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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 267 402
Rank change year-on-year +62 +135 -43
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 545 218 141
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.29% 0.89% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 0.98% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 141 90
10th Percentile £360 £400 £339
25th Percentile £430 £434 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £558
90th Percentile £638 £664 £676
UK median daily rate £517 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +0.82% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 7 1
10th Percentile £57.75 £48.75 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £49.38 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -19.23% +13.04%
75th Percentile - £55.63 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -19.23% +13.04%

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 36,103 22,244 31,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.27% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,869 14,374 20,646
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,268 1,001 2,353
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £73.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +43 275 £525 - 72
North of England -13 98 £469 -6.20% 32
South East -21 66 £555 +7.98% 44
Midlands -21 55 £492 +12.51% 17
West Midlands -25 43 £493 +1.03% 14
North West -14 42 £380 -24.00% 14
North East +3 32 £550 +4.76% 9
Yorkshire -42 28 £519 +15.33% 9
South West -14 20 £530 +4.69% 20
East of England -14 19 £468 +16.88% 8
East Midlands -22 11 £364 -9.51% 3
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 93 (17.06%) Confluence
2 20 (3.67%) CMS
3 8 (1.47%) SAS
4 5 (0.92%) Apache
4 5 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.55%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.37%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) Documentum
7 1 (0.18%) Drupal
7 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.18%) Traefik
7 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.10%) Trello
3 4 (0.73%) Notion
4 3 (0.55%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.18%) Mingle
5 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.92%) Magento
3 2 (0.37%) Finacle
3 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.37%) Primavera
4 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.18%) Maximo
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle Utilities
4 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.18%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 162 (29.72%) Azure
2 100 (18.35%) AWS
3 72 (13.21%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (5.50%) OpenShift
5 23 (4.22%) GCP
5 23 (4.22%) GitHub
5 23 (4.22%) Power Platform
5 23 (4.22%) Serverless
6 19 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (2.94%) Amazon S3
7 16 (2.94%) Entra ID
8 15 (2.75%) Azure AKS
8 15 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (2.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 12 (2.20%) Snowflake
11 11 (2.02%) SaaS
12 10 (1.83%) Figma
13 7 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (1.10%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.73%) Network Security
2 3 (0.55%) Firewall
2 3 (0.55%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.37%) DNS
4 1 (0.18%) 5G
4 1 (0.18%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.18%) DHCP
4 1 (0.18%) NFC
4 1 (0.18%) NGFW
4 1 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.18%) SMS
4 1 (0.18%) SONET
4 1 (0.18%) SSL
4 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.18%) VPN
4 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.49%) Power BI
2 16 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.57%) Metadata
4 10 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (1.28%) Big Data
6 7 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.28%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.10%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.92%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.92%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.92%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.73%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.73%) Tableau
10 3 (0.55%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.55%) Redis
11 2 (0.37%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.37%) Looker
11 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 186 (34.13%) JIRA
2 67 (12.29%) Git
3 49 (8.99%) Jenkins
4 38 (6.97%) Postman
5 32 (5.87%) SonarQube
6 22 (4.04%) GitLab
6 22 (4.04%) Selenium
7 11 (2.02%) JUnit
8 10 (1.83%) WebDriver
9 9 (1.65%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.65%) REST Assured
10 8 (1.47%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.92%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.92%) JMeter
11 5 (0.92%) Subversion
12 4 (0.73%) Storybook
13 3 (0.55%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.55%) git-flow
13 3 (0.55%) MLflow
13 3 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 228 (41.83%) Social Skills
2 112 (20.55%) Finance
3 78 (14.31%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (13.94%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.71%) Banking
6 34 (6.24%) Retail
7 28 (5.14%) Marketing
8 18 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.20%) Legal
11 12 (2.20%) Retail Banking
12 9 (1.65%) Front Office
