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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 232 349
Rank change year-on-year +41 +117 +7
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 684 320 186
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.15% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.27% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 228 118
10th Percentile £400 £350 £356
25th Percentile £450 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% -1.91%
75th Percentile £586 £588 £625
90th Percentile £693 £688 £674
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 13 3
10th Percentile £56.25 £43.65 £58.00
25th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 £60.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% +1.17%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £66.01
90th Percentile - £56.00 £66.62
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% +1.17%

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 39,380 25,274 28,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.84% 85.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,176 16,039 17,819
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
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 2,707 1,489 1,353
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.33 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +3.61%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +32 321 £550 +5.62% 180
North of England -22 112 £500 +16.28% 61
Midlands +20 110 £475 +18.75% 30
West Midlands +32 102 £475 +5.56% 20
South East -9 94 £525 - 37
Yorkshire -15 49 £500 +17.30% 21
North East -6 46 £550 +2.33% 14
South West -27 27 £508 +0.25% 22
East of England -15 25 £460 - 6
North West -50 21 £445 +7.23% 26
East Midlands -19 7 £454 +25.95% 9
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
1 135 (19.74%) Confluence
2 18 (2.63%) CMS
3 13 (1.90%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.61%) Apache
5 10 (1.46%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.73%) Documentum
8 3 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.44%) SAS
9 2 (0.29%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.15%) JBoss
10 1 (0.15%) Mendix
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.15%) Traefik
10 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.17%) Trello
5 6 (0.88%) Notion
6 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
7 4 (0.58%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.29%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.15%) Sketch
9 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.17%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.73%) Magento
5 3 (0.44%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.29%) Primavera
6 2 (0.29%) Workfront
7 1 (0.15%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
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
1 216 (31.58%) Azure
2 128 (18.71%) AWS
3 115 (16.81%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (6.73%) Power Platform
5 43 (6.29%) GitHub
6 39 (5.70%) OpenShift
7 35 (5.12%) GCP
7 35 (5.12%) Serverless
8 26 (3.80%) Amazon S3
9 24 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (3.22%) Amazon EC2
10 22 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (3.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (3.07%) PowerApps
12 20 (2.92%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (2.92%) Power Automate
13 17 (2.49%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (2.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.58%) Firewall
2 3 (0.44%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.29%) Broadband
3 2 (0.29%) Network Security
3 2 (0.29%) SAN
3 2 (0.29%) WAN
4 1 (0.15%) 5G
4 1 (0.15%) DNS
4 1 (0.15%) Intranet
4 1 (0.15%) NFC
4 1 (0.15%) NGFW
4 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.15%) SONET
4 1 (0.15%) SSL
4 1 (0.15%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.65%) Power BI
2 24 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (3.51%) Relational Database
3 22 (3.22%) SQL Server
4 21 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (2.49%) Metadata
6 10 (1.46%) MongoDB
7 9 (1.32%) Big Data
7 9 (1.32%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (1.17%) BigQuery
9 7 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (0.88%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.73%) Ataccama
12 4 (0.58%) Delta Lake
12 4 (0.58%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.58%) MySQL
12 4 (0.58%) Redis
12 4 (0.58%) Spark SQL
12 4 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 238 (34.80%) JIRA
2 82 (11.99%) Git
3 59 (8.63%) Jenkins
4 48 (7.02%) SonarQube
5 30 (4.39%) Postman
6 15 (2.19%) JUnit
6 15 (2.19%) Maven
7 11 (1.61%) GitLab
7 11 (1.61%) Mockito
8 10 (1.46%) Selenium
9 9 (1.32%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.88%) JMeter
11 5 (0.73%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.73%) Subversion
12 4 (0.58%) Gradle
12 4 (0.58%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.44%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.44%) Protractor
13 3 (0.44%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.44%) Zephyr
General
1 314 (45.91%) Social Skills
2 148 (21.64%) Finance
3 128 (18.71%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 52 (7.60%) Retail
6 51 (7.46%) Banking
7 32 (4.68%) Marketing
8 29 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
9 25 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.61%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.32%) Front Office
13 9 (1.32%) Legal
14 8 (1.17%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.17%) Retail Banking
