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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 280 402
Rank change year-on-year +86 +122 -44
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 523 200 143
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.29% 0.83% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.90% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 121 93
10th Percentile £363 £400 £311
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £549
90th Percentile £625 £700 £670
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -0.49% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 5 2
10th Percentile £55.00 - £52.63
25th Percentile £62.50 - £54.69
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -14.89% -6.00%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £62.19
90th Percentile - £61.00 £63.88
UK median hourly rate £69.25 £52.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year +31.90% -10.64% -6.00%

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 34,360 22,106 31,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 91.23% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,945 14,454 20,903
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,132 926 2,241
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.56 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.47 £29.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.40% -20.14% -2.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +1.39%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +58 252 £518 +0.73% 65
North of England +9 100 £456 -9.88% 34
Midlands -24 59 £492 -10.55% 14
South East -39 58 £550 +7.00% 47
West Midlands -20 47 £492 -12.49% 9
North West -10 42 £380 -25.85% 16
North East +11 31 £550 +6.02% 10
Yorkshire -25 31 £500 +17.65% 8
South West -19 26 £525 -3.67% 7
East of England -12 20 £475 +18.75% 7
East Midlands -18 12 £413 -38.89% 5
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 87 (16.63%) Confluence
2 17 (3.25%) CMS
3 8 (1.53%) SAS
4 6 (1.15%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.96%) Apache
6 3 (0.57%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.38%) Drupal
7 2 (0.38%) nginx
7 2 (0.38%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Mendix
8 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.19%) Traefik
8 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.34%) Trello
3 5 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.76%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) Mingle
6 1 (0.19%) Notion
6 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.57%) Magento
4 2 (0.38%) Finacle
4 2 (0.38%) Maximo
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Utilities
5 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.19%) Primavera
5 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 155 (29.64%) Azure
2 105 (20.08%) AWS
3 67 (12.81%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (6.50%) OpenShift
5 28 (5.35%) GitHub
6 27 (5.16%) GCP
6 27 (5.16%) Serverless
7 23 (4.40%) Power Platform
8 22 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (3.82%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (3.44%) Amazon S3
11 16 (3.06%) Azure AKS
12 14 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (2.68%) Entra ID
13 12 (2.29%) Figma
14 10 (1.91%) Snowflake
15 9 (1.72%) SaaS
16 8 (1.53%) Power Automate
17 7 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
17 7 (1.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.96%) Network Security
2 3 (0.57%) Firewall
2 3 (0.57%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.38%) DNS
3 2 (0.38%) HTTP
3 2 (0.38%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) 5G
4 1 (0.19%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.19%) DHCP
4 1 (0.19%) NFC
4 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.19%) SONET
4 1 (0.19%) SSL
4 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.82%) Power BI
2 15 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.49%) Metadata
4 9 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (1.53%) Big Data
5 8 (1.53%) Tableau
6 7 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.34%) Relational Database
7 5 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.96%) BigQuery
7 5 (0.96%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.96%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.76%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.57%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.57%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.57%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.38%) Redis
10 2 (0.38%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 174 (33.27%) JIRA
2 70 (13.38%) Git
3 56 (10.71%) Jenkins
4 35 (6.69%) Postman
4 35 (6.69%) SonarQube
5 27 (5.16%) GitLab
6 23 (4.40%) Selenium
7 14 (2.68%) Cucumber
8 12 (2.29%) JUnit
9 10 (1.91%) WebDriver
10 9 (1.72%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.53%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.34%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.96%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.96%) Subversion
14 4 (0.76%) MLflow
14 4 (0.76%) SpecFlow
14 4 (0.76%) Storybook
14 4 (0.76%) Zephyr
General
1 224 (42.83%) Social Skills
2 106 (20.27%) Finance
3 81 (15.49%) Public Sector
4 71 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (7.07%) Banking
6 25 (4.78%) Marketing
7 22 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
8 21 (4.02%) Retail
9 13 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.29%) Retail Banking
11 11 (2.10%) Legal
12 9 (1.72%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.53%) Front Office
