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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 230 351
Rank change year-on-year +24 +121 +16
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 631 322 181
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.36% 1.15% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.27% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 234 116
10th Percentile £380 £350 £353
25th Percentile £450 £411 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £579 £588 £596
90th Percentile £700 £694 £669
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 13 2
10th Percentile £55.00 £43.65 £57.33
25th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 £58.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £62.26
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -19.69% -10.14%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £64.95
90th Percentile £71.50 £56.00 £66.19
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £62.26
% change year-on-year +40.00% -19.69% -10.14%

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 39,398 25,390 28,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 16,126 17,350
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £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 2,849 1,543 1,244
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%
75th Percentile £67.70 £47.50 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +15 312 £548 +5.80% 292
Midlands +22 105 £475 +18.45% 50
West Midlands +37 101 £475 +5.56% 27
North of England -38 91 £500 +12.74% 104
South East -28 82 £525 - 74
Yorkshire -21 44 £500 +17.30% 33
North East -7 36 £430 -20.00% 16
South West -22 23 £510 -9.33% 34
East of England -20 22 £455 -1.09% 22
North West -58 15 £450 +5.88% 55
East Midlands -26 3 £448 +23.59% 23
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
1 130 (20.60%) Confluence
2 18 (2.85%) CMS
3 13 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.58%) Apache
4 10 (1.58%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.79%) Documentum
6 3 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.48%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.48%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.32%) nginx
7 2 (0.32%) SAS
8 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.16%) Camunda
8 1 (0.16%) JBoss
8 1 (0.16%) Mendix
8 1 (0.16%) Traefik
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.95%) Notion
5 5 (0.79%) Trello
6 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.63%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.32%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.16%) Sketch
8 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.58%) Salesforce CRM
2 9 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.79%) Magento
5 3 (0.48%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.32%) Primavera
6 2 (0.32%) Workfront
7 1 (0.16%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Utilities
7 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.16%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.16%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.16%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.16%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.16%) Shopify
7 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 199 (31.54%) Azure
2 119 (18.86%) AWS
3 107 (16.96%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (7.29%) Power Platform
5 43 (6.81%) GitHub
6 34 (5.39%) OpenShift
6 34 (5.39%) Serverless
7 31 (4.91%) GCP
8 25 (3.96%) Amazon S3
9 24 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
11 22 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 21 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (3.33%) PowerApps
13 20 (3.17%) Power Automate
14 17 (2.69%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
15 16 (2.54%) Entra ID
16 15 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.63%) Firewall
1 4 (0.63%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.48%) Broadband
3 2 (0.32%) SAN
3 2 (0.32%) WAN
3 2 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.16%) 4G
4 1 (0.16%) DNS
4 1 (0.16%) Intranet
4 1 (0.16%) IPv4
4 1 (0.16%) IPv6
4 1 (0.16%) Network Security
4 1 (0.16%) NFC
4 1 (0.16%) PPP
4 1 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.16%) SONET
4 1 (0.16%) SSL
4 1 (0.16%) UPnP
4 1 (0.16%) VPN
4 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
1 25 (3.96%) Power BI
2 21 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 19 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (3.01%) Relational Database
4 14 (2.22%) Metadata
5 10 (1.58%) MongoDB
6 8 (1.27%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.11%) Big Data
7 7 (1.11%) BigQuery
8 6 (0.95%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.79%) Ataccama
9 5 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.63%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.63%) MySQL
10 4 (0.63%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.63%) Redis
10 4 (0.63%) Spark SQL
11 3 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 221 (35.02%) JIRA
2 71 (11.25%) Git
3 54 (8.56%) Jenkins
4 41 (6.50%) SonarQube
5 22 (3.49%) Postman
6 15 (2.38%) GitLab
7 14 (2.22%) Maven
8 13 (2.06%) JUnit
9 11 (1.74%) Mockito
10 8 (1.27%) Selenium
11 7 (1.11%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.95%) JMeter
13 5 (0.79%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.63%) Gradle
14 4 (0.63%) Subversion
15 3 (0.48%) Protractor
15 3 (0.48%) WebDriver
16 2 (0.32%) Charles Proxy
16 2 (0.32%) git-flow
16 2 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 289 (45.80%) Social Skills
2 136 (21.55%) Finance
3 123 (19.49%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (17.59%) Public Sector
