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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 266 406
Rank change year-on-year +64 +140 -47
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 578 247 147
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.32% 0.97% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.06% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 160 93
10th Percentile £363 £367 £342
25th Percentile £440 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% +1.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £550
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £517 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.35% - -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 9 1
10th Percentile £57.75 £48.25 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% +13.04%
75th Percentile - £55.00 -
90th Percentile £72.25 £56.25 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% +13.04%

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 37,351 23,260 31,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.20% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,546 14,980 20,587
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,338 1,158 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.38 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.93
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +37 285 £533 +1.43% 45
North of England -22 101 £488 +3.94% 24
South East -24 75 £560 +9.27% 24
Midlands -23 62 £492 +22.39% 13
West Midlands -17 52 £492 +15.76% 9
North East +2 39 £550 +4.76% 5
North West -41 35 £387 -14.87% 13
Yorkshire -34 31 £517 +10.84% 6
East of England -4 24 £460 +15.00% 5
South West -12 22 £475 -6.17% 15
East Midlands -17 9 £413 +3.13% 4
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 93 (16.09%) Confluence
2 22 (3.81%) CMS
3 8 (1.38%) SAS
4 5 (0.87%) Apache
4 5 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.52%) Documentum
6 2 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.35%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.17%) Drupal
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Mendix
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.17%) Traefik
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.04%) Trello
4 4 (0.69%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.69%) Notion
5 3 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.17%) Mingle
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.87%) Magento
4 4 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.35%) Finacle
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.35%) Primavera
5 2 (0.35%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Utilities
6 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.17%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.17%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.17%) Shopify
6 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 177 (30.62%) Azure
2 103 (17.82%) AWS
3 85 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (6.75%) OpenShift
5 25 (4.33%) Power Platform
6 23 (3.98%) Serverless
7 22 (3.81%) GCP
7 22 (3.81%) GitHub
8 19 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (2.94%) Amazon S3
10 16 (2.77%) Entra ID
11 15 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (2.60%) Azure AKS
11 15 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (2.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 13 (2.25%) Snowflake
14 12 (2.08%) SaaS
15 11 (1.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 9 (1.56%) Figma
16 9 (1.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.87%) Firewall
2 4 (0.69%) Network Security
3 3 (0.52%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.35%) DNS
4 2 (0.35%) WAN
5 1 (0.17%) 5G
5 1 (0.17%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.17%) DHCP
5 1 (0.17%) NFC
5 1 (0.17%) NGFW
5 1 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.17%) SONET
5 1 (0.17%) SSL
5 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.17%) VPN
5 1 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.29%) Power BI
2 17 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.25%) Metadata
4 10 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (1.73%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.21%) Big Data
6 7 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.21%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.04%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.04%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.87%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.87%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.87%) Tableau
9 3 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.52%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.52%) Redis
10 2 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.35%) Looker
Development Applications
1 190 (32.87%) JIRA
2 73 (12.63%) Git
3 52 (9.00%) Jenkins
4 40 (6.92%) Postman
4 40 (6.92%) SonarQube
5 24 (4.15%) Selenium
6 23 (3.98%) GitLab
7 12 (2.08%) JUnit
7 12 (2.08%) WebDriver
8 10 (1.73%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.56%) REST Assured
10 8 (1.38%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.87%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.87%) JMeter
11 5 (0.87%) Subversion
12 3 (0.52%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.52%) git-flow
12 3 (0.52%) MLflow
12 3 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.52%) Storybook
General
1 244 (42.21%) Social Skills
2 114 (19.72%) Finance
3 80 (13.84%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (13.32%) Public Sector
5 43 (7.44%) Retail
6 41 (7.09%) Banking
7 32 (5.54%) Marketing
8 18 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.90%) Legal