13 7 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.28%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.10%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.92%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.92%) Billing
15 5 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 91 (16.70%) Developer
2 79 (14.50%) Analyst
3 72 (13.21%) Senior
4 63 (11.56%) Scrum Master
5 55 (10.09%) Lead
6 52 (9.54%) Business Analyst
7 46 (8.44%) Delivery Manager
8 44 (8.07%) Product Owner
9 33 (6.06%) Project Manager
10 30 (5.50%) Java Developer
11 27 (4.95%) Senior Manager
12 22 (4.04%) Product Manager
13 21 (3.85%) Architect
14 20 (3.67%) Software Engineer
15 18 (3.30%) Agile Delivery Manager
16 17 (3.12%) Full-Stack Developer
16 17 (3.12%) Technical Analyst
16 17 (3.12%) Technical Manager
17 13 (2.39%) Java Engineer
17 13 (2.39%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.17%) REST
2 39 (7.16%) React
3 38 (6.97%) AngularJS
4 36 (6.61%) RESTful
5 24 (4.40%) Quarkus
6 19 (3.49%) JSON
7 17 (3.12%) Node.js
8 16 (2.94%) .NET
8 16 (2.94%) CSS
8 16 (2.94%) Spring
9 14 (2.57%) HTML
10 13 (2.39%) Spring Boot
11 12 (2.20%) OAuth
11 12 (2.20%) Playwright
12 11 (2.02%) Lightning Web Components
13 10 (1.83%) CSS3
13 10 (1.83%) HTML5
14 9 (1.65%) Kafka
14 9 (1.65%) Middleware
14 9 (1.65%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 199 (36.51%) Product Ownership
2 48 (8.81%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (3.49%) Virtual Team
4 18 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (2.20%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.28%) Distributed Applications
9 7 (1.28%) FMCG
9 7 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.28%) Life Science
10 6 (1.10%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.10%) NHS
10 6 (1.10%) PMI
11 5 (0.92%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.92%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.73%) Unix
1 4 (0.73%) Windows
2 3 (0.55%) Linux
2 3 (0.55%) VMS
3 1 (0.18%) Android
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 504 (92.48%) Agile
2 284 (52.11%) Scrum
3 257 (47.16%) Sprint Retrospective
4 176 (32.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 173 (31.74%) DevOps
6 144 (26.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 142 (26.06%) CI/CD
7 142 (26.06%) Sprint Review
7 142 (26.06%) User Stories
8 133 (24.40%) Backlog Refinement
9 105 (19.27%) Test Automation
10 102 (18.72%) Acceptance Criteria
11 100 (18.35%) Roadmaps
12 99 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
13 92 (16.88%) Backlog Prioritisation
14 91 (16.70%) Backlog Management
15 86 (15.78%) Kanban
16 80 (14.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 75 (13.76%) SDLC
18 72 (13.21%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 78 (14.31%) Java
2 56 (10.28%) Python
3 54 (9.91%) SQL
4 40 (7.34%) JavaScript
5 29 (5.32%) C#
6 26 (4.77%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.65%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.92%) Bicep
8 5 (0.92%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.73%) Groovy
10 3 (0.55%) C++
11 2 (0.37%) Korn
11 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.37%) SOQL
11 2 (0.37%) SOSL
12 1 (0.18%) Bash
12 1 (0.18%) Scala
12 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.18%) VBA
12 1 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 148 (27.16%) Security Cleared
2 125 (22.94%) SC Cleared
3 36 (6.61%) Degree
4 20 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.30%) PMI Certification
6 14 (2.57%) PMP
7 10 (1.83%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.92%) CBAP
9 5 (0.92%) CISSP
9 5 (0.92%) IIBA
10 4 (0.73%) CISM
10 4 (0.73%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.73%) ISEB
10 4 (0.73%) SAFe Agilist
11 3 (0.55%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.55%) CSPO
12 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (18.35%) QA
2 37 (6.79%) Accessibility
3 30 (5.50%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.65%) GDPR
5 8 (1.47%) GRC
6 7 (1.28%) SLA
7 6 (1.10%) NIST
8 5 (0.92%) GxP
8 5 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.92%) WCAG
9 4 (0.73%) PMO
9 4 (0.73%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.55%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 2 (0.37%) NCSC
11 2 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.18%) Basel III
12 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.18%) GMP
12 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (7.16%) Docker
2 6 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Ceph
3 1 (0.18%) HDFS
3 1 (0.18%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.18%) Squid
3 1 (0.18%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.18%) Varnish
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 69 (12.66%) Kubernetes
2 39 (7.16%) Terraform
3 28 (5.14%) Argo
4 10 (1.83%) Ansible
5 7 (1.28%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.10%) Grafana
7 3 (0.55%) Nagios
8 2 (0.37%) Istio
8 2 (0.37%) Puppet
8 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.18%) Kibana
9 1 (0.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 39 (7.16%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.42%) ServiceNow
3 26 (4.77%) Salesforce
4 22 (4.04%) Red Hat
5 16 (2.94%) Databricks
6 15 (2.75%) Oracle
7 13 (2.39%) Okta
7 13 (2.39%) SAP
8 12 (2.20%) ForgeRock
9 9 (1.65%) Adobe
10 7 (1.28%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.10%) Guidewire
12 5 (0.92%) VMware
13 3 (0.55%) CA Agile Central
13 3 (0.55%) Cognizant
13 3 (0.55%) Google
13 3 (0.55%) Progress
13 3 (0.55%) Sitecore
14 2 (0.37%) OutSystems
14 2 (0.37%) Ping Identity