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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 226 352
Rank change year-on-year +26 +126 -1
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 648 310 167
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.42% 1.12% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 1.24% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 220 113
10th Percentile £389 £350 £355
25th Percentile £450 £402 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -3.85% -1.42%
75th Percentile £582 £588 £609
90th Percentile £675 £699 £673
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 12 3
10th Percentile £56.25 £46.50 £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% +18.18%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £66.01
90th Percentile £71.13 £56.13 £66.62
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% +18.18%

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 38,776 25,061 28,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.80% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,043 15,975 18,472
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,543 1,444 1,583
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.88 £18.12
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.21 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.63 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.54% -38.57% -0.24%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +36 309 £550 +5.11% 96
North of England -19 105 £500 +11.11% 38
South East -5 95 £525 +1.06% 30
Midlands -2 85 £475 +18.45% 29
West Midlands +4 76 £475 -7.32% 17
Yorkshire -21 45 £500 +35.14% 8
North East -1 44 £550 +2.33% 17
South West -17 27 £505 -0.25% 22
East of England -1 26 £460 +3.95% 7
North West -50 20 £400 -7.73% 13
East Midlands -22 8 £454 +25.95% 11
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
1 115 (17.75%) Confluence
2 20 (3.09%) CMS
3 13 (2.01%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.39%) Apache
4 9 (1.39%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.77%) Documentum
6 3 (0.46%) SAS
7 2 (0.31%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.15%) JBoss
8 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.15%) Mendix
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.15%) Traefik
8 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
2 11 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.23%) Trello
5 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.93%) Notion
6 2 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.15%) Mingle
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.77%) Magento
4 3 (0.46%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.31%) Primavera
5 2 (0.31%) Workfront
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Utilities
6 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.15%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.15%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.15%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.15%) Shopify
6 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 214 (33.02%) Azure
2 119 (18.36%) AWS
3 111 (17.13%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (6.79%) Power Platform
5 41 (6.33%) OpenShift
6 36 (5.56%) GitHub
7 35 (5.40%) GCP
8 33 (5.09%) Serverless
9 24 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (3.55%) Amazon S3
11 20 (3.09%) Power Automate
11 20 (3.09%) PowerApps
12 19 (2.93%) Entra ID
12 19 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (2.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 17 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (2.47%) Azure AKS
14 16 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
15 15 (2.31%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.77%) Firewall
2 3 (0.46%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.46%) Network Security
3 2 (0.31%) Broadband
3 2 (0.31%) 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 (3.70%) Power BI
2 17 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (2.47%) SQL Server
4 15 (2.31%) Relational Database
5 14 (2.16%) Metadata
5 14 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (1.39%) Big Data
7 8 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.08%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.08%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.08%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.77%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.77%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.62%) Redis
11 3 (0.46%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.46%) Spark SQL
11 3 (0.46%) Tableau
12 2 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 221 (34.10%) JIRA
2 70 (10.80%) Git
3 51 (7.87%) Jenkins
4 42 (6.48%) SonarQube
5 33 (5.09%) Postman
6 12 (1.85%) GitLab
7 11 (1.70%) Selenium
8 9 (1.39%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.08%) JUnit
10 6 (0.93%) JMeter
10 6 (0.93%) Maven
11 5 (0.77%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.77%) Subversion
11 5 (0.77%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.62%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.62%) Gradle
13 3 (0.46%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.46%) Protractor
13 3 (0.46%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 291 (44.91%) Social Skills
2 134 (20.68%) Finance
3 108 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (15.12%) Public Sector
5 55 (8.49%) Retail
6 45 (6.94%) Banking
7 36 (5.56%) Marketing
