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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 250 405
Rank change year-on-year +52 +155 -60
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 634 277 150
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.41% 1.01% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 1.12% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 192 98
10th Percentile £363 £363 £336
25th Percentile £450 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -1.38% -3.89%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £586
90th Percentile £650 £688 £669
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 10 2
10th Percentile £55.00 £48.50 £57.13
25th Percentile £62.50 £49.06 £58.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -18.37% +6.52%
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% +6.52%

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 38,297 24,783 30,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.34% 90.63% 85.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 15,884 19,726
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £645
90th Percentile £737 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,330 1,950
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.29 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.99 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69.75 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.23 £71.46 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -36.33% -7.06%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +48 293 £544 +5.63% 94
North of England -13 111 £488 +7.26% 42
South East -13 95 £525 +2.14% 45
Midlands -9 76 £487 +14.50% 33
West Midlands -13 66 £487 -5.05% 18
North East -1 43 £550 +4.76% 12
Yorkshire -24 43 £500 +3.63% 11
North West -47 29 £400 -8.47% 20
East of England -2 27 £460 +15.00% 8
South West -15 27 £500 -1.23% 18
East Midlands -13 9 £413 +3.13% 15
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
1 109 (17.19%) Confluence
2 23 (3.63%) CMS
3 9 (1.42%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.26%) Apache
4 8 (1.26%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.26%) SAS
5 5 (0.79%) Documentum
6 3 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.32%) nginx
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.16%) Drupal
8 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.16%) JBoss
8 1 (0.16%) Mendix
8 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.16%) Traefik
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.42%) Trello
3 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.63%) Notion
5 2 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.32%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.16%) Mingle
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.26%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.79%) Magento
4 3 (0.47%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.32%) Primavera
5 2 (0.32%) Workfront
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Utilities
6 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.16%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.16%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.16%) Shopify
6 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 207 (32.65%) Azure
2 115 (18.14%) AWS
3 103 (16.25%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (6.94%) OpenShift
5 36 (5.68%) GCP
6 33 (5.21%) Power Platform
7 31 (4.89%) GitHub
8 28 (4.42%) Serverless
9 22 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (3.31%) Amazon S3
11 19 (3.00%) Entra ID
12 18 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (2.52%) Power Automate
14 15 (2.37%) Azure AKS
14 15 (2.37%) Snowflake
15 14 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (2.21%) SaaS
16 13 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (2.05%) PowerApps
16 13 (2.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.95%) HTTPS
2 5 (0.79%) Firewall
3 4 (0.63%) Network Security
4 2 (0.32%) Broadband
4 2 (0.32%) DNS
4 2 (0.32%) WAN
5 1 (0.16%) 5G
5 1 (0.16%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.16%) DHCP
5 1 (0.16%) Intranet
5 1 (0.16%) NFC
5 1 (0.16%) NGFW
5 1 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.16%) SONET
5 1 (0.16%) SSL
5 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.16%) VPN
5 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.31%) Power BI
2 15 (2.37%) Metadata
2 15 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (2.21%) SQL Server
4 10 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (1.58%) Big Data
5 9 (1.42%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.10%) BigQuery
7 6 (0.95%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.79%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.79%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.63%) Tableau
10 3 (0.47%) Looker
10 3 (0.47%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.47%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.47%) Redis
10 3 (0.47%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 208 (32.81%) JIRA
2 79 (12.46%) Git
3 55 (8.68%) Jenkins
4 41 (6.47%) SonarQube
5 36 (5.68%) Postman
6 19 (3.00%) GitLab
6 19 (3.00%) Selenium
7 13 (2.05%) JUnit
8 8 (1.26%) WebDriver
9 7 (1.10%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.10%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.10%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.95%) JMeter
11 5 (0.79%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.79%) Subversion
12 3 (0.47%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.47%) git-flow
12 3 (0.47%) Gradle
12 3 (0.47%) Protractor
12 3 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 278 (43.85%) Social Skills
2 126 (19.87%) Finance
3 93 (14.67%) Public Sector
4 91 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (7.73%) Retail
6 40 (6.31%) Banking
7 37 (5.84%) Marketing
