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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 284 394
Rank change year-on-year +86 +110 -23
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 504 198 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.26% 0.81% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 0.88% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 119 91
10th Percentile £363 £400 £260
25th Percentile £425 £450 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% +3.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £559
90th Percentile £625 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £506 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -1.22% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 4 2
10th Percentile £55.00 £51.50 £52.63
25th Percentile £60.00 £53.75 £54.69
Median hourly rate £66.25 £60.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% +2.13% -6.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.94 £62.19
90th Percentile - £67.63 £63.88
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £65.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year +1.92% +10.64% -6.00%

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 33,939 22,408 32,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.13% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,724 14,703 21,181
10th Percentile £316 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.72% -0.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,107 917 2,235
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.73 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.97
Median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +53 246 £518 -1.43% 45
North of England 0 93 £446 -13.02% 31
Midlands -13 58 £493 -10.45% 22
South East -37 58 £550 +8.64% 51
West Midlands -23 44 £500 -11.11% 12
North West -13 38 £388 -26.19% 13
North East +9 29 £550 +6.02% 10
Yorkshire -38 29 £500 +17.65% 8
South West -24 25 £525 -3.67% 12
East of England -26 16 £475 +18.75% 10
East Midlands -21 14 £421 -37.59% 10
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 81 (16.07%) Confluence
2 16 (3.17%) CMS
3 9 (1.79%) SAS
4 7 (1.39%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.99%) Apache
6 3 (0.60%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.60%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.40%) Drupal
7 2 (0.40%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.40%) nginx
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.20%) Mendix
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.20%) Traefik
8 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.39%) Trello
3 5 (0.99%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.40%) Sketch
7 1 (0.20%) Mingle
7 1 (0.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 8 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.40%) Finacle
3 2 (0.40%) Maximo
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Utilities
4 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.20%) Primavera
4 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 147 (29.17%) Azure
2 107 (21.23%) AWS
3 66 (13.10%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (6.55%) OpenShift
5 30 (5.95%) GitHub
6 27 (5.36%) GCP
7 26 (5.16%) Serverless
8 24 (4.76%) Power Platform
9 22 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (3.57%) Amazon S3
11 15 (2.98%) Azure AKS
12 14 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (2.78%) Entra ID
13 13 (2.58%) Figma
14 12 (2.38%) Snowflake
15 9 (1.79%) Power Automate
15 9 (1.79%) SaaS
16 8 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
17 7 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.99%) Network Security
2 3 (0.60%) Firewall
2 3 (0.60%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.40%) DNS
3 2 (0.40%) HTTP
3 2 (0.40%) SMS
4 1 (0.20%) 5G
4 1 (0.20%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.20%) DHCP
4 1 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.20%) SONET
4 1 (0.20%) SSL
4 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.97%) Power BI
2 15 (2.98%) Metadata
3 14 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (1.79%) Big Data
5 9 (1.79%) Tableau
6 8 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.39%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.19%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.99%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.99%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.99%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.79%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.79%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.60%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.40%) Looker
12 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 164 (32.54%) JIRA
2 65 (12.90%) Git
3 54 (10.71%) Jenkins
4 33 (6.55%) Postman
4 33 (6.55%) SonarQube
5 29 (5.75%) GitLab
6 24 (4.76%) Selenium
7 16 (3.17%) Cucumber
8 14 (2.78%) JUnit
9 10 (1.98%) WebDriver
10 9 (1.79%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.59%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.39%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.99%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.99%) TestRail
13 5 (0.99%) Zephyr
14 4 (0.79%) MLflow
14 4 (0.79%) SpecFlow
14 4 (0.79%) Subversion
General
1 222 (44.05%) Social Skills
2 102 (20.24%) Finance
3 81 (16.07%) Public Sector
4 70 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (7.34%) Banking
6 21 (4.17%) Marketing
7 19 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (3.37%) Retail
9 13 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.58%) Front Office
10 12 (2.38%) Retail Banking
11 10 (1.98%) Legal
