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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 262 407
Rank change year-on-year +63 +145 -41
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 584 250 147
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.33% 0.98% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.07% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 162 93
10th Percentile £363 £368 £342
25th Percentile £445 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% +1.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £550
90th Percentile £650 £686 £650
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.50% - -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 10 1
10th Percentile £58.50 £48.50 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £49.06 -
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 £71.50 £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 37,409 23,372 31,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.17% 85.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,567 15,052 20,589
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £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 £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.79% -4.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,348 1,165 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.97 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.50 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.93
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.81%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +48 285 £525 - 92
North of England -23 102 £488 +5.58% 45
South East -16 82 £555 +8.29% 35
Midlands -22 62 £492 +18.98% 20
West Midlands -15 52 £492 +12.46% 12
North East +5 41 £550 +4.76% 6
North West -36 34 £393 -13.34% 27
Yorkshire -32 31 £517 +10.84% 12
East of England +1 24 £460 +15.00% 8
South West -13 22 £475 -6.17% 19
East Midlands -13 9 £413 +3.13% 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 95 (16.27%) Confluence
2 23 (3.94%) CMS
3 8 (1.37%) SAS
4 5 (0.86%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.68%) Apache
5 4 (0.68%) Documentum
6 2 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.34%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.17%) Drupal
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Mendix
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.17%) Traefik
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.03%) Trello
4 4 (0.68%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.68%) Notion
5 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) Mingle
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.86%) Magento
4 4 (0.68%) 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
6 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.17%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 180 (30.82%) Azure
2 103 (17.64%) AWS
3 89 (15.24%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (7.02%) OpenShift
5 25 (4.28%) Power Platform
6 23 (3.94%) Serverless
7 22 (3.77%) GCP
7 22 (3.77%) GitHub
8 19 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (2.91%) Amazon S3
10 16 (2.74%) Entra ID
11 15 (2.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (2.57%) Azure AKS
11 15 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (2.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 13 (2.23%) Snowflake
14 12 (2.05%) SaaS
15 11 (1.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 9 (1.54%) Figma
16 9 (1.54%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.86%) Firewall
2 4 (0.68%) Network Security
3 3 (0.51%) 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%) Broadband
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 (3.25%) Power BI
2 16 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.40%) Metadata
4 10 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (1.71%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.20%) Big Data
6 7 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.20%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.03%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.03%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.86%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.86%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.86%) Tableau
9 3 (0.51%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.51%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.51%) Redis
10 2 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.34%) Looker
Development Applications
1 192 (32.88%) JIRA
2 74 (12.67%) Git
3 52 (8.90%) Jenkins
4 42 (7.19%) SonarQube
5 40 (6.85%) Postman
6 24 (4.11%) Selenium
7 23 (3.94%) GitLab
8 12 (2.05%) JUnit
8 12 (2.05%) WebDriver
9 10 (1.71%) Cypress.io
10 9 (1.54%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.37%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.86%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.86%) JMeter
12 5 (0.86%) Subversion
13 3 (0.51%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.51%) git-flow
13 3 (0.51%) MLflow
13 3 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (0.51%) Storybook
General
1 247 (42.29%) Social Skills
2 113 (19.35%) Finance
3 80 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (13.36%) Public Sector
5 44 (7.53%) Retail
6 40 (6.85%) Banking
