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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 253 384
Rank change year-on-year +69 +131 -35
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 651 283 152
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.03% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.13% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 198 101
10th Percentile £373 £359 £350
25th Percentile £450 £411 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £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 53 10 2
10th Percentile £55.25 £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 38,210 24,959 29,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.22% 90.75% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,914 15,999 19,151
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -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% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,365 1,791
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.22 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.75
Median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £69.49 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.10 £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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +52 305 £550 +6.80% 82
North of England -22 111 £498 +10.13% 41
South East -8 96 £525 +2.14% 40
Midlands -4 83 £490 +15.24% 33
West Midlands -2 74 £488 -4.88% 18
North East -5 45 £550 +2.33% 14
Yorkshire -22 45 £500 +21.95% 8
South West -14 29 £505 -0.25% 19
East of England +4 26 £460 +15.00% 5
North West -56 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
1 108 (16.59%) Confluence
2 22 (3.38%) CMS
3 10 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.38%) Apache
4 9 (1.38%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.23%) SAS
6 5 (0.77%) Documentum
7 4 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.31%) 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 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.38%) Trello
3 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.77%) Notion
5 4 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.31%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.15%) Mingle
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.77%) Magento
5 3 (0.46%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.31%) Primavera
6 2 (0.31%) 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
1 211 (32.41%) Azure
2 120 (18.43%) AWS
3 105 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (7.22%) OpenShift
5 38 (5.84%) Power Platform
6 37 (5.68%) GCP
7 35 (5.38%) GitHub
8 30 (4.61%) Serverless
9 24 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (3.53%) Amazon S3
11 21 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (2.92%) Power Automate
13 18 (2.76%) Entra ID
13 18 (2.76%) PowerApps
14 16 (2.46%) Azure AKS
14 16 (2.46%) Snowflake
15 15 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.92%) HTTPS
2 5 (0.77%) Firewall
3 4 (0.61%) Network Security
4 2 (0.31%) Broadband
4 2 (0.31%) DNS
4 2 (0.31%) 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 (3.23%) Power BI
2 16 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (2.30%) Metadata
4 14 (2.15%) SQL Server
5 10 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (1.54%) Big Data
5 10 (1.54%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.08%) BigQuery
7 6 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.77%) DynamoDB
8 5 (0.77%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.61%) MongoDB
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
1 213 (32.72%) JIRA
2 80 (12.29%) Git
3 58 (8.91%) Jenkins
4 43 (6.61%) SonarQube
5 36 (5.53%) Postman
6 19 (2.92%) Selenium
7 18 (2.76%) GitLab
8 14 (2.15%) JUnit
9 9 (1.38%) Bitbucket
10 7 (1.08%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.08%) WebDriver
11 6 (0.92%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.92%) JMeter
12 5 (0.77%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.77%) Subversion
13 4 (0.61%) Maven
14 3 (0.46%) Artifactory
14 3 (0.46%) Gradle
14 3 (0.46%) Mockito
14 3 (0.46%) Protractor
General
1 287 (44.09%) Social Skills
2 133 (20.43%) Finance
3 96 (14.75%) Public Sector
4 92 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (7.68%) Retail
6 44 (6.76%) Banking
7 37 (5.68%) Marketing
8 22 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
9 19 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.84%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.69%) Legal
12 9 (1.38%) Front Office
12 9 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.38%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.23%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.23%) Retail Banking
14 7 (1.08%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 108 (16.59%) Developer
2 85 (13.06%) Senior
3 82 (12.60%) Analyst
4 80 (12.29%) Scrum Master
5 66 (10.14%) Lead
6 62 (9.52%) Delivery Manager
7 55 (8.45%) Business Analyst
7 55 (8.45%) Product Owner
8 42 (6.45%) Java Developer
9 41 (6.30%) Project Manager
