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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
10 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 234 348
Rank change year-on-year +43 +114 +7
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 683 321 185
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.15% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.27% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 229 118
10th Percentile £400 £350 £356
25th Percentile £450 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% -1.50%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £625
90th Percentile £693 £688 £674
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.31% -2.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 13 3
10th Percentile £56.25 £43.65 £58.00
25th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 £60.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% +1.17%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £66.01
90th Percentile - £56.00 £66.62
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% +1.17%

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 39,304 25,245 28,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.83% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,151 16,024 17,695
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,693 1,483 1,349
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.31 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.22
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +31 319 £550 +5.62% 132
North of England -24 112 £500 +16.28% 56
Midlands +13 109 £475 +18.75% 28
West Midlands +33 101 £475 +5.56% 19
South East -14 95 £525 - 30
Yorkshire -20 49 £500 +17.30% 19
North East -6 46 £550 +2.33% 13
South West -22 27 £508 +0.25% 23
East of England -10 26 £460 - 3
North West -64 21 £445 +7.23% 24
East Midlands -23 7 £454 +25.95% 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
1 135 (19.77%) Confluence
2 19 (2.78%) CMS
3 13 (1.90%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.61%) Apache
5 10 (1.46%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.73%) Documentum
8 3 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.44%) SAS
9 2 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.29%) nginx
10 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.15%) JBoss
10 1 (0.15%) Mendix
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.15%) Traefik
10 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.17%) Trello
5 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.88%) Notion
6 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.29%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.15%) Sketch
8 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.17%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.73%) Magento
5 3 (0.44%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.29%) Primavera
6 2 (0.29%) Workfront
7 1 (0.15%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Utilities
7 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.15%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.15%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.15%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.15%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.15%) Shopify
7 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 214 (31.33%) Azure
2 127 (18.59%) AWS
3 113 (16.54%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (6.59%) Power Platform
5 42 (6.15%) GitHub
6 41 (6.00%) OpenShift
7 35 (5.12%) Serverless
8 34 (4.98%) GCP
9 26 (3.81%) Amazon S3
10 24 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
12 21 (3.07%) PowerApps
13 20 (2.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 20 (2.93%) Power Automate
14 19 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
15 18 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
16 16 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
17 15 (2.20%) Entra ID
18 14 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.59%) Firewall
2 3 (0.44%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.29%) Broadband
3 2 (0.29%) Network Security
3 2 (0.29%) SAN
3 2 (0.29%) WAN
4 1 (0.15%) 5G
4 1 (0.15%) DNS
4 1 (0.15%) Intranet
4 1 (0.15%) NFC
4 1 (0.15%) NGFW
4 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.15%) SONET
4 1 (0.15%) SSL
4 1 (0.15%) VPN
4 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
1 24 (3.51%) Power BI
1 24 (3.51%) Relational Database
2 22 (3.22%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (2.49%) Metadata
5 10 (1.46%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.32%) Big Data
6 9 (1.32%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (1.17%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.88%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.73%) Ataccama
10 5 (0.73%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.59%) Delta Lake
11 4 (0.59%) MySQL
11 4 (0.59%) Redis
11 4 (0.59%) Tableau
12 3 (0.44%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 238 (34.85%) JIRA
2 83 (12.15%) Git
3 59 (8.64%) Jenkins
4 50 (7.32%) SonarQube
5 31 (4.54%) Postman
6 15 (2.20%) JUnit
6 15 (2.20%) Maven
7 11 (1.61%) GitLab
7 11 (1.61%) Mockito
8 10 (1.46%) Selenium
9 9 (1.32%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.88%) JMeter
11 5 (0.73%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.73%) Subversion
12 4 (0.59%) Gradle
12 4 (0.59%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.44%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.44%) Protractor
13 3 (0.44%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.44%) Zephyr
General
1 314 (45.97%) Social Skills
2 146 (21.38%) Finance
3 127 (18.59%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (16.69%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.76%) Retail
6 50 (7.32%) Banking
7 33 (4.83%) Marketing