12 9 (1.79%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.59%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.19%) Corporate Banking
16 5 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.79%) Aerospace
17 4 (0.79%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 99 (19.64%) Developer
2 63 (12.50%) Analyst
3 59 (11.71%) Senior
4 55 (10.91%) Scrum Master
5 45 (8.93%) Business Analyst
6 44 (8.73%) Lead
7 40 (7.94%) Product Owner
8 36 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
9 30 (5.95%) Java Developer
10 23 (4.56%) Project Manager
10 23 (4.56%) Senior Manager
11 21 (4.17%) Architect
12 20 (3.97%) Software Engineer
13 19 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
14 15 (2.98%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 15 (2.98%) Product Manager
14 15 (2.98%) Tester
15 13 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
16 12 (2.38%) Java Engineer
16 12 (2.38%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (9.72%) REST
2 44 (8.73%) React
3 43 (8.53%) AngularJS
4 35 (6.94%) RESTful
5 23 (4.56%) Quarkus
6 18 (3.57%) Node.js
7 17 (3.37%) JSON
8 16 (3.17%) CSS
8 16 (3.17%) Spring
9 15 (2.98%) Playwright
10 13 (2.58%) HTML
10 13 (2.58%) Spring Boot
11 11 (2.18%) .NET
11 11 (2.18%) SOAP
12 10 (1.98%) Kafka
12 10 (1.98%) pytest
13 9 (1.79%) Middleware
13 9 (1.79%) Web Services
13 9 (1.79%) XML
14 8 (1.59%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 176 (34.92%) Product Ownership
2 44 (8.73%) Cloud Native
3 14 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (2.78%) Virtual Team
4 13 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.98%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.98%) NHS
8 9 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (1.79%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.39%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.19%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.19%) PMI
12 5 (0.99%) Distributed Applications
12 5 (0.99%) FMCG
12 5 (0.99%) Reference Data
13 4 (0.79%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.18%) Unix
2 7 (1.39%) Linux
3 4 (0.79%) VMS
3 4 (0.79%) Windows
4 1 (0.20%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (92.46%) Agile
2 251 (49.80%) Scrum
3 228 (45.24%) Sprint Retrospective
4 161 (31.94%) DevOps
5 150 (29.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 143 (28.37%) CI/CD
7 138 (27.38%) Sprint Review
8 131 (25.99%) Stakeholder Management
9 121 (24.01%) User Stories
10 111 (22.02%) Backlog Refinement
11 106 (21.03%) Test Automation
12 104 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
13 99 (19.64%) Roadmaps
14 89 (17.66%) Acceptance Criteria
15 83 (16.47%) Backlog Prioritisation
16 74 (14.68%) Backlog Management
17 71 (14.09%) Kanban
17 71 (14.09%) SDLC
18 69 (13.69%) Software Engineering
19 67 (13.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 85 (16.87%) Java
2 77 (15.28%) Python
3 52 (10.32%) JavaScript
3 52 (10.32%) SQL
4 33 (6.55%) TypeScript
5 32 (6.35%) C#
6 7 (1.39%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.19%) Go
8 5 (0.99%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.99%) Bicep
9 4 (0.79%) C++
9 4 (0.79%) Groovy
10 3 (0.60%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.60%) Ruby
10 3 (0.60%) XPath
11 2 (0.40%) Bash
11 2 (0.40%) Korn
11 2 (0.40%) SOQL
11 2 (0.40%) SOSL
12 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 145 (28.77%) Security Cleared
2 121 (24.01%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.74%) Degree
4 20 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (3.17%) PMI Certification
7 13 (2.58%) Master's Degree
8 12 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.38%) PMP
9 6 (1.19%) CBAP
9 6 (1.19%) IIBA
10 5 (0.99%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.79%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.79%) CISM
11 4 (0.79%) CISSP
11 4 (0.79%) ISEB
12 3 (0.60%) SAFe Agilist
13 2 (0.40%) CREST Certified
13 2 (0.40%) CSPO
13 2 (0.40%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (20.83%) QA
2 31 (6.15%) Accessibility
3 25 (4.96%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.79%) GDPR
5 7 (1.39%) NIST
6 6 (1.19%) GRC
6 6 (1.19%) SLA
6 6 (1.19%) WCAG
7 5 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.79%) GxP
8 4 (0.79%) PMO
8 4 (0.79%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.60%) HL7
10 2 (0.40%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.40%) NCSC
11 1 (0.20%) Basel III
11 1 (0.20%) GMP
11 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 50 (9.92%) Docker
2 5 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) Ceph
3 1 (0.20%) HDFS
3 1 (0.20%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.20%) Squid
3 1 (0.20%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.20%) Varnish
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 79 (15.67%) Kubernetes
2 42 (8.33%) Terraform
3 30 (5.95%) Argo
4 15 (2.98%) Ansible
5 13 (2.58%) Grafana
6 10 (1.98%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.79%) Nagios
8 3 (0.60%) Istio
8 3 (0.60%) Puppet
8 3 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.20%) CASB
9 1 (0.20%) Kibana
9 1 (0.20%) Rancher
9 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 35 (6.94%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.95%) ServiceNow
3 21 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 20 (3.97%) Salesforce
5 18 (3.57%) Databricks
6 13 (2.58%) SAP
7 12 (2.38%) Oracle
8 10 (1.98%) Adobe
8 10 (1.98%) Okta
9 9 (1.79%) ForgeRock
10 7 (1.39%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.19%) Google
11 6 (1.19%) Guidewire
12 4 (0.79%) Splunk
12 4 (0.79%) VMware
13 3 (0.60%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.60%) CA Agile Central
13 3 (0.60%) Cognizant
14 2 (0.40%) Ariba
14 2 (0.40%) IBM