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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
24 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 267 410
Rank change year-on-year +65 +143 -55
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 580 237 141
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.34% 0.95% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.04% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 155 90
10th Percentile £361 £387 £339
25th Percentile £438 £431 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.50% -5.21%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £550
90th Percentile £647 £683 £650
UK median daily rate £517 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.35% - -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 9 1
10th Percentile £58.13 £48.25 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% +13.04%
75th Percentile - £55.00 -
90th Percentile £71.88 £56.25 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% +13.04%

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 37,051 22,887 31,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.28% 91.38% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,430 14,787 20,644
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,322 1,108 2,367
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.78
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +53 285 £525 - 42
North of England -20 103 £481 +1.42% 26
South East -17 75 £560 +9.27% 32
Midlands -13 63 £492 +22.39% 11
West Midlands -15 52 £492 +12.46% 7
North East +1 40 £550 +4.76% 9
North West -38 37 £378 -19.51% 13
Yorkshire -35 30 £518 +11.08% 4
East of England -6 23 £460 +15.00% 6
South West -13 23 £475 -7.32% 17
East Midlands -17 10 £407 +1.69% 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 93 (16.03%) Confluence
2 22 (3.79%) CMS
3 8 (1.38%) SAS
4 5 (0.86%) Apache
4 5 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.52%) Documentum
7 2 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.34%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.17%) Drupal
8 1 (0.17%) Mendix
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.17%) Traefik
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.03%) Trello
4 4 (0.69%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.69%) Notion
5 3 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.17%) Mingle
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.86%) Magento
4 3 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.34%) Finacle
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.34%) Primavera
5 2 (0.34%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Utilities
6 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.17%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.17%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 179 (30.86%) Azure
2 108 (18.62%) AWS
3 86 (14.83%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (6.90%) OpenShift
5 26 (4.48%) Serverless
6 25 (4.31%) Power Platform
7 23 (3.97%) GCP
7 23 (3.97%) GitHub
8 22 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (3.28%) Amazon S3
10 16 (2.76%) Entra ID
10 16 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (2.59%) Azure AKS
12 14 (2.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 13 (2.24%) Snowflake
14 12 (2.07%) SaaS
15 11 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (1.55%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.86%) Firewall
2 4 (0.69%) Network Security
3 3 (0.52%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.34%) DNS
4 2 (0.34%) WAN
5 1 (0.17%) 5G
5 1 (0.17%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.17%) DHCP
5 1 (0.17%) NFC
5 1 (0.17%) NGFW
5 1 (0.17%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.17%) SONET
5 1 (0.17%) SSL
5 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.17%) VPN
5 1 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.28%) Power BI
2 18 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.41%) Metadata
4 10 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (1.72%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.21%) Big Data
6 7 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.21%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.03%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.03%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.86%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.86%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.69%) Tableau
10 3 (0.52%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.52%) Redis
11 2 (0.34%) MySQL
11 2 (0.34%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.34%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 193 (33.28%) JIRA
2 73 (12.59%) Git
3 52 (8.97%) Jenkins
4 43 (7.41%) SonarQube
5 40 (6.90%) Postman
6 24 (4.14%) Selenium
7 23 (3.97%) GitLab
8 12 (2.07%) JUnit
8 12 (2.07%) WebDriver
9 10 (1.72%) Cypress.io
10 9 (1.55%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.55%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.86%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.86%) JMeter
11 5 (0.86%) Subversion
12 4 (0.69%) Storybook
13 3 (0.52%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.52%) git-flow
13 3 (0.52%) MLflow
13 3 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 241 (41.55%) Social Skills
2 113 (19.48%) Finance
3 80 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (13.62%) Public Sector
5 43 (7.41%) Banking
6 42 (7.24%) Retail
7 31 (5.34%) Marketing
8 17 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.90%) Legal
11 10 (1.72%) Retail Banking
