Backlog Refinement Jobs

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Backlog Refinement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Refinement over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 782 723 628
Rank change year-on-year -59 -95 +91
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 140 224 829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.24% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.25% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 61 128 294
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,258 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,000 £52,294 £49,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,518 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.93% -6.90% +30.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £75,313 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.09% - +17.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Backlog Refinement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Backlog Refinement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in the UK

Backlog Refinement
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backlog Refinement.

Salary trend for Backlog Refinement in the UK

Backlog Refinement
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Backlog Refinement in the UK

Backlog Refinement
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Refinement within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. 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
England -57 121 £76,250 +22.00% 27
UK excluding London -118 80 £54,000 -6.09% 16
London +41 58 £85,000 +13.33% 10
Work from Home -21 31 £57,500 - 17
Midlands -52 20 £55,000 -12.00% 5
North of England +10 19 £47,500 -17.39% 4
South West -28 12 £57,500 +4.42% 3
East Midlands - 12 - -
North West -29 10 - - 4
South East -32 10 £58,750 +14.63% 4
Scotland -59 10 £54,000 -10.77%
West Midlands -43 8 £55,000 -12.00% 5
North East -11 5 £47,500 -24.00%
Yorkshire +66 4 £50,000 -2.44%
Wales +12 3 - -
East of England -12 3 £45,000 -30.77%
Northern Ireland - 3 - -

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 56 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (0.71%) CMS
2 1 (0.71%) Umbraco
Applications
1 24 (17.14%) MS Visio
2 11 (7.86%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (4.29%) Trello
4 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.86%) Miro
2 16 (11.43%) Azure
3 10 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.71%) AWS
5 5 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.14%) SaaS
7 2 (1.43%) GCP
7 2 (1.43%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.14%) Power BI
2 8 (5.71%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.29%) Big Data
3 6 (4.29%) Snowflake Schema
3 6 (4.29%) Star Schema
3 6 (4.29%) Tableau
4 3 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.43%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.71%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.71%) Metadata
6 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.71%) MySQL
6 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 74 (52.86%) JIRA
2 2 (1.43%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.71%) Appium
3 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.71%) Git
3 1 (0.71%) JUnit
3 1 (0.71%) Mockito
3 1 (0.71%) Postman
3 1 (0.71%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.71%) Selenium
3 1 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.71%) WebDriver
General
1 53 (37.86%) Social Skills
2 35 (25.00%) Finance
3 32 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.43%) Retail
5 8 (5.71%) Marketing
6 4 (2.86%) Banking
6 4 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Automotive
7 3 (2.14%) Games
7 3 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.43%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.43%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.71%) Front Office
9 1 (0.71%) Law
9 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (25.71%) Analyst
2 35 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 27 (19.29%) Senior
4 25 (17.86%) Senior Analyst
5 24 (17.14%) Product Owner
5 24 (17.14%) Senior Business Analyst
6 17 (12.14%) Product Manager
6 17 (12.14%) Scrum Master
7 11 (7.86%) Lead
8 8 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
9 7 (5.00%) E-Commerce Executive
10 6 (4.29%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (4.29%) Technical Business Analyst
11 5 (3.57%) Developer
11 5 (3.57%) E-Commerce Tester
11 5 (3.57%) QA Tester
11 5 (3.57%) Tester
12 4 (2.86%) Software Manager
13 3 (2.14%) Software Team Leader
13 3 (2.14%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.14%) RESTful
2 2 (1.43%) .NET
2 2 (1.43%) React
3 1 (0.71%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.71%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.71%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.71%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (0.71%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (0.71%) CSS
3 1 (0.71%) CSS3
3 1 (0.71%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.71%) HTML
3 1 (0.71%) HTML5
3 1 (0.71%) Murex MxML
3 1 (0.71%) REST
3 1 (0.71%) Spring
3 1 (0.71%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.71%) Swagger
3 1 (0.71%) Vue
3 1 (0.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 63 (45.00%) Product Ownership
2 18 (12.86%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.00%) Reinsurance
4 3 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.14%) Blockchain
4 3 (2.14%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.14%) Derivative
4 3 (2.14%) Over-the-Top Content
4 3 (2.14%) Virtual Reality
5 2 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.71%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.71%) Equities
6 1 (0.71%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.71%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.71%) PMI
6 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.14%) Unix
2 1 (0.71%) Android
2 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (89.29%) Agile
2 91 (65.00%) Scrum
3 68 (48.57%) Acceptance Criteria
4 56 (40.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 56 (40.00%) User Stories
5 55 (39.29%) Epics
6 48 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (32.86%) Product Backlog
8 43 (30.71%) Project Management
9 42 (30.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 38 (27.14%) Roadmaps
11 37 (26.43%) Actionable Insight
11 37 (26.43%) Requirements Gathering
12 35 (25.00%) Business Analysis
12 35 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 34 (24.29%) Product Roadmap
14 33 (23.57%) DevOps
15 31 (22.14%) Sprint Planning
16 28 (20.00%) Backlog Management
16 28 (20.00%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 22 (15.71%) SQL
2 8 (5.71%) Python
3 7 (5.00%) R
4 6 (4.29%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.14%) C#
5 3 (2.14%) Java
6 2 (1.43%) Go
6 2 (1.43%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 48 (34.29%) Degree
2 44 (31.43%) Security Cleared
3 38 (27.14%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.43%) Master's Degree
5 7 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.29%) IIBA
7 3 (2.14%) CSPO
8 2 (1.43%) MBA
9 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.57%) PMO
2 11 (7.86%) QA
3 3 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.71%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (2.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (10.71%) Cadence
1 15 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.57%) Atlassian
2 5 (3.57%) Oracle
3 4 (2.86%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.43%) SAP
5 1 (0.71%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.71%) Google
5 1 (0.71%) Murex
5 1 (0.71%) Progress
5 1 (0.71%) Reuters
5 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.71%) Sybase