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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 232 353
Rank change year-on-year +18 +121 +28
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 613 315 181
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.32% 1.13% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.24% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 229 117
10th Percentile £365 £350 £364
25th Percentile £440 £408 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £600
90th Percentile £716 £689 £674
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 14 2
10th Percentile £55.00 £43.45 £57.33
25th Percentile £62.50 £46.88 £58.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £62.26
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -19.69% -10.14%
75th Percentile - £54.13 £64.95
90th Percentile £71.13 £55.88 £66.19
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £62.26
% change year-on-year +40.00% -19.69% -10.14%

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 39,523 25,365 27,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.87% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,845 16,097 16,849
10th Percentile £325 £293 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,022 1,590 1,111
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.87 £20.27
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.44 £44.80 £66.80
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.28 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +25 318 £545 +4.81% 220
Midlands +22 101 £474 +20.32% 36
West Midlands +26 97 £473 +8.00% 18
North of England -29 86 £488 +9.92% 66
South East -22 79 £505 -3.81% 49
Yorkshire -21 38 £500 +3.63% 24
North East -12 34 £350 -34.88% 10
South West -17 22 £508 -4.47% 25
East of England -15 17 £460 - 12
North West -60 15 £450 +7.14% 32
East Midlands -21 3 £448 +24.36% 18
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
1 130 (21.21%) Confluence
2 17 (2.77%) CMS
3 13 (2.12%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.12%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.96%) Apache
5 8 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.82%) Documentum
6 5 (0.82%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.65%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.49%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.33%) Kentico
9 2 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.16%) Camunda
10 1 (0.16%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.16%) JBoss
10 1 (0.16%) Mendix
10 1 (0.16%) SAS
10 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.98%) Notion
4 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.82%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.82%) Trello
5 3 (0.49%) Productboard
6 2 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.33%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.16%) Simulink
7 1 (0.16%) Sketch
7 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.63%) Salesforce CRM
2 9 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.65%) Magento
5 3 (0.49%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.33%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.33%) Primavera
6 2 (0.33%) Workfront
7 1 (0.16%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Utilities
7 1 (0.16%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.16%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.16%) SAP PS
7 1 (0.16%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.16%) Shopify
7 1 (0.16%) Siebel CRM
7 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 184 (30.02%) Azure
2 101 (16.48%) Azure DevOps
3 100 (16.31%) AWS
4 51 (8.32%) Power Platform
5 41 (6.69%) GitHub
6 34 (5.55%) GCP
7 33 (5.38%) OpenShift
8 32 (5.22%) Serverless
9 23 (3.75%) Amazon S3
9 23 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
11 21 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (3.43%) PowerApps
12 20 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (3.26%) Power Automate
13 17 (2.77%) Amazon ECS
13 17 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (2.45%) Entra ID
15 14 (2.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.65%) HTTPS
2 3 (0.49%) Broadband
2 3 (0.49%) Firewall
3 2 (0.33%) SAN
3 2 (0.33%) WAN
3 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.16%) 4G
4 1 (0.16%) 5G
4 1 (0.16%) Intranet
4 1 (0.16%) IPv4
4 1 (0.16%) IPv6
4 1 (0.16%) Network Security
4 1 (0.16%) NFC
4 1 (0.16%) NGFW
4 1 (0.16%) PPP
4 1 (0.16%) UPnP
4 1 (0.16%) VPN
4 1 (0.16%) Wireless
4 1 (0.16%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.89%) Power BI
2 25 (4.08%) SQL Server
3 23 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (3.10%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.12%) Metadata
6 10 (1.63%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.14%) Big Data
7 7 (1.14%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.14%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.14%) Oracle Database
8 6 (0.98%) BigQuery
8 6 (0.98%) Delta Lake
9 5 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.82%) Ataccama
10 4 (0.65%) Spark SQL
10 4 (0.65%) Tableau
11 3 (0.49%) ClickHouse
11 3 (0.49%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 211 (34.42%) JIRA
2 66 (10.77%) Git
3 52 (8.48%) Jenkins
4 40 (6.53%) SonarQube
5 19 (3.10%) Postman
6 14 (2.28%) GitLab
6 14 (2.28%) Maven
7 13 (2.12%) JUnit
8 11 (1.79%) Mockito
9 9 (1.47%) Selenium
10 6 (0.98%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.98%) JMeter
11 5 (0.82%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.65%) Gradle
12 4 (0.65%) Subversion
13 3 (0.49%) Protractor
13 3 (0.49%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.49%) WebDriver
14 2 (0.33%) Charles Proxy
14 2 (0.33%) git-flow
General
