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

 6 months to
20 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 237 351
Rank change year-on-year +31 +114 +5
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 648 327 186
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.40% 1.18% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.30% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 239 121
10th Percentile £400 £349 £356
25th Percentile £450 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £585 £581 £613
90th Percentile £698 £688 £671
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 13 3
10th Percentile £55.75 £43.65 £58.00
25th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 £60.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% -6.18%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £66.01
90th Percentile - £56.00 £66.62
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% -6.18%

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 39,208 25,244 28,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.66% 90.88% 86.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,936 16,028 17,611
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £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 2,812 1,512 1,298
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.77 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.41 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.61% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.56 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +15 311 £550 +5.77% 285
Midlands +18 104 £475 +18.45% 47
North of England -24 102 £500 +15.34% 94
West Midlands +29 98 £475 +5.56% 29
South East -13 90 £525 - 65
North East -4 45 £430 -20.00% 12
Yorkshire -24 45 £500 +17.30% 32
East of England -11 24 £460 - 18
South West -19 23 £510 -4.00% 30
North West -62 16 £448 +7.19% 50
East Midlands -27 5 £448 +23.59% 18
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
1 131 (20.22%) Confluence
2 17 (2.62%) CMS
3 13 (2.01%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.54%) Apache
4 10 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.77%) Documentum
6 3 (0.46%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.31%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.31%) nginx
7 2 (0.31%) SAS
8 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.15%) Camunda
8 1 (0.15%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) Mendix
8 1 (0.15%) Traefik
8 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.93%) Notion
4 6 (0.93%) Trello
5 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.31%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Sketch
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.39%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (1.08%) Dynamics 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%) CA PPM
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
1 203 (31.33%) Azure
2 119 (18.36%) AWS
3 110 (16.98%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (7.10%) Power Platform
5 43 (6.64%) GitHub
6 39 (6.02%) OpenShift
7 33 (5.09%) Serverless
8 32 (4.94%) GCP
9 26 (4.01%) Amazon S3
10 24 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
13 21 (3.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 21 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (3.24%) PowerApps
14 20 (3.09%) Power Automate
15 17 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
16 16 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
16 16 (2.47%) Entra ID
17 15 (2.31%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.62%) Firewall
1 4 (0.62%) HTTPS
2 2 (0.31%) Broadband
2 2 (0.31%) SAN
2 2 (0.31%) WAN
3 1 (0.15%) 5G
3 1 (0.15%) DNS
3 1 (0.15%) Intranet
3 1 (0.15%) Network Security
3 1 (0.15%) NFC
3 1 (0.15%) NGFW
3 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.15%) SONET
3 1 (0.15%) SSL
3 1 (0.15%) VPN
3 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.86%) Power BI
2 24 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (3.40%) SQL Server
4 21 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (3.09%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.47%) Metadata
7 10 (1.54%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.39%) NoSQL
9 8 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (1.08%) Big Data
10 7 (1.08%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.93%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.77%) Ataccama
13 4 (0.62%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.62%) MySQL
13 4 (0.62%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.62%) Redis
13 4 (0.62%) Spark SQL
13 4 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 227 (35.03%) JIRA
2 76 (11.73%) Git
3 58 (8.95%) Jenkins
4 48 (7.41%) SonarQube
5 27 (4.17%) Postman
6 14 (2.16%) JUnit
6 14 (2.16%) Maven
7 13 (2.01%) GitLab
8 11 (1.70%) Mockito
9 9 (1.39%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.23%) Selenium
11 6 (0.93%) JMeter
12 5 (0.77%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.62%) Gradle
13 4 (0.62%) Subversion
14 3 (0.46%) Protractor
14 3 (0.46%) WebDriver
15 2 (0.31%) Artifactory
15 2 (0.31%) git-flow
15 2 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 294 (45.37%) Social Skills
2 137 (21.14%) Finance
3 124 (19.14%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (16.98%) Public Sector
5 50 (7.72%) Banking
6 45 (6.94%) Retail
7 30 (4.63%) Marketing
8 28 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.85%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.54%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.39%) Front Office
