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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 289 394
Rank change year-on-year +88 +105 -5
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 510 193 138
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.29% 0.79% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.87% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 117 88
10th Percentile £363 £396 £257
25th Percentile £425 £450 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £570
90th Percentile £625 £700 £679
UK median daily rate £503 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -1.85% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 2 2
10th Percentile £55.00 £65.13 £52.63
25th Percentile £60.00 £65.31 £54.69
Median hourly rate £68.75 £66.25 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +12.77% -6.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.81 £62.19
90th Percentile - £68.38 £63.88
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £67.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year +0.74% +14.89% -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 33,651 22,305 32,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.36% 91.07% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,531 14,664 21,253
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,083 886 2,215
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.80 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +32.29% -7.51% -6.66%
75th Percentile £67.13 £63.75 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.38 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.18% -5.92%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +67 246 £517 -0.56% 60
North of England +4 96 £456 -10.98% 38
Midlands -16 63 £492 -10.55% 14
South East -13 58 £550 +7.32% 47
West Midlands -24 50 £492 -12.49% 10
North West -18 40 £390 -25.67% 10
Yorkshire -33 31 £500 +17.65% 13
North East +13 28 £550 +6.02% 15
South West -10 25 £525 -3.67% 11
East of England -21 14 £475 +18.75% 15
East Midlands -23 13 £413 -38.89% 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 84 (16.47%) Confluence
2 19 (3.73%) CMS
3 18 (3.53%) SAS
4 4 (0.78%) Apache
4 4 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.59%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.59%) WordPress
6 2 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.39%) Drupal
6 2 (0.39%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.39%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.39%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.20%) Mendix
7 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.20%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.18%) Adobe XD
2 6 (1.18%) Trello
3 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.59%) Sketch
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.20%) Mingle
6 1 (0.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 8 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.39%) Finacle
3 2 (0.39%) Maximo
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Utilities
4 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.20%) Primavera
4 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 143 (28.04%) Azure
2 104 (20.39%) AWS
3 65 (12.75%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (7.84%) OpenShift
5 32 (6.27%) GitHub
6 26 (5.10%) Serverless
7 25 (4.90%) GCP
8 23 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (4.51%) Power Platform
9 22 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (3.53%) Amazon S3
11 16 (3.14%) Figma
12 15 (2.94%) Azure AKS
12 15 (2.94%) Entra ID
13 13 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (1.96%) SaaS
15 9 (1.76%) Power Automate
15 9 (1.76%) Snowflake
16 8 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 7 (1.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.98%) Network Security
2 3 (0.59%) Firewall
2 3 (0.59%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.39%) DNS
3 2 (0.39%) HTTP
3 2 (0.39%) SMS
4 1 (0.20%) 5G
4 1 (0.20%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.20%) DHCP
4 1 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.20%) SONET
4 1 (0.20%) SSL
4 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.73%) Power BI
2 16 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (2.94%) Metadata
4 9 (1.76%) Tableau
5 8 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (1.57%) Oracle Database
5 8 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.37%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.37%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 6 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.18%) Big Data
7 6 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.98%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.98%) SQL Server
9 4 (0.78%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.59%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.59%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.39%) Looker
11 2 (0.39%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 171 (33.53%) JIRA
2 72 (14.12%) Git
3 65 (12.75%) Jenkins
4 38 (7.45%) GitLab
5 34 (6.67%) Postman
6 33 (6.47%) Selenium
7 32 (6.27%) SonarQube
8 22 (4.31%) JUnit
9 16 (3.14%) Cucumber
10 10 (1.96%) REST Assured
10 10 (1.96%) WebDriver
11 9 (1.76%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.18%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.18%) Zephyr
13 5 (0.98%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.98%) TestRail
14 4 (0.78%) MLflow
14 4 (0.78%) SpecFlow
14 4 (0.78%) Subversion
General
1 235 (46.08%) Social Skills
2 105 (20.59%) Finance
3 81 (15.88%) Public Sector
4 71 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (7.25%) Banking
6 21 (4.12%) Marketing
7 19 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (3.33%) Retail
