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

 6 months to
14 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 241 350
Rank change year-on-year +28 +109 +43
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 624 317 181
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.33% 1.13% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.24% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 231 117
10th Percentile £363 £350 £364
25th Percentile £440 £407 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.47%
75th Percentile £579 £575 £600
90th Percentile £716 £688 £674
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 14 2
10th Percentile £55.00 £43.45 £57.33
25th Percentile £62.50 £46.88 £58.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £62.26
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -19.69% -10.14%
75th Percentile - £54.13 £64.95
90th Percentile - £55.88 £66.19
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £62.26
% change year-on-year +40.00% -19.69% -10.14%

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 39,775 25,570 27,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.94% 90.90% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,015 16,235 16,841
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,044 1,594 1,106
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.41 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.47 £44.80 £66.90
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +9 324 £545 +4.71% 225
Midlands +16 101 £474 +20.32% 35
West Midlands +30 97 £473 +8.00% 18
North of England -40 89 £488 +9.92% 64
South East -14 82 £505 -3.81% 54
Yorkshire -21 38 £500 +1.78% 24
North East -10 36 £350 -34.88% 10
South West -19 22 £508 -4.47% 24
East of England -19 17 £460 - 14
North West -61 16 £448 +7.19% 30
East Midlands -27 3 £448 +24.36% 17
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
1 131 (20.99%) Confluence
2 18 (2.88%) CMS
3 13 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.92%) Apache
5 8 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.80%) Documentum
6 5 (0.80%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.64%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.48%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.32%) Kentico
9 2 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.16%) Camunda
10 1 (0.16%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.16%) JBoss
10 1 (0.16%) Mendix
10 1 (0.16%) SAS
10 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.96%) Notion
4 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.80%) Trello
5 3 (0.48%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.48%) Productboard
6 2 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.32%) Sketch
7 1 (0.16%) Simulink
7 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.60%) Salesforce CRM
2 9 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.64%) Magento
5 3 (0.48%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.32%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.32%) Primavera
6 2 (0.32%) Workfront
7 1 (0.16%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Utilities
7 1 (0.16%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.16%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.16%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.16%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.16%) Shopify
7 1 (0.16%) Siebel CRM
7 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 189 (30.29%) Azure
2 104 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 100 (16.03%) AWS
4 52 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 41 (6.57%) GitHub
6 35 (5.61%) OpenShift
7 34 (5.45%) GCP
8 32 (5.13%) Serverless
9 23 (3.69%) Amazon S3
9 23 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
10 22 (3.53%) PowerApps
11 21 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (3.37%) Power Automate
12 20 (3.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 18 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
14 17 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (2.40%) Entra ID
16 14 (2.24%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.80%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.48%) Broadband
2 3 (0.48%) Firewall
3 2 (0.32%) SAN
3 2 (0.32%) WAN
3 2 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.16%) 4G
4 1 (0.16%) 5G
4 1 (0.16%) Intranet
4 1 (0.16%) IPv4
4 1 (0.16%) IPv6
4 1 (0.16%) Network Security
4 1 (0.16%) NFC
4 1 (0.16%) NGFW
4 1 (0.16%) PPP
4 1 (0.16%) UPnP
4 1 (0.16%) VPN
4 1 (0.16%) Wireless
4 1 (0.16%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.81%) Power BI
2 27 (4.33%) SQL Server
3 23 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (3.21%) Relational Database
5 19 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.08%) Metadata
7 10 (1.60%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.12%) Big Data
8 7 (1.12%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.12%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.12%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.96%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.96%) Delta Lake
10 5 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.80%) Ataccama
11 4 (0.64%) MySQL
11 4 (0.64%) Spark SQL
11 4 (0.64%) Tableau
12 3 (0.48%) ClickHouse
12 3 (0.48%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 215 (34.46%) JIRA
2 67 (10.74%) Git
3 53 (8.49%) Jenkins
4 42 (6.73%) SonarQube
5 19 (3.04%) Postman
6 15 (2.40%) GitLab
7 14 (2.24%) Maven
8 13 (2.08%) JUnit
9 11 (1.76%) Mockito
10 9 (1.44%) Selenium
11 6 (0.96%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.96%) JMeter
12 5 (0.80%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.64%) Gradle
13 4 (0.64%) Subversion
14 3 (0.48%) Protractor
14 3 (0.48%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.48%) WebDriver
15 2 (0.32%) Charles Proxy
15 2 (0.32%) git-flow
General
1 295 (47.28%) Social Skills
