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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 293 391
Rank change year-on-year +91 +98 -37
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 525 201 140
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.27% 0.83% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 0.91% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 123 90
10th Percentile £360 £392 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £514 £503
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% +2.29% -4.29%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £550
90th Percentile £625 £687 £672
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £500
% change year-on-year - +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 5 2
10th Percentile £55.50 £49.25 £52.63
25th Percentile £62.50 - £54.69
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -14.89% -9.62%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £62.19
90th Percentile - £55.75 £63.88
UK median hourly rate £69.25 £51.25 £58.75
% change year-on-year +35.12% -12.77% -9.62%

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 34,902 22,108 31,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.66% 91.30% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,235 14,434 20,613
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,141 960 2,249
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.22 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.80 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.78% -21.23% -0.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -23.29% +1.39%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +62 261 £520 -0.29% 54
North of England 0 99 £467 -4.99% 19
South East -26 60 £550 +7.00% 40
Midlands -14 57 £493 -8.80% 11
West Midlands -24 44 £493 +1.03% 7
North West -11 42 £380 -24.00% 12
Yorkshire -31 31 £516 +14.64% 4
North East +5 30 £550 +6.02% 3
South West -18 22 £525 -0.71% 10
East of England -7 19 £468 +16.88% 6
East Midlands -17 12 £413 -38.89% 4
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 90 (17.14%) Confluence
2 19 (3.62%) CMS
3 8 (1.52%) SAS
4 5 (0.95%) Apache
4 5 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.38%) Drupal
5 2 (0.38%) nginx
5 2 (0.38%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.19%) Traefik
6 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.33%) Trello
3 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.57%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.57%) Notion
5 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.19%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 8 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.95%) Magento
3 4 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.38%) Finacle
4 2 (0.38%) Maximo
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Utilities
5 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 158 (30.10%) Azure
2 103 (19.62%) AWS
3 67 (12.76%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (6.29%) OpenShift
5 27 (5.14%) GCP
6 25 (4.76%) GitHub
7 23 (4.38%) Serverless
8 20 (3.81%) Power Platform
9 19 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (3.05%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.05%) Azure AKS
11 15 (2.86%) Entra ID
12 13 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (1.90%) Figma
13 10 (1.90%) Snowflake
14 9 (1.71%) SaaS
14 9 (1.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 8 (1.52%) Power Automate
16 7 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.14%) Network Security
2 4 (0.76%) Firewall
3 3 (0.57%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.38%) DNS
4 2 (0.38%) SMS
5 1 (0.19%) 5G
5 1 (0.19%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.19%) DHCP
5 1 (0.19%) HTTP
5 1 (0.19%) NFC
5 1 (0.19%) NGFW
5 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.19%) SONET
5 1 (0.19%) SSL
5 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.19%) VPN
5 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.24%) Power BI
2 16 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.48%) Metadata
4 9 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.33%) Big Data
6 7 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.33%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.95%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.95%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.95%) Tableau
9 4 (0.76%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.76%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.57%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.57%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.57%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.38%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 178 (33.90%) JIRA
2 70 (13.33%) Git
3 56 (10.67%) Jenkins
4 36 (6.86%) Postman
5 33 (6.29%) SonarQube
6 25 (4.76%) GitLab
7 22 (4.19%) Selenium
8 12 (2.29%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.10%) JUnit
10 10 (1.90%) WebDriver
11 9 (1.71%) REST Assured
12 8 (1.52%) Cypress.io
13 7 (1.33%) Subversion
14 6 (1.14%) Bitbucket
15 5 (0.95%) JMeter
16 4 (0.76%) Artifactory
16 4 (0.76%) MLflow
16 4 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
16 4 (0.76%) Storybook
17 3 (0.57%) git-flow
General
1 222 (42.29%) Social Skills
2 109 (20.76%) Finance
3 80 (15.24%) Public Sector
4 70 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (6.86%) Banking
6 30 (5.71%) Marketing
7 27 (5.14%) Retail
8 19 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.29%) Retail Banking
11 11 (2.10%) Legal
12 10 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.52%) Front Office