1 291 (47.47%) Social Skills
2 144 (23.49%) Finance
3 136 (22.19%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (17.62%) Public Sector
5 65 (10.60%) Banking
6 42 (6.85%) Retail
7 31 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
8 27 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 27 (4.40%) Marketing
9 14 (2.28%) Investment Banking
10 13 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.12%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.96%) Front Office
12 10 (1.63%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.14%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.14%) Billing
15 6 (0.98%) Law
Job Titles
1 123 (20.07%) Developer
2 89 (14.52%) Senior
3 83 (13.54%) Analyst
4 73 (11.91%) Scrum Master
5 69 (11.26%) Lead
6 55 (8.97%) Business Analyst
7 51 (8.32%) Delivery Manager
7 51 (8.32%) Product Owner
8 44 (7.18%) Java Developer
9 43 (7.01%) Project Manager
10 29 (4.73%) Product Manager
11 28 (4.57%) Senior Developer
12 24 (3.92%) Architect
13 20 (3.26%) Technical Manager
14 18 (2.94%) Technical Analyst
15 17 (2.77%) Data Engineer
15 17 (2.77%) Senior Manager
15 17 (2.77%) Technical Leader
16 15 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
17 14 (2.28%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (12.72%) REST
2 47 (7.67%) AngularJS
3 45 (7.34%) RESTful
4 35 (5.71%) Spring
4 35 (5.71%) Spring Boot
5 34 (5.55%) .NET
6 28 (4.57%) Quarkus
7 24 (3.92%) JSON
7 24 (3.92%) SOAP
7 24 (3.92%) Terraform
8 23 (3.75%) Web Services
9 18 (2.94%) HTML
10 17 (2.77%) Kafka
10 17 (2.77%) React
11 16 (2.61%) Node.js
12 14 (2.28%) Hibernate
12 14 (2.28%) Lightning Web Components
13 12 (1.96%) PySpark
14 11 (1.79%) CSS
14 11 (1.79%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 254 (41.44%) Product Ownership
2 64 (10.44%) Cloud Native
3 26 (4.24%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (3.10%) Virtual Team
6 14 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.12%) AI Agents
7 13 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.31%) Life Science
10 8 (1.31%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (1.31%) NHS
11 7 (1.14%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.14%) Market Risk
12 6 (0.98%) FMCG
12 6 (0.98%) Taxonomies
13 5 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.12%) Windows
2 10 (1.63%) Linux
3 4 (0.65%) Android
4 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.33%) Unix
4 2 (0.33%) VMS
4 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (94.94%) Agile
2 332 (54.16%) Scrum
3 241 (39.31%) Sprint Retrospective
4 231 (37.68%) Stakeholder Management
5 228 (37.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 223 (36.38%) DevOps
7 202 (32.95%) Backlog Refinement
8 183 (29.85%) User Stories
9 178 (29.04%) CI/CD
10 162 (26.43%) Sprint Review
11 147 (23.98%) Problem-Solving
12 125 (20.39%) Test Automation
13 122 (19.90%) Acceptance Criteria
14 112 (18.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 108 (17.62%) Backlog Management
15 108 (17.62%) Roadmaps
16 107 (17.46%) Software Engineering
17 104 (16.97%) Kanban
17 104 (16.97%) SDLC
18 93 (15.17%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 95 (15.50%) Java
2 82 (13.38%) SQL
3 55 (8.97%) Python
4 49 (7.99%) JavaScript
5 38 (6.20%) C#
6 26 (4.24%) TypeScript
7 12 (1.96%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.82%) Kotlin
9 4 (0.65%) Bicep
10 2 (0.33%) Groovy
10 2 (0.33%) R
11 1 (0.16%) ABAP
11 1 (0.16%) Bash
11 1 (0.16%) C
11 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.16%) Korn
11 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.16%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 199 (32.46%) Security Cleared
2 164 (26.75%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.53%) Degree
4 28 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.77%) PMI Certification
7 16 (2.61%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (2.12%) PMP
9 10 (1.63%) CSPO
10 6 (0.98%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.98%) IIBA
11 5 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.65%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.65%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.65%) SAFe Agilist
13 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.49%) CAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (19.90%) QA
2 41 (6.69%) Accessibility
3 38 (6.20%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.79%) PMO
5 10 (1.63%) WCAG
6 8 (1.31%) GDPR
7 7 (1.14%) GRC
8 5 (0.82%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 5 (0.82%) GxP
9 3 (0.49%) SLA
10 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.16%) Basel III
10 1 (0.16%) HL7
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS
10 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
10 1 (0.16%) NIST
10 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 54 (8.81%) Docker
2 8 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (10.60%) Kubernetes
2 29 (4.73%) Argo
3 12 (1.96%) Prometheus
4 11 (1.79%) Grafana
5 4 (0.65%) Ansible
6 2 (0.33%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (0.33%) Kibana
6 2 (0.33%) Packer
6 2 (0.33%) Puppet
7 1 (0.16%) Istio
7 1 (0.16%) Nessus
7 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 80 (13.05%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.22%) Salesforce
3 30 (4.89%) Red Hat
4 27 (4.40%) Databricks
5 25 (4.08%) ServiceNow
6 19 (3.10%) SAP
7 18 (2.94%) Oracle
8 10 (1.63%) Adobe
8 10 (1.63%) Okta
9 9 (1.47%) Google
10 6 (0.98%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.98%) ForgeRock
10 6 (0.98%) Informatica
10 6 (0.98%) UiPath
11 5 (0.82%) VMware
12 4 (0.65%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.65%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.65%) Splunk
13 3 (0.49%) Ping Identity
13 3 (0.49%) Zscaler