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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 249 385
Rank change year-on-year +54 +136 -42
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 659 287 151
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.04% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 1.15% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 200 100
10th Percentile £374 £358 £349
25th Percentile £450 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £673 £688 £669
UK median daily rate £513 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +3.74% -1.20% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 10 2
10th Percentile £55.38 £48.50 £57.13
25th Percentile £62.50 £49.06 £58.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -18.37% +6.52%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £63.44
90th Percentile - £56.25 £64.38
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year +40.00% -18.37% +6.52%

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 38,641 24,977 29,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.76% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,154 16,016 19,101
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,371 1,780
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.92 £17.98 £17.72
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +47 309 £550 +6.80% 88
North of England -19 112 £498 +10.13% 40
South East -6 97 £525 +2.14% 39
Midlands +4 84 £490 +15.24% 30
West Midlands -3 75 £488 -4.88% 15
North East 0 46 £550 +2.33% 13
Yorkshire -30 45 £500 +21.95% 8
South West -17 29 £503 -0.74% 19
East of England +3 26 £460 +15.00% 5
North West -61 25 £397 -10.95% 20
East Midlands -14 8 £454 +13.44% 15
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
1 109 (16.54%) Confluence
2 22 (3.34%) CMS
3 11 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.37%) Apache
4 9 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.21%) SAS
6 5 (0.76%) Documentum
7 4 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.30%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
9 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.15%) Mendix
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.15%) Traefik
9 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.37%) Trello
3 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.76%) Notion
5 4 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Mingle
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.76%) Magento
5 3 (0.46%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.30%) Primavera
6 2 (0.30%) Workfront
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.15%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Utilities
7 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
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
1 212 (32.17%) Azure
2 120 (18.21%) AWS
3 105 (15.93%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (7.28%) OpenShift
5 38 (5.77%) Power Platform
6 37 (5.61%) GCP
6 37 (5.61%) GitHub
7 34 (5.16%) Serverless
8 25 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (3.64%) Amazon S3
10 22 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (2.88%) Power Automate
12 18 (2.73%) Entra ID
12 18 (2.73%) PowerApps
13 16 (2.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (2.43%) Azure AKS
13 16 (2.43%) Snowflake
14 15 (2.28%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.91%) HTTPS
2 5 (0.76%) Firewall
3 4 (0.61%) Network Security
4 2 (0.30%) Broadband
4 2 (0.30%) DNS
4 2 (0.30%) WAN
5 1 (0.15%) 5G
5 1 (0.15%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.15%) DHCP
5 1 (0.15%) Intranet
5 1 (0.15%) NFC
5 1 (0.15%) NGFW
5 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.15%) SONET
5 1 (0.15%) SSL
5 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.15%) VPN
5 1 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.19%) Power BI
2 16 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (2.28%) Metadata
4 14 (2.12%) SQL Server
5 10 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (1.52%) Big Data
5 10 (1.52%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.06%) BigQuery
6 7 (1.06%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.91%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.91%) MongoDB
8 5 (0.76%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.61%) Tableau
10 3 (0.46%) Looker
10 3 (0.46%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.46%) Redis
10 3 (0.46%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 214 (32.47%) JIRA
2 80 (12.14%) Git
3 59 (8.95%) Jenkins
4 44 (6.68%) SonarQube
5 36 (5.46%) Postman
6 19 (2.88%) Selenium
7 17 (2.58%) GitLab
8 14 (2.12%) JUnit
9 9 (1.37%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.21%) JMeter
11 7 (1.06%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.06%) WebDriver
12 6 (0.91%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.76%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.76%) Subversion
14 4 (0.61%) Maven
15 3 (0.46%) Artifactory
15 3 (0.46%) git-flow
15 3 (0.46%) Gradle
15 3 (0.46%) Mockito
General
1 288 (43.70%) Social Skills
2 135 (20.49%) Finance
3 97 (14.72%) Public Sector
4 96 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (7.89%) Retail
6 45 (6.83%) Banking
7 37 (5.61%) Marketing
8 23 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
9 19 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.82%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.67%) Legal
12 9 (1.37%) Front Office
12 9 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.37%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.21%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.21%) Retail Banking