7 34 (5.82%) Marketing
8 19 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.88%) Legal
12 9 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.37%) Retail Banking
14 7 (1.20%) Front Office
14 7 (1.20%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.03%) Aerospace
15 6 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
15 6 (1.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 94 (16.10%) Developer
2 72 (12.33%) Analyst
2 72 (12.33%) Scrum Master
2 72 (12.33%) Senior
3 54 (9.25%) Lead
4 53 (9.08%) Delivery Manager
4 53 (9.08%) Product Owner
5 44 (7.53%) Business Analyst
6 37 (6.34%) Java Developer
7 35 (5.99%) Project Manager
8 28 (4.79%) Senior Manager
9 26 (4.45%) Architect
9 26 (4.45%) Product Manager
10 23 (3.94%) Software Engineer
11 19 (3.25%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 19 (3.25%) Java Engineer
12 18 (3.08%) Technical Analyst
12 18 (3.08%) Technical Manager
13 17 (2.91%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 15 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (9.42%) REST
2 47 (8.05%) AngularJS
3 36 (6.16%) React
4 35 (5.99%) Quarkus
4 35 (5.99%) RESTful
5 19 (3.25%) .NET
6 18 (3.08%) JSON
6 18 (3.08%) Spring
7 16 (2.74%) Lightning Web Components
7 16 (2.74%) Node.js
8 15 (2.57%) Spring Boot
9 13 (2.23%) CSS
10 12 (2.05%) HTML
10 12 (2.05%) Middleware
11 11 (1.88%) Playwright
12 10 (1.71%) Kafka
12 10 (1.71%) OAuth
12 10 (1.71%) SOAP
13 9 (1.54%) CSS3
13 9 (1.54%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 219 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 51 (8.73%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.60%) Virtual Team
4 20 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (2.74%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.71%) Life Science
10 9 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.54%) FMCG
10 9 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.20%) Distributed Applications
11 7 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
11 7 (1.20%) NHS
12 6 (1.03%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.03%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (0.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.54%) Windows
2 4 (0.68%) Linux
3 3 (0.51%) Unix
3 3 (0.51%) 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
1 543 (92.98%) Agile
2 301 (51.54%) Scrum
3 262 (44.86%) Sprint Retrospective
4 197 (33.73%) DevOps
5 186 (31.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 161 (27.57%) Sprint Review
7 159 (27.23%) Stakeholder Management
8 154 (26.37%) CI/CD
9 148 (25.34%) User Stories
10 141 (24.14%) Backlog Refinement
11 116 (19.86%) Test Automation
12 112 (19.18%) Acceptance Criteria
13 103 (17.64%) Problem-Solving
14 102 (17.47%) Roadmaps
15 97 (16.61%) Backlog Management
16 94 (16.10%) Kanban
17 93 (15.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 89 (15.24%) Backlog Prioritisation
19 84 (14.38%) SDLC
19 84 (14.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 93 (15.92%) Java
2 57 (9.76%) Python
3 53 (9.08%) SQL
4 37 (6.34%) JavaScript
5 33 (5.65%) C#
6 24 (4.11%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.23%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.86%) Bicep
8 5 (0.86%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.68%) Groovy
10 3 (0.51%) 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
1 172 (29.45%) Security Cleared
2 144 (24.66%) SC Cleared
3 41 (7.02%) Degree
4 19 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.74%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.74%) PMI Certification
6 14 (2.40%) PMP
7 8 (1.37%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.86%) CISSP
9 4 (0.68%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.68%) CISM
9 4 (0.68%) CSPO
9 4 (0.68%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.68%) IIBA
9 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.68%) SAFe Agilist
10 2 (0.34%) CBAP
10 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (19.01%) QA
2 36 (6.16%) Accessibility
3 32 (5.48%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.23%) GDPR
5 8 (1.37%) GRC
5 8 (1.37%) GxP
5 8 (1.37%) SLA
6 6 (1.03%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 6 (1.03%) NIST
6 6 (1.03%) PMO
7 5 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.86%) WCAG
8 4 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.17%) GMP
10 1 (0.17%) NCSC
10 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (7.02%) 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 82 (14.04%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.19%) Terraform
3 39 (6.68%) Argo
4 12 (2.05%) Ansible
5 7 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.03%) Grafana
7 4 (0.68%) Puppet
8 3 (0.51%) 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 40 (6.85%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.16%) ServiceNow
3 35 (5.99%) Red Hat
4 33 (5.65%) Salesforce
5 19 (3.25%) Oracle
5 19 (3.25%) SAP
6 16 (2.74%) Databricks
7 13 (2.23%) Okta
8 12 (2.05%) Adobe
8 12 (2.05%) ForgeRock
9 7 (1.20%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.03%) VMware
11 5 (0.86%) Google
12 4 (0.68%) Guidewire
13 3 (0.51%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.51%) CA Agile Central
13 3 (0.51%) PagerDuty
13 3 (0.51%) Progress
13 3 (0.51%) Sitecore
14 2 (0.34%) IBM