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

 6 months to
8 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 263 407
Rank change year-on-year +61 +144 -51
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 591 267 155
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.33% 1.00% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.10% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 177 99
10th Percentile £363 £366 £348
25th Percentile £447 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.72% -3.47%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £574
90th Percentile £650 £689 £669
UK median daily rate £517 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.34% - -6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 10 2
10th Percentile £58.13 £48.50 £57.13
25th Percentile £62.50 £49.06 £58.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -18.37% +11.36%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £63.44
90th Percentile £71.88 £56.25 £64.38
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year +40.00% -18.37% +11.36%

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 37,991 24,251 31,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 90.90% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,934 15,590 20,626
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £517 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,364 1,224 2,273
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.88 £17.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.81 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +37 285 £525 +0.82% 87
North of England -29 103 £495 +5.54% 38
South East -16 84 £560 +10.62% 32
Midlands -22 64 £492 +15.76% 24
West Midlands -20 54 £492 +9.33% 12
North East 0 40 £550 +4.76% 4
Yorkshire -22 34 £515 +4.83% 10
North West -47 33 £397 -10.95% 25
East of England -2 25 £460 +15.00% 8
South West -18 22 £475 -6.17% 14
East Midlands -14 9 £413 +3.13% 11
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 99 (16.75%) Confluence
2 23 (3.89%) CMS
3 8 (1.35%) SAS
4 6 (1.02%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.85%) Documentum
6 4 (0.68%) Apache
7 2 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.34%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.17%) Drupal
8 1 (0.17%) JBoss
8 1 (0.17%) Mendix
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.17%) Traefik
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.02%) Trello
4 4 (0.68%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.68%) Notion
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) Mingle
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.85%) Magento
5 2 (0.34%) Finacle
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.34%) Primavera
5 2 (0.34%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Utilities
6 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.17%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.17%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.17%) Shopify
6 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.17%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 183 (30.96%) Azure
2 100 (16.92%) AWS
3 92 (15.57%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (7.11%) OpenShift
5 27 (4.57%) Power Platform
6 23 (3.89%) GitHub
7 22 (3.72%) GCP
8 21 (3.55%) Serverless
9 17 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (2.71%) Amazon S3
10 16 (2.71%) Entra ID
11 15 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (2.54%) Azure AKS
12 14 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (2.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 13 (2.20%) Snowflake
14 12 (2.03%) SaaS
14 12 (2.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 11 (1.86%) Power Automate
16 9 (1.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.85%) Firewall
2 4 (0.68%) Network Security
3 3 (0.51%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.34%) DNS
4 2 (0.34%) WAN
5 1 (0.17%) 5G
5 1 (0.17%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.17%) Broadband
5 1 (0.17%) DHCP
5 1 (0.17%) NFC
5 1 (0.17%) NGFW
5 1 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.17%) SONET
5 1 (0.17%) SSL
5 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.17%) VPN
5 1 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.21%) Power BI
2 15 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.20%) Metadata
4 10 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (1.69%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.18%) Big Data
6 7 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.18%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.02%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.02%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.85%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.85%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.85%) Tableau
9 4 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.51%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.51%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.51%) Redis
11 2 (0.34%) MySQL
11 2 (0.34%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 195 (32.99%) JIRA
2 74 (12.52%) Git
3 54 (9.14%) Jenkins
4 40 (6.77%) Postman
5 39 (6.60%) SonarQube
6 23 (3.89%) GitLab
6 23 (3.89%) Selenium
7 12 (2.03%) JUnit
8 11 (1.86%) WebDriver
9 9 (1.52%) Cypress.io
9 9 (1.52%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.18%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.18%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.85%) JMeter
11 5 (0.85%) Subversion
12 3 (0.51%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.51%) git-flow
12 3 (0.51%) MLflow
12 3 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.34%) Storybook
General
1 251 (42.47%) Social Skills
2 119 (20.14%) Finance
3 82 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (13.20%) Public Sector
5 45 (7.61%) Retail
6 41 (6.94%) Banking
7 35 (5.92%) Marketing
8 19 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.86%) Legal
