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

 6 months to
11 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 324 404
Rank change year-on-year +96 +80 +7
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 388 166 150
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.15% 0.64% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 0.71% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 84 91
10th Percentile £353 £413 £310
25th Percentile £420 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £570 £490
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +16.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £575
90th Percentile £665 £700 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £490
% change year-on-year -13.04% +17.35% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 4
10th Percentile £43.90 £65.13 £55.15
25th Percentile £51.25 £65.31 £61.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £66.25 £71.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% -7.67% +10.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.81 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.06 £68.38 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £67.50 £71.75
% change year-on-year -14.81% -5.92% +10.38%

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 29,666 23,261 33,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.57% 89.75% 87.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,990 14,365 22,049
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £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 1,857 734 1,965
10th Percentile £15.14 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.05 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.84
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -2.99% +2.48%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 11 February 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 +60 203 £510 -11.30% 33
North of England -12 64 £430 +1.18% 26
Midlands -25 46 £475 -15.56% 19
South East -26 35 £525 -8.70% 41
West Midlands -27 34 £486 -15.54% 14
North West +3 33 £388 -4.32% 15
South West -8 19 £525 -7.08% 24
Yorkshire -53 18 £500 +17.65% 4
North East -1 13 £500 -2.44% 7
East Midlands - 12 £348 - 5
East of England -15 8 £484 -15.83% 11
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 73 (18.81%) Confluence
2 15 (3.87%) SAS
3 12 (3.09%) CMS
4 6 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.29%) Appian
6 4 (1.03%) Apache
6 4 (1.03%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.77%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.77%) WordPress
8 2 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.52%) Documentum
8 2 (0.52%) Drupal
8 2 (0.52%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.52%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.52%) nginx
9 1 (0.26%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.26%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.55%) Adobe XD
3 6 (1.55%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.77%) Sketch
5 3 (0.77%) Trello
6 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.26%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.52%) Finacle
3 2 (0.52%) Maximo
3 2 (0.52%) Primavera
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 101 (26.03%) Azure
2 68 (17.53%) AWS
3 50 (12.89%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (8.76%) GitHub
5 28 (7.22%) OpenShift
6 22 (5.67%) GCP
6 22 (5.67%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (5.67%) Serverless
7 21 (5.41%) Power Platform
8 19 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (4.38%) Figma
10 14 (3.61%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.09%) SaaS
12 10 (2.58%) Power Automate
13 8 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (1.80%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.80%) PaaS
14 7 (1.80%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.77%) HTTP
1 3 (0.77%) Network Security
2 2 (0.52%) DNS
2 2 (0.52%) SMS
2 2 (0.52%) SSL
2 2 (0.52%) VPN
3 1 (0.26%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.26%) DHCP
3 1 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.90%) Power BI
2 12 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.06%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.06%) Oracle Database
3 8 (2.06%) Tableau
4 7 (1.80%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.55%) Metadata
5 6 (1.55%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 5 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.03%) Big Data
7 4 (1.03%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.03%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.03%) MySQL
8 3 (0.77%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.77%) DB2
8 3 (0.77%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 122 (31.44%) JIRA
2 49 (12.63%) Jenkins
3 43 (11.08%) Git
4 42 (10.82%) GitLab
5 36 (9.28%) Selenium
6 23 (5.93%) SonarQube
7 22 (5.67%) Postman
8 20 (5.15%) Cucumber
9 18 (4.64%) JUnit
10 8 (2.06%) Cypress.io
10 8 (2.06%) REST Assured
10 8 (2.06%) WebDriver
11 7 (1.80%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.55%) TestRail
12 6 (1.55%) Zephyr
13 5 (1.29%) Robot Framework
14 4 (1.03%) MLflow
14 4 (1.03%) webpack
15 3 (0.77%) CircleCI
15 3 (0.77%) Storybook
General
1 190 (48.97%) Social Skills
2 94 (24.23%) Finance
3 64 (16.49%) Public Sector
4 59 (15.21%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (9.54%) Banking
