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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 237 347
Rank change year-on-year +27 +110 +44
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 606 317 180
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.31% 1.13% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.24% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 231 117
10th Percentile £363 £350 £354
25th Percentile £439 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.91%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £595
90th Percentile £715 £695 £671
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 13 2
10th Percentile £55.00 £43.65 £57.33
25th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 £58.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £62.26
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -19.69% -10.14%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £64.95
90th Percentile £71.13 £56.00 £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 39,199 25,531 28,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.87% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,678 16,181 17,100
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
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% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,975 1,587 1,157
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.79 £20.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.92
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -8.31%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +7 311 £550 +5.77% 292
Midlands +22 101 £474 +20.32% 42
West Midlands +31 97 £473 +11.18% 21
North of England -37 85 £488 +11.56% 82
South East -14 78 £500 -4.76% 51
Yorkshire -22 37 £500 +3.63% 28
North East -10 34 £350 -34.88% 16
South West -15 22 £508 -4.47% 35
East of England -18 18 £460 - 16
North West -62 15 £450 +7.78% 38
East Midlands -29 3 £448 +23.59% 21
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
1 126 (20.79%) Confluence
2 14 (2.31%) CMS
3 13 (2.15%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.98%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.82%) Apache
6 7 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.83%) Documentum
7 5 (0.83%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.50%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.17%) Camunda
9 1 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) Mendix
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.99%) Notion
5 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.83%) Trello
6 3 (0.50%) Productboard
7 2 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.33%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.17%) Simulink
8 1 (0.17%) Sketch
8 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.65%) Salesforce CRM
2 9 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.66%) Magento
5 3 (0.50%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.33%) Primavera
6 2 (0.33%) Workfront
7 1 (0.17%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Utilities
7 1 (0.17%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.17%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.17%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.17%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.17%) Shopify
7 1 (0.17%) Siebel CRM
7 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 182 (30.03%) Azure
2 101 (16.67%) AWS
3 100 (16.50%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (8.09%) Power Platform
5 41 (6.77%) GitHub
6 33 (5.45%) GCP
6 33 (5.45%) OpenShift
7 31 (5.12%) Serverless
8 22 (3.63%) Amazon S3
8 22 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (3.47%) PowerApps
10 20 (3.30%) Power Automate
11 19 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (3.14%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
13 16 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (2.48%) Entra ID
15 13 (2.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.66%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.50%) Broadband
2 3 (0.50%) Firewall
3 2 (0.33%) SAN
3 2 (0.33%) WAN
3 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.17%) 4G
4 1 (0.17%) 5G
4 1 (0.17%) Intranet
4 1 (0.17%) IPv4
4 1 (0.17%) IPv6
4 1 (0.17%) Network Security
4 1 (0.17%) NFC
4 1 (0.17%) NGFW
4 1 (0.17%) PPP
4 1 (0.17%) UPnP
4 1 (0.17%) VPN
4 1 (0.17%) Wireless
4 1 (0.17%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (4.62%) Power BI
2 25 (4.13%) SQL Server
3 23 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (3.14%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.15%) Metadata
6 10 (1.65%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.32%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.16%) Big Data
8 7 (1.16%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.99%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.99%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.83%) Ataccama
10 5 (0.83%) Delta Lake
11 4 (0.66%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.50%) ClickHouse
12 3 (0.50%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.50%) Redis
12 3 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 205 (33.83%) JIRA
2 67 (11.06%) Git
3 51 (8.42%) Jenkins
4 40 (6.60%) SonarQube
5 18 (2.97%) Postman
6 14 (2.31%) Maven
7 13 (2.15%) GitLab
7 13 (2.15%) JUnit
8 11 (1.82%) Mockito
9 8 (1.32%) Selenium
10 6 (0.99%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.99%) JMeter
11 5 (0.83%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.66%) Gradle
12 4 (0.66%) Subversion
13 3 (0.50%) Protractor
13 3 (0.50%) WebDriver
14 2 (0.33%) Charles Proxy
14 2 (0.33%) git-flow
14 2 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 291 (48.02%) Social Skills
2 143 (23.60%) Finance
