Sprint Planning Job Trends in the Midlands

Sprint Planning
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Sprint Planning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 222 197
Rank change year-on-year +30 -25 +20
Permanent jobs citing Sprint Planning 27 24 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.35% 0.36% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.40% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 18 7 15
10th Percentile £35,725 £44,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £44,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -5.98% +6.36%
75th Percentile £58,438 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £65,300 £62,500 £69,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Sprint Planning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,373 5,992 4,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.74% 89.69% 88.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,512 2,650 3,662
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Sprint Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Sprint Planning job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Sprint Planning
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Sprint Planning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Sprint Planning

Sprint Planning
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Sprint Planning in the Midlands over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Sprint Planning in the Midlands

Sprint Planning
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sprint Planning within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +33 19 £53,750 -6.52% 99
East Midlands -7 8 £42,500 -22.73% 90
Sprint Planning
England

Sprint Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 7 (25.93%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.70%) Sketch
1 1 (3.70%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) SaaS
4 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (7.41%) Figma
4 2 (7.41%) Power Automate
4 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.41%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.70%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Bluetooth
1 1 (3.70%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (40.74%) JIRA
2 6 (22.22%) JUnit
3 5 (18.52%) Mockito
4 4 (14.81%) Maven
5 3 (11.11%) Git
6 1 (3.70%) Babel
6 1 (3.70%) Balsamiq
6 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.70%) GitLab
6 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
6 1 (3.70%) NUnit
6 1 (3.70%) Selenium
6 1 (3.70%) Vite
6 1 (3.70%) webpack
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Finance
3 6 (22.22%) Law
4 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
5 3 (11.11%) Marketing
6 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (7.41%) Banking
7 1 (3.70%) Electronics
7 1 (3.70%) Games
7 1 (3.70%) Legal
7 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.70%) Retail
7 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Product Owner
2 9 (33.33%) Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Java Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Senior
4 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Agile Product Owner
6 2 (7.41%) Lead
7 1 (3.70%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 1 (3.70%) Agile Scrum Master
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Developer
7 1 (3.70%) DevOps Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Digital Product Owner
7 1 (3.70%) Junior Product Owner
7 1 (3.70%) Power Platform Developer
7 1 (3.70%) React Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) REST
2 4 (14.81%) React
2 4 (14.81%) Spring
3 3 (11.11%) HTML
4 2 (7.41%) .NET
4 2 (7.41%) CSS
4 2 (7.41%) Jest
4 2 (7.41%) RESTful
4 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.70%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (3.70%) Dapper ORM
5 1 (3.70%) Django
5 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.70%) Flask
5 1 (3.70%) JPA
5 1 (3.70%) Material-UI
5 1 (3.70%) pytest
5 1 (3.70%) Redux
5 1 (3.70%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (48.15%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.41%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.70%) IoT
4 1 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (92.59%) Agile
2 14 (51.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (40.74%) User Experience
4 9 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
4 9 (33.33%) Scrum
5 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (29.63%) Product Backlog
6 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
6 7 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (22.22%) Backlog Management
7 6 (22.22%) DevOps
7 6 (22.22%) Microservices
7 6 (22.22%) Roadmaps
7 6 (22.22%) Sprint Retrospective
7 6 (22.22%) TDD
7 6 (22.22%) User Stories
8 5 (18.52%) SDLC
9 4 (14.81%) Acceptance Criteria
9 4 (14.81%) Product Roadmap
9 4 (14.81%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) Java
1 6 (22.22%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.81%) PL/SQL
4 3 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.41%) Bash
5 2 (7.41%) C
5 2 (7.41%) C#
5 2 (7.41%) R
6 1 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.70%) Delphi
6 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (55.56%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.70%) SAP