14 7 (1.06%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 110 (16.69%) Developer
2 87 (13.20%) Senior
3 83 (12.59%) Analyst
4 81 (12.29%) Scrum Master
5 66 (10.02%) Lead
6 63 (9.56%) Delivery Manager
7 56 (8.50%) Business Analyst
7 56 (8.50%) Product Owner
8 43 (6.53%) Java Developer
9 41 (6.22%) Project Manager
10 30 (4.55%) Senior Manager
11 29 (4.40%) Product Manager
12 28 (4.25%) Architect
13 24 (3.64%) Software Engineer
14 23 (3.49%) Agile Delivery Manager
14 23 (3.49%) Technical Analyst
15 20 (3.03%) Technical Manager
16 19 (2.88%) Java Engineer
16 19 (2.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 18 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (10.02%) REST
2 51 (7.74%) AngularJS
3 43 (6.53%) RESTful
4 39 (5.92%) Quarkus
5 32 (4.86%) React
6 28 (4.25%) Spring
7 26 (3.95%) .NET
8 25 (3.79%) Spring Boot
9 22 (3.34%) JSON
10 16 (2.43%) Node.js
11 15 (2.28%) Kafka
11 15 (2.28%) Lightning Web Components
12 14 (2.12%) SOAP
13 12 (1.82%) HTML
13 12 (1.82%) Middleware
14 11 (1.67%) PySpark
15 9 (1.37%) OAuth
15 9 (1.37%) XML
16 8 (1.21%) CSS
16 8 (1.21%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 260 (39.45%) Product Ownership
2 63 (9.56%) Cloud Native
3 20 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (2.88%) Virtual Team
5 18 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.82%) Life Science
9 11 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.52%) NHS
11 9 (1.37%) FMCG
11 9 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.21%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.21%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.21%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.06%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.06%) Distributed Applications
14 6 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.67%) Windows
2 8 (1.21%) Linux
3 3 (0.46%) Unix
4 2 (0.30%) Android
4 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 613 (93.02%) Agile
2 344 (52.20%) Scrum
3 270 (40.97%) Sprint Retrospective
4 238 (36.12%) DevOps
5 220 (33.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 207 (31.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 185 (28.07%) Sprint Review
8 180 (27.31%) CI/CD
9 179 (27.16%) User Stories
10 175 (26.56%) Backlog Refinement
11 130 (19.73%) Test Automation
12 125 (18.97%) Acceptance Criteria
13 113 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
13 113 (17.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 112 (17.00%) Software Engineering
15 111 (16.84%) Roadmaps
16 109 (16.54%) Kanban
17 106 (16.08%) Backlog Management
18 95 (14.42%) Backlog Prioritisation
18 95 (14.42%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 110 (16.69%) Java
2 66 (10.02%) SQL
3 53 (8.04%) Python
4 43 (6.53%) JavaScript
5 36 (5.46%) C#
6 19 (2.88%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.28%) Apex Code
8 6 (0.91%) Bicep
9 5 (0.76%) Groovy
9 5 (0.76%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.61%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.46%) C++
12 2 (0.30%) Bash
12 2 (0.30%) Korn
12 2 (0.30%) R
12 2 (0.30%) SOQL
12 2 (0.30%) SOSL
13 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.15%) Scala
13 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 206 (31.26%) Security Cleared
2 169 (25.64%) SC Cleared
3 45 (6.83%) Degree
4 26 (3.95%) DV Cleared
5 24 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.58%) PMI Certification
7 15 (2.28%) PMP
8 14 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.52%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.91%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.91%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.76%) CISSP
12 5 (0.76%) CSPO
13 4 (0.61%) CISM
13 4 (0.61%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.61%) SAFe Agilist
14 3 (0.46%) IIBA
14 3 (0.46%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (18.36%) QA
2 42 (6.37%) Accessibility
3 37 (5.61%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.28%) GDPR
5 11 (1.67%) PMO
6 10 (1.52%) GRC
7 9 (1.37%) GxP
8 7 (1.06%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 7 (1.06%) NIST
8 7 (1.06%) SLA
8 7 (1.06%) WCAG
9 6 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.61%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.15%) HL7
12 1 (0.15%) NCSC
12 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.15%) PERC
System Software
1 47 (7.13%) Docker
2 9 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Ceph
5 1 (0.15%) HDFS
5 1 (0.15%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.15%) Squid
5 1 (0.15%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.15%) Varnish
5 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 89 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 45 (6.83%) Terraform
3 41 (6.22%) Argo
4 12 (1.82%) Ansible
5 8 (1.21%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.06%) Grafana
7 4 (0.61%) Puppet
8 3 (0.46%) Istio
9 2 (0.30%) Packer
10 1 (0.15%) Kibana
10 1 (0.15%) Nagios
10 1 (0.15%) Nessus
10 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 61 (9.26%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.92%) Red Hat
2 39 (5.92%) ServiceNow
3 34 (5.16%) Salesforce
4 21 (3.19%) SAP
5 19 (2.88%) Oracle
6 18 (2.73%) Databricks
7 13 (1.97%) Okta
8 12 (1.82%) ForgeRock
9 11 (1.67%) Adobe
10 10 (1.52%) Google
11 7 (1.06%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.76%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.76%) VMware
13 3 (0.46%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.46%) PagerDuty
13 3 (0.46%) Progress
13 3 (0.46%) Sitecore
13 3 (0.46%) Splunk
13 3 (0.46%) Zscaler