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 3 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 3 months to
13 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 183 276
Rank change year-on-year -1 +93 +35
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 344 201 86
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.37% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.52% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 141 60
10th Percentile £400 £345 £363
25th Percentile £447 £403 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% -8.10% -2.78%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £613
90th Percentile £725 £688 £669
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 7 2
10th Percentile £55.00 £37.75 £57.33
25th Percentile £61.88 £47.50 £58.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £62.26
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -19.69% +14.24%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £64.95
90th Percentile £74.13 £55.50 £66.19
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £62.26
% change year-on-year +40.00% -19.69% +14.24%

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 20,219 13,241 13,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.67% 90.24% 84.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,349 8,430 8,759
10th Percentile £325 £289 £313
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £730 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,347 864 604
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.75 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.86 £18.87 £19.84
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -37.63% +15.16%
75th Percentile £67.49 £43.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £73.93
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +53.08% -32.93% +7.10%

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 3 months to 13 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 3 months to 13 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 3 months to 13 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
London -5 170 £560 +6.67% 146
South East -17 59 £500 -4.76% 41
North of England -53 49 £498 +15.70% 54
Midlands +1 47 £447 +11.47% 27
West Midlands 0 45 £447 -12.78% 14
Yorkshire -28 22 £498 +34.46% 13
North East -12 21 £510 +2.00% 16
South West -14 16 £500 -5.88% 27
East of England -6 8 £300 -34.78% 8
North West -49 6 £488 +14.71% 26
East Midlands -16 1 £401 +11.31% 13
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
1 110 (16.98%) Confluence
2 21 (3.24%) CMS
3 12 (1.85%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.39%) Apache
4 9 (1.39%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.08%) SAS
6 5 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.77%) 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 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.23%) Trello
4 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.93%) Notion
5 2 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.15%) Mingle
6 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.77%) Magento
4 3 (0.46%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.31%) Primavera
5 2 (0.31%) Workfront
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.15%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Utilities
6 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.15%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.15%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.15%) Shopify
6 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 215 (33.18%) Azure
2 120 (18.52%) AWS
3 108 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (7.10%) OpenShift
5 44 (6.79%) Power Platform
6 39 (6.02%) GCP
7 36 (5.56%) GitHub
8 34 (5.25%) Serverless
9 25 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (3.55%) Amazon S3
11 20 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (2.93%) Entra ID
12 19 (2.93%) Power Automate
12 19 (2.93%) PowerApps
13 17 (2.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 17 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (2.47%) Azure AKS
15 15 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
15 15 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.77%) Firewall
2 4 (0.62%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.46%) Network Security
4 2 (0.31%) Broadband
4 2 (0.31%) WAN
5 1 (0.15%) 5G
5 1 (0.15%) DNS
5 1 (0.15%) Intranet
5 1 (0.15%) NFC
5 1 (0.15%) NGFW
5 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.15%) SONET
5 1 (0.15%) SSL
5 1 (0.15%) VPN
5 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.70%) Power BI
2 17 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (2.31%) Relational Database
3 15 (2.31%) SQL Server
4 14 (2.16%) Metadata
5 9 (1.39%) Big Data
6 8 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.08%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.08%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.93%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.77%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.77%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.46%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.46%) Redis
11 3 (0.46%) Spark SQL
11 3 (0.46%) Tableau
12 2 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 213 (32.87%) JIRA
2 76 (11.73%) Git
3 58 (8.95%) Jenkins
4 43 (6.64%) SonarQube
5 34 (5.25%) Postman
6 18 (2.78%) Selenium
7 15 (2.31%) GitLab
8 14 (2.16%) JUnit
9 8 (1.23%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.23%) JMeter
10 7 (1.08%) WebDriver
11 6 (0.93%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.93%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.93%) Maven
12 5 (0.77%) Subversion
13 4 (0.62%) Gradle
13 4 (0.62%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.46%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.46%) Protractor