8 22 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (1.85%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.54%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.39%) Legal
14 7 (1.08%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.08%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.08%) Front Office
14 7 (1.08%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 114 (17.59%) Developer
2 92 (14.20%) Senior
3 88 (13.58%) Analyst
4 77 (11.88%) Scrum Master
5 66 (10.19%) Lead
6 61 (9.41%) Business Analyst
7 60 (9.26%) Delivery Manager
8 52 (8.02%) Product Owner
9 44 (6.79%) Project Manager
10 40 (6.17%) Java Developer
11 31 (4.78%) Product Manager
11 31 (4.78%) Senior Manager
12 26 (4.01%) Architect
13 22 (3.40%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 22 (3.40%) Technical Manager
14 20 (3.09%) Senior Developer
14 20 (3.09%) Technical Analyst
15 19 (2.93%) Software Engineer
16 18 (2.78%) Java Engineer
17 17 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (10.34%) REST
2 48 (7.41%) AngularJS
3 44 (6.79%) Terraform
4 40 (6.17%) RESTful
5 36 (5.56%) Quarkus
6 27 (4.17%) .NET
7 25 (3.86%) React
7 25 (3.86%) Spring
8 24 (3.70%) Spring Boot
9 23 (3.55%) JSON
10 17 (2.62%) Kafka
11 16 (2.47%) Lightning Web Components
12 14 (2.16%) Node.js
12 14 (2.16%) SOAP
13 13 (2.01%) PySpark
14 12 (1.85%) HTML
14 12 (1.85%) Middleware
15 9 (1.39%) XML
16 8 (1.23%) ADO
16 8 (1.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 260 (40.12%) Product Ownership
2 65 (10.03%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.24%) Virtual Team
4 18 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.85%) Life Science
9 11 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.54%) NHS
11 9 (1.39%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.39%) FMCG
12 8 (1.23%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.23%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.08%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.93%) Derivative
14 6 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.85%) Windows
2 10 (1.54%) Linux
3 5 (0.77%) Unix
4 2 (0.31%) Android
4 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 605 (93.36%) Agile
2 339 (52.31%) Scrum
3 260 (40.12%) Sprint Retrospective
4 246 (37.96%) DevOps
5 224 (34.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 212 (32.72%) Stakeholder Management
7 189 (29.17%) User Stories
8 186 (28.70%) Backlog Refinement
9 182 (28.09%) Sprint Review
10 172 (26.54%) CI/CD
11 134 (20.68%) Acceptance Criteria
12 124 (19.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 124 (19.14%) Test Automation
13 120 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
14 114 (17.59%) Software Engineering
15 111 (17.13%) Kanban
16 109 (16.82%) Backlog Management
16 109 (16.82%) Roadmaps
17 93 (14.35%) SDLC
18 90 (13.89%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 104 (16.05%) Java
2 73 (11.27%) SQL
3 50 (7.72%) Python
4 44 (6.79%) JavaScript
5 38 (5.86%) C#
6 18 (2.78%) TypeScript
7 16 (2.47%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.77%) Bicep
8 5 (0.77%) Groovy
8 5 (0.77%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.62%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.46%) C++
11 2 (0.31%) Bash
11 2 (0.31%) Korn
11 2 (0.31%) SOQL
11 2 (0.31%) SOSL
12 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.15%) PHP
12 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 201 (31.02%) Security Cleared
2 163 (25.15%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.17%) Degree
4 26 (4.01%) DV Cleared
5 25 (3.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.62%) PMI Certification
7 15 (2.31%) PMP
8 12 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.54%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (0.93%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.93%) CSPO
11 5 (0.77%) CISSP
11 5 (0.77%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.62%) CISM
12 4 (0.62%) IIBA
12 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.62%) SAFe Agilist
13 3 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (19.29%) QA
2 38 (5.86%) Data Quality
3 37 (5.71%) Accessibility
4 14 (2.16%) GDPR
5 11 (1.70%) PMO
6 10 (1.54%) GRC
7 9 (1.39%) GxP
8 7 (1.08%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 7 (1.08%) NIST
8 7 (1.08%) SLA
9 6 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.77%) WCAG
11 4 (0.62%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.15%) GMP
13 1 (0.15%) HL7
13 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.15%) PERC
13 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (6.94%) Docker
2 9 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
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 (12.04%) Kubernetes
2 38 (5.86%) Argo
3 11 (1.70%) Ansible
4 5 (0.77%) Grafana
4 5 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.62%) Puppet
6 3 (0.46%) Istio
7 2 (0.31%) Packer
8 1 (0.15%) Nagios
8 1 (0.15%) Nessus
8 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 70 (10.80%) Microsoft
2 39 (6.02%) ServiceNow
3 36 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 34 (5.25%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.40%) SAP
6 18 (2.78%) Databricks
7 16 (2.47%) Oracle
8 14 (2.16%) Okta
9 12 (1.85%) ForgeRock
10 11 (1.70%) Google
11 10 (1.54%) Adobe
12 7 (1.08%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.77%) VMware
14 4 (0.62%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
14 4 (0.62%) Splunk
15 3 (0.46%) Informatica
15 3 (0.46%) PagerDuty
15 3 (0.46%) Sitecore
15 3 (0.46%) Zscaler
210 Sprint Planning jobs in England