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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 316 410
Rank change year-on-year +87 +94 -14
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 378 176 150
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.17% 0.66% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 0.74% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 94 91
10th Percentile £350 £406 £315
25th Percentile £416 £486 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £575
90th Percentile £678 £693 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 4
10th Percentile £32.30 £65.25 £55.15
25th Percentile £45.88 £65.63 £61.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £67.02 £71.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.93% -6.59% +10.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.89 £77.50
90th Percentile £87.90 £68.40 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £67.26 £71.75
% change year-on-year -18.23% -6.26% +10.38%

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 28,483 23,837 32,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.89% 89.40% 87.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,219 14,596 22,102
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,784 766 1,805
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.14
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.06 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -8.41% +9.93%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -10.55% +16.41%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 25 January 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 +66 202 £513 -10.87% 42
North of England -13 64 £423 -0.47% 60
Midlands -16 41 £450 -18.18% 50
South East -14 32 £525 -8.70% 85
West Midlands -26 30 £477 -15.29% 16
North West -4 27 £388 -13.89% 29
Yorkshire -36 27 £500 +17.65% 24
South West -2 19 £525 -7.08% 40
East Midlands -16 11 £358 - 33
North East -3 10 £525 +2.44% 8
East of England -13 7 £475 -20.83% 41
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 68 (17.99%) Confluence
2 14 (3.70%) SAS
3 12 (3.17%) CMS
4 5 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.32%) Appian
4 5 (1.32%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.79%) Apache
5 3 (0.79%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.79%) WordPress
6 2 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.53%) Documentum
6 2 (0.53%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.53%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.53%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.26%) Drupal
7 1 (0.26%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.32%) Adobe XD
2 5 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (1.32%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.79%) Sketch
5 2 (0.53%) Trello
6 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.26%) Notion
Business Applications
1 8 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.53%) Finacle
3 2 (0.53%) Maximo
3 2 (0.53%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 99 (26.19%) Azure
2 66 (17.46%) AWS
3 49 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (9.52%) GitHub
5 24 (6.35%) OpenShift
6 23 (6.08%) GCP
6 23 (6.08%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (6.08%) Serverless
7 21 (5.56%) Power Platform
8 19 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (3.70%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.70%) Figma
10 11 (2.91%) SaaS
11 10 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (2.65%) Power Automate
12 9 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (1.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.79%) HTTP
2 2 (0.53%) Network Security
2 2 (0.53%) SMS
2 2 (0.53%) SSL
2 2 (0.53%) VPN
3 1 (0.26%) DNS
3 1 (0.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.76%) Power BI
2 15 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.38%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.12%) Tableau
5 7 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.85%) Oracle Database
6 6 (1.59%) Metadata
6 6 (1.59%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.32%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 5 (1.32%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.06%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.06%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.06%) MySQL
9 3 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.79%) Big Data
9 3 (0.79%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.79%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.53%) DB2
Development Applications
1 119 (31.48%) JIRA
2 48 (12.70%) Jenkins
3 40 (10.58%) GitLab
4 39 (10.32%) Git
5 36 (9.52%) Selenium
6 23 (6.08%) Postman
7 21 (5.56%) Cucumber
7 21 (5.56%) SonarQube
8 20 (5.29%) JUnit
9 9 (2.38%) REST Assured
10 7 (1.85%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.85%) WebDriver
11 6 (1.59%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.59%) TestRail
11 6 (1.59%) Zephyr
12 5 (1.32%) Robot Framework
12 5 (1.32%) webpack
13 4 (1.06%) TestNG
14 3 (0.79%) Hudson
14 3 (0.79%) SpecFlow
General
1 188 (49.74%) Social Skills
2 90 (23.81%) Finance
3 59 (15.61%) Public Sector
4 58 (15.34%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (10.32%) Banking
6 17 (4.50%) Telecoms
7 14 (3.70%) Front Office
8 12 (3.17%) Marketing