15 7 (1.02%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 129 (18.86%) Developer
2 105 (15.35%) Senior
3 90 (13.16%) Analyst
3 90 (13.16%) Scrum Master
4 77 (11.26%) Lead
5 68 (9.94%) Delivery Manager
6 61 (8.92%) Business Analyst
7 51 (7.46%) Product Owner
8 46 (6.73%) Java Developer
9 40 (5.85%) Project Manager
10 32 (4.68%) Product Manager
11 31 (4.53%) Senior Manager
12 28 (4.09%) Senior Developer
13 26 (3.80%) Architect
14 23 (3.36%) Technical Manager
15 22 (3.22%) Agile Delivery Manager
16 19 (2.78%) Technical Leader
17 17 (2.49%) Technical Analyst
18 16 (2.34%) Software Engineer
18 16 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (12.57%) REST
2 58 (8.48%) AngularJS
3 51 (7.46%) RESTful
4 45 (6.58%) Terraform
5 35 (5.12%) Spring
5 35 (5.12%) Spring Boot
6 34 (4.97%) Quarkus
7 32 (4.68%) .NET
8 27 (3.95%) React
9 26 (3.80%) JSON
9 26 (3.80%) SOAP
10 19 (2.78%) HTML
11 18 (2.63%) Web Services
12 17 (2.49%) Kafka
12 17 (2.49%) Node.js
13 15 (2.19%) Lightning Web Components
14 13 (1.90%) Hibernate
14 13 (1.90%) PySpark
15 12 (1.75%) CSS
16 11 (1.61%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 276 (40.35%) Product Ownership
2 78 (11.40%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.65%) Onboarding
3 25 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (3.36%) Virtual Team
5 15 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.46%) AI Agents
7 10 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.46%) Life Science
7 10 (1.46%) NHS
8 9 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.17%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.17%) FMCG
9 8 (1.17%) Marketing Technology
10 6 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (0.88%) Operational Technology
11 5 (0.73%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.75%) Windows
2 10 (1.46%) Linux
3 4 (0.58%) Android
3 4 (0.58%) Unix
4 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 641 (93.71%) Agile
2 372 (54.39%) Scrum
3 272 (39.77%) Sprint Retrospective
4 256 (37.43%) DevOps
5 246 (35.96%) Continuous Improvement
6 230 (33.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 211 (30.85%) Backlog Refinement
8 201 (29.39%) User Stories
9 195 (28.51%) CI/CD
10 189 (27.63%) Sprint Review
11 145 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
12 138 (20.18%) Test Automation
13 130 (19.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 128 (18.71%) Acceptance Criteria
15 124 (18.13%) Backlog Management
16 121 (17.69%) Software Engineering
17 119 (17.40%) Kanban
18 116 (16.96%) Roadmaps
19 108 (15.79%) SDLC
20 95 (13.89%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 112 (16.37%) Java
2 80 (11.70%) SQL
3 57 (8.33%) Python
4 56 (8.19%) JavaScript
5 42 (6.14%) C#
6 30 (4.39%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.19%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.73%) Bicep
8 5 (0.73%) Groovy
8 5 (0.73%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.58%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.44%) C++
10 3 (0.44%) Korn
11 2 (0.29%) Bash
11 2 (0.29%) R
11 2 (0.29%) SOQL
11 2 (0.29%) SOSL
12 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.15%) PHP
12 1 (0.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 216 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 176 (25.73%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.85%) Degree
4 31 (4.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (3.95%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.63%) PMI Certification
7 15 (2.19%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (1.90%) PMP
9 8 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (0.88%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.88%) CSPO
10 6 (0.88%) SAFe Agilist
11 5 (0.73%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.58%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.58%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.44%) CAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (19.30%) QA
2 43 (6.29%) Data Quality
3 40 (5.85%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.90%) PMO
5 11 (1.61%) GDPR
6 10 (1.46%) GRC
7 7 (1.02%) GxP
7 7 (1.02%) WCAG
8 5 (0.73%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 4 (0.58%) NIST
10 3 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.44%) SLA
11 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.15%) GMP
12 1 (0.15%) HL7
12 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.15%) PERC
12 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (8.92%) Docker
2 9 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
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 77 (11.26%) Kubernetes
2 36 (5.26%) Argo
3 13 (1.90%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.75%) Grafana
5 8 (1.17%) Ansible
6 4 (0.58%) Puppet
7 3 (0.44%) Istio
8 2 (0.29%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.29%) Packer
9 1 (0.15%) Kibana
9 1 (0.15%) Nagios
9 1 (0.15%) Nessus
9 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 74 (10.82%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.85%) ServiceNow
3 34 (4.97%) Red Hat
3 34 (4.97%) Salesforce
4 23 (3.36%) Databricks
5 19 (2.78%) SAP
6 17 (2.49%) Oracle
7 10 (1.46%) Adobe
7 10 (1.46%) Google
7 10 (1.46%) Okta
8 8 (1.17%) ForgeRock
9 7 (1.02%) Informatica
9 7 (1.02%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.02%) VMware
10 6 (0.88%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.58%) Splunk
12 3 (0.44%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (0.44%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.44%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.44%) Zscaler