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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 308 417
Rank change year-on-year +75 +109 -19
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 365 171 151
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.17% 0.64% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 0.72% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 96 89
10th Percentile £353 £404 £302
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £594
90th Percentile £700 £675 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 5
10th Percentile £30.77 £65.25 £56.45
25th Percentile £44.50 £65.63 £64.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £67.02 £70.07
Median % change year-on-year -17.93% -4.35% +5.77%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.89 £77.50
90th Percentile £89.85 £68.40 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £67.26 £70.07
% change year-on-year -18.23% -4.01% +5.77%

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 27,653 23,679 31,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.28% 89.08% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,613 14,524 21,598
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,731 761 1,481
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.50 £14.18
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £31.69 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.64% -21.75% +15.71%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +55 196 £511 -11.09% 33
North of England -18 59 £402 -4.29% 40
Midlands -13 43 £463 -17.78% 27
West Midlands -14 32 £477 -15.29% 10
South East -15 30 £525 -8.70% 57
Yorkshire -32 30 £476 +13.39% 16
North West -7 20 £377 -0.82% 15
South West -7 17 £544 -9.00% 26
East Midlands -8 11 £358 - 17
North East - 9 £525 - 9
East of England -14 7 £475 -20.83% 25
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 61 (16.71%) Confluence
2 14 (3.84%) SAS
3 11 (3.01%) CMS
4 5 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.37%) Appian
4 5 (1.37%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.82%) Apache
5 3 (0.82%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.82%) WordPress
6 2 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.55%) Documentum
6 2 (0.55%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.55%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.55%) nginx
7 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.27%) Drupal
7 1 (0.27%) Mendix
Applications
1 9 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.64%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.82%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.82%) Sketch
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.55%) Trello
7 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.27%) Notion
Business Applications
1 9 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.55%) Maximo
3 2 (0.55%) Primavera
3 2 (0.55%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 94 (25.75%) Azure
2 64 (17.53%) AWS
3 43 (11.78%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (10.14%) GitHub
5 24 (6.58%) GCP
6 23 (6.30%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (6.30%) OpenShift
6 23 (6.30%) Power Platform
6 23 (6.30%) Serverless
7 19 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (3.84%) Amazon S3
9 12 (3.29%) Figma
9 12 (3.29%) SaaS
10 11 (3.01%) Power Automate
11 10 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (2.19%) PowerApps
14 7 (1.92%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.82%) HTTP
2 2 (0.55%) Network Security
2 2 (0.55%) SMS
2 2 (0.55%) SSL
2 2 (0.55%) VPN
3 1 (0.27%) DNS
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.93%) Power BI
2 14 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.74%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.19%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.92%) Oracle Database
5 7 (1.92%) Tableau
6 6 (1.64%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.37%) Metadata
7 5 (1.37%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 4 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.10%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.10%) MySQL
9 3 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.82%) Big Data
9 3 (0.82%) DB2
9 3 (0.82%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.82%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.82%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.55%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 110 (30.14%) JIRA
2 46 (12.60%) Jenkins
3 39 (10.68%) Git
4 34 (9.32%) GitLab
5 33 (9.04%) Selenium
6 22 (6.03%) Cucumber
7 21 (5.75%) JUnit
8 20 (5.48%) SonarQube
9 19 (5.21%) Postman
10 7 (1.92%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.92%) webpack
11 6 (1.64%) TestRail
11 6 (1.64%) Zephyr
12 5 (1.37%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.37%) Robot Framework
12 5 (1.37%) TestNG
13 4 (1.10%) Babel
13 4 (1.10%) Cypress.io
13 4 (1.10%) TeamCity
13 4 (1.10%) WebDriver
General
1 181 (49.59%) Social Skills
2 85 (23.29%) Finance
3 58 (15.89%) Public Sector
4 53 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (10.14%) Banking
6 17 (4.66%) Telecoms
7 16 (4.38%) Marketing
8 14 (3.84%) Front Office
9 12 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.37%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.37%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.10%) Legal
12 4 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.82%) Law