10 30 (4.61%) Senior Manager
11 29 (4.45%) Product Manager
12 27 (4.15%) Architect
13 24 (3.69%) Software Engineer
14 23 (3.53%) Technical Analyst
15 22 (3.38%) Agile Delivery Manager
16 20 (3.07%) Technical Manager
17 19 (2.92%) Java Engineer
18 18 (2.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
19 17 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (9.83%) REST
2 50 (7.68%) AngularJS
3 42 (6.45%) RESTful
4 38 (5.84%) Quarkus
5 31 (4.76%) React
6 27 (4.15%) Spring
7 25 (3.84%) .NET
8 24 (3.69%) Spring Boot
9 22 (3.38%) JSON
10 15 (2.30%) Kafka
10 15 (2.30%) Lightning Web Components
11 14 (2.15%) Node.js
12 13 (2.00%) SOAP
13 12 (1.84%) HTML
13 12 (1.84%) Middleware
14 11 (1.69%) PySpark
15 9 (1.38%) OAuth
15 9 (1.38%) XML
16 8 (1.23%) ADO
16 8 (1.23%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 258 (39.63%) Product Ownership
2 63 (9.68%) Cloud Native
3 20 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (2.92%) Virtual Team
5 18 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (2.61%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.84%) Life Science
9 11 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.54%) NHS
11 9 (1.38%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.38%) FMCG
11 9 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.23%) Marketing Technology
12 8 (1.23%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.08%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.08%) Distributed Applications
14 6 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.69%) Windows
2 8 (1.23%) Linux
3 3 (0.46%) Unix
4 2 (0.31%) Android
4 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.31%) VMS
4 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 607 (93.24%) Agile
2 338 (51.92%) Scrum
3 268 (41.17%) Sprint Retrospective
4 237 (36.41%) DevOps
5 215 (33.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 204 (31.34%) Stakeholder Management
7 181 (27.80%) Sprint Review
8 180 (27.65%) CI/CD
9 178 (27.34%) User Stories
10 172 (26.42%) Backlog Refinement
11 128 (19.66%) Test Automation
12 124 (19.05%) Acceptance Criteria
13 112 (17.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 110 (16.90%) Software Engineering
15 109 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
15 109 (16.74%) Roadmaps
16 108 (16.59%) Kanban
17 106 (16.28%) Backlog Management
18 94 (14.44%) Backlog Prioritisation
18 94 (14.44%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 109 (16.74%) Java
2 66 (10.14%) SQL
3 55 (8.45%) Python
4 42 (6.45%) JavaScript
5 35 (5.38%) C#
6 17 (2.61%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.30%) Apex Code
8 6 (0.92%) Bicep
9 5 (0.77%) Groovy
9 5 (0.77%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.61%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.46%) C++
12 2 (0.31%) Bash
12 2 (0.31%) Korn
12 2 (0.31%) R
12 2 (0.31%) SOQL
12 2 (0.31%) SOSL
13 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.15%) PHP
13 1 (0.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 201 (30.88%) Security Cleared
2 165 (25.35%) SC Cleared
3 46 (7.07%) Degree
4 26 (3.99%) DV Cleared
5 23 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.61%) PMI Certification
7 15 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.30%) PMP
8 9 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.08%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.92%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.77%) CISSP
11 5 (0.77%) CSPO
12 4 (0.61%) CISM
12 4 (0.61%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.61%) SAFe Agilist
13 3 (0.46%) IIBA
13 3 (0.46%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (18.43%) QA
2 41 (6.30%) Accessibility
3 37 (5.68%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.30%) GDPR
5 11 (1.69%) PMO
6 10 (1.54%) GRC
7 9 (1.38%) GxP
8 7 (1.08%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 7 (1.08%) NIST
8 7 (1.08%) SLA
8 7 (1.08%) WCAG
9 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.61%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.31%) 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%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.15%) PERC
12 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (7.37%) Docker
2 9 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.31%) 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 90 (13.82%) Kubernetes
2 45 (6.91%) Terraform
3 41 (6.30%) Argo
4 12 (1.84%) Ansible
5 9 (1.38%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.23%) Grafana
7 4 (0.61%) Puppet
8 3 (0.46%) Istio
9 2 (0.31%) Nagios
9 2 (0.31%) Packer
10 1 (0.15%) Kibana
10 1 (0.15%) Nessus
10 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 60 (9.22%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.84%) Red Hat
3 37 (5.68%) ServiceNow
4 34 (5.22%) Salesforce
5 21 (3.23%) SAP
6 19 (2.92%) Databricks
6 19 (2.92%) Oracle
7 13 (2.00%) Okta
8 12 (1.84%) ForgeRock
9 11 (1.69%) Adobe
10 10 (1.54%) Google
11 7 (1.08%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.77%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.77%) 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