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

 6 months to
6 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 245 369
Rank change year-on-year +54 +124 -20
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 655 299 155
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.44% 1.08% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 1.19% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 208 103
10th Percentile £365 £357 £350
25th Percentile £450 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.34% -3.85% -2.62%
75th Percentile £580 £584 £617
90th Percentile £675 £688 £671
UK median daily rate £515 £494 £507
% change year-on-year +4.26% -2.66% -5.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 11 3
10th Percentile £56.25 £46.25 £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% +18.18%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £66.01
90th Percentile - £56.25 £66.62
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% +18.18%

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 38,782 25,081 28,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.18% 90.77% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,156 16,055 18,761
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,506 1,391 1,691
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.87 £18.21
Median hourly rate £44.23 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.86% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +43 309 £550 +5.77% 131
North of England -21 110 £500 +10.68% 58
South East -4 96 £525 +2.14% 45
Midlands +2 84 £488 +17.90% 33
West Midlands +1 75 £484 +7.61% 18
North East 0 45 £550 +2.33% 19
Yorkshire -29 44 £500 +21.95% 10
South West -23 29 £503 -0.74% 21
East of England +3 26 £460 +15.00% 8
North West -58 25 £397 -10.95% 30
East Midlands -9 8 £454 +13.44% 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
1 108 (16.49%) Confluence
2 22 (3.36%) CMS
3 12 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.53%) Apache
4 10 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.07%) SAS
6 5 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.76%) Documentum
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 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (1.22%) Trello
3 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.92%) Notion
4 4 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.15%) Mingle
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.76%) 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%) Adobe Campaign
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
1 215 (32.82%) Azure
2 122 (18.63%) AWS
3 108 (16.49%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (7.18%) OpenShift
5 39 (5.95%) GCP
5 39 (5.95%) Power Platform
6 37 (5.65%) GitHub
7 34 (5.19%) Serverless
8 25 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (3.66%) Amazon S3
10 22 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (2.90%) Power Automate
11 19 (2.90%) PowerApps
12 18 (2.75%) Entra ID
13 17 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (2.44%) Azure AKS
14 16 (2.44%) Snowflake
15 15 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
16 14 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.76%) Firewall
1 5 (0.76%) 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 20 (3.05%) Power BI
2 17 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.14%) Metadata
4 14 (2.14%) SQL Server
5 11 (1.68%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.53%) Big Data
7 9 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.07%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.07%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.92%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.76%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.76%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.46%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.46%) Redis
12 3 (0.46%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.46%) Tableau
13 2 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 212 (32.37%) JIRA
2 77 (11.76%) Git
3 57 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 44 (6.72%) SonarQube
5 35 (5.34%) Postman
6 17 (2.60%) Selenium
7 15 (2.29%) GitLab
8 13 (1.98%) JUnit
9 8 (1.22%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.22%) JMeter
10 7 (1.07%) WebDriver
11 6 (0.92%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.92%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.76%) Subversion
13 4 (0.61%) Maven
13 4 (0.61%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.46%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.46%) git-flow
14 3 (0.46%) Gradle
14 3 (0.46%) Protractor
General
1 289 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 137 (20.92%) Finance
3 98 (14.96%) Analytical Skills
3 98 (14.96%) Public Sector
4 53 (8.09%) Retail
5 47 (7.18%) Banking
6 38 (5.80%) Marketing
7 24 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
9 12 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.68%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.53%) Legal
12 8 (1.22%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.22%) Front Office
12 8 (1.22%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.07%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 110 (16.79%) Developer
2 88 (13.44%) Senior
3 85 (12.98%) Analyst
4 81 (12.37%) Scrum Master
5 68 (10.38%) Lead
