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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 328 394
Rank change year-on-year +102 +66 +2
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 376 174 163
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.19% 0.62% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 0.70% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 100 93
10th Percentile £354 £403 £260
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £556 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +11.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £641 £594
90th Percentile £699 £675 £662
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 £29.24 £58.88 £36.13
25th Percentile £44.13 £62.81 £54.50
Median hourly rate £53.75 £66.01 £69.29
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% -4.73% +6.59%
75th Percentile £63.57 £67.45 £76.31
90th Percentile £91.80 £68.23 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £67.02 £69.29
% change year-on-year -19.80% -3.27% +6.59%

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 28,067 24,730 32,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.57% 88.83% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,937 15,201 21,830
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £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 1,762 813 1,440
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%
75th Percentile £57.44 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.79
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.79% +25.12%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +71 199 £510 -12.26% 37
North of England +3 62 £445 +5.95% 31
Midlands -6 43 £463 -17.78% 9
Yorkshire -35 33 £500 +19.05% 8
West Midlands -16 32 £477 -15.29% 6
South East -13 31 £525 -8.70% 33
North West -12 21 £388 +1.97% 14
South West +4 18 £563 -5.86% 20
East Midlands -10 11 £358 - 3
East of England -14 9 £460 -23.33% 13
North East - 8 £525 - 9
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 63 (16.76%) Confluence
2 14 (3.72%) SAS
3 13 (3.46%) CMS
4 6 (1.60%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.33%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.33%) Appian
6 3 (0.80%) Apache
6 3 (0.80%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.80%) WordPress
7 2 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.53%) Documentum
7 2 (0.53%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.53%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.53%) nginx
8 1 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.27%) Drupal
8 1 (0.27%) Mendix
Applications
1 9 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.60%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.80%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.80%) Sketch
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.53%) Trello
7 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.27%) Notion
Business Applications
1 9 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.53%) Maximo
3 2 (0.53%) Primavera
3 2 (0.53%) Workfront
4 1 (0.27%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 95 (25.27%) Azure
2 66 (17.55%) AWS
3 43 (11.44%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (10.37%) GitHub
5 26 (6.91%) GCP
6 24 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
6 24 (6.38%) Power Platform
7 23 (6.12%) Serverless
8 22 (5.85%) OpenShift
9 19 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (3.72%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (3.19%) Figma
11 12 (3.19%) Power Automate
11 12 (3.19%) SaaS
12 11 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (2.39%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (2.39%) PowerApps
14 8 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (1.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.06%) HTTP
2 2 (0.53%) DNS
2 2 (0.53%) Network Security
2 2 (0.53%) SMS
2 2 (0.53%) SSL
2 2 (0.53%) VPN
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.79%) Power BI
2 16 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (3.19%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.13%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.86%) Oracle Database
5 7 (1.86%) Tableau
6 6 (1.60%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.33%) Metadata
7 5 (1.33%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 4 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.06%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.06%) MySQL
9 3 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.80%) Big Data
9 3 (0.80%) DB2
9 3 (0.80%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.80%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 113 (30.05%) JIRA
2 49 (13.03%) Jenkins
3 40 (10.64%) Git
4 36 (9.57%) GitLab
5 32 (8.51%) Selenium
6 22 (5.85%) Cucumber
7 21 (5.59%) JUnit
8 20 (5.32%) Postman
9 18 (4.79%) SonarQube
10 8 (2.13%) webpack
11 7 (1.86%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.60%) TestRail
12 6 (1.60%) Zephyr
13 5 (1.33%) Robot Framework
13 5 (1.33%) TestNG
14 4 (1.06%) Babel
14 4 (1.06%) REST Assured
14 4 (1.06%) TeamCity
15 3 (0.80%) Gatling
15 3 (0.80%) Snyk
General
1 187 (49.73%) Social Skills
2 89 (23.67%) Finance
3 58 (15.43%) Public Sector
4 54 (14.36%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (10.64%) Banking
6 19 (5.05%) Marketing
7 17 (4.52%) Telecoms
8 14 (3.72%) Front Office
