (1.04%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.04%) VMware
11 6 (0.89%) Informatica
12 5 (0.75%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.60%) CA Agile Central
13 4 (0.60%) Splunk
14 3 (0.45%) PagerDuty
14 3 (0.45%) Sitecore
14 3 (0.45%) Zscaler
445 Sprint Planning jobs in England