6 60 (9.16%) Delivery Manager
7 57 (8.70%) Business Analyst
8 54 (8.24%) Product Owner
9 41 (6.26%) Java Developer
10 40 (6.11%) Project Manager
11 31 (4.73%) Senior Manager
12 30 (4.58%) Product Manager
13 27 (4.12%) Architect
14 24 (3.66%) Software Engineer
15 23 (3.51%) Agile Delivery Manager
15 23 (3.51%) Technical Analyst
16 20 (3.05%) Technical Manager
17 19 (2.90%) Java Engineer
17 19 (2.90%) SC Cleared Java Developer
18 18 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (9.47%) REST
2 49 (7.48%) AngularJS
3 41 (6.26%) RESTful
4 39 (5.95%) Quarkus
5 30 (4.58%) React
6 27 (4.12%) .NET
6 27 (4.12%) Spring
7 24 (3.66%) Spring Boot
8 22 (3.36%) JSON
9 16 (2.44%) Kafka
10 15 (2.29%) Lightning Web Components
11 14 (2.14%) Node.js
11 14 (2.14%) SOAP
12 12 (1.83%) Middleware
12 12 (1.83%) PySpark
13 9 (1.37%) HTML
13 9 (1.37%) OAuth
13 9 (1.37%) XML
14 8 (1.22%) ADO
15 7 (1.07%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 262 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 65 (9.92%) Cloud Native
3 19 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (2.75%) Onboarding
4 18 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (2.75%) Virtual Team
5 16 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (1.83%) Life Science
8 11 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.53%) NHS
10 9 (1.37%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.37%) FMCG
10 9 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.22%) Operational Technology
12 7 (1.07%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.07%) Distributed Applications
13 6 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.68%) Windows
2 9 (1.37%) Linux
3 3 (0.46%) Unix
4 2 (0.31%) Android
4 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 609 (92.98%) Agile
2 345 (52.67%) Scrum
3 266 (40.61%) Sprint Retrospective
4 243 (37.10%) DevOps
5 218 (33.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 210 (32.06%) Stakeholder Management
7 183 (27.94%) Sprint Review
8 182 (27.79%) Backlog Refinement
9 181 (27.63%) User Stories
10 177 (27.02%) CI/CD
11 129 (19.69%) Test Automation
12 128 (19.54%) Acceptance Criteria
13 117 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 116 (17.71%) Software Engineering
15 112 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
16 111 (16.95%) Kanban
17 110 (16.79%) Roadmaps
18 107 (16.34%) Backlog Management
19 99 (15.11%) Backlog Prioritisation
20 93 (14.20%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 109 (16.64%) Java
2 66 (10.08%) SQL
3 50 (7.63%) Python
4 40 (6.11%) JavaScript
5 38 (5.80%) C#
6 19 (2.90%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.29%) Apex Code
8 6 (0.92%) Bicep
9 5 (0.76%) Groovy
9 5 (0.76%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.61%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.46%) C++
12 2 (0.31%) Bash
12 2 (0.31%) Korn
12 2 (0.31%) SOQL
12 2 (0.31%) SOSL
13 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.15%) PHP
13 1 (0.15%) R
13 1 (0.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 204 (31.15%) Security Cleared
2 167 (25.50%) SC Cleared
3 44 (6.72%) Degree
4 26 (3.97%) DV Cleared
5 24 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.44%) PMI Certification
7 14 (2.14%) PMP
8 13 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.53%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.92%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.92%) CSPO
11 5 (0.76%) CISSP
11 5 (0.76%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.61%) CISM
12 4 (0.61%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.61%) SAFe Agilist
13 3 (0.46%) IIBA
13 3 (0.46%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (18.93%) QA
2 37 (5.65%) Accessibility
2 37 (5.65%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.29%) GDPR
4 11 (1.68%) PMO
5 10 (1.53%) GRC
6 9 (1.37%) GxP
7 7 (1.07%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 7 (1.07%) NIST
7 7 (1.07%) SLA
8 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.76%) WCAG
10 4 (0.61%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.15%) GMP
12 1 (0.15%) HL7
12 1 (0.15%) NCSC
12 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (7.18%) Docker
2 9 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Ceph
5 1 (0.15%) HDFS
5 1 (0.15%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.15%) Squid
5 1 (0.15%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.15%) Varnish
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 87 (13.28%) Kubernetes
2 45 (6.87%) Terraform
3 41 (6.26%) Argo
4 11 (1.68%) Ansible
5 7 (1.07%) Grafana
5 7 (1.07%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.61%) Puppet
7 3 (0.46%) Istio
8 2 (0.31%) Packer
9 1 (0.15%) Nagios
9 1 (0.15%) Nessus
9 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 60 (9.16%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.95%) Red Hat
2 39 (5.95%) ServiceNow
3 33 (5.04%) Salesforce
4 21 (3.21%) SAP
5 19 (2.90%) Databricks
6 17 (2.60%) Oracle
7 13 (1.98%) Okta
8 12 (1.83%) ForgeRock
9 11 (1.68%) Google
10 10 (1.53%) Adobe
11 7 (1.07%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.76%) VMware
13 4 (0.61%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.46%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.46%) PagerDuty
14 3 (0.46%) Progress
14 3 (0.46%) Sitecore
14 3 (0.46%) Splunk
14 3 (0.46%) Zscaler
287 Sprint Planning jobs in England