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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 317 408
Rank change year-on-year +85 +91 -3
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 381 172 146
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.16% 0.65% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 0.72% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 90 89
10th Percentile £350 £403 £298
25th Percentile £415 £486 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.24% -6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £665
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 4
10th Percentile £32.30 £65.25 £55.15
25th Percentile £45.88 £65.63 £61.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £67.02 £71.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.93% -6.59% +8.30%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.89 £77.50
90th Percentile £87.90 £68.40 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £67.26 £71.75
% change year-on-year -18.23% -6.26% +8.30%

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 28,878 23,799 32,593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.87% 89.45% 87.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,472 14,557 21,833
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,785 763 1,818
10th Percentile £15.04 £15.62 £13.99
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.02
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.62% +10.65%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +70 202 £505 -12.17% 39
North of England -19 62 £430 +1.18% 43
Midlands -26 43 £448 -18.64% 36
South East -20 33 £525 -8.70% 65
West Midlands -15 31 £477 -15.29% 13
North West +2 29 £388 -13.89% 18
Yorkshire -45 23 £500 +17.65% 18
South West -2 19 £525 -7.08% 30
East Midlands -16 12 £348 - 22
North East -5 10 £525 +2.44% 7
East of England -8 8 £484 -19.33% 23
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 71 (18.64%) Confluence
2 14 (3.67%) SAS
3 11 (2.89%) CMS
4 5 (1.31%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.31%) Appian
4 5 (1.31%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.79%) Apache
5 3 (0.79%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.79%) WordPress
6 2 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.52%) Documentum
6 2 (0.52%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.52%) Magnolia
6 2 (0.52%) nginx
7 1 (0.26%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.26%) Drupal
7 1 (0.26%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.31%) Adobe XD
3 5 (1.31%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.79%) Sketch
6 2 (0.52%) Trello
7 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.26%) Notion
Business Applications
1 6 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.52%) Finacle
3 2 (0.52%) Maximo
3 2 (0.52%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 100 (26.25%) Azure
2 65 (17.06%) AWS
3 49 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (9.19%) GitHub
5 24 (6.30%) OpenShift
6 23 (6.04%) Serverless
7 22 (5.77%) GCP
7 22 (5.77%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (5.77%) Power Platform
8 19 (4.99%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (3.67%) Amazon S3
9 14 (3.67%) Figma
10 12 (3.15%) SaaS
11 10 (2.62%) Power Automate
12 9 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (2.36%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (2.10%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.84%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (1.84%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.79%) HTTP
2 2 (0.52%) Network Security
2 2 (0.52%) SMS
2 2 (0.52%) SSL
2 2 (0.52%) VPN
3 1 (0.26%) DNS
3 1 (0.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.99%) Power BI
2 15 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.36%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.10%) Tableau
5 7 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.84%) Oracle Database
6 6 (1.57%) Metadata
6 6 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.57%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.31%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 4 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.05%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.05%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.05%) MySQL
9 3 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.79%) Big Data
9 3 (0.79%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.79%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.52%) DB2
Development Applications
1 121 (31.76%) JIRA
2 47 (12.34%) Jenkins
3 39 (10.24%) GitLab
4 38 (9.97%) Git
5 35 (9.19%) Selenium
6 21 (5.51%) Postman
7 20 (5.25%) Cucumber
7 20 (5.25%) SonarQube
8 18 (4.72%) JUnit
9 8 (2.10%) Cypress.io
9 8 (2.10%) REST Assured
9 8 (2.10%) WebDriver
10 6 (1.57%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.57%) TestRail
10 6 (1.57%) Zephyr
11 5 (1.31%) Robot Framework
12 4 (1.05%) webpack
13 3 (0.79%) Hudson
13 3 (0.79%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.79%) Storybook
General
1 188 (49.34%) Social Skills
2 90 (23.62%) Finance
3 61 (16.01%) Analytical Skills
3 61 (16.01%) Public Sector
4 37 (9.71%) Banking
5 17 (4.46%) Telecoms
6 14 (3.67%) Front Office
7 12 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (2.62%) Marketing
9 7 (1.84%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.31%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.05%) Legal
11 4 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.79%) Law
13 2 (0.52%) Local Government
13 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 78 (20.47%) Developer
2 52 (13.65%) Analyst
3 43 (11.29%) Business Analyst
4 36 (9.45%) Product Owner
5 34 (8.92%) Senior
6 33 (8.66%) Scrum Master
7 31 (8.14%) Lead
8 16 (4.20%) Java Developer
9 15 (3.94%) Tester
10 14 (3.67%) Project Manager
10 14 (3.67%) Test Specialist
11 13 (3.41%) Architect
12 12 (3.15%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (2.36%) Product Manager
13 9 (2.36%) Senior Developer
13 9 (2.36%) Senior Manager
14 8 (2.10%) React Developer
14 8 (2.10%) Software Engineer
15 7 (1.84%) Data Engineer
15 7 (1.84%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (12.86%) REST
2 36 (9.45%) React
3 28 (7.35%) RESTful
4 24 (6.30%) AngularJS
5 21 (5.51%) CSS
6 20 (5.25%) JSON
7 19 (4.99%) HTML
8 17 (4.46%) Node.js
9 15 (3.94%) pytest
10 14 (3.67%) XML
11 13 (3.41%) Playwright
12 12 (3.15%) SOAP
13 9 (2.36%) Gherkin
13 9 (2.36%) HTML5
13 9 (2.36%) Spring
13 9 (2.36%) Spring Boot
13 9 (2.36%) Vue
14 8 (2.10%) CSS3
14 8 (2.10%) Next.js
14 8 (2.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 126 (33.07%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.72%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.67%) Algorithms
3 14 (3.67%) Virtual Team
4 11 (2.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.62%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.36%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.57%) NHS
8 6 (1.57%) PMI
9 5 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.05%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.05%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.05%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.79%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.36%) Unix
2 8 (2.10%) Windows
3 7 (1.84%) Linux
4 2 (0.52%) VMS
4 2 (0.52%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (91.86%) Agile
2 192 (50.39%) Scrum
3 181 (47.51%) Sprint Retrospective
4 124 (32.55%) DevOps
5 117 (30.71%) CI/CD
6 109 (28.61%) Problem-Solving
7 101 (26.51%) Sprint Review
8 99 (25.98%) Stakeholder Management
9 95 (24.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 93 (24.41%) User Stories
11 91 (23.88%) Test Automation
12 80 (21.00%) Backlog Refinement
12 80 (21.00%) Roadmaps
13 61 (16.01%) Analytics
14 59 (15.49%) Acceptance Criteria
15 58 (15.22%) Backlog Management
15 58 (15.22%) Kanban
16 52 (13.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 52 (13.65%) User Experience
17 48 (12.60%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 75 (19.69%) Python
2 56 (14.70%) JavaScript
3 54 (14.17%) Java
4 42 (11.02%) SQL
5 34 (8.92%) TypeScript
6 25 (6.56%) C#
7 7 (1.84%) Go
8 6 (1.57%) Bicep
8 6 (1.57%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.79%) Apex Code
9 3 (0.79%) Bash
9 3 (0.79%) PHP
9 3 (0.79%) Ruby
9 3 (0.79%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.79%) XPath
10 2 (0.52%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.26%) C++
11 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 103 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 85 (22.31%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.61%) Degree
4 10 (2.62%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.62%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.10%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.57%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.57%) CBAP
8 4 (1.05%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.05%) IIBA
8 4 (1.05%) ISEB
8 4 (1.05%) PMP
9 3 (0.79%) CSPO
9 3 (0.79%) GPEN
9 3 (0.79%) OSCP
10 2 (0.52%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.52%) OSCE
10 2 (0.52%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (18.90%) QA
2 30 (7.87%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.41%) GDPR
4 11 (2.89%) WCAG
5 10 (2.62%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.57%) GRC
7 4 (1.05%) PSD2
8 3 (0.79%) HL7
8 3 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.52%) NCSC
9 2 (0.52%) NIST
9 2 (0.52%) PMO
9 2 (0.52%) SLA
10 1 (0.26%) Basel III
10 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.26%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.26%) SEPA
10 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
10 1 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 54 (14.17%) Docker
2 5 (1.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (13.65%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.56%) Terraform
3 16 (4.20%) Ansible
4 12 (3.15%) Argo
5 10 (2.62%) Grafana
6 6 (1.57%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.52%) Kibana
7 2 (0.52%) Nagios
8 1 (0.26%) CASB
8 1 (0.26%) Istio
8 1 (0.26%) Puppet
8 1 (0.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 43 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.35%) Salesforce
3 15 (3.94%) Databricks
4 13 (3.41%) Oracle
5 12 (3.15%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.10%) Adobe
6 8 (2.10%) Cisco
6 8 (2.10%) Google
6 8 (2.10%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.57%) Guidewire
7 6 (1.57%) SAP
7 6 (1.57%) Veracode
8 5 (1.31%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.31%) Splunk
9 4 (1.05%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.79%) Cognizant
10 3 (0.79%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.79%) IBM
10 3 (0.79%) Progress
11 2 (0.52%) DocuSign