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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 236 381
Rank change year-on-year +40 +145 -28
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 653 298 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.08% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.19% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 207 102
10th Percentile £371 £359 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -3.85% -2.80%
75th Percentile £576 £584 £605
90th Percentile £675 £688 £669
UK median daily rate £515 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +4.15% -1.20% -6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 11 2
10th Percentile £56.25 £46.25 £57.13
25th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 £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 - £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 38,456 25,047 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 90.72% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,987 16,039 18,801
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,460 1,391 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +49 307 £550 +5.77% 135
North of England -6 110 £500 +10.68% 53
South East -13 96 £525 +2.14% 46
Midlands +1 83 £488 +14.71% 33
West Midlands -2 74 £484 -5.51% 16
North East +1 45 £550 +2.33% 14
Yorkshire -21 44 £500 +21.95% 12
South West -21 29 £503 -0.74% 24
East of England +5 26 £460 +15.00% 7
North West -58 25 £397 -10.95% 28
East Midlands -10 8 £454 +13.44% 16
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
1 108 (16.54%) Confluence
2 22 (3.37%) CMS
3 12 (1.84%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.53%) Apache
4 10 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.07%) SAS
6 5 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.77%) Documentum
7 2 (0.31%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.15%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) Mendix
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.15%) Traefik
8 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (1.23%) Trello
3 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.77%) Notion
5 4 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.31%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.15%) Mingle
8 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.77%) Magento
5 3 (0.46%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.31%) Primavera
6 2 (0.31%) Workfront
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
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
1 215 (32.92%) Azure
2 122 (18.68%) AWS
3 107 (16.39%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (7.20%) OpenShift
5 39 (5.97%) GCP
5 39 (5.97%) Power Platform
6 36 (5.51%) GitHub
7 33 (5.05%) Serverless
8 24 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (3.52%) Amazon S3
10 21 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (2.91%) Power Automate
11 19 (2.91%) PowerApps
12 18 (2.76%) Entra ID
13 16 (2.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (2.45%) Azure AKS
13 16 (2.45%) Snowflake
14 15 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
15 14 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.77%) Firewall
1 5 (0.77%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.46%) Network Security
3 2 (0.31%) Broadband
3 2 (0.31%) 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 20 (3.06%) Power BI
2 17 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.14%) Metadata
4 14 (2.14%) SQL Server
5 11 (1.68%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.53%) Big Data
7 9 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.07%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.07%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.92%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.77%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.77%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.46%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.46%) Redis
12 3 (0.46%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.46%) Tableau
13 2 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 212 (32.47%) JIRA
2 77 (11.79%) Git
3 57 (8.73%) Jenkins
4 44 (6.74%) SonarQube
5 35 (5.36%) Postman
6 17 (2.60%) Selenium
7 16 (2.45%) GitLab
8 13 (1.99%) JUnit
9 8 (1.23%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.23%) JMeter
10 7 (1.07%) WebDriver
11 6 (0.92%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.92%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.77%) Subversion
13 4 (0.61%) Maven
13 4 (0.61%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.46%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.46%) git-flow
14 3 (0.46%) Gradle
14 3 (0.46%) Protractor
General
1 288 (44.10%) Social Skills
2 137 (20.98%) Finance
3 98 (15.01%) Analytical Skills
3 98 (15.01%) Public Sector
4 52 (7.96%) Retail
5 48 (7.35%) Banking
6 38 (5.82%) Marketing
7 24 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
9 12 (1.84%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.68%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.53%) Legal
12 8 (1.23%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.23%) Front Office
12 8 (1.23%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.07%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 111 (17.00%) Developer
2 88 (13.48%) Senior
3 85 (13.02%) Analyst
4 80 (12.25%) Scrum Master