3 133 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (17.66%) Public Sector
5 64 (10.56%) Banking
6 42 (6.93%) Retail
7 30 (4.95%) Organisational Skills
8 26 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (4.29%) Marketing
9 13 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.15%) Investment Banking
9 13 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.98%) Front Office
10 12 (1.98%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.49%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.16%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.16%) Billing
15 6 (0.99%) Law
Job Titles
1 124 (20.46%) Developer
2 88 (14.52%) Senior
3 79 (13.04%) Analyst
4 72 (11.88%) Scrum Master
5 69 (11.39%) Lead
6 52 (8.58%) Business Analyst
7 51 (8.42%) Delivery Manager
7 51 (8.42%) Product Owner
8 44 (7.26%) Java Developer
9 43 (7.10%) Project Manager
10 30 (4.95%) Product Manager
11 28 (4.62%) Senior Developer
12 24 (3.96%) Architect
13 20 (3.30%) Technical Manager
14 18 (2.97%) Senior Manager
15 17 (2.81%) Data Engineer
15 17 (2.81%) Technical Analyst
15 17 (2.81%) Technical Leader
16 15 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
17 14 (2.31%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (12.87%) REST
2 47 (7.76%) AngularJS
3 45 (7.43%) RESTful
4 35 (5.78%) Spring
4 35 (5.78%) Spring Boot
5 32 (5.28%) .NET
6 28 (4.62%) Quarkus
7 26 (4.29%) Terraform
8 24 (3.96%) JSON
8 24 (3.96%) SOAP
9 23 (3.80%) Web Services
10 18 (2.97%) HTML
10 18 (2.97%) React
11 17 (2.81%) Kafka
12 16 (2.64%) Node.js
13 14 (2.31%) Hibernate
14 13 (2.15%) Lightning Web Components
15 12 (1.98%) PySpark
16 11 (1.82%) CSS
16 11 (1.82%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 252 (41.58%) Product Ownership
2 63 (10.40%) Cloud Native
3 26 (4.29%) Onboarding
4 23 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (3.14%) Virtual Team
6 14 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.98%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.32%) Life Science
11 8 (1.32%) Marketing Technology
11 8 (1.32%) NHS
12 7 (1.16%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.16%) Market Risk
13 6 (0.99%) FMCG
13 6 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.99%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.15%) Windows
2 10 (1.65%) Linux
3 4 (0.66%) Android
4 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.33%) Unix
4 2 (0.33%) VMS
4 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (94.72%) Agile
2 327 (53.96%) Scrum
3 238 (39.27%) Sprint Retrospective
4 226 (37.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 225 (37.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 221 (36.47%) DevOps
7 197 (32.51%) Backlog Refinement
8 181 (29.87%) User Stories
9 177 (29.21%) CI/CD
10 161 (26.57%) Sprint Review
11 145 (23.93%) Problem-Solving
12 125 (20.63%) Test Automation
13 118 (19.47%) Acceptance Criteria
14 112 (18.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 107 (17.66%) Backlog Management
15 107 (17.66%) Roadmaps
16 106 (17.49%) Software Engineering
17 104 (17.16%) Kanban
18 103 (17.00%) SDLC
19 92 (15.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 95 (15.68%) Java
2 82 (13.53%) SQL
3 54 (8.91%) Python
4 49 (8.09%) JavaScript
5 39 (6.44%) C#
6 27 (4.46%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.98%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.83%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.66%) Bicep
10 2 (0.33%) Groovy
10 2 (0.33%) R
11 1 (0.17%) ABAP
11 1 (0.17%) Bash
11 1 (0.17%) C
11 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.17%) Korn
11 1 (0.17%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.17%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 196 (32.34%) Security Cleared
2 161 (26.57%) SC Cleared
3 39 (6.44%) Degree
4 28 (4.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (3.63%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.64%) PMI Certification
7 15 (2.48%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.98%) PMP
10 7 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.16%) CSPO
11 6 (0.99%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.66%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.66%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.66%) SAFe Agilist
13 3 (0.50%) CAPM
13 3 (0.50%) IIBA
13 3 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (19.64%) QA
2 37 (6.11%) Accessibility
2 37 (6.11%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.82%) PMO
4 8 (1.32%) GDPR
5 7 (1.16%) GRC
5 7 (1.16%) WCAG
6 5 (0.83%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 5 (0.83%) GxP
7 3 (0.50%) SLA
8 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.17%) Basel III
8 1 (0.17%) HL7
8 1 (0.17%) IFRS
8 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.17%) NCSC
8 1 (0.17%) NIST
8 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 54 (8.91%) Docker
2 8 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (10.73%) Kubernetes
2 29 (4.79%) Argo
3 12 (1.98%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.82%) Grafana
5 4 (0.66%) Ansible
6 2 (0.33%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (0.33%) Kibana
6 2 (0.33%) Packer
6 2 (0.33%) Puppet
7 1 (0.17%) Istio
7 1 (0.17%) Nessus
7 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (12.87%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.12%) Salesforce
3 30 (4.95%) Red Hat
4 26 (4.29%) ServiceNow
5 24 (3.96%) Databricks
6 19 (3.14%) SAP
7 18 (2.97%) Oracle
8 10 (1.65%) Adobe
8 10 (1.65%) Okta
9 9 (1.49%) Google
10 6 (0.99%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.99%) ForgeRock
10 6 (0.99%) Informatica
10 6 (0.99%) UiPath
11 5 (0.83%) VMware
12 4 (0.66%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.66%) Splunk
13 3 (0.50%) Pega
13 3 (0.50%) Ping Identity
13 3 (0.50%) Zscaler