14 6 (1.14%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.14%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.95%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.76%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 89 (16.95%) Developer
2 70 (13.33%) Analyst
3 69 (13.14%) Senior
4 59 (11.24%) Scrum Master
5 49 (9.33%) Lead
6 47 (8.95%) Product Owner
7 46 (8.76%) Business Analyst
8 43 (8.19%) Delivery Manager
9 30 (5.71%) Project Manager
10 28 (5.33%) Senior Manager
11 26 (4.95%) Java Developer
12 22 (4.19%) Software Engineer
13 19 (3.62%) Product Manager
14 18 (3.43%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 18 (3.43%) Architect
15 16 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
16 15 (2.86%) Technical Manager
17 14 (2.67%) Java Engineer
17 14 (2.67%) Technical Analyst
18 13 (2.48%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (8.95%) REST
2 40 (7.62%) React
3 39 (7.43%) AngularJS
4 36 (6.86%) RESTful
5 24 (4.57%) Quarkus
6 21 (4.00%) Node.js
7 17 (3.24%) JSON
8 16 (3.05%) CSS
9 15 (2.86%) .NET
9 15 (2.86%) Spring
10 14 (2.67%) HTML
11 13 (2.48%) Playwright
12 12 (2.29%) Spring Boot
13 11 (2.10%) OAuth
14 10 (1.90%) CSS3
14 10 (1.90%) HTML5
15 9 (1.71%) Lightning Web Components
15 9 (1.71%) pytest
15 9 (1.71%) SOAP
16 8 (1.52%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 188 (35.81%) Product Ownership
2 51 (9.71%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.62%) Virtual Team
4 16 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.10%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.14%) Distributed Applications
11 6 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.14%) Life Science
11 6 (1.14%) NHS
11 6 (1.14%) PMI
12 5 (0.95%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.95%) FMCG
12 5 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (0.95%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.95%) Unix
2 4 (0.76%) Linux
2 4 (0.76%) VMS
3 2 (0.38%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Android
4 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (93.33%) Agile
2 270 (51.43%) Scrum
3 250 (47.62%) Sprint Retrospective
4 174 (33.14%) DevOps
5 163 (31.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 149 (28.38%) CI/CD
7 147 (28.00%) Sprint Review
8 139 (26.48%) Stakeholder Management
9 132 (25.14%) User Stories
10 124 (23.62%) Backlog Refinement
11 105 (20.00%) Roadmaps
12 104 (19.81%) Test Automation
13 95 (18.10%) Acceptance Criteria
14 94 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
15 90 (17.14%) Backlog Prioritisation
16 87 (16.57%) Backlog Management
17 79 (15.05%) Kanban
18 76 (14.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 72 (13.71%) SDLC
20 69 (13.14%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 79 (15.05%) Java
2 60 (11.43%) Python
3 49 (9.33%) SQL
4 40 (7.62%) JavaScript
5 27 (5.14%) C#
6 26 (4.95%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.33%) Apex Code
7 7 (1.33%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.14%) Bicep
9 4 (0.76%) Groovy
10 3 (0.57%) C++
11 2 (0.38%) Go
11 2 (0.38%) Korn
11 2 (0.38%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.38%) Ruby
11 2 (0.38%) SOQL
11 2 (0.38%) SOSL
12 1 (0.19%) Bash
12 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.19%) XPath
Qualifications
1 146 (27.81%) Security Cleared
2 121 (23.05%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.43%) Degree
4 20 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.24%) PMI Certification
7 13 (2.48%) PMP
8 11 (2.10%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.10%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.14%) CBAP
9 6 (1.14%) IIBA
10 5 (0.95%) CISSP
11 4 (0.76%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.76%) CISM
11 4 (0.76%) ISEB
11 4 (0.76%) SAFe Agilist
12 2 (0.38%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.38%) CSPO
12 2 (0.38%) GPEN
12 2 (0.38%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (18.29%) QA
2 34 (6.48%) Accessibility
3 27 (5.14%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.71%) GDPR
5 7 (1.33%) NIST
6 6 (1.14%) GRC
6 6 (1.14%) SLA
7 5 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.95%) PMO
7 5 (0.95%) WCAG
8 4 (0.76%) GxP
8 4 (0.76%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (0.38%) NCSC
10 1 (0.19%) Basel III
10 1 (0.19%) GMP
10 1 (0.19%) HL7
10 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (7.81%) Docker
2 4 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Ceph
3 1 (0.19%) HDFS
3 1 (0.19%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.19%) Squid
3 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.19%) Varnish
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 72 (13.71%) Kubernetes
2 39 (7.43%) Terraform
3 27 (5.14%) Argo
4 11 (2.10%) Ansible
5 9 (1.71%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.52%) Grafana
7 3 (0.57%) Istio
7 3 (0.57%) Nagios
7 3 (0.57%) Puppet
8 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.19%) CASB
9 1 (0.19%) Kibana
9 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 39 (7.43%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.29%) ServiceNow
3 22 (4.19%) Red Hat
3 22 (4.19%) Salesforce
4 19 (3.62%) Databricks
5 14 (2.67%) Oracle
6 12 (2.29%) ForgeRock
6 12 (2.29%) Okta
6 12 (2.29%) SAP
7 9 (1.71%) Adobe
8 6 (1.14%) Guidewire
8 6 (1.14%) MuleSoft
9 4 (0.76%) VMware
10 3 (0.57%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.57%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (0.57%) Cognizant
10 3 (0.57%) Google
10 3 (0.57%) Progress
10 3 (0.57%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.38%) Talend