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

 6 months to
8 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 242 378
Rank change year-on-year +50 +136 -28
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 655 301 156
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.43% 1.09% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 1.20% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 209 104
10th Percentile £375 £358 £350
25th Percentile £450 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -3.29% -3.59%
75th Percentile £576 £584 £598
90th Percentile £675 £688 £670
UK median daily rate £514 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +4.05% -1.20% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 11 3
10th Percentile £56.25 £46.25 £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% +18.18%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £66.01
90th Percentile - £56.25 £66.62
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% +18.18%

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 39,026 25,062 28,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.78% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,293 16,024 18,683
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,529 1,392 1,676
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £14.09
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.87 £18.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.27 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -37.90% -4.71%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +32 309 £550 +6.28% 136
North of England -33 108 £500 +10.68% 55
South East -9 97 £525 +2.14% 42
Midlands +6 85 £484 +17.11% 33
West Midlands +7 76 £481 +6.89% 18
North East -4 44 £550 +2.33% 17
Yorkshire -22 44 £500 +21.95% 11
South West -21 29 £503 -0.74% 23
East of England +6 26 £460 +15.00% 9
North West -53 24 £400 -10.16% 28
East Midlands -12 8 £454 +13.44% 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
1 107 (16.34%) Confluence
2 22 (3.36%) CMS
3 12 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.53%) Apache
4 10 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.07%) SAS
6 5 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.76%) Documentum
7 2 (0.31%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.15%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) Mendix
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.15%) Traefik
8 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (1.22%) Trello
3 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.92%) Notion
4 4 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.15%) Mingle
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.76%) 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%) Adobe Campaign
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
1 216 (32.98%) Azure
2 122 (18.63%) AWS
3 110 (16.79%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (7.02%) OpenShift
5 40 (6.11%) Power Platform
6 39 (5.95%) GCP
7 37 (5.65%) GitHub
8 34 (5.19%) Serverless
9 25 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (3.66%) Amazon S3
11 22 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (3.05%) Power Automate
12 20 (3.05%) PowerApps
13 19 (2.90%) Entra ID
14 17 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (2.60%) Azure AKS
15 16 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
15 16 (2.44%) Snowflake
16 15 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.76%) Firewall
1 5 (0.76%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.46%) Network Security
3 2 (0.31%) Broadband
3 2 (0.31%) WAN
4 1 (0.15%) 5G
4 1 (0.15%) DNS
4 1 (0.15%) Intranet
4 1 (0.15%) NFC
4 1 (0.15%) NGFW
4 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.15%) SONET
4 1 (0.15%) SSL
4 1 (0.15%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.05%) Power BI
2 17 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.14%) Metadata
4 14 (2.14%) SQL Server
5 11 (1.68%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.53%) Big Data
7 9 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.07%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.07%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.92%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.76%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.76%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.46%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.46%) Redis
12 3 (0.46%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.46%) Tableau
13 2 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 212 (32.37%) JIRA
2 76 (11.60%) Git
3 58 (8.85%) Jenkins
4 43 (6.56%) SonarQube
5 35 (5.34%) Postman
6 17 (2.60%) Selenium
7 16 (2.44%) GitLab
8 13 (1.98%) JUnit
9 8 (1.22%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.22%) JMeter
10 7 (1.07%) WebDriver
11 6 (0.92%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.92%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.76%) Subversion
13 4 (0.61%) Maven
13 4 (0.61%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.46%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.46%) git-flow
14 3 (0.46%) Gradle
14 3 (0.46%) Protractor
General
1 290 (44.27%) Social Skills
2 136 (20.76%) Finance
3 98 (14.96%) Analytical Skills
3 98 (14.96%) Public Sector
4 53 (8.09%) Retail
5 46 (7.02%) Banking
6 38 (5.80%) Marketing
7 24 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
8 22 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
9 12 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.68%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.53%) Legal
12 8 (1.22%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.22%) Front Office