13 9 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.23%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.23%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.23%) Legal
15 7 (1.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 128 (19.75%) Developer
2 100 (15.43%) Senior
3 85 (13.12%) Analyst
4 81 (12.50%) Scrum Master
5 74 (11.42%) Lead
6 61 (9.41%) Delivery Manager
7 57 (8.80%) Business Analyst
8 47 (7.25%) Product Owner
9 46 (7.10%) Java Developer
10 40 (6.17%) Project Manager
11 31 (4.78%) Product Manager
12 29 (4.48%) Senior Manager
13 28 (4.32%) Senior Developer
14 25 (3.86%) Architect
15 20 (3.09%) Technical Manager
16 19 (2.93%) Agile Delivery Manager
17 17 (2.62%) Technical Analyst
17 17 (2.62%) Technical Leader
18 16 (2.47%) Data Engineer
18 16 (2.47%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (13.12%) REST
2 56 (8.64%) AngularJS
3 50 (7.72%) RESTful
4 42 (6.48%) Terraform
5 36 (5.56%) Spring
5 36 (5.56%) Spring Boot
6 34 (5.25%) Quarkus
7 28 (4.32%) .NET
8 26 (4.01%) JSON
9 25 (3.86%) SOAP
10 22 (3.40%) React
11 20 (3.09%) Web Services
12 19 (2.93%) HTML
13 18 (2.78%) Node.js
14 17 (2.62%) Kafka
15 14 (2.16%) Hibernate
16 13 (2.01%) Lightning Web Components
17 12 (1.85%) CSS
17 12 (1.85%) PySpark
18 11 (1.70%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 261 (40.28%) Product Ownership
2 78 (12.04%) Cloud Native
3 26 (4.01%) Onboarding
4 25 (3.86%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (3.40%) Virtual Team
6 14 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.54%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.54%) NHS
9 9 (1.39%) Life Science
9 9 (1.39%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (1.23%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.08%) FMCG
12 6 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (0.77%) Derivative
13 5 (0.77%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.85%) Windows
2 10 (1.54%) Linux
3 4 (0.62%) Android
3 4 (0.62%) Unix
4 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.31%) VMS
4 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 606 (93.52%) Agile
2 347 (53.55%) Scrum
3 249 (38.43%) Sprint Retrospective
4 241 (37.19%) DevOps
5 230 (35.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 220 (33.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 200 (30.86%) Backlog Refinement
8 189 (29.17%) CI/CD
9 185 (28.55%) User Stories
10 176 (27.16%) Sprint Review
11 140 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
12 138 (21.30%) Test Automation
13 125 (19.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 120 (18.52%) Acceptance Criteria
15 115 (17.75%) Backlog Management
15 115 (17.75%) Software Engineering
16 113 (17.44%) Kanban
17 107 (16.51%) Roadmaps
17 107 (16.51%) SDLC
18 94 (14.51%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 107 (16.51%) Java
2 75 (11.57%) SQL
3 54 (8.33%) Python
4 51 (7.87%) JavaScript
5 37 (5.71%) C#
6 29 (4.48%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.01%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.77%) Bicep
8 5 (0.77%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.62%) Groovy
9 4 (0.62%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.31%) Bash
10 2 (0.31%) R
11 1 (0.15%) ABAP
11 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.15%) Korn
11 1 (0.15%) PHP
11 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 211 (32.56%) Security Cleared
2 172 (26.54%) SC Cleared
3 38 (5.86%) Degree
4 31 (4.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 26 (4.01%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.47%) PMI Certification
7 15 (2.31%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.85%) PMP
10 7 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.93%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.93%) CSPO
12 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.62%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.62%) SAFe Agilist
13 3 (0.46%) CAPM
13 3 (0.46%) IIBA
13 3 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (18.98%) QA
2 40 (6.17%) Data Quality
3 37 (5.71%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.85%) PMO
5 10 (1.54%) GDPR
6 9 (1.39%) GRC
7 7 (1.08%) WCAG
8 6 (0.93%) GxP
9 5 (0.77%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 3 (0.46%) NIST
10 3 (0.46%) SLA
11 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.15%) HL7
12 1 (0.15%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.15%) NCSC
12 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (8.95%) Docker
2 9 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.15%) Ceph
6 1 (0.15%) Squid
6 1 (0.15%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 75 (11.57%) Kubernetes
2 36 (5.56%) Argo
3 13 (2.01%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.85%) Grafana
5 8 (1.23%) Ansible
6 4 (0.62%) Puppet
7 3 (0.46%) Istio
8 2 (0.31%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.31%) Packer
9 1 (0.15%) Kibana
9 1 (0.15%) Nagios
9 1 (0.15%) Nessus
9 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 72 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.86%) ServiceNow
3 34 (5.25%) Red Hat
4 32 (4.94%) Salesforce
5 23 (3.55%) Databricks
6 18 (2.78%) SAP
7 17 (2.62%) Oracle
8 11 (1.70%) Adobe
8 11 (1.70%) Okta
9 10 (1.54%) Google
10 8 (1.23%) ForgeRock
11 7 (1.08%) Informatica
12 6 (0.93%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.93%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.93%) VMware
13 5 (0.77%) Splunk
14 3 (0.46%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.46%) PagerDuty
14 3 (0.46%) UiPath
14 3 (0.46%) Zscaler
536 Sprint Planning jobs in England