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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 331 411
Rank change year-on-year +101 +80 -13
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 366 183 174
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.20% 0.59% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 0.68% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 106 104
10th Percentile £353 £400 £305
25th Percentile £413 £451 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £693
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 6
10th Percentile £43.15 £58.88 £36.13
25th Percentile £45.81 £62.81 £54.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £66.01 £69.29
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% -4.73% +6.59%
75th Percentile £59.82 £67.45 £76.31
90th Percentile £91.80 £68.23 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £66.01 £69.29
% change year-on-year -24.25% -4.73% +6.59%

All Process and 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 27,380 27,022 34,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.64% 87.64% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,423 16,566 23,536
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.42% -0.14%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,778 979 1,450
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.64
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.15
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.63
% change year-on-year -23.79% -24.36% +24.64%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +97 186 £520 -7.56% 55
North of England -15 61 £450 +5.88% 16
Midlands +10 51 £450 -19.64% 19
West Midlands +5 37 £477 -14.91% 14
Yorkshire -20 31 £500 +17.65% 1
South East -6 29 £525 -9.09% 50
North West -2 23 £409 +7.57% 12
South West +20 15 £525 -22.79% 17
East Midlands -4 14 £360 - 5
East of England -7 9 £460 -23.33% 2
North East -5 7 £538 +31.10% 3
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 48 (13.11%) Confluence
2 17 (4.64%) CMS
3 14 (3.83%) SAS
4 5 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.37%) Appian
4 5 (1.37%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.37%) WordPress
5 3 (0.82%) Drupal
5 3 (0.82%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.55%) Apache
6 2 (0.55%) Documentum
6 2 (0.55%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.55%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.55%) nginx
6 2 (0.55%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Mendix
Applications
1 11 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.64%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.37%) Trello
6 3 (0.82%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.82%) Sketch
7 2 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (2.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.55%) Primavera
3 2 (0.55%) Workfront
4 1 (0.27%) Endur
4 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 89 (24.32%) Azure
2 61 (16.67%) AWS
3 46 (12.57%) GitHub
4 40 (10.93%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (6.56%) GCP
5 24 (6.56%) GitHub Actions
5 24 (6.56%) Power Platform
6 17 (4.64%) Serverless
7 16 (4.37%) OpenShift
8 13 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (3.28%) Figma
9 12 (3.28%) Power Automate
9 12 (3.28%) SaaS
10 11 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (2.73%) Amazon S3
11 10 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (2.73%) Miro
11 10 (2.73%) PowerApps
12 9 (2.46%) Entra ID
13 7 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.09%) HTTP
2 3 (0.82%) DNS
3 2 (0.55%) SSL
3 2 (0.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
1 17 (4.64%) Power BI
2 14 (3.83%) NoSQL
3 9 (2.46%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.19%) Oracle Database
5 6 (1.64%) Big Data
5 6 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.64%) Tableau
6 5 (1.37%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.37%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.37%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 4 (1.09%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.09%) DB2
7 4 (1.09%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.09%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.09%) MySQL
8 3 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.82%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.82%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 105 (28.69%) JIRA
2 54 (14.75%) Jenkins
3 45 (12.30%) Git
4 40 (10.93%) GitLab
5 33 (9.02%) Selenium
6 29 (7.92%) Cucumber
7 27 (7.38%) JUnit
8 20 (5.46%) Postman
9 12 (3.28%) SonarQube
10 10 (2.73%) webpack
11 7 (1.91%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.64%) TestRail
12 6 (1.64%) Zephyr
13 5 (1.37%) Babel
13 5 (1.37%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.37%) Robot Framework
13 5 (1.37%) TestNG
13 5 (1.37%) WebDriver
14 4 (1.09%) REST Assured
14 4 (1.09%) TeamCity
General
1 175 (47.81%) Social Skills
2 85 (23.22%) Finance
3 50 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (12.02%) Public Sector
5 34 (9.29%) Banking
6 21 (5.74%) Marketing
7 16 (4.37%) Telecoms
8 12 (3.28%) Front Office
9 11 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.37%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.09%) Back Office
13 4 (1.09%) Legal
14 3 (0.82%) Retail
15 2 (0.55%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.55%) Automotive
