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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 289 398
Rank change year-on-year +82 +109 -32
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 528 199 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.27% 0.84% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 0.91% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 126 87
10th Percentile £360 £395 £356
25th Percentile £425 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £514 £505
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% +1.78% -3.81%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £559
90th Percentile £625 £669 £673
UK median daily rate £513 £511 £500
% change year-on-year +0.39% +2.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 5 2
10th Percentile £55.50 £49.25 £52.63
25th Percentile £62.50 - £54.69
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -14.89% -9.62%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £62.19
90th Percentile - £55.75 £63.88
UK median hourly rate £69.25 £51.25 £58.75
% change year-on-year +35.12% -12.77% -9.62%

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 35,196 21,756 31,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.75% 91.30% 86.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,391 14,220 20,552
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,171 917 2,255
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.41 £12.89
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.20 £15.97
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.67% -21.78% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £60.13
90th Percentile £80.20 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.97 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.98% -22.42% -2.58%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 May 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 +52 264 £525 +0.67% 72
North of England -9 99 £467 -3.26% 27
South East -37 60 £550 +7.00% 48
Midlands -29 57 £493 +9.44% 9
West Midlands -29 44 £493 +1.03% 8
North West -12 42 £380 -20.29% 17
Yorkshire -41 31 £516 +14.64% 5
North East +1 30 £550 +6.02% 5
South West -17 22 £525 +2.44% 10
East of England -14 19 £468 +16.88% 9
East Midlands -22 12 £413 -3.17% 1
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 91 (17.23%) Confluence
2 19 (3.60%) CMS
3 8 (1.52%) SAS
4 5 (0.95%) Apache
4 5 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.57%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.38%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
7 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.19%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.33%) Trello
3 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.76%) Notion
5 3 (0.57%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.19%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 8 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.95%) Magento
3 4 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.38%) Finacle
4 2 (0.38%) Maximo
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Utilities
5 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 162 (30.68%) Azure
2 103 (19.51%) AWS
3 70 (13.26%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (6.25%) OpenShift
5 27 (5.11%) GCP
6 26 (4.92%) GitHub
7 23 (4.36%) Serverless
8 22 (4.17%) Power Platform
9 19 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (3.03%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.03%) Azure AKS
11 15 (2.84%) Entra ID
12 13 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (1.89%) Figma
13 10 (1.89%) Snowflake
14 9 (1.70%) SaaS
14 9 (1.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 8 (1.52%) Power Automate
16 7 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.14%) Network Security
2 4 (0.76%) Firewall
3 3 (0.57%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.38%) DNS
4 2 (0.38%) SMS
5 1 (0.19%) 5G
5 1 (0.19%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.19%) DHCP
5 1 (0.19%) HTTP
5 1 (0.19%) NFC
5 1 (0.19%) NGFW
5 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.19%) SONET
5 1 (0.19%) SSL
5 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.19%) VPN
5 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.60%) Power BI
2 16 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.46%) Metadata
4 9 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.33%) Big Data
6 7 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.33%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.95%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.95%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.95%) Tableau
9 4 (0.76%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.76%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.57%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.57%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.57%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.38%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 181 (34.28%) JIRA
2 70 (13.26%) Git
3 56 (10.61%) Jenkins
4 36 (6.82%) Postman
5 33 (6.25%) SonarQube
6 25 (4.73%) GitLab
7 22 (4.17%) Selenium
8 12 (2.27%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.08%) JUnit
10 10 (1.89%) WebDriver
11 9 (1.70%) REST Assured
12 8 (1.52%) Cypress.io
13 7 (1.33%) Subversion
14 6 (1.14%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.95%) JMeter
16 4 (0.76%) Artifactory
16 4 (0.76%) MLflow
16 4 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
16 4 (0.76%) Storybook
17 3 (0.57%) git-flow
General
1 226 (42.80%) Social Skills
2 112 (21.21%) Finance
3 79 (14.96%) Public Sector
4 70 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (6.82%) Banking
6 29 (5.49%) Marketing
7 27 (5.11%) Retail
8 19 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.27%) Retail Banking