5 67 (10.26%) Lead
6 60 (9.19%) Delivery Manager
7 57 (8.73%) Business Analyst
8 53 (8.12%) Product Owner
9 41 (6.28%) Java Developer
10 40 (6.13%) Project Manager
11 31 (4.75%) Senior Manager
12 29 (4.44%) Product Manager
13 27 (4.13%) Architect
14 24 (3.68%) Software Engineer
15 23 (3.52%) Agile Delivery Manager
15 23 (3.52%) Technical Analyst
16 20 (3.06%) Technical Manager
17 19 (2.91%) Java Engineer
17 19 (2.91%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 18 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (9.49%) REST
2 50 (7.66%) AngularJS
3 41 (6.28%) RESTful
4 39 (5.97%) Quarkus
5 31 (4.75%) React
6 27 (4.13%) .NET
6 27 (4.13%) Spring
7 24 (3.68%) Spring Boot
8 22 (3.37%) JSON
9 16 (2.45%) Kafka
10 15 (2.30%) Lightning Web Components
10 15 (2.30%) Node.js
11 14 (2.14%) SOAP
12 12 (1.84%) Middleware
12 12 (1.84%) PySpark
13 10 (1.53%) HTML
14 9 (1.38%) OAuth
14 9 (1.38%) XML
15 8 (1.23%) ADO
16 7 (1.07%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 260 (39.82%) Product Ownership
2 64 (9.80%) Cloud Native
3 19 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (2.76%) Onboarding
4 18 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (2.76%) Virtual Team
5 16 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (1.84%) Life Science
8 11 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.53%) NHS
10 9 (1.38%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.38%) FMCG
10 9 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.23%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.23%) Operational Technology
12 7 (1.07%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.07%) Distributed Applications
13 6 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.68%) Windows
2 9 (1.38%) Linux
3 3 (0.46%) Unix
4 2 (0.31%) Android
4 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 607 (92.96%) Agile
2 344 (52.68%) Scrum
3 265 (40.58%) Sprint Retrospective
4 241 (36.91%) DevOps
5 217 (33.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 210 (32.16%) Stakeholder Management
7 182 (27.87%) Sprint Review
8 179 (27.41%) Backlog Refinement
8 179 (27.41%) User Stories
9 177 (27.11%) CI/CD
10 128 (19.60%) Test Automation
11 126 (19.30%) Acceptance Criteria
12 117 (17.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 115 (17.61%) Software Engineering
14 112 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
15 111 (17.00%) Kanban
16 109 (16.69%) Roadmaps
17 106 (16.23%) Backlog Management
18 98 (15.01%) Backlog Prioritisation
19 93 (14.24%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 109 (16.69%) Java
2 66 (10.11%) SQL
3 50 (7.66%) Python
4 41 (6.28%) JavaScript
5 38 (5.82%) C#
6 19 (2.91%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.30%) Apex Code
8 6 (0.92%) Bicep
9 5 (0.77%) Groovy
9 5 (0.77%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.61%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.46%) C++
12 2 (0.31%) Bash
12 2 (0.31%) Korn
12 2 (0.31%) SOQL
12 2 (0.31%) SOSL
13 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.15%) PHP
13 1 (0.15%) R
13 1 (0.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 202 (30.93%) Security Cleared
2 165 (25.27%) SC Cleared
3 44 (6.74%) Degree
4 26 (3.98%) DV Cleared
5 24 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.45%) PMI Certification
7 14 (2.14%) PMP
8 13 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.38%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.92%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.77%) CISSP
12 5 (0.77%) CSPO
12 5 (0.77%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.61%) CISM
13 4 (0.61%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.61%) SAFe Agilist
14 3 (0.46%) IIBA
14 3 (0.46%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (18.68%) QA
2 38 (5.82%) Accessibility
3 37 (5.67%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.30%) GDPR
5 11 (1.68%) PMO
6 10 (1.53%) GRC
7 9 (1.38%) GxP
8 7 (1.07%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 7 (1.07%) NIST
8 7 (1.07%) SLA
9 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.77%) WCAG
11 4 (0.61%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.15%) GMP
13 1 (0.15%) HL7
13 1 (0.15%) NCSC
13 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (7.20%) Docker
2 9 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Ceph
5 1 (0.15%) HDFS
5 1 (0.15%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.15%) Squid
5 1 (0.15%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.15%) Varnish
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 88 (13.48%) Kubernetes
2 45 (6.89%) Terraform
3 41 (6.28%) Argo
4 11 (1.68%) Ansible
5 7 (1.07%) Grafana
5 7 (1.07%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.61%) Puppet
7 3 (0.46%) Istio
8 2 (0.31%) Packer
9 1 (0.15%) Nagios
9 1 (0.15%) Nessus
9 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 60 (9.19%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.97%) Red Hat
2 39 (5.97%) ServiceNow
3 33 (5.05%) Salesforce
4 21 (3.22%) SAP
5 19 (2.91%) Databricks
6 17 (2.60%) Oracle
7 13 (1.99%) Okta
8 12 (1.84%) ForgeRock
9 11 (1.68%) Adobe
9 11 (1.68%) Google
10 7 (1.07%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.77%) VMware
12 4 (0.61%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.46%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.46%) PagerDuty
13 3 (0.46%) Progress
13 3 (0.46%) Sitecore
13 3 (0.46%) Splunk
13 3 (0.46%) Zscaler