9 12 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.33%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.33%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.06%) Legal
13 4 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.80%) Law
15 2 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.53%) Military
15 2 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 77 (20.48%) Developer
2 53 (14.10%) Analyst
3 41 (10.90%) Business Analyst
4 40 (10.64%) Product Owner
5 33 (8.78%) Scrum Master
6 32 (8.51%) Senior
7 30 (7.98%) Lead
8 15 (3.99%) Java Developer
9 14 (3.72%) Test Specialist
10 13 (3.46%) Architect
10 13 (3.46%) Project Manager
11 12 (3.19%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (2.66%) Tester
13 9 (2.39%) Software Engineer
14 8 (2.13%) Product Manager
14 8 (2.13%) Senior Developer
15 7 (1.86%) Designer
15 7 (1.86%) QA Engineer
15 7 (1.86%) React Developer
15 7 (1.86%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (12.50%) REST
2 37 (9.84%) React
3 30 (7.98%) RESTful
4 25 (6.65%) CSS
5 23 (6.12%) AngularJS
5 23 (6.12%) HTML
6 18 (4.79%) JSON
6 18 (4.79%) Node.js
7 15 (3.99%) pytest
8 13 (3.46%) XML
9 11 (2.93%) HTML5
10 10 (2.66%) .NET
10 10 (2.66%) Gherkin
10 10 (2.66%) SOAP
10 10 (2.66%) Vue
11 9 (2.39%) CSS3
11 9 (2.39%) Next.js
11 9 (2.39%) Spring
12 8 (2.13%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (2.13%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 123 (32.71%) Product Ownership
2 16 (4.26%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.46%) Algorithms
3 13 (3.46%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.66%) Virtual Team
6 9 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.60%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.60%) NHS
9 5 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.33%) PMI
10 4 (1.06%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.06%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (1.06%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.80%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.39%) Unix
2 8 (2.13%) Windows
3 7 (1.86%) Linux
4 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.27%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (89.89%) Agile
2 189 (50.27%) Scrum
3 177 (47.07%) Sprint Retrospective
4 123 (32.71%) DevOps
5 112 (29.79%) CI/CD
6 105 (27.93%) Problem-Solving
7 101 (26.86%) Sprint Review
8 93 (24.73%) Stakeholder Management
9 92 (24.47%) User Stories
10 89 (23.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 89 (23.67%) Test Automation
11 81 (21.54%) Backlog Refinement
12 79 (21.01%) Roadmaps
13 61 (16.22%) Kanban
14 60 (15.96%) Analytics
15 57 (15.16%) Backlog Management
16 54 (14.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 54 (14.36%) User Experience
17 52 (13.83%) Acceptance Criteria
18 49 (13.03%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 70 (18.62%) Python
2 55 (14.63%) JavaScript
3 50 (13.30%) Java
4 41 (10.90%) SQL
5 31 (8.24%) TypeScript
6 21 (5.59%) C#
7 7 (1.86%) Go
8 6 (1.60%) Bicep
9 5 (1.33%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.06%) Bash
11 3 (0.80%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.80%) PHP
11 3 (0.80%) Ruby
11 3 (0.80%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.80%) XPath
12 2 (0.53%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.27%) Cypher
13 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (23.67%) Security Cleared
2 74 (19.68%) SC Cleared
3 30 (7.98%) Degree
4 10 (2.66%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.13%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.33%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.33%) CBAP
7 5 (1.33%) CSPO
7 5 (1.33%) PMP
8 4 (1.06%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.80%) GPEN
9 3 (0.80%) IIBA
9 3 (0.80%) ISEB
9 3 (0.80%) OSCP
10 2 (0.53%) CISSP
10 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (17.82%) QA
2 33 (8.78%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.72%) GDPR
4 12 (3.19%) WCAG
5 10 (2.66%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.33%) GRC
7 4 (1.06%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.06%) PSD2
8 3 (0.80%) HL7
8 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.80%) NIST
9 2 (0.53%) NCSC
10 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.27%) EMIR
10 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.27%) PMO
10 1 (0.27%) SEPA
10 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 57 (15.16%) Docker
2 4 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (14.10%) Kubernetes
2 27 (7.18%) Terraform
3 17 (4.52%) Ansible
4 10 (2.66%) Grafana
5 9 (2.39%) Argo
6 6 (1.60%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.53%) Istio
8 2 (0.53%) 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 53 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.12%) Salesforce
3 13 (3.46%) Databricks
4 11 (2.93%) Oracle
4 11 (2.93%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.39%) Google
6 8 (2.13%) Adobe
6 8 (2.13%) Cisco
7 6 (1.60%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.33%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.33%) Splunk
8 5 (1.33%) Veracode
9 4 (1.06%) Guidewire
9 4 (1.06%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.06%) SAP
10 3 (0.80%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.80%) IBM
10 3 (0.80%) Progress
11 2 (0.53%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.53%) Workday