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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 239 361
Rank change year-on-year +31 +122 +14
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 625 320 181
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.15% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.27% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 234 117
10th Percentile £379 £350 £354
25th Percentile £450 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £595
90th Percentile £700 £694 £669
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 13 2
10th Percentile £55.00 £43.65 £57.33
25th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 £58.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £62.26
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -19.69% -10.14%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £64.95
90th Percentile £72.25 £56.00 £66.19
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £62.26
% change year-on-year +40.00% -19.69% -10.14%

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 39,007 25,232 28,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.55% 90.97% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,733 16,031 17,231
10th Percentile £325 £295 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,853 1,544 1,222
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.85 £20.26
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -1.16%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +24 311 £548 +5.29% 217
Midlands +23 105 £475 +18.45% 45
West Midlands +34 101 £475 +5.56% 21
North of England -34 90 £500 +14.42% 80
South East -19 81 £525 - 47
Yorkshire -20 44 £500 +17.30% 25
North East -7 35 £430 -20.00% 12
South West -21 22 £508 -9.78% 30
East of England -9 20 £460 - 18
North West -68 15 £450 +7.14% 43
East Midlands -26 3 £448 +23.59% 24
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
1 130 (20.80%) Confluence
2 18 (2.88%) CMS
3 13 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.60%) Apache
4 10 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.80%) Documentum
6 3 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.48%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.48%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.32%) nginx
7 2 (0.32%) SAS
8 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.16%) Camunda
8 1 (0.16%) JBoss
8 1 (0.16%) Mendix
8 1 (0.16%) Traefik
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.96%) Notion
5 5 (0.80%) Trello
6 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.64%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.32%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.16%) Sketch
8 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.60%) Salesforce CRM
2 9 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.80%) Magento
5 3 (0.48%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.32%) Primavera
6 2 (0.32%) Workfront
7 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.16%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Utilities
7 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.16%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.16%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.16%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.16%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.16%) Shopify
7 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 197 (31.52%) Azure
2 117 (18.72%) AWS
3 107 (17.12%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (7.20%) Power Platform
5 43 (6.88%) GitHub
6 33 (5.28%) Serverless
7 32 (5.12%) OpenShift
8 30 (4.80%) GCP
9 24 (3.84%) Amazon S3
10 23 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
11 22 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (3.36%) PowerApps
13 20 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 20 (3.20%) Power Automate
14 17 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
15 16 (2.56%) Entra ID
16 15 (2.40%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.64%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.48%) Broadband
2 3 (0.48%) Firewall
3 2 (0.32%) SAN
3 2 (0.32%) WAN
3 2 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.16%) 4G
4 1 (0.16%) 5G
4 1 (0.16%) Intranet
4 1 (0.16%) IPv4
4 1 (0.16%) IPv6
4 1 (0.16%) Network Security
4 1 (0.16%) NFC
4 1 (0.16%) PPP
4 1 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.16%) SONET
4 1 (0.16%) UPnP
4 1 (0.16%) VPN
4 1 (0.16%) Wireless
4 1 (0.16%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (3.84%) Power BI
3 21 (3.36%) SQL Server
4 19 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (3.04%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.08%) Metadata
6 10 (1.60%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.28%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.12%) Big Data
8 7 (1.12%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.96%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.80%) Ataccama
10 5 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.64%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.64%) MySQL
11 4 (0.64%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.64%) Redis
11 4 (0.64%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 219 (35.04%) JIRA
2 70 (11.20%) Git
3 54 (8.64%) Jenkins
4 39 (6.24%) SonarQube
5 22 (3.52%) Postman
6 15 (2.40%) GitLab
7 14 (2.24%) Maven
8 13 (2.08%) JUnit
9 11 (1.76%) Mockito
10 8 (1.28%) Selenium
11 7 (1.12%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.96%) JMeter
13 5 (0.80%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.64%) Gradle
14 4 (0.64%) Subversion
15 3 (0.48%) Protractor
15 3 (0.48%) WebDriver
16 2 (0.32%) Charles Proxy
16 2 (0.32%) git-flow
16 2 (0.32%) REST Assured
General
