Sprint Planning Job Trends in the South East

Sprint Planning
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Sprint Planning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 229 261
Rank change year-on-year +9 +32 +15
Permanent jobs citing Sprint Planning 50 77 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.48% 0.86% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.97% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 40 30 24
10th Percentile £44,750 £45,000 £43,300
25th Percentile £47,188 £56,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +23.81% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68,125 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,300 £72,625 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year - +7.76% -7.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,324 7,915 7,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.21% 88.16% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,975 3,773 5,421
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
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 South East

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

Sprint Planning job vacancy trend in the South East

Sprint Planning
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Sprint Planning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Sprint Planning

Sprint Planning
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Sprint Planning in the South East over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Sprint Planning in the South East

Sprint Planning
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sprint Planning within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 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
Thames Valley +18 25 £50,000 -9.09% 17
Buckinghamshire +26 19 £49,000 -10.91% 8
Hampshire +12 8 £65,000 -9.72% 9
West Sussex +6 6 £60,000 +20.00% 8
Berkshire -12 5 £56,000 +0.90% 6
Kent - 5 £50,000 - 6
Surrey -18 4 £43,750 -32.69% 7
Sussex +1 2 £75,000 - 1
Oxfordshire +14 1 £50,000 - 3
Sprint Planning
England

Sprint Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (18.00%) Confluence
2 4 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.00%) Azure
2 8 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (14.00%) AWS
4 4 (8.00%) GitHub
4 4 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.00%) Power Automate
5 3 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (6.00%) Miro
5 3 (6.00%) Nutanix
6 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.00%) SaaS
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.00%) DHCP
1 6 (12.00%) DNS
1 6 (12.00%) Firewall
1 6 (12.00%) NAS
1 6 (12.00%) SAN
1 6 (12.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (12.00%) VLAN
1 6 (12.00%) Wireless
2 4 (8.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (22.00%) JIRA
2 6 (12.00%) Selenium
3 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (8.00%) Cypress.io
4 4 (8.00%) Git
4 4 (8.00%) GitLab
4 4 (8.00%) WebDriver
5 2 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (4.00%) Robot Framework
5 2 (4.00%) TestRail
6 1 (2.00%) JUnit
General
1 31 (62.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (12.00%) Finance
5 5 (10.00%) Law
6 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.00%) Aerospace
7 2 (4.00%) Health Technology
7 2 (4.00%) Tech for Good
8 1 (2.00%) Banking
8 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.00%) Front Office
8 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Legal
8 1 (2.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Developer
1 12 (24.00%) Senior
2 8 (16.00%) Project Manager
3 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Senior Manager
3 6 (12.00%) Software Developer
4 5 (10.00%) Product Manager
5 4 (8.00%) IT Manager
5 4 (8.00%) IT Project Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Lead
5 4 (8.00%) Unified Communications Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Automation Consultant
6 3 (6.00%) Consultant
6 3 (6.00%) Developer in Test
6 3 (6.00%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Consultant
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Project Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) .NET
1 5 (10.00%) REST
2 4 (8.00%) Playwright
2 4 (8.00%) SOAP
2 4 (8.00%) Web Services
3 3 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (6.00%) Spring
3 3 (6.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.00%) OAuth
4 2 (4.00%) React
4 2 (4.00%) React Native
5 1 (2.00%) JSON
5 1 (2.00%) OpenID
5 1 (2.00%) RESTful
5 1 (2.00%) SAML
5 1 (2.00%) WCF
5 1 (2.00%) WinForms
5 1 (2.00%) XML
5 1 (2.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.00%) Product Ownership
2 8 (16.00%) Management Information System
3 4 (8.00%) Digital Media
3 4 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (8.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (6.00%) Life Science
4 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.00%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.00%) CMDB
6 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.00%) Android
2 2 (4.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (96.00%) Agile
2 23 (46.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 22 (44.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (38.00%) Scrum
5 13 (26.00%) Backlog Refinement
6 12 (24.00%) DevOps
7 11 (22.00%) CI/CD
8 10 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (20.00%) Roadmaps
8 10 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (18.00%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (18.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 9 (18.00%) Test Automation
10 8 (16.00%) Business Analysis
10 8 (16.00%) Computer Science
10 8 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (16.00%) Mentoring
11 7 (14.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.00%) C#
2 7 (14.00%) Java
3 4 (8.00%) SQL
4 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.00%) Python
5 2 (4.00%) Bash
6 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (28.00%) Degree
2 8 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.00%) Master's Degree
5 3 (6.00%) Azure Certification
5 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.00%) ISTQB
6 2 (4.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) QA
2 4 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.00%) PMO
4 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.00%) GDPR
4 1 (2.00%) ITGC
4 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
1 6 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (12.00%) vSphere
2 3 (6.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (14.00%) Terraform
2 5 (10.00%) Ansible
3 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.00%) ZABBIX
4 2 (4.00%) Grafana
4 2 (4.00%) Nessus
4 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (34.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.00%) LogicMonitor
2 6 (12.00%) Palo Alto
2 6 (12.00%) VMware
3 4 (8.00%) Civica
4 3 (6.00%) Oracle
5 2 (4.00%) Databricks
5 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow