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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 316 403
Rank change year-on-year +85 +87 -3
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 385 172 150
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.12% 0.66% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 0.74% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 89 90
10th Percentile £357 £413 £304
25th Percentile £423 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.24% -6.67%
75th Percentile £569 £631 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £664
UK median daily rate £500 £565 £490
% change year-on-year -11.50% +15.31% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 4
10th Percentile £43.75 £65.13 £55.15
25th Percentile £54.06 £65.31 £61.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.25 £71.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% -7.67% +8.30%
75th Percentile £68.13 £67.81 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.01 £68.38 -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £67.50 £71.75
% change year-on-year -11.11% -5.92% +8.30%

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 29,953 23,398 33,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.52% 89.80% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,141 14,488 22,145
10th Percentile £310 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £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 1,876 738 1,974
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.31
25th Percentile £18.21 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.30 £64.50 £60.36
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.42
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -2.99% +2.15%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 14 February 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 +55 208 £500 -9.09% 30
North of England -12 64 £423 -0.47% 24
Midlands -23 43 £477 -15.29% 19
South East -13 35 £525 -8.70% 37
West Midlands -25 35 £490 -14.78% 14
North West 0 34 £377 -6.94% 11
South West -1 19 £525 -7.08% 24
Yorkshire -54 18 £500 +17.65% 5
North East -2 12 £525 +2.44% 8
East Midlands - 8 £373 - 5
East of England -21 4 £534 -7.13% 8
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 68 (17.66%) Confluence
2 15 (3.90%) SAS
3 12 (3.12%) CMS
4 6 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.30%) Appian
6 4 (1.04%) Apache
7 3 (0.78%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.78%) WordPress
8 2 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.52%) Documentum
8 2 (0.52%) Drupal
8 2 (0.52%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.52%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.52%) nginx
9 1 (0.26%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.26%) Mendix
Applications
1 6 (1.56%) Adobe XD
1 6 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.04%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.78%) Sketch
3 3 (0.78%) Trello
4 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.26%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) Finacle
2 2 (0.52%) Maximo
2 2 (0.52%) Primavera
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 102 (26.49%) Azure
2 72 (18.70%) AWS
3 49 (12.73%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (8.83%) GitHub
5 28 (7.27%) OpenShift
6 24 (6.23%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (5.97%) GCP
8 22 (5.71%) Serverless
9 20 (5.19%) Power Platform
10 19 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.90%) Figma
12 14 (3.64%) Amazon S3
13 11 (2.86%) SaaS
14 10 (2.60%) Power Automate
15 9 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
17 7 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
17 7 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
17 7 (1.82%) PowerApps
17 7 (1.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.78%) HTTP
1 3 (0.78%) Network Security
2 2 (0.52%) DNS
2 2 (0.52%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.52%) SMS
2 2 (0.52%) SSL
2 2 (0.52%) VPN
3 1 (0.26%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.26%) DHCP
3 1 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.68%) Power BI
2 11 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.08%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.08%) Oracle Database
3 8 (2.08%) Tableau
4 6 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.56%) Metadata
4 6 (1.56%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 5 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.30%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.04%) Big Data
6 4 (1.04%) Delta Lake
6 4 (1.04%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.04%) MySQL
7 3 (0.78%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.78%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.52%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.52%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 118 (30.65%) JIRA
2 50 (12.99%) Jenkins
3 44 (11.43%) GitLab
4 43 (11.17%) Git
5 34 (8.83%) Selenium
6 23 (5.97%) SonarQube
7 21 (5.45%) Postman
8 19 (4.94%) JUnit
9 17 (4.42%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.34%) Cypress.io
10 9 (2.34%) REST Assured
11 7 (1.82%) WebDriver
12 6 (1.56%) TestRail
12 6 (1.56%) Zephyr
13 5 (1.30%) Bitbucket
13 5 (1.30%) Robot Framework
14 4 (1.04%) MLflow
14 4 (1.04%) webpack
15 3 (0.78%) CircleCI
15 3 (0.78%) Storybook
General
1 189 (49.09%) Social Skills
2 92 (23.90%) Finance
3 68 (17.66%) Public Sector
4 55 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (8.31%) Banking
6 16 (4.16%) Front Office
6 16 (4.16%) Telecoms
7 14 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (3.12%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.60%) Marketing
10 8 (2.08%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.56%) Legal
12 5 (1.30%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (1.04%) Local Government
14 3 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.78%) Law
14 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 78 (20.26%) Developer
2 48 (12.47%) Analyst
3 39 (10.13%) Business Analyst
4 36 (9.35%) Senior
5 35 (9.09%) Product Owner
5 35 (9.09%) Scrum Master
6 30 (7.79%) Lead
7 19 (4.94%) Java Developer
8 16 (4.16%) Architect
9 15 (3.90%) Project Manager
9 15 (3.90%) Test Specialist
9 15 (3.90%) Tester
10 13 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (3.12%) Software Engineer
12 10 (2.60%) Delivery Manager
12 10 (2.60%) Product Manager
13 8 (2.08%) Data Engineer
13 8 (2.08%) Python Developer
13 8 (2.08%) React Developer
13 8 (2.08%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.47%) REST
2 36 (9.35%) React
3 28 (7.27%) AngularJS
4 27 (7.01%) RESTful
5 23 (5.97%) JSON
6 21 (5.45%) CSS
7 18 (4.68%) HTML
7 18 (4.68%) pytest
8 15 (3.90%) Playwright
8 15 (3.90%) XML
9 13 (3.38%) Node.js
10 12 (3.12%) Spring
10 12 (3.12%) Spring Boot
11 11 (2.86%) SOAP
12 10 (2.60%) Quarkus
13 9 (2.34%) HTML5
13 9 (2.34%) Vue
14 8 (2.08%) CSS3
14 8 (2.08%) Gherkin
14 8 (2.08%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 126 (32.73%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.97%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.64%) Algorithms
4 13 (3.38%) Virtual Team
5 11 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.82%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.82%) NHS
7 7 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.30%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.30%) PMI
10 4 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.04%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.34%) Unix
2 8 (2.08%) Windows
3 7 (1.82%) Linux
4 4 (1.04%) VMS
5 2 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (91.43%) Agile
2 196 (50.91%) Scrum
3 177 (45.97%) Sprint Retrospective
4 125 (32.47%) CI/CD
5 121 (31.43%) DevOps
6 104 (27.01%) Problem-Solving
7 102 (26.49%) Stakeholder Management
8 100 (25.97%) Sprint Review
9 94 (24.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 92 (23.90%) Test Automation
11 90 (23.38%) User Stories
12 85 (22.08%) Backlog Refinement
13 83 (21.56%) Roadmaps
14 62 (16.10%) Acceptance Criteria
15 60 (15.58%) Analytics
16 54 (14.03%) Backlog Management
16 54 (14.03%) Kanban
17 51 (13.25%) Backlog Prioritisation
18 50 (12.99%) SDLC
19 49 (12.73%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 83 (21.56%) Python
2 59 (15.32%) Java
3 58 (15.06%) JavaScript
4 43 (11.17%) SQL
5 31 (8.05%) TypeScript
6 28 (7.27%) C#
7 7 (1.82%) Bicep
7 7 (1.82%) Go
8 6 (1.56%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.78%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.78%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.78%) PHP
9 3 (0.78%) Ruby
9 3 (0.78%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.78%) XPath
10 2 (0.52%) Bash
10 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.26%) R
11 1 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 110 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 92 (23.90%) SC Cleared
3 33 (8.57%) Degree
4 13 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (3.38%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.34%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.56%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.56%) CBAP
8 5 (1.30%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.30%) PMP
9 4 (1.04%) IIBA
10 3 (0.78%) CSPO
10 3 (0.78%) GPEN
10 3 (0.78%) ISEB
10 3 (0.78%) OSCP
11 2 (0.52%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.52%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (18.96%) QA
2 35 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.86%) GDPR
3 11 (2.86%) WCAG
4 4 (1.04%) GRC
5 3 (0.78%) HL7
6 2 (0.52%) NCSC
6 2 (0.52%) NIST
6 2 (0.52%) PMO
6 2 (0.52%) SLA
7 1 (0.26%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.26%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) PSD2
7 1 (0.26%) SEPA
7 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 56 (14.55%) Docker
2 4 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 60 (15.58%) Kubernetes
2 26 (6.75%) Terraform
3 17 (4.42%) Ansible
4 16 (4.16%) Argo
5 10 (2.60%) Grafana
6 7 (1.82%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.78%) Kibana
8 3 (0.78%) Nagios
9 1 (0.26%) CASB
9 1 (0.26%) Istio
9 1 (0.26%) Puppet
9 1 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 39 (10.13%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.27%) Salesforce
3 17 (4.42%) Databricks
4 15 (3.90%) Oracle
5 11 (2.86%) Red Hat
5 11 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.34%) Adobe
7 8 (2.08%) Cisco
8 7 (1.82%) Google
9 6 (1.56%) Guidewire
9 6 (1.56%) SAP
9 6 (1.56%) Veracode
10 5 (1.30%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.30%) Splunk
11 3 (0.78%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.78%) Cognizant
11 3 (0.78%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.78%) IBM
12 2 (0.52%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.26%) Denodo
134 Sprint Planning jobs in England