5 56 (8.87%) Banking
6 44 (6.97%) Retail
7 31 (4.91%) Marketing
8 29 (4.60%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.90%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.74%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.43%) Front Office
14 9 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.27%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.11%) Billing
16 7 (1.11%) Law
16 7 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 124 (19.65%) Developer
2 95 (15.06%) Senior
3 83 (13.15%) Analyst
4 79 (12.52%) Scrum Master
5 74 (11.73%) Lead
6 61 (9.67%) Delivery Manager
7 55 (8.72%) Business Analyst
8 48 (7.61%) Product Owner
9 44 (6.97%) Java Developer
10 42 (6.66%) Project Manager
11 31 (4.91%) Product Manager
12 28 (4.44%) Senior Developer
13 27 (4.28%) Senior Manager
14 26 (4.12%) Architect
15 20 (3.17%) Technical Manager
16 19 (3.01%) Agile Delivery Manager
17 18 (2.85%) Technical Analyst
18 17 (2.69%) Technical Leader
19 16 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
20 15 (2.38%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (12.36%) REST
2 48 (7.61%) AngularJS
3 45 (7.13%) RESTful
4 40 (6.34%) Terraform
5 36 (5.71%) Spring
5 36 (5.71%) Spring Boot
6 29 (4.60%) .NET
7 28 (4.44%) Quarkus
8 25 (3.96%) JSON
8 25 (3.96%) SOAP
9 22 (3.49%) React
10 20 (3.17%) Web Services
11 19 (3.01%) HTML
12 17 (2.69%) Node.js
13 16 (2.54%) Kafka
14 14 (2.22%) Hibernate
15 13 (2.06%) Lightning Web Components
16 12 (1.90%) CSS
17 11 (1.74%) JPA
17 11 (1.74%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 259 (41.05%) Product Ownership
2 73 (11.57%) Cloud Native
3 26 (4.12%) Onboarding
4 21 (3.33%) Virtual Team
5 20 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.58%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.43%) Life Science
10 9 (1.43%) Marketing Technology
10 9 (1.43%) NHS
11 8 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.11%) Data Structures
13 6 (0.95%) FMCG
13 6 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.95%) Taxonomies
14 5 (0.79%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.06%) Windows
2 9 (1.43%) Linux
3 4 (0.63%) Android
4 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.32%) Unix
4 2 (0.32%) VMS
4 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 593 (93.98%) Agile
2 338 (53.57%) Scrum
3 242 (38.35%) Sprint Retrospective
4 237 (37.56%) DevOps
5 227 (35.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 224 (35.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 197 (31.22%) Backlog Refinement
8 185 (29.32%) CI/CD
9 180 (28.53%) User Stories
10 170 (26.94%) Sprint Review
11 139 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
12 125 (19.81%) Test Automation
13 123 (19.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 117 (18.54%) Acceptance Criteria
15 113 (17.91%) Backlog Management
15 113 (17.91%) Kanban
16 108 (17.12%) Roadmaps
16 108 (17.12%) Software Engineering
17 100 (15.85%) SDLC
18 93 (14.74%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 99 (15.69%) Java
2 75 (11.89%) SQL
3 52 (8.24%) JavaScript
3 52 (8.24%) Python
4 37 (5.86%) C#
5 29 (4.60%) TypeScript
6 12 (1.90%) Apex Code
7 5 (0.79%) Bicep
7 5 (0.79%) Kotlin
8 4 (0.63%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.48%) Groovy
10 2 (0.32%) Bash
10 2 (0.32%) R
11 1 (0.16%) ABAP
11 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.16%) Korn
11 1 (0.16%) PHP
11 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 204 (32.33%) Security Cleared
2 167 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.18%) Degree
4 31 (4.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (3.96%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.54%) PMI Certification
7 15 (2.38%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.90%) PMP
10 7 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.95%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.95%) CSPO
12 4 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.63%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.63%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.63%) SAFe Agilist
13 3 (0.48%) CAPM
13 3 (0.48%) IIBA
13 3 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (18.86%) QA
2 37 (5.86%) Accessibility
3 36 (5.71%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.90%) PMO
5 10 (1.58%) GDPR
6 9 (1.43%) GRC
7 7 (1.11%) WCAG
8 6 (0.95%) GxP
9 5 (0.79%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 3 (0.48%) SLA
11 2 (0.32%) NIST
12 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.16%) HL7
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.16%) NCSC
12 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 58 (9.19%) Docker
2 9 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.16%) Ceph
5 1 (0.16%) Squid
5 1 (0.16%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 68 (10.78%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.91%) Argo
3 13 (2.06%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.90%) Grafana
5 6 (0.95%) Ansible
6 2 (0.32%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (0.32%) Kibana
6 2 (0.32%) Packer
6 2 (0.32%) Puppet
7 1 (0.16%) Istio
7 1 (0.16%) Nagios
7 1 (0.16%) Nessus
7 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (11.73%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.71%) ServiceNow
3 31 (4.91%) Salesforce
4 30 (4.75%) Red Hat
5 24 (3.80%) Databricks
6 17 (2.69%) SAP
7 16 (2.54%) Oracle
8 11 (1.74%) Adobe
8 11 (1.74%) Okta
9 9 (1.43%) Google
10 8 (1.27%) ForgeRock
11 7 (1.11%) Informatica
12 6 (0.95%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.95%) VMware
13 5 (0.79%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.79%) Splunk
14 3 (0.48%) PagerDuty
14 3 (0.48%) Pega
14 3 (0.48%) UiPath
14 3 (0.48%) Zscaler