8 12 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.59%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.32%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.06%) Legal
13 4 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.79%) Law
15 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.53%) Military
15 2 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 79 (20.90%) Developer
2 49 (12.96%) Analyst
3 41 (10.85%) Business Analyst
4 37 (9.79%) Product Owner
5 35 (9.26%) Scrum Master
6 32 (8.47%) Senior
7 31 (8.20%) Lead
8 16 (4.23%) Java Developer
9 14 (3.70%) Test Specialist
9 14 (3.70%) Tester
10 13 (3.44%) Architect
10 13 (3.44%) Project Manager
11 12 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (2.38%) Product Manager
12 9 (2.38%) React Developer
12 9 (2.38%) Senior Developer
13 8 (2.12%) Software Developer
13 8 (2.12%) Software Engineer
14 7 (1.85%) Senior Manager
14 7 (1.85%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (12.96%) REST
2 37 (9.79%) React
3 30 (7.94%) RESTful
4 24 (6.35%) AngularJS
5 22 (5.82%) CSS
6 20 (5.29%) HTML
7 19 (5.03%) JSON
8 17 (4.50%) Node.js
9 15 (3.97%) pytest
10 13 (3.44%) XML
11 12 (3.17%) Playwright
12 11 (2.91%) SOAP
13 10 (2.65%) HTML5
13 10 (2.65%) Spring
14 9 (2.38%) CSS3
14 9 (2.38%) Gherkin
14 9 (2.38%) Spring Boot
14 9 (2.38%) Vue
15 8 (2.12%) FIX Protocol
15 8 (2.12%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 129 (34.13%) Product Ownership
2 19 (5.03%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 13 (3.44%) Virtual Team
5 11 (2.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.65%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.38%) Mobile App
8 8 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.59%) NHS
9 6 (1.59%) PMI
10 5 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.06%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.79%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.79%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.79%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.38%) Unix
2 8 (2.12%) Windows
3 7 (1.85%) Linux
4 2 (0.53%) VMS
4 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (91.27%) Agile
2 191 (50.53%) Scrum
3 180 (47.62%) Sprint Retrospective
4 126 (33.33%) DevOps
5 121 (32.01%) CI/CD
6 107 (28.31%) Problem-Solving
7 103 (27.25%) Sprint Review
8 95 (25.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 95 (25.13%) Test Automation
9 94 (24.87%) Stakeholder Management
9 94 (24.87%) User Stories
10 80 (21.16%) Backlog Refinement
10 80 (21.16%) Roadmaps
11 59 (15.61%) Acceptance Criteria
11 59 (15.61%) Analytics
11 59 (15.61%) Backlog Management
11 59 (15.61%) Kanban
12 53 (14.02%) User Experience
13 51 (13.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 49 (12.96%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 75 (19.84%) Python
2 56 (14.81%) JavaScript
3 55 (14.55%) Java
4 40 (10.58%) SQL
5 33 (8.73%) TypeScript
6 24 (6.35%) C#
7 7 (1.85%) Go
8 6 (1.59%) Bicep
9 5 (1.32%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.06%) Bash
11 3 (0.79%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.79%) PHP
11 3 (0.79%) Ruby
11 3 (0.79%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.79%) XPath
12 2 (0.53%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.26%) C++
13 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 101 (26.72%) Security Cleared
2 83 (21.96%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.67%) Degree
4 9 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (2.38%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.38%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.12%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.59%) CBAP
8 5 (1.32%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.06%) IIBA
9 4 (1.06%) ISEB
10 3 (0.79%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.79%) CSPO
10 3 (0.79%) GPEN
10 3 (0.79%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.79%) OSCP
10 3 (0.79%) PMP
11 2 (0.53%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (19.05%) QA
2 30 (7.94%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.44%) GDPR
4 11 (2.91%) WCAG
5 9 (2.38%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.59%) GRC
7 4 (1.06%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.06%) PSD2
8 3 (0.79%) HL7
9 2 (0.53%) NCSC
9 2 (0.53%) NIST
9 2 (0.53%) SLA
10 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.26%) PMO
10 1 (0.26%) SEPA
10 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 56 (14.81%) Docker
2 4 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 54 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 26 (6.88%) Terraform
3 17 (4.50%) Ansible
4 12 (3.17%) Argo
5 11 (2.91%) Grafana
6 7 (1.85%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.53%) Istio
8 2 (0.53%) Kibana
8 2 (0.53%) Nagios
9 1 (0.26%) CASB
9 1 (0.26%) linkerd
9 1 (0.26%) Puppet
9 1 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 43 (11.38%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 14 (3.70%) Databricks
4 12 (3.17%) Oracle
4 12 (3.17%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.12%) Adobe
5 8 (2.12%) Cisco
5 8 (2.12%) Google
5 8 (2.12%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.59%) SAP
6 6 (1.59%) Veracode
7 5 (1.32%) Guidewire
7 5 (1.32%) Splunk
8 4 (1.06%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.06%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.79%) Cognizant
9 3 (0.79%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.79%) IBM
9 3 (0.79%) Progress
10 2 (0.53%) DocuSign