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

 6 months to
2 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 236 353
Rank change year-on-year +30 +117 +28
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 628 321 178
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.35% 1.15% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.26% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 235 116
10th Percentile £363 £350 £353
25th Percentile £450 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £594
90th Percentile £714 £693 £669
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.90% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 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% -11.15%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £64.95
90th Percentile £71.13 £56.00 £66.19
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £62.26
% change year-on-year +40.00% -19.69% -11.15%

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 39,430 25,460 28,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.71% 90.97% 86.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,919 16,157 17,165
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -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 2,918 1,560 1,201
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.42 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.25
Median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.28 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +24 313 £545 +4.81% 303
Midlands +16 106 £475 +20.63% 56
West Midlands +36 102 £475 +11.76% 25
North of England -37 91 £498 +13.84% 103
South East -22 82 £525 - 77
Yorkshire -15 42 £500 +17.30% 32
North East -10 36 £350 -34.88% 14
South West -18 23 £508 -9.78% 47
East of England -13 20 £460 - 24
North West -62 16 £448 +6.55% 57
East Midlands -25 3 £448 +23.59% 31
Sprint Planning
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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 (20.70%) Confluence
2 16 (2.55%) CMS
3 13 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.91%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.75%) Apache
6 7 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.80%) Documentum
8 4 (0.64%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.48%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.32%) SAS
11 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.16%) Camunda
11 1 (0.16%) JBoss
11 1 (0.16%) Mendix
11 1 (0.16%) nginx
11 1 (0.16%) Traefik
11 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.96%) Notion
5 5 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.80%) Trello
6 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
7 2 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.32%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.32%) Productboard
8 1 (0.16%) Simulink
8 1 (0.16%) Sketch
8 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.59%) Salesforce CRM
2 9 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.64%) Magento
5 3 (0.48%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.32%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.32%) Primavera
6 2 (0.32%) Workfront
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%) 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
1 196 (31.21%) Azure
2 117 (18.63%) AWS
3 106 (16.88%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (7.48%) Power Platform
5 43 (6.85%) GitHub
6 33 (5.25%) GCP
6 33 (5.25%) OpenShift
6 33 (5.25%) Serverless
7 24 (3.82%) Amazon S3
8 23 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (3.34%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (3.34%) PowerApps
11 20 (3.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (3.18%) Power Automate
12 17 (2.71%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
13 16 (2.55%) Entra ID
14 14 (2.23%) 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 26 (4.14%) Power BI
2 25 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (3.50%) SQL Server
4 19 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (3.03%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.07%) Metadata
6 10 (1.59%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.27%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.11%) Big Data
8 7 (1.11%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.96%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.80%) Ataccama
10 5 (0.80%) Delta Lake
10 5 (0.80%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.64%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.64%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 219 (34.87%) JIRA
2 70 (11.15%) Git
3 54 (8.60%) Jenkins
4 41 (6.53%) SonarQube
5 20 (3.18%) Postman
6 15 (2.39%) GitLab
7 14 (2.23%) Maven
8 13 (2.07%) JUnit
9 11 (1.75%) Mockito
10 8 (1.27%) Selenium
11 7 (1.11%) 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
1 295 (46.97%) Social Skills
2 141 (22.45%) Finance
3 128 (20.38%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (17.68%) Public Sector
5 61 (9.71%) Banking
6 44 (7.01%) Retail
7 30 (4.78%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (4.46%) Marketing
9 26 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.07%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.91%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.75%) Front Office