13 9 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.56%) Retail Banking
14 7 (1.21%) Front Office
14 7 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.21%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.04%) Aerospace
15 6 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
15 6 (1.04%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 91 (15.74%) Developer
2 73 (12.63%) Analyst
3 72 (12.46%) Senior
4 71 (12.28%) Scrum Master
5 55 (9.52%) Lead
6 53 (9.17%) Delivery Manager
7 52 (9.00%) Product Owner
8 44 (7.61%) Business Analyst
9 35 (6.06%) Project Manager
10 34 (5.88%) Java Developer
11 28 (4.84%) Senior Manager
12 25 (4.33%) Architect
12 25 (4.33%) Product Manager
13 23 (3.98%) Software Engineer
14 19 (3.29%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 19 (3.29%) Java Engineer
15 18 (3.11%) Technical Analyst
15 18 (3.11%) Technical Manager
16 17 (2.94%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 15 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (9.17%) REST
2 46 (7.96%) AngularJS
3 37 (6.40%) React
4 36 (6.23%) RESTful
5 33 (5.71%) Quarkus
6 19 (3.29%) .NET
6 19 (3.29%) Spring
7 18 (3.11%) JSON
8 16 (2.77%) Lightning Web Components
8 16 (2.77%) Node.js
8 16 (2.77%) Spring Boot
9 13 (2.25%) CSS
10 12 (2.08%) HTML
10 12 (2.08%) Middleware
11 11 (1.90%) Playwright
12 10 (1.73%) Kafka
12 10 (1.73%) OAuth
12 10 (1.73%) SOAP
13 9 (1.56%) CSS3
13 9 (1.56%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 216 (37.37%) Product Ownership
2 51 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.63%) Virtual Team
4 19 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (2.77%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.73%) Life Science
10 9 (1.56%) FMCG
10 9 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.21%) Distributed Applications
11 7 (1.21%) NHS
12 6 (1.04%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.04%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
13 5 (0.87%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.38%) Windows
2 4 (0.69%) Linux
3 3 (0.52%) Unix
3 3 (0.52%) VMS
4 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (92.91%) Agile
2 298 (51.56%) Scrum
3 262 (45.33%) Sprint Retrospective
4 193 (33.39%) DevOps
5 186 (32.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 156 (26.99%) Sprint Review
6 156 (26.99%) Stakeholder Management
7 154 (26.64%) CI/CD
8 147 (25.43%) User Stories
9 140 (24.22%) Backlog Refinement
10 114 (19.72%) Test Automation
11 112 (19.38%) Acceptance Criteria
12 104 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
13 101 (17.47%) Roadmaps
14 96 (16.61%) Backlog Management
15 93 (16.09%) Kanban
16 92 (15.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 91 (15.74%) Backlog Prioritisation
18 83 (14.36%) SDLC
19 82 (14.19%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 91 (15.74%) Java
2 57 (9.86%) Python
3 53 (9.17%) SQL
4 37 (6.40%) JavaScript
5 33 (5.71%) C#
6 25 (4.33%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.25%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.87%) Bicep
8 5 (0.87%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.69%) Groovy
10 3 (0.52%) C++
11 2 (0.35%) Korn
11 2 (0.35%) R
11 2 (0.35%) SOQL
11 2 (0.35%) SOSL
12 1 (0.17%) Bash
12 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.17%) PHP
12 1 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 167 (28.89%) Security Cleared
2 142 (24.57%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.57%) Degree
4 19 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.77%) PMI Certification
6 14 (2.42%) PMP
7 13 (2.25%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.87%) CISSP
10 4 (0.69%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.69%) CISM
10 4 (0.69%) CSPO
10 4 (0.69%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.69%) SAFe Agilist
11 3 (0.52%) IIBA
12 2 (0.35%) CBAP
12 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (18.86%) QA
2 36 (6.23%) Accessibility
3 32 (5.54%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.25%) GDPR
5 8 (1.38%) GRC
5 8 (1.38%) GxP
5 8 (1.38%) SLA
6 6 (1.04%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 6 (1.04%) NIST
7 5 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.87%) WCAG
8 4 (0.69%) PMO
8 4 (0.69%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.17%) GMP
10 1 (0.17%) NCSC
10 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.17%) PERC
10 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (7.09%) Docker
2 6 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.17%) Ceph
4 1 (0.17%) HDFS
4 1 (0.17%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.17%) Squid
4 1 (0.17%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.17%) Varnish
4 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (13.84%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.27%) Terraform
3 37 (6.40%) Argo
4 12 (2.08%) Ansible
5 7 (1.21%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.04%) Grafana
7 4 (0.69%) Puppet
8 3 (0.52%) Nagios
9 2 (0.35%) Istio
9 2 (0.35%) Packer
9 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.17%) Kibana
10 1 (0.17%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 41 (7.09%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.23%) ServiceNow
3 33 (5.71%) Red Hat
3 33 (5.71%) Salesforce
4 19 (3.29%) Oracle
5 18 (3.11%) SAP
6 16 (2.77%) Databricks
7 13 (2.25%) Okta
8 12 (2.08%) ForgeRock
9 10 (1.73%) Adobe
10 7 (1.21%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.04%) VMware
12 5 (0.87%) Google
13 4 (0.69%) Guidewire
14 3 (0.52%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.52%) CA Agile Central
14 3 (0.52%) PagerDuty
14 3 (0.52%) Progress
14 3 (0.52%) Sitecore
15 2 (0.35%) IBM