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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 323 415
Rank change year-on-year +93 +92 -1
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 379 167 151
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.13% 0.64% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 0.71% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 86 91
10th Percentile £354 £402 £310
25th Percentile £421 £486 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.24% -6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £575
90th Percentile £670 £700 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £490
% change year-on-year -13.04% +17.35% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 4
10th Percentile £43.45 £65.13 £55.15
25th Percentile £50.31 £65.31 £61.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £66.25 £71.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.98% -7.67% +10.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.81 £77.50
90th Percentile £87.90 £68.38 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £67.50 £71.75
% change year-on-year -18.52% -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 29,282 23,546 33,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.65% 89.63% 87.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,737 14,474 22,202
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £639 £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 1,833 746 1,958
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +2.66%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.01 £61.96
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +62 198 £510 -9.33% 59
North of England -13 61 £438 +2.94% 33
Midlands -22 46 £475 -15.56% 20
South East -20 34 £525 -8.70% 44
West Midlands -22 34 £486 -15.54% 13
North West 0 30 £389 -4.01% 19
Yorkshire -52 20 £500 +19.05% 5
South West -2 19 £525 -7.08% 19
East Midlands - 12 £348 - 6
North East -3 11 £500 -2.44% 9
East of England -19 8 £484 -15.83% 8
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 (19.26%) Confluence
2 15 (3.96%) SAS
3 12 (3.17%) CMS
4 5 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.32%) Appian
5 4 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.79%) Apache
6 3 (0.79%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.79%) WordPress
7 2 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.53%) Documentum
7 2 (0.53%) Drupal
7 2 (0.53%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.53%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.53%) nginx
8 1 (0.26%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.26%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.58%) Adobe XD
3 6 (1.58%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.79%) Sketch
5 3 (0.79%) Trello
6 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.26%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.53%) Finacle
3 2 (0.53%) Maximo
3 2 (0.53%) Primavera
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 99 (26.12%) Azure
2 65 (17.15%) AWS
3 49 (12.93%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (8.71%) GitHub
5 25 (6.60%) OpenShift
6 22 (5.80%) Power Platform
7 21 (5.54%) GCP
7 21 (5.54%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (5.54%) Serverless
8 18 (4.75%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (4.22%) Figma
10 13 (3.43%) Amazon S3
11 12 (3.17%) SaaS
12 9 (2.37%) Power Automate
13 8 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (1.85%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.79%) HTTP
1 3 (0.79%) Network Security
2 2 (0.53%) DNS
2 2 (0.53%) SMS
2 2 (0.53%) SSL
2 2 (0.53%) 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 20 (5.28%) Power BI
2 12 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.37%) Tableau
4 8 (2.11%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.11%) Oracle Database
5 7 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.85%) Metadata
5 7 (1.85%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.58%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 4 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.06%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.06%) MySQL
8 3 (0.79%) Big Data
8 3 (0.79%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.79%) DB2
8 3 (0.79%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.79%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.79%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 123 (32.45%) JIRA
2 48 (12.66%) Jenkins
3 42 (11.08%) GitLab
4 41 (10.82%) Git
5 36 (9.50%) Selenium
6 22 (5.80%) Postman
7 20 (5.28%) Cucumber
7 20 (5.28%) SonarQube
8 18 (4.75%) JUnit
9 8 (2.11%) Cypress.io
9 8 (2.11%) REST Assured
9 8 (2.11%) WebDriver
10 7 (1.85%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.58%) TestRail
11 6 (1.58%) Zephyr
12 5 (1.32%) Robot Framework
13 4 (1.06%) webpack
14 3 (0.79%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.79%) MLflow
14 3 (0.79%) Storybook
General
1 186 (49.08%) Social Skills
2 89 (23.48%) Finance
3 62 (16.36%) Public Sector
4 59 (15.57%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (9.50%) Banking
6 17 (4.49%) Telecoms
7 16 (4.22%) Front Office
8 14 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.64%) Marketing
11 9 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.85%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.32%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.32%) Legal
