Sprint Planning Job Trends in the North West

Sprint Planning
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Sprint Planning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 180 177
Rank change year-on-year +11 -3 +102
Permanent jobs citing Sprint Planning 10 25 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.16% 0.48% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.53% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 12
10th Percentile £68,500 £42,100 £32,088
25th Percentile £72,500 £46,563 £38,781
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £54,897 £52,084
Median % change year-on-year +36.62% +5.40% -5.30%
75th Percentile £77,500 £58,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £79,300 £87,500 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,116 4,694 3,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.01% 90.27% 89.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,462 2,311 2,675
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,320 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
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 North West

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

Sprint Planning job vacancy trend in the North West

Sprint Planning
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Sprint Planning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Sprint Planning

Sprint Planning
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Sprint Planning in the North West over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Sprint Planning in the North West

Sprint Planning
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sprint Planning within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheshire -10 7 £75,000 +30.43% 2
Manchester +7 3 £72,500 +34.88% 11
Sprint Planning
England

Sprint Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Local Government
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Lead
2 5 (50.00%) Lead Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum Master
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) CSS3
2 1 (10.00%) Express.js
2 1 (10.00%) hapi
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) HTML5
2 1 (10.00%) NestJS
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) AI Agents
2 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 5 (50.00%) AI
3 5 (50.00%) LLM
3 5 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 5 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Commercial Awareness
4 4 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (40.00%) Secure Coding
5 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (30.00%) Scrum
5 3 (30.00%) Sprint Retrospective
6 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C#
1 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
2 4 (40.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Foundry
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow