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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 260 402
Rank change year-on-year +60 +142 -44
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 579 241 147
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.33% 0.96% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.05% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 158 92
10th Percentile £362 £384 £341
25th Percentile £440 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% +2.25% -5.21%
75th Percentile £575 £587 £553
90th Percentile £650 £679 £650
UK median daily rate £517 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.43% - -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 37,044 23,037 31,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.35% 91.39% 85.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,386 14,872 20,693
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £417 £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 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -4.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,321 1,118 2,341
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +8.48%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.90
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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +56 284 £533 +1.43% 51
North of England -12 103 £481 +2.61% 27
South East -14 75 £560 +9.27% 29
Midlands -23 63 £492 +22.39% 15
West Midlands -18 52 £492 +15.76% 11
North East +4 40 £550 +4.76% 6
North West -37 36 £380 -16.30% 17
Yorkshire -29 31 £517 +10.84% 4
East of England -7 24 £460 +15.00% 6
South West -16 22 £475 -6.17% 17
East Midlands -9 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 (16.06%) Confluence
2 22 (3.80%) 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 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.35%) 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 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.04%) 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 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.86%) Magento
4 3 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.35%) Finacle
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.35%) Primavera
5 2 (0.35%) 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 (30.92%) Azure
2 105 (18.13%) AWS
3 87 (15.03%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (6.91%) OpenShift
5 25 (4.32%) Power Platform
6 24 (4.15%) GCP
7 23 (3.97%) Serverless
8 22 (3.80%) GitHub
9 19 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (2.94%) Amazon S3
11 16 (2.76%) Entra ID
12 15 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (2.59%) Azure AKS
12 15 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (2.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 13 (2.25%) Snowflake
15 12 (2.07%) SaaS
16 9 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (1.55%) Figma
16 9 (1.55%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.86%) Firewall
2 4 (0.69%) Network Security
3 3 (0.52%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.35%) DNS
4 2 (0.35%) 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 17 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.25%) Metadata
4 10 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
4 10 (1.73%) 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 (1.04%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.04%) 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 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.52%) Redis
10 2 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.35%) Looker
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 193 (33.33%) JIRA
2 73 (12.61%) Git
3 52 (8.98%) Jenkins
4 41 (7.08%) SonarQube
5 40 (6.91%) Postman
6 24 (4.15%) Selenium
7 23 (3.97%) GitLab
8 12 (2.07%) JUnit
8 12 (2.07%) WebDriver
9 10 (1.73%) Cypress.io
10 9 (1.55%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.38%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.86%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.86%) JMeter
12 5 (0.86%) Subversion
13 3 (0.52%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.52%) git-flow
13 3 (0.52%) MLflow
13 3 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (0.52%) Storybook
General
1 243 (41.97%) Social Skills
2 112 (19.34%) Finance
3 80 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 43 (7.43%) Retail
6 42 (7.25%) Banking
7 31 (5.35%) Marketing
8 18 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.90%) Legal
12 10 (1.73%) Retail Banking
13 9 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.21%) Front Office
14 7 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.21%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.04%) Aerospace