13 10 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.59%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (1.11%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.11%) Billing
15 7 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 127 (20.22%) Developer
2 97 (15.45%) Senior
3 82 (13.06%) Analyst
4 76 (12.10%) Scrum Master
5 72 (11.46%) Lead
6 58 (9.24%) Delivery Manager
7 55 (8.76%) Business Analyst
8 50 (7.96%) Product Owner
9 46 (7.32%) Java Developer
10 44 (7.01%) Project Manager
11 31 (4.94%) Product Manager
12 28 (4.46%) Senior Developer
13 25 (3.98%) Senior Manager
14 24 (3.82%) Architect
15 20 (3.18%) Technical Manager
16 18 (2.87%) Agile Delivery Manager
16 18 (2.87%) Data Engineer
16 18 (2.87%) Technical Analyst
17 17 (2.71%) Technical Leader
18 15 (2.39%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (12.26%) REST
2 48 (7.64%) AngularJS
3 45 (7.17%) RESTful
4 38 (6.05%) Terraform
5 36 (5.73%) Spring
5 36 (5.73%) Spring Boot
6 29 (4.62%) .NET
7 28 (4.46%) Quarkus
8 24 (3.82%) JSON
8 24 (3.82%) SOAP
9 22 (3.50%) React
10 21 (3.34%) Web Services
11 18 (2.87%) HTML
12 17 (2.71%) Kafka
12 17 (2.71%) Node.js
13 14 (2.23%) Hibernate
14 13 (2.07%) Lightning Web Components
14 13 (2.07%) PySpark
15 11 (1.75%) CSS
15 11 (1.75%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 257 (40.92%) Product Ownership
2 71 (11.31%) Cloud Native
3 26 (4.14%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.34%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (3.18%) Virtual Team
6 14 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.75%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.43%) Life Science
10 9 (1.43%) NHS
11 8 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
12 7 (1.11%) Data Structures
13 6 (0.96%) FMCG
13 6 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.96%) Market Risk
13 6 (0.96%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.07%) Windows
2 10 (1.59%) 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
5 1 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 595 (94.75%) Agile
2 337 (53.66%) Scrum
3 242 (38.54%) Sprint Retrospective
4 236 (37.58%) DevOps
5 230 (36.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 225 (35.83%) Stakeholder Management
7 201 (32.01%) Backlog Refinement
8 182 (28.98%) CI/CD
8 182 (28.98%) User Stories
9 168 (26.75%) Sprint Review
10 141 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
11 125 (19.90%) Test Automation
12 121 (19.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 118 (18.79%) Acceptance Criteria
14 112 (17.83%) Roadmaps
14 112 (17.83%) Software Engineering
15 111 (17.68%) Backlog Management
16 110 (17.52%) Kanban
17 103 (16.40%) SDLC
18 93 (14.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 100 (15.92%) Java
2 80 (12.74%) SQL
3 57 (9.08%) Python
4 52 (8.28%) JavaScript
5 38 (6.05%) C#
6 29 (4.62%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.91%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.80%) Bicep
8 5 (0.80%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.32%) Groovy
9 2 (0.32%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.32%) R
10 1 (0.16%) ABAP
10 1 (0.16%) Bash
10 1 (0.16%) C
10 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.16%) Korn
10 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 202 (32.17%) Security Cleared
2 167 (26.59%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.37%) Degree
4 31 (4.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (3.66%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.55%) PMI Certification
7 15 (2.39%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.91%) PMP
10 7 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.11%) CSPO
11 6 (0.96%) Azure Certification
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%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.48%) CAPM
13 3 (0.48%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (19.11%) QA
2 38 (6.05%) Accessibility
2 38 (6.05%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.91%) PMO
4 9 (1.43%) GDPR
4 9 (1.43%) GRC
5 7 (1.11%) WCAG
6 6 (0.96%) GxP
7 5 (0.80%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 3 (0.48%) SLA
9 2 (0.32%) NIST
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) PERC
10 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 59 (9.39%) Docker
2 8 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 69 (10.99%) Kubernetes
2 30 (4.78%) Argo
3 13 (2.07%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.91%) Grafana
5 5 (0.80%) 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 76 (12.10%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.41%) ServiceNow
3 31 (4.94%) Salesforce
4 30 (4.78%) Red Hat
5 26 (4.14%) Databricks
6 17 (2.71%) Oracle
6 17 (2.71%) SAP
7 11 (1.75%) Okta
8 10 (1.59%) Adobe
9 9 (1.43%) Google
10 8 (1.27%) ForgeRock
11 6 (0.96%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.96%) Informatica
12 5 (0.80%) Splunk
12 5 (0.80%) VMware
13 4 (0.64%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.64%) UiPath
14 3 (0.48%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.48%) Pega
14 3 (0.48%) Zscaler
612 Sprint Planning jobs in England