2 148 (23.72%) Finance
3 137 (21.96%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (17.47%) Public Sector
5 68 (10.90%) Banking
6 43 (6.89%) Retail
7 31 (4.97%) Organisational Skills
8 27 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 27 (4.33%) Marketing
9 14 (2.24%) Investment Banking
10 13 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.08%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.92%) Front Office
12 10 (1.60%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.28%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.12%) Billing
15 6 (0.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 128 (20.51%) Developer
2 91 (14.58%) Senior
3 84 (13.46%) Analyst
4 74 (11.86%) Scrum Master
5 69 (11.06%) Lead
6 55 (8.81%) Business Analyst
7 51 (8.17%) Delivery Manager
7 51 (8.17%) Product Owner
8 46 (7.37%) Java Developer
9 44 (7.05%) Project Manager
10 29 (4.65%) Product Manager
10 29 (4.65%) Senior Developer
11 26 (4.17%) Architect
12 20 (3.21%) Technical Manager
13 18 (2.88%) Technical Analyst
14 17 (2.72%) Data Engineer
14 17 (2.72%) Senior Manager
14 17 (2.72%) Technical Leader
15 15 (2.40%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 15 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (12.82%) REST
2 49 (7.85%) AngularJS
3 47 (7.53%) RESTful
4 36 (5.77%) Spring
4 36 (5.77%) Spring Boot
5 35 (5.61%) .NET
6 28 (4.49%) Quarkus
7 24 (3.85%) JSON
7 24 (3.85%) SOAP
7 24 (3.85%) Terraform
7 24 (3.85%) Web Services
8 18 (2.88%) HTML
9 17 (2.72%) Kafka
9 17 (2.72%) React
10 16 (2.56%) Lightning Web Components
10 16 (2.56%) Node.js
11 15 (2.40%) Hibernate
12 12 (1.92%) PySpark
13 11 (1.76%) ActiveMQ
13 11 (1.76%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 258 (41.35%) Product Ownership
2 64 (10.26%) Cloud Native
3 28 (4.49%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (3.37%) Virtual Team
6 15 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.08%) AI Agents
9 11 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.44%) NHS
11 8 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.28%) Life Science
11 8 (1.28%) Marketing Technology
12 7 (1.12%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.12%) Market Risk
13 6 (0.96%) FMCG
13 6 (0.96%) Taxonomies
14 5 (0.80%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.08%) Windows
2 11 (1.76%) Linux
3 4 (0.64%) Android
4 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.32%) Unix
4 2 (0.32%) VMS
4 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 591 (94.71%) Agile
2 338 (54.17%) Scrum
3 244 (39.10%) Sprint Retrospective
4 233 (37.34%) Stakeholder Management
5 230 (36.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 226 (36.22%) DevOps
7 206 (33.01%) Backlog Refinement
8 184 (29.49%) User Stories
9 181 (29.01%) CI/CD
10 167 (26.76%) Sprint Review
11 147 (23.56%) Problem-Solving
12 128 (20.51%) Test Automation
13 123 (19.71%) Acceptance Criteria
14 114 (18.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 109 (17.47%) Roadmaps
15 109 (17.47%) Software Engineering
16 108 (17.31%) Backlog Management
17 107 (17.15%) SDLC
18 105 (16.83%) Kanban
19 94 (15.06%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 98 (15.71%) Java
2 84 (13.46%) SQL
3 56 (8.97%) Python
4 49 (7.85%) JavaScript
5 39 (6.25%) C#
6 26 (4.17%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.92%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.80%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.64%) Bicep
10 2 (0.32%) Groovy
10 2 (0.32%) R
11 1 (0.16%) ABAP
11 1 (0.16%) Bash
11 1 (0.16%) C
11 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.16%) Korn
11 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 202 (32.37%) Security Cleared
2 166 (26.60%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.41%) Degree
4 28 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (3.53%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.88%) PMI Certification
7 16 (2.56%) AWS Certification
8 14 (2.24%) PMP
9 13 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.60%) CSPO
11 6 (0.96%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.96%) IIBA
12 5 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (0.64%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.64%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.64%) SAFe Agilist
14 3 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.48%) CAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (20.03%) QA
2 42 (6.73%) Accessibility
3 38 (6.09%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.76%) PMO
4 11 (1.76%) WCAG
5 8 (1.28%) GDPR
6 7 (1.12%) GRC
7 5 (0.80%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 5 (0.80%) GxP
8 3 (0.48%) SLA
9 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.16%) IFRS
9 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.16%) NCSC
9 1 (0.16%) NIST
9 1 (0.16%) PERC
9 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (8.81%) Docker
2 8 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (10.90%) Kubernetes
2 31 (4.97%) Argo
3 12 (1.92%) Grafana
3 12 (1.92%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.80%) Ansible
5 2 (0.32%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (0.32%) Kibana
5 2 (0.32%) Packer
5 2 (0.32%) Puppet
6 1 (0.16%) Istio
6 1 (0.16%) Nessus
6 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 82 (13.14%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.61%) Salesforce
3 32 (5.13%) Red Hat
4 27 (4.33%) Databricks
5 25 (4.01%) ServiceNow
6 20 (3.21%) SAP
7 18 (2.88%) Oracle
8 11 (1.76%) Adobe
9 10 (1.60%) Okta
10 9 (1.44%) Google
11 6 (0.96%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.96%) ForgeRock
11 6 (0.96%) Informatica
11 6 (0.96%) UiPath
12 5 (0.80%) VMware
13 4 (0.64%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.64%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.64%) Pega
13 4 (0.64%) Sitecore
13 4 (0.64%) Splunk
442 Sprint Planning jobs in England