14 4 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.79%) Law
15 3 (0.79%) Local Government
16 2 (0.53%) Electronics
16 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 75 (19.79%) Developer
2 51 (13.46%) Analyst
3 41 (10.82%) Business Analyst
4 38 (10.03%) Product Owner
5 36 (9.50%) Senior
6 32 (8.44%) Lead
7 30 (7.92%) Scrum Master
8 18 (4.75%) Java Developer
9 15 (3.96%) Project Manager
9 15 (3.96%) Test Specialist
9 15 (3.96%) Tester
10 14 (3.69%) Architect
11 13 (3.43%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (2.64%) Product Manager
13 9 (2.37%) Delivery Manager
13 9 (2.37%) Senior Manager
14 8 (2.11%) Senior Developer
14 8 (2.11%) Software Engineer
14 8 (2.11%) Test Automation Specialist
15 7 (1.85%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.66%) REST
2 34 (8.97%) React
3 25 (6.60%) AngularJS
3 25 (6.60%) RESTful
4 22 (5.80%) CSS
5 21 (5.54%) JSON
6 19 (5.01%) HTML
7 17 (4.49%) pytest
8 15 (3.96%) Node.js
9 14 (3.69%) Playwright
9 14 (3.69%) XML
10 11 (2.90%) SOAP
11 10 (2.64%) Gherkin
11 10 (2.64%) Spring
11 10 (2.64%) Spring Boot
12 9 (2.37%) Vue
13 8 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (2.11%) FIX Protocol
13 8 (2.11%) HTML5
13 8 (2.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 127 (33.51%) Product Ownership
2 20 (5.28%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.69%) Algorithms
4 13 (3.43%) Virtual Team
5 11 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.37%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.11%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.58%) NHS
10 6 (1.58%) PMI
11 5 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.06%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.06%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.06%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.79%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.37%) Unix
2 8 (2.11%) Windows
3 7 (1.85%) Linux
4 3 (0.79%) VMS
5 2 (0.53%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (91.82%) Agile
2 195 (51.45%) Scrum
3 184 (48.55%) Sprint Retrospective
4 120 (31.66%) DevOps
5 117 (30.87%) CI/CD
6 106 (27.97%) Problem-Solving
7 103 (27.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 100 (26.39%) Sprint Review
9 95 (25.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 93 (24.54%) User Stories
11 87 (22.96%) Test Automation
12 83 (21.90%) Roadmaps
13 81 (21.37%) Backlog Refinement
14 63 (16.62%) Acceptance Criteria
15 62 (16.36%) Analytics
16 59 (15.57%) Kanban
17 58 (15.30%) Backlog Management
18 54 (14.25%) User Experience
19 50 (13.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 47 (12.40%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 79 (20.84%) Python
2 58 (15.30%) JavaScript
3 54 (14.25%) Java
4 44 (11.61%) SQL
5 30 (7.92%) TypeScript
6 25 (6.60%) C#
7 7 (1.85%) Go
8 6 (1.58%) Bicep
8 6 (1.58%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.79%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.79%) PHP
9 3 (0.79%) Ruby
9 3 (0.79%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.79%) XPath
10 2 (0.53%) Bash
10 2 (0.53%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.26%) C++
11 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 103 (27.18%) Security Cleared
2 86 (22.69%) SC Cleared
3 32 (8.44%) Degree
4 12 (3.17%) Master's Degree
5 10 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.64%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.58%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.58%) CBAP
9 5 (1.32%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.32%) PMP
10 4 (1.06%) IIBA
10 4 (1.06%) ISEB
11 3 (0.79%) CSPO
11 3 (0.79%) GPEN
11 3 (0.79%) OSCP
12 2 (0.53%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.53%) OSCE
12 2 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (17.68%) QA
2 35 (9.23%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.43%) GDPR
4 12 (3.17%) WCAG
5 11 (2.90%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.32%) GRC
7 4 (1.06%) PSD2
8 3 (0.79%) HL7
8 3 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.53%) NCSC
9 2 (0.53%) NIST
9 2 (0.53%) PMO
9 2 (0.53%) SLA
10 1 (0.26%) Basel III
10 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.26%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.26%) SEPA
10 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 54 (14.25%) Docker
2 4 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 56 (14.78%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.80%) Terraform
3 17 (4.49%) Ansible
4 13 (3.43%) Argo
5 10 (2.64%) Grafana
6 7 (1.85%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.79%) Kibana
8 3 (0.79%) Nagios
9 1 (0.26%) CASB
9 1 (0.26%) Istio
9 1 (0.26%) Puppet
9 1 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 43 (11.35%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.65%) Salesforce
3 17 (4.49%) Databricks
4 15 (3.96%) Oracle
5 11 (2.90%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.37%) Adobe
7 8 (2.11%) Cisco
7 8 (2.11%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.85%) Google
9 6 (1.58%) Guidewire
9 6 (1.58%) SAP
9 6 (1.58%) Veracode
10 5 (1.32%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.32%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.32%) Splunk
11 3 (0.79%) Cognizant
11 3 (0.79%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.79%) IBM
11 3 (0.79%) Progress
12 2 (0.53%) DocuSign