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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 238 351
Rank change year-on-year +41 +113 +8
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 651 317 170
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.43% 1.15% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 1.27% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 225 113
10th Percentile £390 £350 £355
25th Percentile £450 £405 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £697 £673
UK median daily rate £514 £500 £514
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.72% -3.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 12 3
10th Percentile £56.25 £46.50 £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 £70.75 £56.13 £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 38,747 25,016 28,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.80% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,944 15,923 18,325
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,477 1,517
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.23 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.80 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £69.79 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.26% -37.90% -4.71%

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 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 26 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 26 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 +31 312 £550 +5.47% 162
North of England -34 104 £500 +10.68% 50
South East -15 96 £525 - 23
Midlands +3 86 £475 +18.45% 35
West Midlands +1 78 £475 -7.32% 19
North East -2 45 £550 +2.33% 16
Yorkshire -21 44 £500 +17.30% 14
East of England -7 27 £460 - 9
South West -24 26 £505 -0.25% 32
North West -64 19 £445 +2.65% 20
East Midlands -21 7 £454 +25.95% 15
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
1 115 (17.67%) Confluence
2 20 (3.07%) CMS
3 13 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.38%) Apache
4 9 (1.38%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.77%) Documentum
6 3 (0.46%) SAS
7 2 (0.31%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
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 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.08%) Trello
5 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.92%) Notion
6 2 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.15%) Mingle
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.77%) Magento
5 3 (0.46%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.31%) Primavera
6 2 (0.31%) Workfront
7 1 (0.15%) Aladdin
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 (33.18%) Azure
2 116 (17.82%) AWS
3 115 (17.67%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (6.91%) Power Platform
5 41 (6.30%) OpenShift
6 37 (5.68%) GitHub
7 35 (5.38%) GCP
8 32 (4.92%) Serverless
9 24 (3.69%) Amazon S3
10 22 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (3.23%) PowerApps
12 20 (3.07%) Power Automate
13 19 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
16 16 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
16 16 (2.46%) Entra ID
17 15 (2.30%) Snowflake
18 14 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.77%) Firewall
2 3 (0.46%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.46%) Network Security
3 2 (0.31%) Broadband
3 2 (0.31%) 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 24 (3.69%) Power BI
2 18 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (2.61%) SQL Server
4 15 (2.30%) Relational Database
5 14 (2.15%) Metadata
5 14 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.38%) Big Data
7 8 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (1.23%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.23%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.08%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.77%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.61%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.61%) Redis
12 3 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.46%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.46%) MySQL
12 3 (0.46%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 221 (33.95%) JIRA
2 72 (11.06%) Git
3 49 (7.53%) Jenkins
4 42 (6.45%) SonarQube
5 34 (5.22%) Postman
6 12 (1.84%) Selenium
7 11 (1.69%) GitLab
8 9 (1.38%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.08%) JMeter
9 7 (1.08%) JUnit
10 6 (0.92%) Maven
11 5 (0.77%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.77%) Subversion
11 5 (0.77%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.61%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.61%) Gradle
13 3 (0.46%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.46%) Protractor
13 3 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (0.46%) Zephyr
General
1 299 (45.93%) Social Skills
2 136 (20.89%) Finance
3 110 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (15.67%) Public Sector
5 53 (8.14%) Retail
6 47 (7.22%) Banking
7 35 (5.38%) Marketing
8 24 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (1.84%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.69%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.38%) Legal
15 8 (1.23%) Financial Institution
16 7 (1.08%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.08%) Front Office