9 14 (2.75%) Front Office
10 13 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.35%) Retail Banking
12 10 (1.96%) Legal
13 9 (1.76%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.57%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
17 5 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
18 4 (0.78%) Aerospace
18 4 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 100 (19.61%) Developer
2 66 (12.94%) Analyst
3 56 (10.98%) Scrum Master
3 56 (10.98%) Senior
4 48 (9.41%) Business Analyst
5 43 (8.43%) Lead
6 38 (7.45%) Product Owner
7 36 (7.06%) Delivery Manager
8 29 (5.69%) Java Developer
9 23 (4.51%) Senior Manager
10 22 (4.31%) Project Manager
11 20 (3.92%) Software Engineer
12 19 (3.73%) Full-Stack Developer
13 17 (3.33%) Architect
14 16 (3.14%) Tester
15 15 (2.94%) Agile Delivery Manager
15 15 (2.94%) Product Manager
15 15 (2.94%) Test Specialist
16 13 (2.55%) DevOps Engineer
17 12 (2.35%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (11.18%) REST
2 46 (9.02%) React
3 42 (8.24%) AngularJS
4 36 (7.06%) RESTful
5 22 (4.31%) Quarkus
6 18 (3.53%) Node.js
6 18 (3.53%) pytest
7 17 (3.33%) CSS
7 17 (3.33%) JSON
8 16 (3.14%) Playwright
8 16 (3.14%) Spring
9 14 (2.75%) HTML
10 13 (2.55%) Spring Boot
11 12 (2.35%) .NET
12 10 (1.96%) SOAP
13 9 (1.76%) Kafka
13 9 (1.76%) Middleware
13 9 (1.76%) Web Services
13 9 (1.76%) XML
14 8 (1.57%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 175 (34.31%) Product Ownership
2 44 (8.63%) Cloud Native
3 15 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (2.75%) Virtual Team
5 12 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (2.16%) Algorithms
6 11 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.96%) NHS
8 9 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (1.76%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.57%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.18%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.18%) PMI
12 5 (0.98%) Distributed Applications
12 5 (0.98%) FMCG
12 5 (0.98%) Reference Data
13 4 (0.78%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.16%) Unix
2 7 (1.37%) Linux
3 4 (0.78%) VMS
3 4 (0.78%) Windows
4 1 (0.20%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (92.55%) Agile
2 258 (50.59%) Scrum
3 235 (46.08%) Sprint Retrospective
4 171 (33.53%) DevOps
5 152 (29.80%) CI/CD
6 149 (29.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 143 (28.04%) Sprint Review
8 140 (27.45%) Stakeholder Management
9 123 (24.12%) User Stories
10 117 (22.94%) Test Automation
11 113 (22.16%) Problem-Solving
12 111 (21.76%) Backlog Refinement
13 98 (19.22%) Roadmaps
14 89 (17.45%) Acceptance Criteria
15 84 (16.47%) Backlog Prioritisation
16 75 (14.71%) Kanban
17 72 (14.12%) Backlog Management
18 71 (13.92%) Software Engineering
19 68 (13.33%) SDLC
20 67 (13.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 84 (16.47%) Python
2 83 (16.27%) Java
3 57 (11.18%) JavaScript
4 52 (10.20%) SQL
5 35 (6.86%) TypeScript
6 32 (6.27%) C#
7 7 (1.37%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.18%) Apex Code
8 6 (1.18%) Go
9 4 (0.78%) Bicep
9 4 (0.78%) C++
10 3 (0.59%) Groovy
10 3 (0.59%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.59%) Ruby
10 3 (0.59%) XPath
11 2 (0.39%) Bash
11 2 (0.39%) Korn
11 2 (0.39%) SOQL
11 2 (0.39%) SOSL
12 1 (0.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 156 (30.59%) Security Cleared
2 132 (25.88%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.65%) Degree
4 20 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (3.14%) PMI Certification
7 13 (2.55%) Master's Degree
8 12 (2.35%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.35%) PMP
9 6 (1.18%) CBAP
9 6 (1.18%) IIBA
10 5 (0.98%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.78%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.78%) CISM
11 4 (0.78%) CISSP
11 4 (0.78%) ISEB
12 3 (0.59%) SAFe Agilist
13 2 (0.39%) CREST Certified
13 2 (0.39%) CSPO
13 2 (0.39%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (19.80%) QA
2 35 (6.86%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.51%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.76%) GDPR
4 9 (1.76%) WCAG
5 7 (1.37%) NIST
6 6 (1.18%) GRC
6 6 (1.18%) SLA
7 5 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.78%) GxP
8 4 (0.78%) PMO
8 4 (0.78%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.59%) HL7
10 2 (0.39%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.39%) NCSC
10 2 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.20%) Basel III
11 1 (0.20%) GMP
11 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 58 (11.37%) Docker
2 5 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.20%) Ceph
3 1 (0.20%) HDFS
3 1 (0.20%) Sendmail
3 1 (0.20%) Squid
3 1 (0.20%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.20%) Varnish
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 87 (17.06%) Kubernetes
2 43 (8.43%) Terraform
3 29 (5.69%) Argo
4 16 (3.14%) Ansible
5 14 (2.75%) Grafana
6 10 (1.96%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.78%) Nagios
8 3 (0.59%) Istio
8 3 (0.59%) Puppet
8 3 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.39%) Kibana
10 1 (0.20%) CASB
10 1 (0.20%) Rancher
10 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 36 (7.06%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.10%) ServiceNow
3 22 (4.31%) Salesforce
4 20 (3.92%) Red Hat
5 19 (3.73%) Databricks
5 19 (3.73%) Oracle
6 12 (2.35%) Adobe
7 11 (2.16%) SAP
8 10 (1.96%) Okta
9 9 (1.76%) ForgeRock
10 7 (1.37%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.18%) Google
11 6 (1.18%) Guidewire
12 5 (0.98%) Splunk
13 4 (0.78%) VMware
14 3 (0.59%) Atlassian
14 3 (0.59%) CA Agile Central
14 3 (0.59%) Cognizant
14 3 (0.59%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.59%) Talend
178 Sprint Planning jobs in England