6 17 (4.38%) Front Office
7 16 (4.12%) Telecoms
8 14 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.58%) Marketing
11 9 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.80%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.55%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.55%) Legal
14 4 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.77%) Law
15 3 (0.77%) Local Government
15 3 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 78 (20.10%) Developer
2 51 (13.14%) Analyst
3 41 (10.57%) Business Analyst
4 38 (9.79%) Product Owner
5 37 (9.54%) Senior
6 34 (8.76%) Scrum Master
7 32 (8.25%) Lead
8 20 (5.15%) Java Developer
9 16 (4.12%) Project Manager
10 15 (3.87%) Architect
10 15 (3.87%) Test Specialist
10 15 (3.87%) Tester
11 13 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (2.58%) Product Manager
13 9 (2.32%) Senior Manager
13 9 (2.32%) Software Engineer
14 8 (2.06%) Data Engineer
14 8 (2.06%) Delivery Manager
14 8 (2.06%) Senior Developer
14 8 (2.06%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.37%) REST
2 35 (9.02%) React
3 28 (7.22%) AngularJS
4 26 (6.70%) RESTful
5 23 (5.93%) CSS
6 22 (5.67%) JSON
7 20 (5.15%) HTML
8 17 (4.38%) pytest
9 15 (3.87%) Node.js
10 14 (3.61%) Playwright
10 14 (3.61%) XML
11 11 (2.84%) SOAP
12 10 (2.58%) Gherkin
12 10 (2.58%) Quarkus
12 10 (2.58%) Spring
12 10 (2.58%) Spring Boot
13 9 (2.32%) HTML5
13 9 (2.32%) Vue
14 8 (2.06%) FIX Protocol
14 8 (2.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 132 (34.02%) Product Ownership
2 21 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.61%) Algorithms
4 13 (3.35%) Virtual Team
5 11 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.32%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.06%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.55%) NHS
10 6 (1.55%) PMI
11 5 (1.29%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.03%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.32%) Unix
2 8 (2.06%) Windows
3 7 (1.80%) Linux
4 4 (1.03%) VMS
5 2 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (91.75%) Agile
2 202 (52.06%) Scrum
3 187 (48.20%) Sprint Retrospective
4 121 (31.19%) CI/CD
4 121 (31.19%) DevOps
5 106 (27.32%) Sprint Review
6 105 (27.06%) Problem-Solving
7 104 (26.80%) Stakeholder Management
8 97 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 94 (24.23%) User Stories
10 90 (23.20%) Test Automation
11 82 (21.13%) Roadmaps
12 81 (20.88%) Backlog Refinement
13 64 (16.49%) Acceptance Criteria
14 62 (15.98%) Analytics
15 58 (14.95%) Backlog Management
15 58 (14.95%) Kanban
16 55 (14.18%) User Experience
17 51 (13.14%) Backlog Prioritisation
18 49 (12.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 80 (20.62%) Python
2 59 (15.21%) JavaScript
3 57 (14.69%) Java
4 44 (11.34%) SQL
5 31 (7.99%) TypeScript
6 25 (6.44%) C#
7 7 (1.80%) Go
8 6 (1.55%) Bicep
8 6 (1.55%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.77%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.77%) PHP
9 3 (0.77%) Ruby
9 3 (0.77%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.77%) XPath
10 2 (0.52%) Bash
10 2 (0.52%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.26%) R
11 1 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 107 (27.58%) Security Cleared
2 90 (23.20%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.76%) Degree
4 13 (3.35%) Master's Degree
5 12 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.84%) PMI Certification
7 8 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.06%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.55%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.55%) CBAP
8 6 (1.55%) PMP
9 5 (1.29%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.03%) IIBA
10 4 (1.03%) ISEB
11 3 (0.77%) CSPO
11 3 (0.77%) GPEN
11 3 (0.77%) OSCP
12 2 (0.52%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.52%) OSCE
12 2 (0.52%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (18.04%) QA
2 35 (9.02%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.35%) GDPR
4 12 (3.09%) WCAG
5 11 (2.84%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.03%) GRC
6 4 (1.03%) PSD2
7 3 (0.77%) HL7
7 3 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.52%) NCSC
8 2 (0.52%) NIST
8 2 (0.52%) PMO
8 2 (0.52%) SLA
9 1 (0.26%) Basel III
9 1 (0.26%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.26%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 56 (14.43%) Docker
2 4 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 61 (15.72%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.93%) Terraform
3 17 (4.38%) Ansible
4 16 (4.12%) Argo
5 10 (2.58%) Grafana
6 7 (1.80%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.77%) Kibana
8 3 (0.77%) Nagios
9 1 (0.26%) CASB
9 1 (0.26%) Istio
9 1 (0.26%) Puppet
9 1 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 43 (11.08%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.47%) Salesforce
3 17 (4.38%) Databricks
4 15 (3.87%) Oracle
5 11 (2.84%) Red Hat
5 11 (2.84%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.32%) Adobe
7 8 (2.06%) Cisco
8 7 (1.80%) Google
9 6 (1.55%) Guidewire
9 6 (1.55%) SAP
9 6 (1.55%) Veracode
10 5 (1.29%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.29%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.29%) Splunk
11 3 (0.77%) Cognizant
11 3 (0.77%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.77%) IBM
11 3 (0.77%) Progress
12 2 (0.52%) DocuSign
145 Sprint Planning jobs in England