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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 273 394
Rank change year-on-year +72 +121 -44
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 544 213 143
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.30% 0.89% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.97% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 136 90
10th Percentile £360 £400 £339
25th Percentile £428 £450 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £549
90th Percentile £625 £683 £672
UK median daily rate £514 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +0.29% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 7 2
10th Percentile £55.63 £48.75 £52.63
25th Percentile £61.88 £49.38 £54.69
Median hourly rate £68.75 £52.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% -10.64% -2.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £55.63 £62.19
90th Percentile - £56.25 £63.88
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £52.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year +29.52% -10.64% -2.08%

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 35,705 21,941 31,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.32% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,665 14,273 20,637
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,224 953 2,305
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.55 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +64.62% -23.21% -0.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £27.97 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.26% -23.38% -1.35%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +54 271 £525 - 77
North of England -8 101 £467 -6.65% 28
South East -30 64 £550 +7.00% 40
Midlands -19 56 £492 +9.39% 11
West Midlands -34 44 £493 +1.03% 7
North West -24 41 £378 -24.50% 18
North East +5 32 £550 +6.02% 4
Yorkshire -43 32 £515 +14.44% 6
South West -19 22 £538 +4.88% 12
East of England -14 19 £468 +16.88% 9
East Midlands -16 11 £364 -14.61% 4
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 93 (17.10%) Confluence
2 19 (3.49%) CMS
3 8 (1.47%) SAS
4 5 (0.92%) Apache
4 5 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.74%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.37%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) Drupal
7 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.18%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.10%) Trello
4 5 (0.92%) Notion
5 3 (0.55%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.18%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 6 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.92%) Magento
3 4 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.37%) Finacle
4 2 (0.37%) Maximo
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Utilities
5 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.18%) Primavera
5 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 167 (30.70%) Azure
2 104 (19.12%) AWS
3 73 (13.42%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (6.25%) OpenShift
5 27 (4.96%) GCP
6 26 (4.78%) GitHub
7 25 (4.60%) Power Platform
8 23 (4.23%) Serverless
9 19 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (2.94%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.76%) Azure AKS
12 15 (2.76%) Entra ID
13 13 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (2.21%) Snowflake
15 11 (2.02%) SaaS
15 11 (2.02%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 10 (1.84%) Figma
17 7 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
17 7 (1.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.10%) Network Security
2 4 (0.74%) Firewall
3 3 (0.55%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.37%) DNS
4 2 (0.37%) SMS
5 1 (0.18%) 5G
5 1 (0.18%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.18%) DHCP
5 1 (0.18%) HTTP
5 1 (0.18%) NFC
5 1 (0.18%) NGFW
5 1 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.18%) SONET
5 1 (0.18%) SSL
5 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.18%) VPN
5 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.68%) Power BI
2 16 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.57%) Metadata
4 9 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.29%) Big Data
5 7 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.29%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.10%) BigQuery
7 5 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.92%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.92%) Tableau
8 4 (0.74%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.55%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.55%) Redis
10 2 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.37%) MySQL
10 2 (0.37%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 187 (34.38%) JIRA
2 70 (12.87%) Git
3 54 (9.93%) Jenkins
4 38 (6.99%) Postman
5 33 (6.07%) SonarQube
6 24 (4.41%) GitLab
7 22 (4.04%) Selenium
8 12 (2.21%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.02%) JUnit
10 10 (1.84%) WebDriver
11 9 (1.65%) REST Assured
12 8 (1.47%) Cypress.io
13 7 (1.29%) Subversion
14 5 (0.92%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.92%) JMeter
15 4 (0.74%) Storybook
16 3 (0.55%) Artifactory
16 3 (0.55%) git-flow
16 3 (0.55%) MLflow
16 3 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 232 (42.65%) Social Skills
2 116 (21.32%) Finance
3 82 (15.07%) Public Sector
4 73 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (7.35%) Banking
6 30 (5.51%) Retail
7 29 (5.33%) Marketing
8 17 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.21%) Legal
10 12 (2.21%) Retail Banking
