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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 277 402
Rank change year-on-year +73 +125 -43
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 538 207 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.29% 0.87% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.95% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 133 89
10th Percentile £360 £400 £337
25th Percentile £429 £450 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £549
90th Percentile £625 £664 £672
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +0.15% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 5 2
10th Percentile £55.50 £49.25 £52.63
25th Percentile £61.25 - £54.69
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -14.89% -6.00%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £62.19
90th Percentile - £55.75 £63.88
UK median hourly rate £68.50 £51.25 £58.75
% change year-on-year +33.66% -12.77% -6.00%

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 35,433 21,759 31,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.85% 91.31% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,494 14,185 20,632
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.19% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,215 937 2,283
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.43 £28.18 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.76% -22.79% -2.46%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.52 £36.00
% change year-on-year +53.64% -23.57% -1.09%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +54 267 £525 - 91
North of England -8 100 £467 -6.65% 25
South East -21 64 £550 +7.00% 47
Midlands -21 56 £492 +9.39% 12
West Midlands -26 44 £493 +1.03% 8
North West -16 41 £378 -24.50% 17
Yorkshire -37 32 £515 +14.44% 5
North East +1 31 £550 +6.02% 3
South West -9 21 £525 +2.44% 12
East of England -12 19 £468 +16.88% 10
East Midlands -19 11 £364 -14.61% 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 90 (16.73%) Confluence
2 19 (3.53%) CMS
3 8 (1.49%) SAS
4 5 (0.93%) Apache
4 5 (0.93%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.74%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.19%) Drupal
7 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.19%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.12%) Trello
4 5 (0.93%) Notion
5 3 (0.56%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.19%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 6 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.93%) Magento
3 4 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.37%) Finacle
4 2 (0.37%) Maximo
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Utilities
5 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.19%) Primavera
5 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 165 (30.67%) Azure
2 104 (19.33%) AWS
3 70 (13.01%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (6.13%) OpenShift
5 27 (5.02%) GCP
6 26 (4.83%) GitHub
7 24 (4.46%) Power Platform
8 23 (4.28%) Serverless
9 19 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (2.97%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.79%) Azure AKS
12 15 (2.79%) Entra ID
13 13 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (2.23%) Snowflake
15 11 (2.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 10 (1.86%) Figma
16 10 (1.86%) SaaS
17 7 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
18 6 (1.12%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.12%) Network Security
2 4 (0.74%) Firewall
3 3 (0.56%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.37%) DNS
4 2 (0.37%) SMS
5 1 (0.19%) 5G
5 1 (0.19%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.19%) DHCP
5 1 (0.19%) HTTP
5 1 (0.19%) NFC
5 1 (0.19%) NGFW
5 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.19%) SONET
5 1 (0.19%) SSL
5 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.19%) VPN
5 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.90%) Power BI
2 16 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (2.60%) Metadata
4 9 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.30%) Big Data
5 7 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.30%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.12%) BigQuery
7 5 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.93%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.93%) Tableau
8 4 (0.74%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.56%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.56%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.56%) Redis
10 2 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 184 (34.20%) JIRA
2 71 (13.20%) Git
3 54 (10.04%) Jenkins
4 38 (7.06%) Postman
5 32 (5.95%) SonarQube
6 24 (4.46%) GitLab
7 22 (4.09%) Selenium
8 12 (2.23%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.04%) JUnit
10 10 (1.86%) WebDriver
11 9 (1.67%) REST Assured
12 8 (1.49%) Cypress.io
13 7 (1.30%) Subversion
14 5 (0.93%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.93%) JMeter
15 4 (0.74%) MLflow
15 4 (0.74%) Storybook
16 3 (0.56%) Artifactory
16 3 (0.56%) git-flow
16 3 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 228 (42.38%) Social Skills
2 113 (21.00%) Finance
3 79 (14.68%) Public Sector
4 72 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (6.88%) Banking
6 30 (5.58%) Retail
7 29 (5.39%) Marketing
8 17 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.23%) Legal
10 12 (2.23%) Retail Banking