8 29 (4.25%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.76%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.61%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.32%) Front Office
13 9 (1.32%) Legal
14 8 (1.17%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.02%) Billing
15 7 (1.02%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 130 (19.03%) Developer
2 105 (15.37%) Senior
3 90 (13.18%) Analyst
4 89 (13.03%) Scrum Master
5 76 (11.13%) Lead
6 67 (9.81%) Delivery Manager
7 61 (8.93%) Business Analyst
8 52 (7.61%) Product Owner
9 46 (6.73%) Java Developer
10 40 (5.86%) Project Manager
11 31 (4.54%) Product Manager
11 31 (4.54%) Senior Manager
12 28 (4.10%) Senior Developer
13 25 (3.66%) Architect
14 23 (3.37%) Technical Manager
15 22 (3.22%) Agile Delivery Manager
16 19 (2.78%) Technical Leader
17 18 (2.64%) Java Engineer
17 18 (2.64%) Software Engineer
17 18 (2.64%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (12.59%) REST
2 60 (8.78%) AngularJS
3 51 (7.47%) RESTful
4 45 (6.59%) Terraform
5 36 (5.27%) Quarkus
6 35 (5.12%) Spring
6 35 (5.12%) Spring Boot
7 32 (4.69%) .NET
8 28 (4.10%) React
9 26 (3.81%) JSON
9 26 (3.81%) SOAP
10 18 (2.64%) HTML
10 18 (2.64%) Web Services
11 17 (2.49%) Kafka
12 16 (2.34%) Node.js
13 15 (2.20%) Lightning Web Components
14 13 (1.90%) Hibernate
15 12 (1.76%) PySpark
16 11 (1.61%) CSS
16 11 (1.61%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 275 (40.26%) Product Ownership
2 78 (11.42%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
4 24 (3.51%) Onboarding
5 23 (3.37%) Virtual Team
6 15 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.61%) Life Science
9 10 (1.46%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.46%) NHS
10 9 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.17%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.17%) FMCG
11 8 (1.17%) Marketing Technology
12 6 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (0.88%) Operational Technology
13 5 (0.73%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.76%) Windows
2 10 (1.46%) Linux
3 4 (0.59%) Android
3 4 (0.59%) Unix
4 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (93.70%) Agile
2 373 (54.61%) Scrum
3 273 (39.97%) Sprint Retrospective
4 254 (37.19%) DevOps
5 244 (35.72%) Continuous Improvement
6 227 (33.24%) Stakeholder Management
7 211 (30.89%) Backlog Refinement
8 201 (29.43%) User Stories
9 192 (28.11%) Sprint Review
10 191 (27.96%) CI/CD
11 145 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
12 140 (20.50%) Test Automation
13 131 (19.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 130 (19.03%) Acceptance Criteria
15 124 (18.16%) Backlog Management
16 123 (18.01%) Software Engineering
17 121 (17.72%) Kanban
18 115 (16.84%) Roadmaps
19 109 (15.96%) SDLC
20 94 (13.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 114 (16.69%) Java
2 79 (11.57%) SQL
3 58 (8.49%) Python
4 56 (8.20%) JavaScript
5 42 (6.15%) C#
6 31 (4.54%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.20%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.73%) Bicep
8 5 (0.73%) Groovy
8 5 (0.73%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.59%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.44%) C++
10 3 (0.44%) Korn
11 2 (0.29%) Bash
11 2 (0.29%) R
11 2 (0.29%) SOQL
11 2 (0.29%) SOSL
12 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.15%) PHP
12 1 (0.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 215 (31.48%) Security Cleared
2 174 (25.48%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.71%) Degree
4 31 (4.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 27 (3.95%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.49%) PMI Certification
7 14 (2.05%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.76%) PMP
10 8 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.88%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.88%) CSPO
12 5 (0.73%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.73%) SAFe Agilist
13 4 (0.59%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.44%) CAPM
14 3 (0.44%) CISSP
14 3 (0.44%) IIBA
14 3 (0.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (19.62%) QA
2 43 (6.30%) Data Quality
3 40 (5.86%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.90%) PMO
5 11 (1.61%) GDPR
6 10 (1.46%) GRC
7 8 (1.17%) GxP
8 7 (1.02%) WCAG
9 6 (0.88%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 4 (0.59%) NIST
11 3 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.44%) SLA
12 2 (0.29%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.15%) HL7
13 1 (0.15%) NCSC
13 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.15%) PERC
13 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (8.78%) Docker
2 9 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.15%) Ceph
5 1 (0.15%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.15%) Squid
5 1 (0.15%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 78 (11.42%) Kubernetes
2 38 (5.56%) Argo
3 13 (1.90%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.76%) Grafana
5 8 (1.17%) Ansible
6 4 (0.59%) Puppet
7 3 (0.44%) Istio
8 2 (0.29%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.29%) Packer
9 1 (0.15%) Kibana
9 1 (0.15%) Nagios
9 1 (0.15%) Nessus
9 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 73 (10.69%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.86%) ServiceNow
3 36 (5.27%) Red Hat
4 34 (4.98%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.22%) Databricks
6 20 (2.93%) SAP
7 17 (2.49%) Oracle
8 11 (1.61%) Adobe
9 10 (1.46%) Google
9 10 (1.46%) Okta
10 8 (1.17%) ForgeRock
11 7 (1.02%) Informatica
11 7 (1.02%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.02%) VMware
12 6 (0.88%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.59%) Splunk
14 3 (0.44%) CA Agile Central
14 3 (0.44%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.44%) PagerDuty
14 3 (0.44%) Zscaler
264 Sprint Planning jobs in England