11 10 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.47%) Front Office
13 6 (1.10%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.10%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.92%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.74%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 92 (16.91%) Developer
2 75 (13.79%) Analyst
3 71 (13.05%) Senior
4 61 (11.21%) Scrum Master
5 54 (9.93%) Lead
6 50 (9.19%) Business Analyst
7 47 (8.64%) Product Owner
8 45 (8.27%) Delivery Manager
9 33 (6.07%) Project Manager
10 28 (5.15%) Java Developer
11 27 (4.96%) Senior Manager
12 21 (3.86%) Software Engineer
13 20 (3.68%) Product Manager
14 19 (3.49%) Architect
15 18 (3.31%) Agile Delivery Manager
16 17 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
17 16 (2.94%) Technical Manager
18 15 (2.76%) Technical Analyst
19 14 (2.57%) Java Engineer
20 13 (2.39%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.19%) REST
2 41 (7.54%) React
3 39 (7.17%) AngularJS
4 37 (6.80%) RESTful
5 25 (4.60%) Quarkus
6 20 (3.68%) Node.js
7 19 (3.49%) JSON
8 16 (2.94%) .NET
8 16 (2.94%) CSS
9 15 (2.76%) Spring
10 14 (2.57%) HTML
11 13 (2.39%) Playwright
12 12 (2.21%) Spring Boot
13 11 (2.02%) Lightning Web Components
13 11 (2.02%) OAuth
14 10 (1.84%) CSS3
14 10 (1.84%) HTML5
15 9 (1.65%) pytest
15 9 (1.65%) SOAP
15 9 (1.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 199 (36.58%) Product Ownership
2 48 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.49%) Virtual Team
4 18 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
4 18 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.29%) Distributed Applications
10 7 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.29%) Life Science
11 6 (1.10%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.10%) FMCG
11 6 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.10%) NHS
11 6 (1.10%) PMI
12 5 (0.92%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.74%) Unix
2 3 (0.55%) Linux
2 3 (0.55%) VMS
2 3 (0.55%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Android
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (93.75%) Agile
2 283 (52.02%) Scrum
3 260 (47.79%) Sprint Retrospective
4 179 (32.90%) DevOps
5 174 (31.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 148 (27.21%) CI/CD
6 148 (27.21%) Sprint Review
7 144 (26.47%) Stakeholder Management
8 141 (25.92%) User Stories
9 131 (24.08%) Backlog Refinement
10 108 (19.85%) Roadmaps
10 108 (19.85%) Test Automation
11 104 (19.12%) Acceptance Criteria
12 100 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
13 92 (16.91%) Backlog Prioritisation
14 90 (16.54%) Backlog Management
15 84 (15.44%) Kanban
16 79 (14.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 78 (14.34%) SDLC
18 72 (13.24%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 80 (14.71%) Java
2 61 (11.21%) Python
3 51 (9.38%) SQL
4 41 (7.54%) JavaScript
5 30 (5.51%) C#
6 27 (4.96%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.65%) Apex Code
8 7 (1.29%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.10%) Bicep
10 4 (0.74%) Groovy
11 3 (0.55%) C++
12 2 (0.37%) Go
12 2 (0.37%) Korn
12 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.37%) Ruby
12 2 (0.37%) SOQL
12 2 (0.37%) SOSL
13 1 (0.18%) Bash
13 1 (0.18%) Scala
13 1 (0.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 147 (27.02%) Security Cleared
2 124 (22.79%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.80%) Degree
4 20 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.31%) PMI Certification
6 14 (2.57%) PMP
7 11 (2.02%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.10%) CBAP
9 6 (1.10%) IIBA
10 5 (0.92%) CISSP
11 4 (0.74%) CISM
11 4 (0.74%) ISEB
11 4 (0.74%) SAFe Agilist
12 3 (0.55%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.55%) CSPO
12 3 (0.55%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.37%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (18.93%) QA
2 36 (6.62%) Accessibility
3 29 (5.33%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.65%) GDPR
5 7 (1.29%) SLA
6 6 (1.10%) GRC
6 6 (1.10%) NIST
7 5 (0.92%) GxP
7 5 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.92%) PMO
7 5 (0.92%) WCAG
8 4 (0.74%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.55%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.37%) NCSC
11 1 (0.18%) Basel III
11 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.18%) GMP
11 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 40 (7.35%) Docker
2 5 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.18%) Ceph
3 1 (0.18%) HDFS
3 1 (0.18%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.18%) Squid
3 1 (0.18%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.18%) Varnish
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (13.42%) Kubernetes
2 39 (7.17%) Terraform
3 28 (5.15%) Argo
4 10 (1.84%) Ansible
5 8 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.29%) Grafana
7 3 (0.55%) Nagios
8 2 (0.37%) Istio
8 2 (0.37%) Puppet
8 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.18%) Kibana
9 1 (0.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 41 (7.54%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.07%) ServiceNow
3 25 (4.60%) Salesforce
4 23 (4.23%) Red Hat
5 17 (3.13%) Databricks
6 14 (2.57%) Oracle
7 12 (2.21%) ForgeRock
7 12 (2.21%) Okta
7 12 (2.21%) SAP
8 9 (1.65%) Adobe
9 7 (1.29%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.10%) Guidewire
11 5 (0.92%) VMware
12 3 (0.55%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (0.55%) Cognizant
12 3 (0.55%) Google
12 3 (0.55%) Progress
12 3 (0.55%) Sitecore
13 2 (0.37%) OutSystems
13 2 (0.37%) Talend