Sprint Planning Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Sprint Planning
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Sprint Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 98 105
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +49
Contract jobs citing Sprint Planning 37 12 8
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.64% 0.71% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 0.83% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 5 3
10th Percentile £387 £458 £521
25th Percentile £422 £525 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.14% - +19.57%
75th Percentile £509 £588 £584
90th Percentile £590 £614 £590
England median daily rate £500 £569 £500
% change year-on-year -12.09% +13.75% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £51.25 £66.01 £69.29
% change year-on-year -22.36% -4.73% +6.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,968 1,448 1,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 87.12% 86.09% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 911 1,055
10th Percentile £263 £225 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £584 £612 £600
90th Percentile £673 £713 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 49 49
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £14.46
25th Percentile £16.05 £16.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% -4.35% +29.94%
75th Percentile £27.21 £33.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £39.21 £52.50 £67.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

Sprint Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Sprint Planning job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Sprint Planning
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Sprint Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Sprint Planning

Sprint Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sprint Planning in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sprint Planning in the West Midlands

Sprint Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Sprint Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Sprint Planning

Sprint Planning
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 December 2025. 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
Shropshire - 18 £491 - 2
Birmingham -2 7 £525 +3.70% 1
Warwickshire -7 6 £563 -2.17% 1
Solihull - 3 £358 -
Herefordshire - 1 £400 - 1
Coventry - 1 £388 - 1
Sprint Planning
England

Sprint Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 14 (37.84%) SAS
2 5 (13.51%) Confluence
3 3 (8.11%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.70%) Anypoint
4 1 (2.70%) CMS
4 1 (2.70%) nginx
4 1 (2.70%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.70%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 13 (35.14%) OpenShift
2 6 (16.22%) Azure
3 3 (8.11%) AWS
3 3 (8.11%) GitHub
3 3 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (5.41%) Power Automate
4 2 (5.41%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.70%) Asana
5 1 (2.70%) GCP
5 1 (2.70%) iPaaS
5 1 (2.70%) Kong
5 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle Database
2 5 (13.51%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 2 (5.41%) Power BI
3 2 (5.41%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 1 (2.70%) Pentaho
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (45.95%) Jenkins
2 16 (43.24%) GitLab
3 14 (37.84%) Git
3 14 (37.84%) JIRA
3 14 (37.84%) JUnit
4 13 (35.14%) Selenium
5 2 (5.41%) CircleCI
5 2 (5.41%) TestPartner
6 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.70%) Mockito
6 1 (2.70%) Postman
General
1 24 (64.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Finance
2 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.41%) Marketing
5 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Test Specialist
2 7 (18.92%) Test Automation Specialist
3 4 (10.81%) Scrum Master
4 3 (8.11%) Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Project Manager
4 3 (8.11%) QA Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) QA Test Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Test Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Agile Scrum Master
5 2 (5.41%) Delivery Project Manager
5 2 (5.41%) Engineering Specialist
5 2 (5.41%) Lead
5 2 (5.41%) Network Specialist
5 2 (5.41%) Test Manager
6 1 (2.70%) Digital User Researcher
6 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Financial Services Project Manager
6 1 (2.70%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
6 1 (2.70%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (35.14%) pytest
2 12 (32.43%) REST
3 4 (10.81%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (8.11%) Kafka
4 3 (8.11%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (5.41%) .NET
5 2 (5.41%) HTML
5 2 (5.41%) Middleware
5 2 (5.41%) RESTful
6 1 (2.70%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.70%) Apache Camel
6 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (2.70%) CSS
6 1 (2.70%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.70%) LINQ
6 1 (2.70%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (2.70%) SOAP
6 1 (2.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (29.73%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.11%) SCADA
3 1 (2.70%) Animation
3 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.70%) IoT
3 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (94.59%) Agile
2 26 (70.27%) Sprint Retrospective
3 23 (62.16%) Scrum
4 21 (56.76%) DevOps
4 21 (56.76%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (51.35%) CI/CD
6 18 (48.65%) Test Automation
7 17 (45.95%) Analytics
7 17 (45.95%) Containerisation
7 17 (45.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (45.95%) Test Strategy
8 15 (40.54%) Data Pipeline
8 15 (40.54%) Test Scripting
9 13 (35.14%) Data Management
9 13 (35.14%) Defect Management
9 13 (35.14%) Visual Analytics
10 12 (32.43%) Integration Testing
11 11 (29.73%) Data Strategy
11 11 (29.73%) Regression Testing
12 9 (24.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (40.54%) Python
2 6 (16.22%) JavaScript
3 4 (10.81%) SQL
4 3 (8.11%) Go
5 2 (5.41%) C#
5 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.70%) Java
6 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (37.84%) Security Cleared
2 13 (35.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) PMI Certification
3 2 (5.41%) PMP
4 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.70%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 18 (48.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (51.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.11%) Ansible
2 3 (8.11%) Argo
2 3 (8.11%) Grafana
2 3 (8.11%) Terraform
3 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Oracle
2 3 (8.11%) MuleSoft
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.70%) Denodo
4 1 (2.70%) IBM
4 1 (2.70%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.70%) Talend