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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 336 399
Rank change year-on-year +110 +63 -19
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 368 180 179
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.21% 0.58% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 0.67% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 104 106
10th Percentile £354 £400 £308
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £703 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 8
10th Percentile £43.45 £58.88 £42.18
25th Percentile £46.88 £62.81 £53.31
Median hourly rate £51.25 £66.01 £61.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.36% +6.90% -5.00%
75th Percentile £55.94 £67.45 £73.94
90th Percentile £87.90 £68.23 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £66.01 £61.75
% change year-on-year -22.36% +6.90% -5.00%

All Process and 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 27,406 26,969 34,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.94% 87.30% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,388 16,451 23,708
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,797 990 1,453
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.10 £14.59
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 +90 189 £520 -8.57% 63
North of England -12 63 £452 +6.41% 16
Midlands +3 49 £450 -19.64% 22
West Midlands +2 36 £483 -13.71% 17
Yorkshire -21 31 £500 +17.65% 4
South East -3 29 £525 -9.09% 49
North West +1 25 £423 +11.18% 9
South West +9 14 £544 -20.04% 22
East Midlands -1 13 £358 - 5
East of England -11 9 £460 -23.33% 2
North East -4 7 £538 +31.10% 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 46 (12.50%) Confluence
2 17 (4.62%) CMS
3 14 (3.80%) SAS
4 5 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.36%) Appian
4 5 (1.36%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.36%) WordPress
5 3 (0.82%) Drupal
5 3 (0.82%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.54%) Apache
6 2 (0.54%) Documentum
6 2 (0.54%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.54%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.54%) nginx
6 2 (0.54%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Mendix
Applications
1 11 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.63%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (1.09%) Trello
7 3 (0.82%) Adobe XD
7 3 (0.82%) Sketch
8 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.54%) Primavera
3 2 (0.54%) Workfront
4 1 (0.27%) Endur
4 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 85 (23.10%) Azure
2 61 (16.58%) AWS
3 46 (12.50%) GitHub
4 37 (10.05%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (6.52%) GCP
6 23 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (5.98%) Power Platform
8 18 (4.89%) Serverless
9 16 (4.35%) OpenShift
10 14 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (3.80%) SaaS
11 12 (3.26%) Figma
12 11 (2.99%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (2.72%) Miro
13 10 (2.72%) PowerApps
14 9 (2.45%) Power Automate
15 8 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (2.17%) Entra ID
16 7 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.09%) HTTP
2 3 (0.82%) DNS
3 2 (0.54%) SSL
3 2 (0.54%) VPN
4 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (4.08%) NoSQL
3 14 (3.80%) Power BI
4 9 (2.45%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.17%) Oracle Database
6 6 (1.63%) Big Data
6 6 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.63%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.63%) Tableau
7 5 (1.36%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.36%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.36%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 4 (1.09%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.09%) DB2
8 4 (1.09%) MySQL
9 3 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.82%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.82%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.82%) Metadata
10 2 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 106 (28.80%) JIRA
2 52 (14.13%) Jenkins
3 44 (11.96%) Git
4 39 (10.60%) GitLab
5 33 (8.97%) Selenium
6 29 (7.88%) Cucumber
7 27 (7.34%) JUnit
8 20 (5.43%) Postman
9 11 (2.99%) SonarQube
10 10 (2.72%) webpack
11 6 (1.63%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.63%) TestRail
11 6 (1.63%) Zephyr
12 5 (1.36%) Babel
12 5 (1.36%) Cypress.io
12 5 (1.36%) Robot Framework
12 5 (1.36%) TestNG
12 5 (1.36%) WebDriver
13 4 (1.09%) REST Assured
13 4 (1.09%) TeamCity
General
1 173 (47.01%) Social Skills
2 83 (22.55%) Finance
3 49 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (11.68%) Public Sector
5 35 (9.51%) Banking
6 21 (5.71%) Marketing
7 16 (4.35%) Telecoms
8 12 (3.26%) Front Office
9 11 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.36%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.09%) Back Office
13 4 (1.09%) Legal
14 3 (0.82%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.82%) Retail
15 2 (0.54%) Automotive
15 2 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 71 (19.29%) Developer
2 50 (13.59%) Analyst
3 40 (10.87%) Scrum Master