12 9 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.21%) Front Office
13 7 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.21%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.03%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (1.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 98 (16.90%) Developer
2 74 (12.76%) Analyst
2 74 (12.76%) Senior
3 71 (12.24%) Scrum Master
4 56 (9.66%) Lead
5 52 (8.97%) Delivery Manager
6 51 (8.79%) Product Owner
7 45 (7.76%) Business Analyst
8 35 (6.03%) Java Developer
8 35 (6.03%) Project Manager
9 28 (4.83%) Senior Manager
10 24 (4.14%) Product Manager
11 23 (3.97%) Architect
11 23 (3.97%) Software Engineer
12 19 (3.28%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 18 (3.10%) Java Engineer
13 18 (3.10%) Technical Analyst
13 18 (3.10%) Technical Manager
14 17 (2.93%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (2.93%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (8.97%) REST
2 48 (8.28%) AngularJS
3 40 (6.90%) React
4 36 (6.21%) RESTful
5 34 (5.86%) Quarkus
6 19 (3.28%) .NET
6 19 (3.28%) JSON
7 18 (3.10%) Spring
8 17 (2.93%) Node.js
9 15 (2.59%) CSS
9 15 (2.59%) Spring Boot
10 13 (2.24%) HTML
10 13 (2.24%) Lightning Web Components
11 12 (2.07%) Playwright
12 11 (1.90%) OAuth
13 10 (1.72%) CSS3
13 10 (1.72%) HTML5
13 10 (1.72%) Kafka
13 10 (1.72%) Middleware
14 9 (1.55%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 211 (36.38%) Product Ownership
2 52 (8.97%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.62%) Virtual Team
4 19 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (2.76%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.72%) Life Science
10 9 (1.55%) FMCG
10 9 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.21%) Distributed Applications
11 7 (1.21%) NHS
12 6 (1.03%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
13 5 (0.86%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.38%) Windows
2 4 (0.69%) Linux
3 3 (0.52%) Unix
3 3 (0.52%) VMS
4 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (92.59%) Agile
2 298 (51.38%) Scrum
3 263 (45.34%) Sprint Retrospective
4 193 (33.28%) DevOps
5 185 (31.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 159 (27.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 156 (26.90%) Sprint Review
8 154 (26.55%) CI/CD
9 147 (25.34%) User Stories
10 136 (23.45%) Backlog Refinement
11 116 (20.00%) Test Automation
12 110 (18.97%) Acceptance Criteria
13 102 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
14 101 (17.41%) Roadmaps
15 97 (16.72%) Backlog Management
16 93 (16.03%) Backlog Prioritisation
17 92 (15.86%) Kanban
18 89 (15.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 82 (14.14%) SDLC
19 82 (14.14%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 90 (15.52%) Java
2 59 (10.17%) Python
3 53 (9.14%) SQL
4 40 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 33 (5.69%) C#
6 28 (4.83%) TypeScript
7 10 (1.72%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.86%) Bicep
8 5 (0.86%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.69%) Groovy
10 3 (0.52%) C++
11 2 (0.34%) Korn
11 2 (0.34%) R
11 2 (0.34%) SOQL
11 2 (0.34%) SOSL
12 1 (0.17%) Bash
12 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.17%) PHP
12 1 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 169 (29.14%) Security Cleared
2 144 (24.83%) SC Cleared
3 36 (6.21%) Degree
4 20 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.76%) PMI Certification
7 14 (2.41%) PMP
8 12 (2.07%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.38%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.86%) CISSP
11 4 (0.69%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.69%) CISM
11 4 (0.69%) CSPO
11 4 (0.69%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.69%) SAFe Agilist
12 3 (0.52%) IIBA
13 2 (0.34%) CBAP
13 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (18.97%) QA
2 36 (6.21%) Accessibility
3 32 (5.52%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.24%) GDPR
5 9 (1.55%) SLA
6 8 (1.38%) GRC
6 8 (1.38%) GxP
7 6 (1.03%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 6 (1.03%) NIST
8 5 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.86%) WCAG
9 4 (0.69%) PMO
9 4 (0.69%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.34%) NCSC
10 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.17%) GMP
11 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (7.07%) Docker
2 6 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.17%) Ceph
4 1 (0.17%) HDFS
4 1 (0.17%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.17%) Squid
4 1 (0.17%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.17%) Varnish
4 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.24%) Terraform
3 38 (6.55%) Argo
4 12 (2.07%) Ansible
5 7 (1.21%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.03%) Grafana
7 4 (0.69%) Puppet
8 3 (0.52%) Nagios
9 2 (0.34%) Istio
9 2 (0.34%) Packer
9 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.17%) Kibana
10 1 (0.17%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 41 (7.07%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.21%) ServiceNow
3 34 (5.86%) Red Hat
4 30 (5.17%) Salesforce
5 18 (3.10%) Oracle
5 18 (3.10%) SAP
6 15 (2.59%) Databricks
7 13 (2.24%) Okta
8 12 (2.07%) ForgeRock
9 10 (1.72%) Adobe
10 6 (1.03%) Guidewire
10 6 (1.03%) VMware
11 5 (0.86%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.69%) Google
13 3 (0.52%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.52%) CA Agile Central
13 3 (0.52%) Cognizant
13 3 (0.52%) PagerDuty
13 3 (0.52%) Progress
13 3 (0.52%) Sitecore
116 Sprint Planning jobs in England