13 10 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.35%) Retail Banking
15 7 (1.18%) Front Office
15 7 (1.18%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.18%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.02%) Aerospace
16 6 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (15.40%) Developer
2 74 (12.52%) Senior
3 73 (12.35%) Analyst
3 73 (12.35%) Scrum Master
4 56 (9.48%) Lead
5 55 (9.31%) Product Owner
6 53 (8.97%) Delivery Manager
7 45 (7.61%) Business Analyst
8 37 (6.26%) Java Developer
9 35 (5.92%) Project Manager
10 29 (4.91%) Senior Manager
11 27 (4.57%) Architect
11 27 (4.57%) Product Manager
12 23 (3.89%) Software Engineer
13 19 (3.21%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 19 (3.21%) Java Engineer
13 19 (3.21%) Technical Analyst
14 18 (3.05%) Technical Manager
15 17 (2.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
16 16 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (9.31%) REST
2 46 (7.78%) AngularJS
3 34 (5.75%) Quarkus
3 34 (5.75%) React
3 34 (5.75%) RESTful
4 19 (3.21%) .NET
5 18 (3.05%) JSON
5 18 (3.05%) Spring
6 17 (2.88%) Lightning Web Components
7 15 (2.54%) Node.js
7 15 (2.54%) Spring Boot
8 13 (2.20%) HTML
9 12 (2.03%) Kafka
9 12 (2.03%) Middleware
10 11 (1.86%) CSS
11 10 (1.69%) SOAP
12 9 (1.52%) OAuth
12 9 (1.52%) Playwright
12 9 (1.52%) PySpark
13 8 (1.35%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 227 (38.41%) Product Ownership
2 50 (8.46%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.55%) Virtual Team
4 19 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (2.71%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.86%) Life Science
10 9 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.52%) FMCG
10 9 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.35%) NHS
12 7 (1.18%) Distributed Applications
12 7 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
13 6 (1.02%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.02%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (0.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.69%) Windows
2 6 (1.02%) Linux
3 3 (0.51%) Unix
3 3 (0.51%) VMS
4 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 550 (93.06%) Agile
2 304 (51.44%) Scrum
3 265 (44.84%) Sprint Retrospective
4 202 (34.18%) DevOps
5 189 (31.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 165 (27.92%) Sprint Review
7 162 (27.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 156 (26.40%) CI/CD
9 152 (25.72%) User Stories
10 146 (24.70%) Backlog Refinement
11 116 (19.63%) Acceptance Criteria
12 113 (19.12%) Test Automation
13 106 (17.94%) Roadmaps
14 103 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
15 97 (16.41%) Kanban
16 96 (16.24%) Backlog Management
16 96 (16.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 90 (15.23%) Backlog Prioritisation
18 84 (14.21%) Software Engineering
19 83 (14.04%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 95 (16.07%) Java
2 56 (9.48%) Python
3 55 (9.31%) SQL
4 38 (6.43%) JavaScript
5 33 (5.58%) C#
6 22 (3.72%) TypeScript
7 14 (2.37%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.85%) Bicep
8 5 (0.85%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.68%) Groovy
10 3 (0.51%) C++
10 3 (0.51%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.34%) Korn
11 2 (0.34%) R
11 2 (0.34%) SOQL
11 2 (0.34%) SOSL
12 1 (0.17%) Bash
12 1 (0.17%) PHP
12 1 (0.17%) Scala
12 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 177 (29.95%) Security Cleared
2 146 (24.70%) SC Cleared
3 42 (7.11%) Degree
4 20 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.05%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.71%) PMI Certification
7 14 (2.37%) PMP
8 8 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.85%) CISSP
9 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.68%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.68%) CISM
10 4 (0.68%) CSPO
10 4 (0.68%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.68%) IIBA
10 4 (0.68%) SAFe Agilist
11 3 (0.51%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (18.61%) QA
2 36 (6.09%) Accessibility
3 32 (5.41%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.20%) GDPR
5 9 (1.52%) GxP
6 8 (1.35%) GRC
7 7 (1.18%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 7 (1.18%) PMO
7 7 (1.18%) SLA
8 6 (1.02%) NIST
9 5 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.85%) WCAG
10 4 (0.68%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.17%) GMP
12 1 (0.17%) NCSC
12 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.17%) PERC
12 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (6.77%) Docker
2 6 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.17%) Ceph
4 1 (0.17%) HDFS
4 1 (0.17%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.17%) Squid
4 1 (0.17%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.17%) Varnish
4 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 83 (14.04%) Kubernetes
2 44 (7.45%) Terraform
3 38 (6.43%) Argo
4 12 (2.03%) Ansible
5 9 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.35%) Grafana
7 4 (0.68%) Puppet
8 3 (0.51%) Nagios
9 2 (0.34%) Istio
9 2 (0.34%) Packer
9 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.17%) Kibana
10 1 (0.17%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 43 (7.28%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.09%) ServiceNow
3 35 (5.92%) Salesforce
4 34 (5.75%) Red Hat
5 19 (3.21%) Oracle
5 19 (3.21%) SAP
6 16 (2.71%) Databricks
7 13 (2.20%) Okta
8 12 (2.03%) Adobe
8 12 (2.03%) ForgeRock
9 7 (1.18%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.02%) VMware
11 5 (0.85%) Google
12 3 (0.51%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.51%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (0.51%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.51%) Progress
12 3 (0.51%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.51%) Splunk
13 2 (0.34%) Guidewire
194 Sprint Planning jobs in England