13 8 (1.53%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.15%) Corporate Banking
16 5 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.76%) Back Office
17 4 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 96 (18.36%) Developer
2 68 (13.00%) Senior
3 67 (12.81%) Analyst
4 59 (11.28%) Scrum Master
5 48 (9.18%) Lead
6 45 (8.60%) Business Analyst
7 44 (8.41%) Product Owner
8 41 (7.84%) Delivery Manager
9 29 (5.54%) Project Manager
10 28 (5.35%) Java Developer
11 27 (5.16%) Senior Manager
12 22 (4.21%) Software Engineer
13 18 (3.44%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 18 (3.44%) Architect
13 18 (3.44%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (3.25%) Product Manager
15 14 (2.68%) Java Engineer
15 14 (2.68%) Technical Analyst
15 14 (2.68%) Tester
16 13 (2.49%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (9.18%) REST
2 44 (8.41%) AngularJS
3 41 (7.84%) React
4 36 (6.88%) RESTful
5 25 (4.78%) Quarkus
6 18 (3.44%) Node.js
7 17 (3.25%) CSS
7 17 (3.25%) JSON
8 16 (3.06%) Spring
9 15 (2.87%) Playwright
10 14 (2.68%) HTML
11 13 (2.49%) .NET
11 13 (2.49%) Spring Boot
12 10 (1.91%) Kafka
12 10 (1.91%) SOAP
13 9 (1.72%) CSS3
13 9 (1.72%) HTML5
13 9 (1.72%) pytest
13 9 (1.72%) Web Services
13 9 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 185 (35.37%) Product Ownership
2 47 (8.99%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.06%) Virtual Team
4 15 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.10%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.53%) NHS
10 7 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.34%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.15%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.15%) Distributed Applications
11 6 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.15%) PMI
12 5 (0.96%) FMCG
12 5 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (0.96%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.15%) Linux
2 5 (0.96%) Unix
2 5 (0.96%) Windows
3 4 (0.76%) VMS
4 2 (0.38%) Android
5 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (92.54%) Agile
2 265 (50.67%) Scrum
3 242 (46.27%) Sprint Retrospective
4 171 (32.70%) DevOps
5 157 (30.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 148 (28.30%) CI/CD
7 146 (27.92%) Sprint Review
8 135 (25.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 126 (24.09%) User Stories
10 117 (22.37%) Backlog Refinement
11 109 (20.84%) Test Automation
12 104 (19.89%) Roadmaps
13 100 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
14 91 (17.40%) Acceptance Criteria
15 89 (17.02%) Backlog Prioritisation
16 87 (16.63%) Backlog Management
17 76 (14.53%) Software Engineering
18 74 (14.15%) SDLC
19 73 (13.96%) Kanban
20 69 (13.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 84 (16.06%) Java
2 71 (13.58%) Python
3 52 (9.94%) SQL
4 49 (9.37%) JavaScript
5 30 (5.74%) TypeScript
6 29 (5.54%) C#
7 7 (1.34%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.15%) Go
9 5 (0.96%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.76%) Bicep
10 4 (0.76%) C++
10 4 (0.76%) Groovy
11 3 (0.57%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.57%) XPath
12 2 (0.38%) Bash
12 2 (0.38%) Korn
12 2 (0.38%) Ruby
12 2 (0.38%) SOQL
12 2 (0.38%) SOSL
13 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 149 (28.49%) Security Cleared
2 124 (23.71%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.46%) Degree
4 19 (3.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.06%) PMI Certification
6 13 (2.49%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.29%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.29%) PMP
8 6 (1.15%) CBAP
8 6 (1.15%) IIBA
9 4 (0.76%) CISM
9 4 (0.76%) CISSP
9 4 (0.76%) ISEB
9 4 (0.76%) SAFe Agilist
10 3 (0.57%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.38%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.38%) CSPO
11 2 (0.38%) GPEN
11 2 (0.38%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (19.12%) QA
2 36 (6.88%) Accessibility
3 26 (4.97%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.72%) GDPR
5 7 (1.34%) NIST
6 6 (1.15%) SLA
6 6 (1.15%) WCAG
7 5 (0.96%) GRC
7 5 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.96%) PMO
8 4 (0.76%) GxP
8 4 (0.76%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (0.38%) NCSC
10 1 (0.19%) Basel III
10 1 (0.19%) GMP
10 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.19%) HL7
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 45 (8.60%) Docker
2 3 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Ceph
3 1 (0.19%) HDFS
3 1 (0.19%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.19%) Squid
3 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.19%) Varnish
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 78 (14.91%) Kubernetes
2 43 (8.22%) Terraform
3 32 (6.12%) Argo
4 16 (3.06%) Ansible
5 12 (2.29%) Grafana
6 10 (1.91%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.76%) Nagios
8 3 (0.57%) Istio
8 3 (0.57%) Puppet
9 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.19%) CASB
10 1 (0.19%) Kibana
10 1 (0.19%) Rancher
10 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 32 (6.12%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.74%) ServiceNow
3 23 (4.40%) Red Hat
4 20 (3.82%) Salesforce
5 18 (3.44%) Databricks
6 13 (2.49%) Oracle
6 13 (2.49%) SAP
7 11 (2.10%) ForgeRock
7 11 (2.10%) Okta
8 10 (1.91%) Adobe
9 6 (1.15%) Guidewire
9 6 (1.15%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.96%) Google
11 4 (0.76%) VMware
12 3 (0.57%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.57%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (0.57%) Cognizant
12 3 (0.57%) Progress
12 3 (0.57%) Sitecore
13 2 (0.38%) Talend