15 2 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 70 (19.13%) Developer
2 50 (13.66%) Analyst
3 38 (10.38%) Business Analyst
3 38 (10.38%) Scrum Master
4 31 (8.47%) Product Owner
5 29 (7.92%) Senior
6 28 (7.65%) Lead
7 19 (5.19%) Java Developer
8 15 (4.10%) Project Manager
9 13 (3.55%) Test Specialist
10 11 (3.01%) Architect
11 9 (2.46%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (2.19%) Data Engineer
12 8 (2.19%) Product Manager
12 8 (2.19%) Software Engineer
12 8 (2.19%) Technical Analyst
12 8 (2.19%) Tester
13 7 (1.91%) Delivery Manager
13 7 (1.91%) QA Engineer
13 7 (1.91%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (15.03%) REST
2 38 (10.38%) React
3 34 (9.29%) RESTful
4 23 (6.28%) AngularJS
4 23 (6.28%) HTML
5 22 (6.01%) CSS
6 15 (4.10%) Node.js
6 15 (4.10%) Spring
7 14 (3.83%) Spring Boot
8 13 (3.55%) .NET
8 13 (3.55%) pytest
9 11 (3.01%) JSON
9 11 (3.01%) Kafka
9 11 (3.01%) SOAP
9 11 (3.01%) Vue
10 10 (2.73%) HTML5
11 9 (2.46%) Next.js
11 9 (2.46%) XML
12 8 (2.19%) Jest
12 8 (2.19%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 121 (33.06%) Product Ownership
2 16 (4.37%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.55%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.28%) Virtual Team
5 11 (3.01%) Algorithms
5 11 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.91%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
8 5 (1.37%) NHS
8 5 (1.37%) PMI
8 5 (1.37%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.09%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.09%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.82%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.82%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.46%) Windows
2 8 (2.19%) Unix
3 6 (1.64%) Linux
4 3 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.55%) VMS
6 1 (0.27%) Android
6 1 (0.27%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (89.62%) Agile
2 190 (51.91%) Scrum
3 174 (47.54%) Sprint Retrospective
4 119 (32.51%) DevOps
5 115 (31.42%) CI/CD
6 105 (28.69%) Problem-Solving
7 90 (24.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 89 (24.32%) Sprint Review
9 83 (22.68%) Test Automation
10 79 (21.58%) User Stories
11 75 (20.49%) Backlog Refinement
12 73 (19.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 58 (15.85%) Kanban
14 56 (15.30%) Analytics
14 56 (15.30%) Roadmaps
15 54 (14.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 51 (13.93%) Backlog Management
17 50 (13.66%) Microservices
18 47 (12.84%) User Experience
19 45 (12.30%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 68 (18.58%) Python
2 61 (16.67%) Java
3 54 (14.75%) JavaScript
4 50 (13.66%) SQL
5 27 (7.38%) TypeScript
6 20 (5.46%) C#
7 5 (1.37%) Bicep
7 5 (1.37%) Go
8 4 (1.09%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.09%) Bash
9 3 (0.82%) PHP
9 3 (0.82%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.82%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.55%) VBA
10 2 (0.55%) XPath
11 1 (0.27%) C++
11 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.27%) Ruby
11 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (21.86%) Security Cleared
2 68 (18.58%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.02%) Degree
4 11 (3.01%) Master's Degree
4 11 (3.01%) PMI Certification
5 7 (1.91%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.91%) PMP
6 6 (1.64%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.09%) CSPO
8 3 (0.82%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.82%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.82%) MBA
9 2 (0.55%) CISSP
9 2 (0.55%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.27%) ISEB
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.27%) OCA
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (22.13%) QA
2 26 (7.10%) Accessibility
3 16 (4.37%) GDPR
4 11 (3.01%) Data Quality
4 11 (3.01%) WCAG
5 7 (1.91%) GRC
6 4 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.09%) NIST
6 4 (1.09%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.09%) PSD2
7 3 (0.82%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.82%) HL7
8 2 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.27%) MiFID
9 1 (0.27%) NCSC
9 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.27%) RMADS
9 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (14.48%) Docker
2 5 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (13.66%) Kubernetes
2 28 (7.65%) Terraform
3 17 (4.64%) Ansible
4 9 (2.46%) Grafana
5 8 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.91%) Argo
7 5 (1.37%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.55%) Istio
8 2 (0.55%) Kibana
9 1 (0.27%) CASB
9 1 (0.27%) linkerd
9 1 (0.27%) Nagios
9 1 (0.27%) Puppet
9 1 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 55 (15.03%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.28%) Salesforce
3 14 (3.83%) Oracle
4 13 (3.55%) Google
5 10 (2.73%) Databricks
5 10 (2.73%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.19%) Adobe
6 8 (2.19%) Cisco
7 5 (1.37%) Splunk
7 5 (1.37%) Veracode
8 4 (1.09%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.09%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.09%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.82%) Amplitude
9 3 (0.82%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.82%) Okta
9 3 (0.82%) Progress
9 3 (0.82%) SAP
9 3 (0.82%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.55%) OneLogin