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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 343 407
Rank change year-on-year +105 +64 -27
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 360 170 178
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.23% 0.55% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.64% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 108 103
10th Percentile £352 £364 £361
25th Percentile £413 £420 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £505
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +4.46% -3.81%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £603
90th Percentile £700 £674 £693
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £505
% change year-on-year -5.66% +4.95% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 10
10th Percentile £43.45 £57.33 £48.23
25th Percentile £46.88 £58.94 £54.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.26 £69.29
Median % change year-on-year -19.69% -10.14% +4.58%
75th Percentile £55.94 £64.95 £75.65
90th Percentile £68.86 £66.19 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £62.26 £69.29
% change year-on-year -19.69% -10.14% +4.58%

All Process and 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 26,593 26,760 35,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.56% 86.55% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,884 16,311 24,240
10th Percentile £299 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £639 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,719 969 1,479
10th Percentile £14.74 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.07 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.94% -14.45% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.46 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.45 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.87% -20.09% +26.43%

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 November 2025. 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 +87 189 £525 -4.55% 175
North of England -9 64 £450 +5.88% 33
Midlands +10 46 £430 -22.52% 27
West Midlands -2 31 £483 -12.93% 21
South East +10 30 £525 -9.09% 133
Yorkshire -20 30 £500 +14.29% 10
North West 0 28 £418 +14.38% 15
East Midlands +1 15 £363 - 5
South West +14 9 £563 - 29
East of England -8 8 £460 -23.33% 1
North East -10 6 £538 +31.10% 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 48 (13.33%) Confluence
2 15 (4.17%) CMS
3 14 (3.89%) SAS
4 6 (1.67%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.39%) Appian
5 5 (1.39%) WordPress
6 3 (0.83%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.56%) Apache
7 2 (0.56%) Documentum
7 2 (0.56%) Drupal
7 2 (0.56%) Magnolia
7 2 (0.56%) nginx
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle Service Bus
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.56%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.28%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 11 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.94%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.67%) Trello
5 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.56%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.56%) Sketch
6 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.56%) Workfront
4 1 (0.28%) Endur
4 1 (0.28%) Primavera
4 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 84 (23.33%) Azure
2 56 (15.56%) AWS
3 40 (11.11%) GitHub
4 34 (9.44%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (6.94%) GCP
6 21 (5.83%) Power Platform
7 19 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (4.17%) OpenShift
9 14 (3.89%) SaaS
10 13 (3.61%) Serverless
11 10 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.78%) Figma
11 10 (2.78%) PowerApps
12 9 (2.50%) Miro
12 9 (2.50%) Power Automate
13 8 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (2.22%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.94%) Amazon S3
14 7 (1.94%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.11%) DNS
1 4 (1.11%) HTTP
1 4 (1.11%) SSL
2 2 (0.56%) VPN
3 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.28%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 13 (3.61%) Power BI
4 8 (2.22%) Oracle Database
4 8 (2.22%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.94%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.67%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.39%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.39%) MySQL
7 5 (1.39%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 4 (1.11%) Big Data
8 4 (1.11%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.11%) DB2
9 3 (0.83%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.83%) Metadata
9 3 (0.83%) Tableau
10 2 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 104 (28.89%) JIRA
2 48 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 43 (11.94%) Git
4 36 (10.00%) GitLab
5 33 (9.17%) Selenium
6 27 (7.50%) Cucumber
7 25 (6.94%) JUnit
8 18 (5.00%) Postman
9 11 (3.06%) webpack
10 10 (2.78%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.67%) WebDriver
12 5 (1.39%) Babel
12 5 (1.39%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.39%) Cypress.io
12 5 (1.39%) Robot Framework
13 4 (1.11%) Browser DevTools
13 4 (1.11%) TestNG
13 4 (1.11%) TestRail
13 4 (1.11%) Vite
13 4 (1.11%) Zephyr
General
1 167 (46.39%) Social Skills
2 82 (22.78%) Finance
3 53 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.00%) Banking
5 33 (9.17%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.83%) Marketing
7 12 (3.33%) Front Office