12 8 (1.22%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.07%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 111 (16.95%) Developer
2 88 (13.44%) Senior
3 85 (12.98%) Analyst
4 80 (12.21%) Scrum Master
5 69 (10.53%) Lead
6 60 (9.16%) Delivery Manager
7 57 (8.70%) Business Analyst
8 54 (8.24%) Product Owner
9 41 (6.26%) Java Developer
10 40 (6.11%) Project Manager
11 31 (4.73%) Senior Manager
12 30 (4.58%) Product Manager
13 27 (4.12%) Architect
14 23 (3.51%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 23 (3.51%) Software Engineer
14 23 (3.51%) Technical Analyst
15 20 (3.05%) Technical Manager
16 19 (2.90%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 18 (2.75%) Java Engineer
17 18 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (9.47%) REST
2 49 (7.48%) AngularJS
3 40 (6.11%) RESTful
4 38 (5.80%) Quarkus
5 29 (4.43%) React
6 27 (4.12%) .NET
6 27 (4.12%) Spring
7 24 (3.66%) Spring Boot
8 22 (3.36%) JSON
9 16 (2.44%) Kafka
9 16 (2.44%) Lightning Web Components
10 14 (2.14%) Node.js
10 14 (2.14%) SOAP
11 12 (1.83%) Middleware
11 12 (1.83%) PySpark
12 9 (1.37%) HTML
12 9 (1.37%) OAuth
12 9 (1.37%) XML
13 8 (1.22%) ADO
14 7 (1.07%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 262 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 65 (9.92%) Cloud Native
3 19 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (2.75%) Onboarding
4 18 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (2.75%) Virtual Team
5 16 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (1.83%) Life Science
8 11 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.53%) NHS
10 9 (1.37%) FMCG
10 9 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.22%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.22%) Operational Technology
12 7 (1.07%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.07%) Distributed Applications
12 7 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.92%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.68%) Windows
2 9 (1.37%) Linux
3 3 (0.46%) Unix
4 2 (0.31%) Android
4 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 609 (92.98%) Agile
2 345 (52.67%) Scrum
3 264 (40.31%) Sprint Retrospective
4 245 (37.40%) DevOps
5 221 (33.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 212 (32.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 183 (27.94%) Backlog Refinement
7 183 (27.94%) Sprint Review
8 182 (27.79%) User Stories
9 178 (27.18%) CI/CD
10 129 (19.69%) Acceptance Criteria
10 129 (19.69%) Test Automation
11 118 (18.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 115 (17.56%) Software Engineering
13 111 (16.95%) Kanban
13 111 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
14 110 (16.79%) Roadmaps
15 107 (16.34%) Backlog Management
16 98 (14.96%) Backlog Prioritisation
17 92 (14.05%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 108 (16.49%) Java
2 67 (10.23%) SQL
3 51 (7.79%) Python
4 41 (6.26%) JavaScript
5 39 (5.95%) C#
6 18 (2.75%) TypeScript
7 16 (2.44%) Apex Code
8 6 (0.92%) Bicep
9 5 (0.76%) Groovy
9 5 (0.76%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.61%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.46%) C++
12 2 (0.31%) Bash
12 2 (0.31%) Korn
12 2 (0.31%) SOQL
12 2 (0.31%) SOSL
13 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.15%) PHP
13 1 (0.15%) R
13 1 (0.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 204 (31.15%) Security Cleared
2 167 (25.50%) SC Cleared
3 43 (6.56%) Degree
4 26 (3.97%) DV Cleared
5 23 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.44%) PMI Certification
7 14 (2.14%) PMP
8 12 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.53%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.92%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.92%) CSPO
12 5 (0.76%) CISSP
13 4 (0.61%) CISM
13 4 (0.61%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.61%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.61%) SAFe Agilist
14 3 (0.46%) IIBA
14 3 (0.46%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (18.93%) QA
2 38 (5.80%) Accessibility
3 37 (5.65%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.29%) GDPR
5 11 (1.68%) PMO
6 10 (1.53%) GRC
7 9 (1.37%) GxP
8 7 (1.07%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 7 (1.07%) NIST
8 7 (1.07%) SLA
9 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.76%) WCAG
11 4 (0.61%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.15%) GMP
13 1 (0.15%) HL7
13 1 (0.15%) NCSC
13 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (7.02%) Docker
2 9 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Ceph
5 1 (0.15%) HDFS
5 1 (0.15%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.15%) Squid
5 1 (0.15%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 86 (13.13%) Kubernetes
2 46 (7.02%) Terraform
3 40 (6.11%) Argo
4 11 (1.68%) Ansible
5 7 (1.07%) Grafana
5 7 (1.07%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.61%) Puppet
7 3 (0.46%) Istio
8 2 (0.31%) Packer
9 1 (0.15%) Nagios
9 1 (0.15%) Nessus
9 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 62 (9.47%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.95%) ServiceNow
3 38 (5.80%) Red Hat
4 34 (5.19%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.36%) SAP
6 18 (2.75%) Databricks
7 17 (2.60%) Oracle
8 14 (2.14%) Okta
9 12 (1.83%) ForgeRock
10 11 (1.68%) Google
11 10 (1.53%) Adobe
12 7 (1.07%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.76%) VMware
14 4 (0.61%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.61%) Splunk
15 3 (0.46%) OpenAI
15 3 (0.46%) PagerDuty
15 3 (0.46%) Progress
15 3 (0.46%) Sitecore
15 3 (0.46%) Zscaler
292 Sprint Planning jobs in England