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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 250 391
Rank change year-on-year +51 +141 -36
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 608 271 152
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.36% 1.00% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.10% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 184 97
10th Percentile £363 £366 £334
25th Percentile £447 £414 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £573
90th Percentile £650 £688 £661
UK median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 10 2
10th Percentile £58.13 £48.50 £57.13
25th Percentile £62.50 £49.06 £58.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -18.37% +11.36%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £63.44
90th Percentile £71.88 £56.25 £64.38
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year +40.00% -18.37% +11.36%

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 38,219 24,611 31,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.42% 90.71% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,063 15,813 20,400
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,375 1,290 2,230
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.56 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.60 £72.58
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +44 288 £540 +3.85% 70
North of England -21 103 £495 +5.54% 34
South East -13 89 £525 +2.44% 45
Midlands -11 72 £492 +15.76% 35
West Midlands -18 62 £492 +9.33% 15
North East -2 40 £550 +4.76% 5
Yorkshire -36 34 £515 +3.00% 13
North West -42 33 £397 -9.27% 17
East of England +2 27 £460 +15.00% 14
South West -17 21 £490 -4.39% 21
East Midlands -13 9 £413 +3.13% 20
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
1 105 (17.27%) Confluence
2 24 (3.95%) CMS
3 8 (1.32%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.32%) SAS
4 7 (1.15%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.82%) Documentum
6 4 (0.66%) Apache
7 2 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.33%) nginx
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.16%) Drupal
8 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.16%) JBoss
8 1 (0.16%) Mendix
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.16%) Traefik
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (1.97%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.99%) Trello
4 4 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.66%) Notion
5 2 (0.33%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.16%) Mingle
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.15%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.82%) Magento
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.33%) Primavera
5 2 (0.33%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Utilities
6 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.16%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.16%) Shopify
6 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.16%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 193 (31.74%) Azure
2 105 (17.27%) AWS
3 101 (16.61%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (6.91%) OpenShift
5 28 (4.61%) Power Platform
6 27 (4.44%) GitHub
7 26 (4.28%) GCP
8 24 (3.95%) Serverless
9 20 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (3.13%) Amazon S3
11 18 (2.96%) Entra ID
12 16 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (2.47%) Azure AKS
13 15 (2.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 14 (2.30%) Power Automate
15 13 (2.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 13 (2.14%) Snowflake
16 12 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (1.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.82%) Firewall
2 4 (0.66%) Network Security
3 3 (0.49%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.33%) DNS
4 2 (0.33%) WAN
5 1 (0.16%) 5G
5 1 (0.16%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.16%) Broadband
5 1 (0.16%) DHCP
5 1 (0.16%) Intranet
5 1 (0.16%) NFC
5 1 (0.16%) NGFW
5 1 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.16%) SONET
5 1 (0.16%) SSL
5 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.16%) VPN
5 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.13%) Power BI
2 16 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (1.97%) Metadata
3 12 (1.97%) SQL Server
4 10 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (1.64%) Big Data
5 8 (1.32%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (0.99%) BigQuery
7 6 (0.99%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.82%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.82%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.66%) Tableau
10 3 (0.49%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.49%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.49%) Redis
10 3 (0.49%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 203 (33.39%) JIRA
2 75 (12.34%) Git
3 56 (9.21%) Jenkins
4 41 (6.74%) Postman
5 39 (6.41%) SonarQube
6 24 (3.95%) Selenium
7 22 (3.62%) GitLab
8 13 (2.14%) JUnit
9 11 (1.81%) WebDriver
10 10 (1.64%) Cypress.io
11 9 (1.48%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.15%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.15%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.99%) JMeter
14 5 (0.82%) Subversion
15 3 (0.49%) Artifactory
15 3 (0.49%) git-flow
15 3 (0.49%) Gradle
15 3 (0.49%) Maven
15 3 (0.49%) Protractor
General
1 266 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 121 (19.90%) Finance
3 91 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (13.82%) Public Sector
5 47 (7.73%) Retail
6 39 (6.41%) Banking
7 36 (5.92%) Marketing
8 22 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.81%) Legal
12 11 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.32%) Retail Banking
15 7 (1.15%) Front Office
