Sprint Planning Contracts

Sprint Planning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Sprint Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sprint Planning over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 406 363 347
Rank change year-on-year -43 -16 +22
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 174 356 674
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.63% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.70% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 249 434
10th Percentile £354 £406 £407
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £625
90th Percentile £665 £698 £682
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £488 £491
% change year-on-year -7.69% -0.66% +12.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 12
10th Percentile - - £52.13
25th Percentile - £54.00 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -6.69% +9.07%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £65.75
90th Percentile - £80.51 £68.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £57.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +11.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Sprint Planning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

Sprint Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sprint Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sprint Planning in the UK

Sprint Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sprint Planning.

Daily rate trend for Sprint Planning in the UK

Sprint Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Planning over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Sprint Planning in the UK

Sprint Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sprint Planning.

Hourly rate trend for Sprint Planning in the UK

Sprint Planning
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
England -49 139 £500 -4.76% 102
London +18 86 £520 -5.45% 42
Work from Home +12 71 £488 -8.24% 46
UK excluding London -52 51 £450 -7.69% 70
South East -31 16 £425 -5.56% 16
Midlands +22 11 £438 -15.66% 18
North of England +7 10 £475 +2.70% 14
West Midlands +12 8 £525 -0.94% 14
Scotland +31 6 £575 +38.55% 5
East of England 0 6 £250 -42.86% 6
North West -1 6 £418 -10.93% 8
East Midlands +10 3 £370 -26.00% 4
Yorkshire +15 2 £475 +2.70% 3
North East +11 2 £533 +21.71% 3
South West -5 2 £320 -44.35% 10

Sprint Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (9.77%) Confluence
2 6 (3.45%) CMS
3 3 (1.72%) IIS
3 3 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) JBoss
4 1 (0.57%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (2.87%) Trello
2 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Workfront
2 2 (1.15%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.15%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.15%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.15%) SAP SD
2 2 (1.15%) VisionPLUS
3 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (22.99%) Azure
2 23 (13.22%) AWS
2 23 (13.22%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (5.17%) GitHub
4 6 (3.45%) Serverless
5 5 (2.87%) Amazon Kinesis
5 5 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.30%) SaaS
7 3 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (1.72%) Amazon EventBridge
7 3 (1.72%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (1.72%) Contentful
7 3 (1.72%) dbt
7 3 (1.72%) GCP
7 3 (1.72%) IaaS
7 3 (1.72%) PaaS
8 2 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.17%) SSH
2 1 (0.57%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.87%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (1.72%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.15%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.15%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.15%) Power BI
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 60 (34.48%) JIRA
2 12 (6.90%) Git
3 11 (6.32%) Cucumber
3 11 (6.32%) JUnit
4 8 (4.60%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.45%) Cypress.io
5 6 (3.45%) Selenium
6 5 (2.87%) WebDriver
7 4 (2.30%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.30%) GitLab
7 4 (2.30%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.72%) SoapUI
8 3 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.15%) Gradle
9 2 (1.15%) JMeter
9 2 (1.15%) Maven
9 2 (1.15%) Mocha
9 2 (1.15%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.15%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.15%) TestNG
General
1 66 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (15.52%) Finance
4 19 (10.92%) Banking
5 17 (9.77%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.60%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.02%) Marketing
7 7 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.87%) Billing
9 5 (2.87%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.30%) Electronics
10 4 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.30%) Retail
11 3 (1.72%) Front Office
11 3 (1.72%) Legal
12 2 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.15%) Law
12 2 (1.15%) Police
12 2 (1.15%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (20.11%) Scrum Master
2 24 (13.79%) Developer
3 20 (11.49%) Analyst
4 18 (10.34%) Project Manager
5 17 (9.77%) Business Analyst
5 17 (9.77%) Lead
5 17 (9.77%) Senior
6 15 (8.62%) Product Owner
7 12 (6.90%) Delivery Manager
7 12 (6.90%) Java Developer
8 8 (4.60%) Technical Leader
9 7 (4.02%) Data Engineer
10 6 (3.45%) Full Stack Developer
10 6 (3.45%) Senior Manager
11 5 (2.87%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.87%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.87%) Web Manager
12 4 (2.30%) Agile Business Analyst
12 4 (2.30%) Architect
12 4 (2.30%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.77%) REST
2 13 (7.47%) SOAP
2 13 (7.47%) XML
3 12 (6.90%) JSON
3 12 (6.90%) Spring
4 11 (6.32%) React
5 10 (5.75%) .NET
5 10 (5.75%) Hibernate
5 10 (5.75%) J2EE
5 10 (5.75%) JPA
6 9 (5.17%) HTML
6 9 (5.17%) Web Services
7 8 (4.60%) RESTful
8 7 (4.02%) CSS
8 7 (4.02%) Node.js
9 5 (2.87%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.87%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.87%) Spring Boot
10 4 (2.30%) .NET Framework
10 4 (2.30%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 59 (33.91%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.75%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.17%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.02%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.87%) Wiki
6 4 (2.30%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.30%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (2.30%) Video\Live Streaming
7 3 (1.72%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.15%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.15%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.15%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.15%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.57%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.47%) Linux
2 9 (5.17%) Unix
3 1 (0.57%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (93.10%) Agile
2 101 (58.05%) Scrum
3 81 (46.55%) Sprint Retrospective
4 63 (36.21%) Sprint Review
5 53 (30.46%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (22.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 40 (22.99%) User Stories
7 37 (21.26%) DevOps
8 36 (20.69%) Acceptance Criteria
9 34 (19.54%) Backlog Refinement
10 28 (16.09%) Kanban
10 28 (16.09%) Product Backlog
11 27 (15.52%) CI/CD
11 27 (15.52%) Project Management
12 26 (14.94%) Project Delivery
12 26 (14.94%) Roadmaps
12 26 (14.94%) SDLC
13 22 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (12.07%) User Acceptance Testing
15 20 (11.49%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.79%) SQL
2 23 (13.22%) Java
3 19 (10.92%) Python
4 14 (8.05%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.75%) C#
6 6 (3.45%) Perl
7 4 (2.30%) Scala
8 3 (1.72%) C
8 3 (1.72%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.15%) Bicep
9 2 (1.15%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (15.52%) Degree
2 19 (10.92%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.05%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.87%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.30%) CSPO
7 2 (1.15%) CBAP
7 2 (1.15%) MBA
7 2 (1.15%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.57%) IIBA
8 1 (0.57%) ISEB
8 1 (0.57%) PgMP
8 1 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (18.97%) QA
2 3 (1.72%) PMO
3 2 (1.15%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.15%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (4.02%) Docker
2 4 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.15%) LXC
Systems Management
1 15 (8.62%) Terraform
2 4 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.72%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.15%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.57%) Ansible
5 1 (0.57%) Grafana
5 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (7.47%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.90%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.87%) SAP
4 4 (2.30%) Google
4 4 (2.30%) Okta
4 4 (2.30%) Progress
4 4 (2.30%) Roku
4 4 (2.30%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.72%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (1.72%) Oracle
5 3 (1.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 2 (1.15%) Zoho
7 1 (0.57%) Ariba
7 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.57%) Black Duck
7 1 (0.57%) Databricks
7 1 (0.57%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.57%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.57%) NCR
7 1 (0.57%) Splunk