15 6 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
15 6 (1.04%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 92 (15.89%) Developer
2 74 (12.78%) Analyst
3 72 (12.44%) Senior
4 71 (12.26%) Scrum Master
5 56 (9.67%) Lead
6 53 (9.15%) Delivery Manager
7 52 (8.98%) Product Owner
8 45 (7.77%) Business Analyst
9 35 (6.04%) Java Developer
9 35 (6.04%) Project Manager
10 28 (4.84%) Senior Manager
11 25 (4.32%) Product Manager
12 24 (4.15%) Architect
13 23 (3.97%) Software Engineer
14 19 (3.28%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 19 (3.28%) Java Engineer
15 18 (3.11%) Technical Analyst
15 18 (3.11%) Technical Manager
16 17 (2.94%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 15 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (8.98%) REST
2 47 (8.12%) AngularJS
3 37 (6.39%) React
4 36 (6.22%) RESTful
5 34 (5.87%) Quarkus
6 19 (3.28%) .NET
6 19 (3.28%) Spring
7 18 (3.11%) JSON
8 16 (2.76%) Node.js
8 16 (2.76%) Spring Boot
9 14 (2.42%) Lightning Web Components
10 13 (2.25%) CSS
11 12 (2.07%) HTML
12 11 (1.90%) Middleware
12 11 (1.90%) Playwright
13 10 (1.73%) Kafka
13 10 (1.73%) OAuth
14 9 (1.55%) CSS3
14 9 (1.55%) HTML5
14 9 (1.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 215 (37.13%) Product Ownership
2 53 (9.15%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.63%) Virtual Team
4 19 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (2.76%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.73%) 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 (1.04%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
13 5 (0.86%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.86%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.38%) Windows
2 4 (0.69%) Linux
3 3 (0.52%) Unix
3 3 (0.52%) VMS
4 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (92.92%) Agile
2 298 (51.47%) Scrum
3 263 (45.42%) Sprint Retrospective
4 194 (33.51%) DevOps
5 187 (32.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 159 (27.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 157 (27.12%) Sprint Review
8 153 (26.42%) CI/CD
9 147 (25.39%) User Stories
10 139 (24.01%) Backlog Refinement
11 115 (19.86%) Test Automation
12 112 (19.34%) Acceptance Criteria
13 103 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
14 102 (17.62%) Roadmaps
15 98 (16.93%) Backlog Management
16 94 (16.23%) Backlog Prioritisation
17 93 (16.06%) Kanban
18 91 (15.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 84 (14.51%) SDLC
20 82 (14.16%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 91 (15.72%) Java
2 57 (9.84%) Python
3 53 (9.15%) SQL
4 37 (6.39%) JavaScript
5 33 (5.70%) C#
6 25 (4.32%) TypeScript
7 11 (1.90%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.86%) Bicep
8 5 (0.86%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.69%) Groovy
10 3 (0.52%) C++
11 2 (0.35%) Korn
11 2 (0.35%) R
11 2 (0.35%) SOQL
11 2 (0.35%) SOSL
12 1 (0.17%) Bash
12 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.17%) Scala
12 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 169 (29.19%) Security Cleared
2 144 (24.87%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.39%) Degree
4 20 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.76%) PMI Certification
7 14 (2.42%) PMP
8 13 (2.25%) 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 (0.35%) CBAP
13 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (19.00%) QA
2 36 (6.22%) Accessibility
3 32 (5.53%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.25%) GDPR
5 9 (1.55%) SLA
6 8 (1.38%) GRC
6 8 (1.38%) GxP
7 6 (1.04%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 6 (1.04%) 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 (0.35%) NCSC
10 2 (0.35%) 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 (7.08%) Docker
2 6 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.35%) 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 81 (13.99%) Kubernetes
2 42 (7.25%) Terraform
3 38 (6.56%) Argo
4 12 (2.07%) Ansible
5 7 (1.21%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.04%) Grafana
7 4 (0.69%) Puppet
8 3 (0.52%) Nagios
9 2 (0.35%) Istio
9 2 (0.35%) Packer
9 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.17%) Kibana
10 1 (0.17%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 41 (7.08%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.22%) ServiceNow
3 34 (5.87%) Red Hat
4 31 (5.35%) Salesforce
5 18 (3.11%) Oracle
5 18 (3.11%) SAP
6 16 (2.76%) Databricks
7 13 (2.25%) Okta
8 12 (2.07%) ForgeRock
9 10 (1.73%) Adobe
10 6 (1.04%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.04%) VMware
11 5 (0.86%) Google
12 4 (0.69%) Guidewire
13 3 (0.52%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.52%) CA Agile Central
13 3 (0.52%) PagerDuty
13 3 (0.52%) Progress
13 3 (0.52%) Sitecore
14 2 (0.35%) Cognizant