15 7 (1.15%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.15%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.99%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.82%) Billing
Job Titles
1 92 (15.13%) Developer
2 78 (12.83%) Analyst
2 78 (12.83%) Scrum Master
2 78 (12.83%) Senior
3 57 (9.38%) Delivery Manager
3 57 (9.38%) Lead
4 53 (8.72%) Product Owner
5 49 (8.06%) Business Analyst
6 38 (6.25%) Java Developer
7 34 (5.59%) Project Manager
8 31 (5.10%) Senior Manager
9 29 (4.77%) Product Manager
10 26 (4.28%) Architect
11 23 (3.78%) Software Engineer
12 20 (3.29%) Technical Analyst
12 20 (3.29%) Technical Manager
13 19 (3.13%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 19 (3.13%) Java Engineer
14 17 (2.80%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 16 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (8.88%) REST
2 44 (7.24%) AngularJS
3 36 (5.92%) RESTful
4 34 (5.59%) Quarkus
5 33 (5.43%) React
6 20 (3.29%) JSON
6 20 (3.29%) Spring
7 19 (3.13%) .NET
8 17 (2.80%) Lightning Web Components
8 17 (2.80%) Spring Boot
9 13 (2.14%) Kafka
9 13 (2.14%) Node.js
10 12 (1.97%) Middleware
11 11 (1.81%) HTML
11 11 (1.81%) PySpark
12 9 (1.48%) CSS
12 9 (1.48%) OAuth
12 9 (1.48%) Playwright
12 9 (1.48%) SOAP
12 9 (1.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 236 (38.82%) Product Ownership
2 56 (9.21%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.62%) Virtual Team
4 20 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (2.63%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.97%) Life Science
9 11 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.48%) FMCG
11 9 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.32%) NHS
13 7 (1.15%) Distributed Applications
13 7 (1.15%) Marketing Technology
14 6 (0.99%) AI Agents
14 6 (0.99%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (0.99%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.64%) Windows
2 6 (0.99%) Linux
3 3 (0.49%) Unix
3 3 (0.49%) VMS
4 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.16%) Android
5 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 568 (93.42%) Agile
2 318 (52.30%) Scrum
3 276 (45.39%) Sprint Retrospective
4 219 (36.02%) DevOps
5 203 (33.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 173 (28.45%) Stakeholder Management
7 169 (27.80%) Sprint Review
8 166 (27.30%) CI/CD
9 158 (25.99%) User Stories
10 155 (25.49%) Backlog Refinement
11 122 (20.07%) Acceptance Criteria
12 119 (19.57%) Test Automation
13 113 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
14 105 (17.27%) Roadmaps
15 103 (16.94%) Kanban
16 102 (16.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 99 (16.28%) Backlog Management
18 96 (15.79%) Backlog Prioritisation
19 88 (14.47%) Software Engineering
20 86 (14.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 100 (16.45%) Java
2 57 (9.38%) SQL
3 56 (9.21%) Python
4 39 (6.41%) JavaScript
5 33 (5.43%) C#
6 21 (3.45%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.30%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.82%) Bicep
8 5 (0.82%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.66%) Groovy
10 3 (0.49%) C++
10 3 (0.49%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.33%) Korn
11 2 (0.33%) R
11 2 (0.33%) SOQL
11 2 (0.33%) SOSL
12 1 (0.16%) Bash
12 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.16%) PHP
12 1 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 184 (30.26%) Security Cleared
2 153 (25.16%) SC Cleared
3 47 (7.73%) Degree
4 22 (3.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (3.29%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.80%) PMI Certification
8 15 (2.47%) PMP
9 8 (1.32%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.15%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.82%) CISSP
12 5 (0.82%) CSPO
12 5 (0.82%) SAFe Agilist
13 4 (0.66%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.66%) CISM
13 4 (0.66%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.66%) IIBA
14 3 (0.49%) CBAP
14 3 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (18.59%) QA
2 40 (6.58%) Accessibility
3 36 (5.92%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.47%) GDPR
5 10 (1.64%) PMO
6 9 (1.48%) GxP
7 8 (1.32%) GRC
8 7 (1.15%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 7 (1.15%) SLA
8 7 (1.15%) WCAG
9 6 (0.99%) NIST
10 5 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.66%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.16%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.16%) NCSC
13 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.16%) PERC
13 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (7.40%) Docker
2 8 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.16%) Ceph
4 1 (0.16%) HDFS
4 1 (0.16%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.16%) Squid
4 1 (0.16%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.16%) Varnish
4 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 85 (13.98%) Kubernetes
2 44 (7.24%) Terraform
3 38 (6.25%) Argo
4 12 (1.97%) Ansible
5 9 (1.48%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.32%) Grafana
7 4 (0.66%) Puppet
8 3 (0.49%) Nagios
9 2 (0.33%) Istio
9 2 (0.33%) Packer
9 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.16%) Kibana
10 1 (0.16%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 46 (7.57%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.09%) Salesforce
3 35 (5.76%) ServiceNow
4 34 (5.59%) Red Hat
5 21 (3.45%) SAP
6 19 (3.13%) Databricks
6 19 (3.13%) Oracle
7 13 (2.14%) Okta
8 12 (1.97%) ForgeRock
9 10 (1.64%) Adobe
10 7 (1.15%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.99%) Google
11 6 (0.99%) VMware
12 5 (0.82%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.49%) CA Agile Central
13 3 (0.49%) PagerDuty
13 3 (0.49%) Progress
13 3 (0.49%) Sitecore
13 3 (0.49%) Splunk
14 2 (0.33%) OpenAI