14 2 (0.55%) Electronics
14 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.55%) Military
14 2 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 76 (20.82%) Developer
2 48 (13.15%) Analyst
3 40 (10.96%) Business Analyst
4 37 (10.14%) Product Owner
5 32 (8.77%) Scrum Master
5 32 (8.77%) Senior
6 30 (8.22%) Lead
7 16 (4.38%) Java Developer
8 14 (3.84%) Test Specialist
9 13 (3.56%) Architect
9 13 (3.56%) Project Manager
10 11 (3.01%) Tester
11 10 (2.74%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (2.47%) Senior Developer
12 9 (2.47%) Software Engineer
13 8 (2.19%) Product Manager
14 7 (1.92%) QA Engineer
14 7 (1.92%) Senior Manager
14 7 (1.92%) Software Developer
14 7 (1.92%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (13.15%) REST
2 36 (9.86%) React
3 28 (7.67%) RESTful
4 22 (6.03%) CSS
5 21 (5.75%) AngularJS
6 20 (5.48%) HTML
7 18 (4.93%) JSON
8 16 (4.38%) Node.js
9 15 (4.11%) pytest
10 13 (3.56%) XML
11 11 (3.01%) SOAP
12 10 (2.74%) .NET
12 10 (2.74%) Gherkin
13 9 (2.47%) Playwright
13 9 (2.47%) Spring
13 9 (2.47%) Vue
14 8 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (2.19%) FIX Protocol
14 8 (2.19%) Next.js
14 8 (2.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 118 (32.33%) Product Ownership
2 17 (4.66%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.56%) Algorithms
3 13 (3.56%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (3.01%) Virtual Team
5 9 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.92%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.64%) NHS
9 5 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.37%) PMI
10 4 (1.10%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.10%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.10%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.82%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.82%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.47%) Unix
2 8 (2.19%) Windows
3 7 (1.92%) Linux
4 2 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.27%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (90.41%) Agile
2 184 (50.41%) Scrum
3 170 (46.58%) Sprint Retrospective
4 121 (33.15%) DevOps
5 110 (30.14%) CI/CD
6 105 (28.77%) Problem-Solving
7 100 (27.40%) Sprint Review
8 91 (24.93%) Stakeholder Management
9 90 (24.66%) Test Automation
10 89 (24.38%) User Stories
11 86 (23.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 79 (21.64%) Roadmaps
13 77 (21.10%) Backlog Refinement
14 59 (16.16%) Analytics
14 59 (16.16%) Kanban
15 56 (15.34%) Backlog Management
16 53 (14.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 52 (14.25%) User Experience
18 49 (13.42%) Acceptance Criteria
19 47 (12.88%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 68 (18.63%) Python
2 54 (14.79%) JavaScript
3 51 (13.97%) Java
4 38 (10.41%) SQL
5 29 (7.95%) TypeScript
6 22 (6.03%) C#
7 7 (1.92%) Go
8 6 (1.64%) Bicep
9 5 (1.37%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.10%) Bash
11 3 (0.82%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.82%) PHP
11 3 (0.82%) Ruby
11 3 (0.82%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.82%) XPath
12 2 (0.55%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.27%) C++
13 1 (0.27%) Cypher
13 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (24.66%) Security Cleared
2 75 (20.55%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.95%) Degree
4 10 (2.74%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.19%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.19%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.37%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.37%) CBAP
7 5 (1.37%) PMP
8 4 (1.10%) CSPO
8 4 (1.10%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.82%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.82%) GPEN
9 3 (0.82%) IIBA
9 3 (0.82%) ISEB
9 3 (0.82%) OSCP
10 2 (0.55%) CISSP
10 2 (0.55%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (18.08%) QA
2 30 (8.22%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.84%) GDPR
4 11 (3.01%) WCAG
5 9 (2.47%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.37%) GRC
7 4 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.10%) PSD2
8 3 (0.82%) HL7
9 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.55%) NCSC
9 2 (0.55%) NIST
9 2 (0.55%) SLA
10 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.27%) PMO
10 1 (0.27%) SEPA
10 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (15.07%) Docker
2 4 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (14.25%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.85%) Terraform
3 17 (4.66%) Ansible
4 10 (2.74%) Argo
4 10 (2.74%) Grafana
5 6 (1.64%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.55%) Istio
7 2 (0.55%) Kibana
8 1 (0.27%) CASB
8 1 (0.27%) linkerd
8 1 (0.27%) Nagios
8 1 (0.27%) Puppet
8 1 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 49 (13.42%) Microsoft
2 25 (6.85%) Salesforce
3 13 (3.56%) Databricks
4 12 (3.29%) Oracle
4 12 (3.29%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.19%) Adobe
5 8 (2.19%) Cisco
5 8 (2.19%) Google
6 7 (1.92%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.37%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.37%) Guidewire
7 5 (1.37%) SAP
7 5 (1.37%) Splunk
7 5 (1.37%) Veracode
8 4 (1.10%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.82%) Cognizant
9 3 (0.82%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.82%) IBM
9 3 (0.82%) Progress
10 2 (0.55%) HubSpot