11 10 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.49%) Front Office
13 6 (1.12%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.12%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.74%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.74%) Back Office
15 4 (0.74%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 90 (16.73%) Developer
2 74 (13.75%) Analyst
3 68 (12.64%) Senior
4 59 (10.97%) Scrum Master
5 53 (9.85%) Lead
6 49 (9.11%) Business Analyst
7 47 (8.74%) Product Owner
8 44 (8.18%) Delivery Manager
9 33 (6.13%) Project Manager
10 27 (5.02%) Java Developer
10 27 (5.02%) Senior Manager
11 21 (3.90%) Software Engineer
12 20 (3.72%) Product Manager
13 18 (3.35%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 18 (3.35%) Architect
14 17 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
15 16 (2.97%) Technical Manager
16 15 (2.79%) Technical Analyst
17 14 (2.60%) Java Engineer
18 13 (2.42%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.29%) REST
2 41 (7.62%) React
3 38 (7.06%) AngularJS
4 37 (6.88%) RESTful
5 24 (4.46%) Quarkus
6 20 (3.72%) Node.js
7 17 (3.16%) JSON
8 16 (2.97%) .NET
8 16 (2.97%) CSS
9 15 (2.79%) Spring
10 14 (2.60%) HTML
11 13 (2.42%) Playwright
12 12 (2.23%) Spring Boot
13 11 (2.04%) Lightning Web Components
13 11 (2.04%) OAuth
14 10 (1.86%) CSS3
14 10 (1.86%) HTML5
15 9 (1.67%) Kafka
15 9 (1.67%) pytest
15 9 (1.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 195 (36.25%) Product Ownership
2 49 (9.11%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.53%) Virtual Team
4 18 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.30%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.30%) Distributed Applications
9 7 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.12%) FMCG
10 6 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.12%) Life Science
10 6 (1.12%) NHS
10 6 (1.12%) PMI
11 5 (0.93%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.74%) Unix
1 4 (0.74%) VMS
2 3 (0.56%) Linux
2 3 (0.56%) Windows
3 1 (0.19%) Android
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (93.49%) Agile
2 275 (51.12%) Scrum
3 257 (47.77%) Sprint Retrospective
4 177 (32.90%) DevOps
5 169 (31.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 148 (27.51%) CI/CD
7 144 (26.77%) Sprint Review
8 142 (26.39%) Stakeholder Management
9 138 (25.65%) User Stories
10 129 (23.98%) Backlog Refinement
11 107 (19.89%) Roadmaps
12 106 (19.70%) Test Automation
13 102 (18.96%) Acceptance Criteria
14 98 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
15 90 (16.73%) Backlog Prioritisation
16 87 (16.17%) Backlog Management
17 80 (14.87%) Kanban
18 77 (14.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 75 (13.94%) SDLC
20 70 (13.01%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 79 (14.68%) Java
2 62 (11.52%) Python
3 52 (9.67%) SQL
4 39 (7.25%) JavaScript
5 28 (5.20%) C#
6 27 (5.02%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.67%) Apex Code
8 7 (1.30%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.12%) Bicep
10 4 (0.74%) Groovy
11 3 (0.56%) C++
12 2 (0.37%) Go
12 2 (0.37%) Korn
12 2 (0.37%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.37%) Ruby
12 2 (0.37%) SOQL
12 2 (0.37%) SOSL
13 1 (0.19%) Bash
13 1 (0.19%) Scala
13 1 (0.19%) XPath
Qualifications
1 144 (26.77%) Security Cleared
2 121 (22.49%) SC Cleared
3 38 (7.06%) Degree
4 20 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.35%) PMI Certification
7 14 (2.60%) PMP
8 11 (2.04%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.12%) CBAP
10 6 (1.12%) IIBA
11 5 (0.93%) CISSP
12 4 (0.74%) CISM
12 4 (0.74%) ISEB
12 4 (0.74%) SAFe Agilist
13 3 (0.56%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.56%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.37%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.37%) GPEN
14 2 (0.37%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (18.40%) QA
2 34 (6.32%) Accessibility
3 29 (5.39%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.67%) GDPR
5 7 (1.30%) SLA
6 6 (1.12%) GRC
6 6 (1.12%) NIST
7 5 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.93%) PMO
7 5 (0.93%) WCAG
8 4 (0.74%) GxP
8 4 (0.74%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (0.37%) NCSC
10 1 (0.19%) Basel III
10 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.19%) GMP
10 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (7.62%) Docker
2 5 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Ceph
3 1 (0.19%) HDFS
3 1 (0.19%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.19%) Squid
3 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.19%) Varnish
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (13.57%) Kubernetes
2 39 (7.25%) Terraform
3 27 (5.02%) Argo
4 10 (1.86%) Ansible
5 8 (1.49%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.30%) Grafana
7 3 (0.56%) Nagios
8 2 (0.37%) Istio
8 2 (0.37%) Puppet
8 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.19%) Kibana
9 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 40 (7.43%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.13%) ServiceNow
3 25 (4.65%) Salesforce
4 22 (4.09%) Red Hat
5 19 (3.53%) Databricks
6 14 (2.60%) Oracle
7 12 (2.23%) ForgeRock
7 12 (2.23%) Okta
7 12 (2.23%) SAP
8 9 (1.67%) Adobe
9 6 (1.12%) Guidewire
9 6 (1.12%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.93%) VMware
11 3 (0.56%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (0.56%) Cognizant
11 3 (0.56%) Google
11 3 (0.56%) Progress
11 3 (0.56%) Sitecore
12 2 (0.37%) F5
12 2 (0.37%) Talend