Sprint Planning Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Sprint Planning
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Sprint Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 64 73
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 +21
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 9 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.28% 0.28% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 0.33% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £413 £426 -
25th Percentile £422 £445 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £506 £750
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -32.50% +66.67%
75th Percentile £538 £583 -
90th Percentile £631 £612 -
West Midlands median daily rate £483 £560 £569
% change year-on-year -13.71% -1.54% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 637 608 656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 90.74% 85.15% 83.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 395 438
10th Percentile £249 £192 £270
25th Percentile £375 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £639 £745 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £522 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% +4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 14 19
10th Percentile £12.62 £16.44 £13.81
25th Percentile £13.25 £22.89 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -45.05% +197.30%
75th Percentile £24.29 £51.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £56.65 £67.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.03 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -20.60% +16.00% +41.08%

Sprint Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Sprint Planning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Sprint Planning job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Sprint Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Sprint Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Sprint Planning

Sprint Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Planning in Birmingham over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sprint Planning in Birmingham

Sprint Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (33.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (11.11%) CMS
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (11.11%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) GitHub
1 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Asana
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) GitLab
2 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (22.22%) CircleCI
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Scrum Master
2 2 (22.22%) Delivery Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Engineering Specialist
2 2 (22.22%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Delivery Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Services Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Manual Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Master Data Manager
3 1 (11.11%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Web Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Web Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (33.33%) Kafka
1 3 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Scrum
3 5 (55.56%) Backlog Management
3 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (44.44%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) Product Backlog
4 4 (44.44%) Sprint Retrospective
5 3 (33.33%) Coaching
5 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (33.33%) SIEM
5 3 (33.33%) Software Delivery
5 3 (33.33%) Sprint Review
6 2 (22.22%) Analytics
6 2 (22.22%) Matrix Organization
6 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Go
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 3 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
1 1 (11.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Ansible
1 3 (33.33%) Argo
1 3 (33.33%) Grafana
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Sitecore