4 38 (10.33%) Business Analyst
5 30 (8.15%) Product Owner
6 29 (7.88%) Lead
6 29 (7.88%) Senior
7 19 (5.16%) Java Developer
8 15 (4.08%) Project Manager
9 13 (3.53%) Test Specialist
10 10 (2.72%) Architect
10 10 (2.72%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (2.17%) Product Manager
11 8 (2.17%) Technical Analyst
11 8 (2.17%) Tester
12 7 (1.90%) Applications Developer
12 7 (1.90%) Delivery Manager
12 7 (1.90%) QA Engineer
12 7 (1.90%) Software Engineer
12 7 (1.90%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (15.49%) REST
2 39 (10.60%) React
3 35 (9.51%) RESTful
4 24 (6.52%) HTML
5 23 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 23 (6.25%) CSS
6 16 (4.35%) Spring
7 15 (4.08%) Node.js
7 15 (4.08%) Spring Boot
8 14 (3.80%) .NET
9 13 (3.53%) pytest
10 11 (2.99%) HTML5
10 11 (2.99%) JSON
10 11 (2.99%) Kafka
10 11 (2.99%) SOAP
10 11 (2.99%) Vue
11 10 (2.72%) Next.js
12 9 (2.45%) Jest
12 9 (2.45%) XML
13 8 (2.17%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 126 (34.24%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.80%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.53%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.26%) Virtual Team
5 11 (2.99%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.90%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.36%) Marketing Technology
8 5 (1.36%) PMI
8 5 (1.36%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.36%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.09%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.09%) NHS
10 3 (0.82%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.45%) Windows
2 7 (1.90%) Unix
3 5 (1.36%) Linux
4 3 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.27%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) VMS
5 1 (0.27%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (90.22%) Agile
2 193 (52.45%) Scrum
3 176 (47.83%) Sprint Retrospective
4 117 (31.79%) DevOps
5 111 (30.16%) CI/CD
6 105 (28.53%) Problem-Solving
7 96 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 86 (23.37%) Sprint Review
9 85 (23.10%) Test Automation
10 78 (21.20%) User Stories
11 74 (20.11%) Backlog Refinement
12 69 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
13 59 (16.03%) Kanban
14 56 (15.22%) Analytics
14 56 (15.22%) Roadmaps
15 54 (14.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 51 (13.86%) Backlog Management
17 48 (13.04%) Microservices
17 48 (13.04%) User Experience
18 46 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 67 (18.21%) Python
2 61 (16.58%) Java
3 54 (14.67%) JavaScript
4 50 (13.59%) SQL
5 27 (7.34%) TypeScript
6 22 (5.98%) C#
7 5 (1.36%) Bicep
7 5 (1.36%) Go
8 4 (1.09%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.09%) Bash
9 3 (0.82%) PHP
9 3 (0.82%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.82%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.82%) VBA
10 2 (0.54%) XPath
11 1 (0.27%) C++
11 1 (0.27%) Korn
11 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.27%) Ruby
11 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (21.47%) Security Cleared
2 67 (18.21%) SC Cleared
3 30 (8.15%) Degree
4 11 (2.99%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.90%) PMP
7 6 (1.63%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.09%) CSPO
9 3 (0.82%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.54%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.54%) CISSP
10 2 (0.54%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.27%) OCA
11 1 (0.27%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (22.28%) QA
2 28 (7.61%) Accessibility
3 16 (4.35%) GDPR
4 11 (2.99%) WCAG
5 10 (2.72%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.90%) GRC
7 4 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.09%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.09%) PSD2
8 3 (0.82%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.82%) NIST
9 2 (0.54%) HL7
9 2 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.27%) MiFID
10 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.27%) RMADS
10 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 51 (13.86%) Docker
2 5 (1.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (13.32%) Kubernetes
2 29 (7.88%) Terraform
3 16 (4.35%) Ansible
4 8 (2.17%) Grafana
4 8 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.90%) Argo
6 4 (1.09%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.54%) Kibana
8 1 (0.27%) Istio
8 1 (0.27%) linkerd
8 1 (0.27%) Nagios
8 1 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 53 (14.40%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 14 (3.80%) Oracle
4 13 (3.53%) Google
5 9 (2.45%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.17%) Adobe
6 8 (2.17%) Databricks
7 7 (1.90%) Cisco
8 5 (1.36%) Veracode
9 4 (1.09%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.09%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.09%) Splunk
10 3 (0.82%) Amplitude
10 3 (0.82%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.82%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.82%) Okta
10 3 (0.82%) Progress
10 3 (0.82%) SAP
10 3 (0.82%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.54%) OneLogin