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

 6 months to
3 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 237 375
Rank change year-on-year +49 +138 -24
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 664 299 151
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.08% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.19% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 204 102
10th Percentile £368 £359 £350
25th Percentile £450 £412 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -3.85% -2.62%
75th Percentile £581 £584 £605
90th Percentile £675 £688 £669
UK median daily rate £514 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +4.05% -1.20% -6.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 11 2
10th Percentile £55.38 £46.25 £57.13
25th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 £58.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -18.37% +11.36%
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% +11.36%

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 38,664 25,206 28,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 90.74% 85.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,131 16,135 18,803
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 £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £757
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,474 1,396 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.14 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.85 £70.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +50 314 £550 +6.28% 111
North of England -22 110 £500 +10.68% 49
South East -15 98 £525 +2.14% 46
Midlands +7 84 £490 +15.24% 29
West Midlands -3 75 £488 -4.88% 15
North East +3 45 £550 +2.33% 13
Yorkshire -27 44 £500 +21.95% 11
South West -13 30 £503 -0.74% 26
East of England +7 26 £460 +15.00% 6
North West -59 25 £397 -10.95% 26
East Midlands -17 8 £454 +13.44% 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
1 109 (16.42%) Confluence
2 22 (3.31%) CMS
3 12 (1.81%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.51%) Apache
4 10 (1.51%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.05%) SAS
6 5 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.75%) Documentum
7 2 (0.30%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.15%) Drupal
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 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.36%) Trello
3 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.75%) Notion
5 4 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Mingle
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.75%) Magento
5 3 (0.45%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.30%) Primavera
6 2 (0.30%) Workfront
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
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
1 215 (32.38%) Azure
2 122 (18.37%) AWS
3 107 (16.11%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (7.08%) OpenShift
5 41 (6.17%) Power Platform
6 38 (5.72%) GCP
7 37 (5.57%) GitHub
8 33 (4.97%) Serverless
9 24 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (3.46%) Amazon S3
11 22 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (3.01%) Power Automate
12 20 (3.01%) PowerApps
13 18 (2.71%) Entra ID
14 17 (2.56%) Snowflake
15 16 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (2.41%) Azure AKS
16 15 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
17 14 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.90%) HTTPS
2 5 (0.75%) Firewall
3 3 (0.45%) Network Security
4 2 (0.30%) Broadband
4 2 (0.30%) 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 22 (3.31%) Power BI
2 17 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.26%) SQL Server
5 14 (2.11%) Metadata
6 10 (1.51%) Big Data
6 10 (1.51%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.05%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.05%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.90%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.75%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.75%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.60%) Tableau
12 3 (0.45%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.45%) Looker
12 3 (0.45%) Redis
12 3 (0.45%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 216 (32.53%) JIRA
2 78 (11.75%) Git
3 58 (8.73%) Jenkins
4 44 (6.63%) SonarQube
5 36 (5.42%) Postman
6 18 (2.71%) Selenium
7 16 (2.41%) GitLab
8 13 (1.96%) JUnit
9 9 (1.36%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.20%) JMeter
11 7 (1.05%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.05%) WebDriver
12 6 (0.90%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.75%) Subversion
14 4 (0.60%) Maven
14 4 (0.60%) REST Assured
15 3 (0.45%) Artifactory
15 3 (0.45%) git-flow
15 3 (0.45%) Gradle
15 3 (0.45%) Protractor
General
1 291 (43.83%) Social Skills
2 141 (21.23%) Finance
3 99 (14.91%) Public Sector
4 98 (14.76%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (7.83%) Retail
6 49 (7.38%) Banking
7 38 (5.72%) Marketing
8 23 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.81%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.81%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.66%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.66%) Legal
12 10 (1.51%) Front Office
12 10 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.20%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.20%) Retail Banking