1 289 (46.24%) Social Skills
2 136 (21.76%) Finance
3 123 (19.68%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (17.76%) Public Sector
5 56 (8.96%) Banking
6 44 (7.04%) Retail
7 31 (4.96%) Marketing
8 29 (4.64%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.92%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.76%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.44%) Front Office
14 9 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.28%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.12%) Billing
16 7 (1.12%) Law
16 7 (1.12%) Military
Job Titles
1 124 (19.84%) Developer
2 95 (15.20%) Senior
3 83 (13.28%) Analyst
4 79 (12.64%) Scrum Master
5 74 (11.84%) Lead
6 60 (9.60%) Delivery Manager
7 55 (8.80%) Business Analyst
8 48 (7.68%) Product Owner
9 44 (7.04%) Java Developer
10 42 (6.72%) Project Manager
11 30 (4.80%) Product Manager
12 28 (4.48%) Senior Developer
13 27 (4.32%) Senior Manager
14 25 (4.00%) Architect
15 20 (3.20%) Technical Manager
16 19 (3.04%) Agile Delivery Manager
17 18 (2.88%) Technical Analyst
18 17 (2.72%) Technical Leader
19 15 (2.40%) Data Engineer
19 15 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (12.32%) REST
2 46 (7.36%) AngularJS
3 45 (7.20%) RESTful
4 40 (6.40%) Terraform
5 36 (5.76%) Spring
5 36 (5.76%) Spring Boot
6 28 (4.48%) .NET
7 26 (4.16%) Quarkus
8 25 (4.00%) SOAP
9 24 (3.84%) JSON
10 22 (3.52%) React
11 20 (3.20%) Web Services
12 19 (3.04%) HTML
13 17 (2.72%) Node.js
14 15 (2.40%) Kafka
15 14 (2.24%) Hibernate
16 13 (2.08%) Lightning Web Components
17 12 (1.92%) CSS
18 11 (1.76%) JPA
18 11 (1.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 259 (41.44%) Product Ownership
2 71 (11.36%) Cloud Native
3 25 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.36%) Virtual Team
5 20 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.60%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.44%) Life Science
10 9 (1.44%) NHS
11 8 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.28%) Marketing Technology
12 7 (1.12%) Data Structures
13 6 (0.96%) FMCG
13 6 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.96%) Taxonomies
14 5 (0.80%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.08%) Windows
2 9 (1.44%) Linux
3 4 (0.64%) Android
4 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.32%) Unix
4 2 (0.32%) VMS
4 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 589 (94.24%) Agile
2 334 (53.44%) Scrum
3 241 (38.56%) Sprint Retrospective
4 236 (37.76%) DevOps
5 227 (36.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 222 (35.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 196 (31.36%) Backlog Refinement
8 185 (29.60%) CI/CD
9 180 (28.80%) User Stories
10 168 (26.88%) Sprint Review
11 139 (22.24%) Problem-Solving
12 123 (19.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 123 (19.68%) Test Automation
13 117 (18.72%) Acceptance Criteria
14 113 (18.08%) Kanban
15 112 (17.92%) Backlog Management
16 108 (17.28%) Roadmaps
17 106 (16.96%) Software Engineering
18 98 (15.68%) SDLC
19 93 (14.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 97 (15.52%) Java
2 75 (12.00%) SQL
3 52 (8.32%) JavaScript
3 52 (8.32%) Python
4 37 (5.92%) C#
5 29 (4.64%) TypeScript
6 12 (1.92%) Apex Code
7 5 (0.80%) Bicep
7 5 (0.80%) Kotlin
8 3 (0.48%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.32%) Groovy
9 2 (0.32%) R
10 1 (0.16%) ABAP
10 1 (0.16%) Bash
10 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.16%) Korn
10 1 (0.16%) PHP
10 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 203 (32.48%) Security Cleared
2 167 (26.72%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.24%) Degree
4 31 (4.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (4.00%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.56%) PMI Certification
7 15 (2.40%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.92%) PMP
10 7 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.96%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.96%) CSPO
12 4 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.64%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.64%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.64%) SAFe Agilist
13 3 (0.48%) CAPM
13 3 (0.48%) IIBA
13 3 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (18.72%) QA
2 37 (5.92%) Accessibility
3 35 (5.60%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.92%) PMO
5 9 (1.44%) GDPR
5 9 (1.44%) GRC
6 7 (1.12%) WCAG
7 6 (0.96%) GxP
8 5 (0.80%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.48%) SLA
10 2 (0.32%) NIST
11 1 (0.16%) HL7
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.16%) NCSC
11 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.16%) PERC
11 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 58 (9.28%) Docker
2 8 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.16%) Ceph
5 1 (0.16%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 66 (10.56%) Kubernetes
2 29 (4.64%) Argo
3 13 (2.08%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.92%) Grafana
5 6 (0.96%) Ansible
6 2 (0.32%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (0.32%) Kibana
6 2 (0.32%) Packer
6 2 (0.32%) Puppet
7 1 (0.16%) Istio
7 1 (0.16%) Nagios
7 1 (0.16%) Nessus
7 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.76%) ServiceNow
3 31 (4.96%) Salesforce
4 28 (4.48%) Red Hat
5 23 (3.68%) Databricks
6 17 (2.72%) SAP
7 16 (2.56%) Oracle
8 11 (1.76%) Adobe
8 11 (1.76%) Okta
9 9 (1.44%) Google
10 8 (1.28%) ForgeRock
11 6 (0.96%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.96%) Informatica
11 6 (0.96%) VMware
12 5 (0.80%) Splunk
13 4 (0.64%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.48%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.48%) Pega
14 3 (0.48%) UiPath
14 3 (0.48%) Zscaler