8 22 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (1.89%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.74%) Legal
14 9 (1.42%) Front Office
14 9 (1.42%) Investment Banking
15 8 (1.26%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.10%) Billing
16 7 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 101 (15.93%) Developer
2 83 (13.09%) Analyst
3 82 (12.93%) Senior
4 79 (12.46%) Scrum Master
5 62 (9.78%) Delivery Manager
6 61 (9.62%) Lead
7 55 (8.68%) Product Owner
8 54 (8.52%) Business Analyst
9 40 (6.31%) Project Manager
10 39 (6.15%) Java Developer
11 31 (4.89%) Senior Manager
12 28 (4.42%) Product Manager
13 26 (4.10%) Architect
14 24 (3.79%) Software Engineer
15 23 (3.63%) Technical Analyst
16 21 (3.31%) Agile Delivery Manager
17 20 (3.15%) Technical Manager
18 19 (3.00%) Java Engineer
19 18 (2.84%) SC Cleared Java Developer
20 16 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (9.31%) REST
2 46 (7.26%) AngularJS
3 40 (6.31%) RESTful
4 36 (5.68%) Quarkus
5 31 (4.89%) React
6 24 (3.79%) Spring
7 23 (3.63%) .NET
8 21 (3.31%) Spring Boot
9 20 (3.15%) JSON
10 15 (2.37%) Lightning Web Components
11 14 (2.21%) Node.js
12 13 (2.05%) Kafka
13 12 (1.89%) Middleware
14 11 (1.74%) SOAP
15 10 (1.58%) HTML
15 10 (1.58%) PySpark
16 9 (1.42%) OAuth
16 9 (1.42%) XML
17 8 (1.26%) ADO
17 8 (1.26%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 249 (39.27%) Product Ownership
2 57 (8.99%) Cloud Native
3 20 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (3.15%) Virtual Team
4 18 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
5 17 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (1.89%) Life Science
8 11 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.42%) FMCG
9 9 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.42%) NHS
10 8 (1.26%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.26%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (1.26%) Operational Technology
11 7 (1.10%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
12 6 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.58%) Windows
2 8 (1.26%) Linux
3 3 (0.47%) Unix
4 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.32%) VMS
4 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.16%) Android
5 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 595 (93.85%) Agile
2 330 (52.05%) Scrum
3 272 (42.90%) Sprint Retrospective
4 233 (36.75%) DevOps
5 211 (33.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 194 (30.60%) Stakeholder Management
7 177 (27.92%) Sprint Review
8 171 (26.97%) CI/CD
9 167 (26.34%) User Stories
10 165 (26.03%) Backlog Refinement
11 122 (19.24%) Acceptance Criteria
11 122 (19.24%) Test Automation
12 111 (17.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 110 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
14 108 (17.03%) Roadmaps
15 106 (16.72%) Kanban
16 103 (16.25%) Backlog Management
16 103 (16.25%) Software Engineering
17 94 (14.83%) Backlog Prioritisation
18 89 (14.04%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 105 (16.56%) Java
2 62 (9.78%) SQL
3 53 (8.36%) Python
4 39 (6.15%) JavaScript
5 33 (5.21%) C#
6 17 (2.68%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.37%) Apex Code
8 6 (0.95%) Bicep
9 5 (0.79%) Groovy
9 5 (0.79%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.47%) C++
10 3 (0.47%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.32%) Bash
11 2 (0.32%) Korn
11 2 (0.32%) R
11 2 (0.32%) SOQL
11 2 (0.32%) SOSL
12 1 (0.16%) PHP
12 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 193 (30.44%) Security Cleared
2 161 (25.39%) SC Cleared
3 46 (7.26%) Degree
4 23 (3.63%) DV Cleared
5 22 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.84%) PMI Certification
7 16 (2.52%) PMP
8 15 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.26%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.26%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.95%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.79%) CISSP
11 5 (0.79%) CSPO
12 4 (0.63%) CISM
12 4 (0.63%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.63%) SAFe Agilist
13 3 (0.47%) IIBA
13 3 (0.47%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (18.30%) QA
2 40 (6.31%) Accessibility
3 37 (5.84%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.37%) GDPR
5 11 (1.74%) PMO
6 9 (1.42%) GRC
6 9 (1.42%) GxP
7 7 (1.10%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 7 (1.10%) NIST
7 7 (1.10%) SLA
7 7 (1.10%) WCAG
8 6 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.63%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.16%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.16%) GMP
11 1 (0.16%) NCSC
11 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (6.94%) Docker
2 10 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.16%) Ceph
5 1 (0.16%) HDFS
5 1 (0.16%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.16%) Squid
5 1 (0.16%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.16%) Varnish
5 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 85 (13.41%) Kubernetes
2 44 (6.94%) Terraform
3 39 (6.15%) Argo
4 12 (1.89%) Ansible
5 8 (1.26%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.10%) Grafana
7 4 (0.63%) Puppet
8 2 (0.32%) Istio
8 2 (0.32%) Nagios
8 2 (0.32%) Packer
8 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.16%) Kibana
9 1 (0.16%) Nessus
9 1 (0.16%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 54 (8.52%) Microsoft
2 37 (5.84%) ServiceNow
3 36 (5.68%) Red Hat
4 35 (5.52%) Salesforce
5 21 (3.31%) SAP
6 19 (3.00%) Databricks
6 19 (3.00%) Oracle
7 13 (2.05%) Okta
8 12 (1.89%) ForgeRock
9 11 (1.74%) Adobe
10 8 (1.26%) Google
11 7 (1.10%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.95%) VMware
13 5 (0.79%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.47%) CA Agile Central
14 3 (0.47%) Guidewire
14 3 (0.47%) PagerDuty
14 3 (0.47%) Progress
14 3 (0.47%) Sitecore
14 3 (0.47%) Splunk