8 11 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (3.06%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.39%) Back Office
12 4 (1.11%) Legal
12 4 (1.11%) Retail
13 3 (0.83%) Automotive
13 3 (0.83%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.56%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.56%) Law
15 1 (0.28%) Military
Job Titles
1 64 (17.78%) Developer
2 50 (13.89%) Analyst
3 46 (12.78%) Scrum Master
4 36 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 32 (8.89%) Lead
6 31 (8.61%) Product Owner
7 26 (7.22%) Senior
8 16 (4.44%) Java Developer
8 16 (4.44%) Project Manager
9 13 (3.61%) Test Specialist
10 10 (2.78%) Software Developer
11 9 (2.50%) Architect
12 8 (2.22%) Delivery Manager
12 8 (2.22%) Test Engineer
13 7 (1.94%) Applications Developer
13 7 (1.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (1.94%) Product Manager
13 7 (1.94%) QA Engineer
13 7 (1.94%) Technical Analyst
13 7 (1.94%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (15.28%) REST
2 36 (10.00%) React
3 33 (9.17%) RESTful
4 25 (6.94%) HTML
5 23 (6.39%) CSS
6 17 (4.72%) AngularJS
7 16 (4.44%) Node.js
8 14 (3.89%) Spring
8 14 (3.89%) Spring Boot
9 13 (3.61%) .NET
9 13 (3.61%) HTML5
9 13 (3.61%) pytest
10 11 (3.06%) SOAP
11 10 (2.78%) Jest
11 10 (2.78%) JSON
12 9 (2.50%) Next.js
12 9 (2.50%) Vue
13 8 (2.22%) CSS3
13 8 (2.22%) Kafka
13 8 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 120 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 13 (3.61%) Cloud Native
2 13 (3.61%) Onboarding
2 13 (3.61%) Virtual Team
3 12 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (2.22%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.67%) Marketing Technology
7 5 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.39%) PMI
7 5 (1.39%) Reinsurance
7 5 (1.39%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.11%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.11%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.11%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.11%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.67%) Unix
1 6 (1.67%) Windows
2 3 (0.83%) Linux
2 3 (0.83%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.28%) VMS
3 1 (0.28%) Windows 7
3 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (90.00%) Agile
2 196 (54.44%) Scrum
3 173 (48.06%) Sprint Retrospective
4 108 (30.00%) DevOps
5 103 (28.61%) Problem-Solving
6 100 (27.78%) CI/CD
7 94 (26.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 85 (23.61%) Sprint Review
9 77 (21.39%) User Stories
10 75 (20.83%) Test Automation
11 72 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
12 67 (18.61%) Stakeholder Management
13 55 (15.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 54 (15.00%) Kanban
14 54 (15.00%) Roadmaps
15 50 (13.89%) Backlog Management
16 45 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
16 45 (12.50%) Microservices
16 45 (12.50%) SDLC
17 44 (12.22%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 55 (15.28%) Java
2 53 (14.72%) Python
3 50 (13.89%) SQL
4 45 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 21 (5.83%) TypeScript
6 17 (4.72%) C#
7 5 (1.39%) Bicep
8 4 (1.11%) PHP
9 3 (0.83%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.83%) Bash
9 3 (0.83%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.83%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.83%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.83%) VBA
10 2 (0.56%) Korn
11 1 (0.28%) C++
11 1 (0.28%) Go
11 1 (0.28%) Ruby
11 1 (0.28%) Scala
11 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 61 (16.94%) SC Cleared
3 30 (8.33%) Degree
4 11 (3.06%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.94%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.94%) PMP
7 6 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.11%) CSPO
9 3 (0.83%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.56%) CISSP
10 2 (0.56%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.28%) OCA
11 1 (0.28%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (21.11%) QA
2 27 (7.50%) Accessibility
3 15 (4.17%) GDPR
4 11 (3.06%) Data Quality
4 11 (3.06%) WCAG
5 7 (1.94%) GRC
6 6 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.39%) NIST
8 4 (1.11%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.11%) PSD2
9 3 (0.83%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.56%) EMIR
10 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.56%) SEPA
11 1 (0.28%) HL7
11 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.28%) MiFID
11 1 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 44 (12.22%) Docker
2 5 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (11.67%) Kubernetes
2 21 (5.83%) Terraform
3 11 (3.06%) Ansible
4 10 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.11%) Grafana
6 3 (0.83%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.56%) Argo
7 2 (0.56%) Kibana
8 1 (0.28%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.28%) Istio
8 1 (0.28%) linkerd
Vendors
1 51 (14.17%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 16 (4.44%) Oracle
4 14 (3.89%) Google
5 9 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.94%) Adobe
6 7 (1.94%) Cisco
6 7 (1.94%) Databricks
7 5 (1.39%) Veracode
8 4 (1.11%) Amplitude
8 4 (1.11%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.11%) Splunk
9 3 (0.83%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.83%) Okta
9 3 (0.83%) Progress
9 3 (0.83%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.83%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.56%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.56%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.56%) OneLogin