16 7 (1.08%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 113 (17.36%) Developer
2 94 (14.44%) Senior
3 89 (13.67%) Analyst
4 81 (12.44%) Scrum Master
5 68 (10.45%) Lead
6 61 (9.37%) Business Analyst
7 59 (9.06%) Delivery Manager
8 51 (7.83%) Product Owner
9 40 (6.14%) Project Manager
10 38 (5.84%) Java Developer
11 31 (4.76%) Product Manager
11 31 (4.76%) Senior Manager
12 26 (3.99%) Architect
13 21 (3.23%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 21 (3.23%) Senior Developer
13 21 (3.23%) Technical Manager
14 20 (3.07%) Technical Analyst
15 18 (2.76%) Java Engineer
15 18 (2.76%) Software Engineer
16 17 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (10.75%) REST
2 50 (7.68%) AngularJS
3 45 (6.91%) Terraform
4 39 (5.99%) RESTful
5 36 (5.53%) Quarkus
6 28 (4.30%) .NET
7 26 (3.99%) React
8 25 (3.84%) JSON
8 25 (3.84%) Spring
9 24 (3.69%) Spring Boot
10 17 (2.61%) Kafka
11 16 (2.46%) Lightning Web Components
12 14 (2.15%) HTML
12 14 (2.15%) Node.js
12 14 (2.15%) SOAP
13 13 (2.00%) PySpark
14 11 (1.69%) Middleware
15 9 (1.38%) ADO
15 9 (1.38%) XML
16 8 (1.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 266 (40.86%) Product Ownership
2 66 (10.14%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 21 (3.23%) Virtual Team
4 17 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.84%) Life Science
8 10 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.54%) NHS
9 9 (1.38%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.38%) FMCG
10 8 (1.23%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (1.23%) Operational Technology
11 7 (1.08%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.92%) Derivative
12 6 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.84%) Windows
2 10 (1.54%) Linux
3 5 (0.77%) Unix
4 4 (0.61%) Android
5 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 608 (93.39%) Agile
2 345 (53.00%) Scrum
3 262 (40.25%) Sprint Retrospective
4 248 (38.10%) DevOps
5 228 (35.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 218 (33.49%) Stakeholder Management
7 188 (28.88%) Backlog Refinement
7 188 (28.88%) User Stories
8 185 (28.42%) Sprint Review
9 172 (26.42%) CI/CD
10 132 (20.28%) Acceptance Criteria
11 127 (19.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 125 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
12 125 (19.20%) Test Automation
13 113 (17.36%) Kanban
14 112 (17.20%) Backlog Management
15 111 (17.05%) Roadmaps
15 111 (17.05%) Software Engineering
16 94 (14.44%) SDLC
17 91 (13.98%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 102 (15.67%) Java
2 75 (11.52%) SQL
3 51 (7.83%) Python
4 46 (7.07%) JavaScript
5 39 (5.99%) C#
6 19 (2.92%) TypeScript
7 16 (2.46%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.77%) Bicep
8 5 (0.77%) Groovy
8 5 (0.77%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.61%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.46%) C++
10 3 (0.46%) Korn
11 2 (0.31%) Bash
11 2 (0.31%) SOQL
11 2 (0.31%) SOSL
12 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.15%) PHP
12 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 203 (31.18%) Security Cleared
2 165 (25.35%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.14%) Degree
4 25 (3.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 25 (3.84%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.61%) PMI Certification
6 13 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (2.00%) PMP
7 11 (1.69%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (0.92%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.92%) CSPO
10 5 (0.77%) CISSP
10 5 (0.77%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.77%) SAFe Agilist
11 4 (0.61%) CISM
11 4 (0.61%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.46%) IIBA
12 3 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (19.66%) QA
2 39 (5.99%) Accessibility
2 39 (5.99%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.00%) GDPR
3 13 (2.00%) PMO
4 11 (1.69%) GRC
5 9 (1.38%) GxP
6 7 (1.08%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 7 (1.08%) NIST
7 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.92%) WCAG
8 5 (0.77%) SLA
9 4 (0.61%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.15%) GMP
11 1 (0.15%) HL7
11 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.15%) PERC
11 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (7.22%) Docker
2 9 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
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 (11.83%) Kubernetes
2 38 (5.84%) Argo
3 9 (1.38%) Ansible
4 6 (0.92%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.77%) Grafana
6 4 (0.61%) Puppet
7 3 (0.46%) Istio
8 2 (0.31%) 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 71 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.84%) ServiceNow
3 36 (5.53%) Red Hat
4 35 (5.38%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.38%) SAP
6 20 (3.07%) Databricks
7 16 (2.46%) Oracle
8 11 (1.69%) Google
8 11 (1.69%) Okta
9 9 (1.38%) Adobe
9 9 (1.38%) ForgeRock
10 7 (1.08%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.61%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.61%) CA Agile Central
11 4 (0.61%) Informatica
11 4 (0.61%) Splunk
11 4 (0.61%) VMware
12 3 (0.46%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.46%) Progress
12 3 (0.46%) Sitecore