11 11 (2.08%) Legal
12 10 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.52%) Front Office
14 6 (1.14%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.14%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.95%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.76%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 89 (16.86%) Developer
2 71 (13.45%) Analyst
3 69 (13.07%) Senior
4 60 (11.36%) Scrum Master
5 50 (9.47%) Lead
6 47 (8.90%) Business Analyst
6 47 (8.90%) Product Owner
7 43 (8.14%) Delivery Manager
8 31 (5.87%) Project Manager
9 28 (5.30%) Senior Manager
10 26 (4.92%) Java Developer
11 22 (4.17%) Software Engineer
12 19 (3.60%) Product Manager
13 18 (3.41%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 18 (3.41%) Architect
14 16 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
15 15 (2.84%) Technical Manager
16 14 (2.65%) Java Engineer
16 14 (2.65%) Technical Analyst
17 13 (2.46%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (8.90%) REST
2 41 (7.77%) React
3 39 (7.39%) AngularJS
4 36 (6.82%) RESTful
5 24 (4.55%) Quarkus
6 21 (3.98%) Node.js
7 17 (3.22%) JSON
8 16 (3.03%) CSS
9 15 (2.84%) .NET
9 15 (2.84%) Spring
10 14 (2.65%) HTML
11 13 (2.46%) Playwright
12 12 (2.27%) Spring Boot
13 11 (2.08%) OAuth
14 10 (1.89%) CSS3
14 10 (1.89%) HTML5
15 9 (1.70%) Lightning Web Components
15 9 (1.70%) pytest
15 9 (1.70%) SOAP
16 8 (1.52%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 189 (35.80%) Product Ownership
2 50 (9.47%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.60%) Virtual Team
4 16 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.08%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.14%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.14%) Distributed Applications
11 6 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.14%) Life Science
11 6 (1.14%) NHS
11 6 (1.14%) PMI
12 5 (0.95%) FMCG
12 5 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (0.95%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.95%) Unix
2 4 (0.76%) Linux
2 4 (0.76%) VMS
3 2 (0.38%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Android
4 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (93.56%) Agile
2 270 (51.14%) Scrum
3 251 (47.54%) Sprint Retrospective
4 177 (33.52%) DevOps
5 164 (31.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 149 (28.22%) CI/CD
7 146 (27.65%) Sprint Review
8 141 (26.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 133 (25.19%) User Stories
10 125 (23.67%) Backlog Refinement
11 106 (20.08%) Roadmaps
12 104 (19.70%) Test Automation
13 96 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
13 96 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
14 90 (17.05%) Backlog Prioritisation
15 88 (16.67%) Backlog Management
16 79 (14.96%) Kanban
17 78 (14.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 73 (13.83%) SDLC
19 71 (13.45%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 79 (14.96%) Java
2 61 (11.55%) Python
3 50 (9.47%) SQL
4 40 (7.58%) JavaScript
5 27 (5.11%) C#
5 27 (5.11%) TypeScript
6 7 (1.33%) Apex Code
6 7 (1.33%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.14%) Bicep
8 4 (0.76%) Groovy
9 3 (0.57%) C++
10 2 (0.38%) Go
10 2 (0.38%) Korn
10 2 (0.38%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.38%) Ruby
10 2 (0.38%) SOQL
10 2 (0.38%) SOSL
11 1 (0.19%) Bash
11 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.19%) XPath
Qualifications
1 145 (27.46%) Security Cleared
2 121 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.39%) Degree
4 20 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.22%) PMI Certification
7 13 (2.46%) PMP
8 11 (2.08%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.08%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.14%) CBAP
9 6 (1.14%) IIBA
10 5 (0.95%) CISSP
11 4 (0.76%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.76%) CISM
11 4 (0.76%) ISEB
11 4 (0.76%) SAFe Agilist
12 2 (0.38%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.38%) CSPO
12 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.38%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (18.37%) QA
2 34 (6.44%) Accessibility
3 27 (5.11%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.70%) GDPR
5 7 (1.33%) NIST
6 6 (1.14%) GRC
6 6 (1.14%) SLA
7 5 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.95%) PMO
7 5 (0.95%) WCAG
8 4 (0.76%) GxP
8 4 (0.76%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (0.38%) NCSC
10 1 (0.19%) Basel III
10 1 (0.19%) GMP
10 1 (0.19%) HL7
10 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (7.77%) Docker
2 4 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Ceph
3 1 (0.19%) HDFS
3 1 (0.19%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.19%) Squid
3 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.19%) Varnish
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 72 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 39 (7.39%) Terraform
3 27 (5.11%) Argo
4 11 (2.08%) Ansible
5 9 (1.70%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.52%) Grafana
7 3 (0.57%) Istio
7 3 (0.57%) Nagios
7 3 (0.57%) Puppet
8 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.19%) CASB
9 1 (0.19%) Kibana
9 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 41 (7.77%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 22 (4.17%) Red Hat
3 22 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 19 (3.60%) Databricks
5 14 (2.65%) Oracle
6 12 (2.27%) ForgeRock
6 12 (2.27%) Okta
6 12 (2.27%) SAP
7 9 (1.70%) Adobe
8 6 (1.14%) Guidewire
8 6 (1.14%) MuleSoft
9 4 (0.76%) VMware
10 3 (0.57%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.57%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (0.57%) Cognizant
10 3 (0.57%) Google
10 3 (0.57%) Progress
10 3 (0.57%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.38%) Talend