14 3 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 288 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 130 (20.06%) Finance
3 103 (15.90%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (14.97%) Public Sector
5 54 (8.33%) Retail
6 44 (6.79%) Banking
7 37 (5.71%) Marketing
8 24 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
9 20 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (1.85%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.54%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.39%) Legal
15 8 (1.23%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.08%) Billing
16 7 (1.08%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 114 (17.59%) Developer
2 87 (13.43%) Senior
3 84 (12.96%) Analyst
4 77 (11.88%) Scrum Master
5 66 (10.19%) Lead
6 60 (9.26%) Delivery Manager
7 57 (8.80%) Business Analyst
8 53 (8.18%) Product Owner
9 43 (6.64%) Java Developer
10 40 (6.17%) Project Manager
11 31 (4.78%) Senior Manager
12 30 (4.63%) Product Manager
13 26 (4.01%) Architect
14 23 (3.55%) Agile Delivery Manager
15 21 (3.24%) Technical Analyst
16 20 (3.09%) Software Engineer
16 20 (3.09%) Technical Manager
17 18 (2.78%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 18 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
18 17 (2.62%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (10.34%) REST
2 49 (7.56%) AngularJS
3 41 (6.33%) RESTful
4 37 (5.71%) Quarkus
5 29 (4.48%) Spring
6 26 (4.01%) .NET
6 26 (4.01%) React
6 26 (4.01%) Spring Boot
7 22 (3.40%) JSON
8 16 (2.47%) Kafka
8 16 (2.47%) Lightning Web Components
9 14 (2.16%) Node.js
9 14 (2.16%) SOAP
10 12 (1.85%) Middleware
10 12 (1.85%) PySpark
11 11 (1.70%) HTML
12 9 (1.39%) Web Services
12 9 (1.39%) XML
13 8 (1.23%) ADO
13 8 (1.23%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 259 (39.97%) Product Ownership
2 65 (10.03%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.24%) Virtual Team
4 17 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.85%) Life Science
9 10 (1.54%) NHS
10 9 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.39%) FMCG
10 9 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.23%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.23%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.23%) Operational Technology
12 7 (1.08%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.08%) Distributed Applications
13 6 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.85%) Windows
2 10 (1.54%) Linux
3 5 (0.77%) 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
1 603 (93.06%) Agile
2 341 (52.62%) Scrum
3 261 (40.28%) Sprint Retrospective
4 246 (37.96%) DevOps
5 221 (34.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 213 (32.87%) Stakeholder Management
7 182 (28.09%) User Stories
8 181 (27.93%) Backlog Refinement
9 178 (27.47%) Sprint Review
10 177 (27.31%) CI/CD
11 130 (20.06%) Test Automation
12 129 (19.91%) Acceptance Criteria
13 117 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
13 117 (18.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 115 (17.75%) Software Engineering
15 112 (17.28%) Kanban
16 110 (16.98%) Roadmaps
17 107 (16.51%) Backlog Management
18 93 (14.35%) Backlog Prioritisation
18 93 (14.35%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 108 (16.67%) Java
2 70 (10.80%) SQL
3 48 (7.41%) Python
4 44 (6.79%) JavaScript
5 37 (5.71%) C#
6 19 (2.93%) TypeScript
7 16 (2.47%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.77%) Bicep
8 5 (0.77%) Groovy
9 4 (0.62%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.62%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.46%) C++
11 2 (0.31%) Bash
11 2 (0.31%) Korn
11 2 (0.31%) SOQL
11 2 (0.31%) SOSL
12 1 (0.15%) ABAP
12 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.15%) R
12 1 (0.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 209 (32.25%) Security Cleared
2 173 (26.70%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.02%) Degree
4 27 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 23 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.31%) PMI Certification
7 13 (2.01%) PMP
8 11 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.54%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.93%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.93%) CSPO
12 5 (0.77%) CISSP
13 4 (0.62%) CISM
13 4 (0.62%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.62%) SAFe Agilist
14 3 (0.46%) IIBA
14 3 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (19.44%) QA
2 38 (5.86%) Accessibility
3 36 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.31%) GDPR
5 11 (1.70%) PMO
6 10 (1.54%) GRC
7 9 (1.39%) GxP
8 7 (1.08%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 7 (1.08%) NIST
8 7 (1.08%) SLA
9 6 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.77%) WCAG
11 4 (0.62%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.15%) ISO 15022
13 1 (0.15%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.15%) NCSC
13 1 (0.15%) PERC
13 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (7.10%) Docker
2 9 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Ceph
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 (13.27%) Kubernetes
2 42 (6.48%) Terraform
3 39 (6.02%) Argo
4 11 (1.70%) Ansible
5 7 (1.08%) Grafana
5 7 (1.08%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.62%) 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 66 (10.19%) Microsoft
2 39 (6.02%) ServiceNow
3 37 (5.71%) Red Hat
4 33 (5.09%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.40%) SAP
6 18 (2.78%) Databricks
6 18 (2.78%) Oracle
7 14 (2.16%) Okta
8 12 (1.85%) ForgeRock
9 11 (1.70%) Google
10 10 (1.54%) Adobe
11 7 (1.08%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.77%) VMware
13 4 (0.62%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.62%) Splunk
14 3 (0.46%) PagerDuty
14 3 (0.46%) Progress
14 3 (0.46%) Sitecore
14 3 (0.46%) Zscaler
15 2 (0.31%) IBM
291 Sprint Planning jobs in England