14 7 (1.05%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 113 (17.02%) Developer
2 90 (13.55%) Senior
3 85 (12.80%) Analyst
4 81 (12.20%) Scrum Master
5 68 (10.24%) Lead
6 63 (9.49%) Delivery Manager
7 57 (8.58%) Business Analyst
8 56 (8.43%) Product Owner
9 43 (6.48%) Java Developer
10 41 (6.17%) Project Manager
11 31 (4.67%) Senior Manager
12 30 (4.52%) Product Manager
13 27 (4.07%) Architect
14 24 (3.61%) Software Engineer
15 23 (3.46%) Agile Delivery Manager
15 23 (3.46%) Technical Analyst
16 20 (3.01%) Technical Manager
17 19 (2.86%) Java Engineer
17 19 (2.86%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 18 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (9.49%) REST
2 50 (7.53%) AngularJS
3 42 (6.33%) RESTful
4 39 (5.87%) Quarkus
5 32 (4.82%) React
6 28 (4.22%) Spring
7 27 (4.07%) .NET
8 25 (3.77%) Spring Boot
9 22 (3.31%) JSON
10 16 (2.41%) Kafka
10 16 (2.41%) Node.js
11 15 (2.26%) Lightning Web Components
12 14 (2.11%) SOAP
13 12 (1.81%) Middleware
13 12 (1.81%) PySpark
14 11 (1.66%) HTML
15 9 (1.36%) OAuth
15 9 (1.36%) XML
16 8 (1.20%) ADO
16 8 (1.20%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 265 (39.91%) Product Ownership
2 63 (9.49%) Cloud Native
3 20 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (2.71%) Onboarding
4 18 (2.71%) Virtual Team
5 17 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (1.81%) Life Science
8 11 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.51%) NHS
10 9 (1.36%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.36%) FMCG
10 9 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.20%) Operational Technology
12 7 (1.05%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.05%) Distributed Applications
13 6 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.66%) Windows
2 8 (1.20%) Linux
3 3 (0.45%) Unix
4 2 (0.30%) Android
4 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 618 (93.07%) Agile
2 347 (52.26%) Scrum
3 270 (40.66%) Sprint Retrospective
4 241 (36.30%) DevOps
5 221 (33.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 213 (32.08%) Stakeholder Management
7 185 (27.86%) Sprint Review
8 184 (27.71%) User Stories
9 181 (27.26%) Backlog Refinement
10 180 (27.11%) CI/CD
11 129 (19.43%) Test Automation
12 128 (19.28%) Acceptance Criteria
13 116 (17.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 114 (17.17%) Software Engineering
15 113 (17.02%) Roadmaps
16 112 (16.87%) Kanban
16 112 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
17 110 (16.57%) Backlog Management
18 98 (14.76%) Backlog Prioritisation
19 96 (14.46%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 110 (16.57%) Java
2 68 (10.24%) SQL
3 51 (7.68%) Python
4 42 (6.33%) JavaScript
5 38 (5.72%) C#
6 19 (2.86%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.26%) Apex Code
8 6 (0.90%) Bicep
9 5 (0.75%) Groovy
9 5 (0.75%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.60%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.45%) C++
12 2 (0.30%) Bash
12 2 (0.30%) Korn
12 2 (0.30%) R
12 2 (0.30%) SOQL
12 2 (0.30%) SOSL
13 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.15%) PHP
13 1 (0.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 206 (31.02%) Security Cleared
2 169 (25.45%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.93%) Degree
4 26 (3.92%) DV Cleared
5 23 (3.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.56%) PMI Certification
7 15 (2.26%) PMP
8 14 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.36%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.90%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.90%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.75%) CISSP
12 5 (0.75%) CSPO
13 4 (0.60%) CISM
13 4 (0.60%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.60%) SAFe Agilist
14 3 (0.45%) IIBA
14 3 (0.45%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (18.52%) QA
2 42 (6.33%) Accessibility
3 37 (5.57%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.26%) GDPR
5 11 (1.66%) PMO
6 10 (1.51%) GRC
7 9 (1.36%) GxP
8 7 (1.05%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 7 (1.05%) NIST
8 7 (1.05%) SLA
9 6 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.90%) WCAG
10 4 (0.60%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.15%) GMP
12 1 (0.15%) HL7
12 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.15%) PERC
System Software
1 47 (7.08%) Docker
2 9 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.30%) 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
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 89 (13.40%) Kubernetes
2 45 (6.78%) Terraform
3 41 (6.17%) Argo
4 11 (1.66%) Ansible
5 8 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.05%) Grafana
7 4 (0.60%) Puppet
8 3 (0.45%) Istio
9 2 (0.30%) Packer
10 1 (0.15%) Kibana
10 1 (0.15%) Nagios
10 1 (0.15%) Nessus
10 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 62 (9.34%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.87%) Red Hat
2 39 (5.87%) ServiceNow
3 34 (5.12%) Salesforce
4 21 (3.16%) SAP
5 19 (2.86%) Databricks
6 18 (2.71%) Oracle
7 13 (1.96%) Okta
8 12 (1.81%) ForgeRock
9 11 (1.66%) Adobe
10 10 (1.51%) Google
11 7 (1.05%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.75%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.75%) VMware
13 3 (0.45%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.45%) PagerDuty
13 3 (0.45%) Progress
13 3 (0.45%) Sitecore
13 3 (0.45%) Splunk
13 3 (0.45%) Zscaler
251 Sprint Planning jobs in England