Product Backlog Jobs

Product Backlogs
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Product Backlog skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Product Backlog over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 514 404 368
Rank change year-on-year -110 -36 +110
Permanent jobs citing Product Backlog 452 729 1,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.77% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.81% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 219 393 885
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,294 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £60,249 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% -7.31% +18.18%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Backlog 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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £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%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in the UK

Product Backlog
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Product Backlog in the UK

Product Backlog
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Backlog over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Product Backlog in the UK

Product Backlog
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Backlog within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 -132 367 £62,500 - 83
UK excluding London -109 311 £57,500 +4.55% 54
Work from Home -148 111 £57,500 -4.17% 46
London +9 106 £72,500 +3.57% 35
South West +26 80 £58,750 +9.30% 6
South East -83 64 £57,500 +15.00% 15
Midlands -58 56 £49,750 -9.55% 14
Scotland -35 48 £52,500 -12.50% 6
North of England -61 41 £65,000 +13.04% 7
West Midlands -60 27 £60,319 +26.99% 9
East Midlands -25 26 £37,500 -31.82% 5
North East 0 14 £47,500 -26.92%
North West -48 14 £62,500 +8.70% 5
Wales +16 13 £55,000 -15.38% 2
Yorkshire +2 13 £65,000 +0.75% 2
East of England -21 9 £48,750 -11.36% 5

Product Backlog
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 70 (15.49%) Confluence
2 12 (2.65%) CMS
3 4 (0.88%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 15 (3.32%) Sketch
2 11 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.33%) Trello
4 3 (0.66%) InVision
4 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (3.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.44%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
3 2 (0.44%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.22%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 120 (26.55%) Azure
2 91 (20.13%) Azure DevOps
3 78 (17.26%) AWS
4 73 (16.15%) GCP
5 31 (6.86%) Power Platform
6 23 (5.09%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (4.87%) SaaS
8 17 (3.76%) Figma
9 13 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (2.65%) Power Automate
11 10 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (2.21%) PowerApps
12 8 (1.77%) GitHub
12 8 (1.77%) Miro
13 4 (0.88%) Google Analytics
14 3 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
15 2 (0.44%) Asana
15 2 (0.44%) Basecamp
15 2 (0.44%) SAP Commerce Cloud
15 2 (0.44%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.66%) WebEx
2 1 (0.22%) Internet
2 1 (0.22%) SAN
2 1 (0.22%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (16.81%) Data Warehouse
2 72 (15.93%) BigQuery
2 72 (15.93%) Looker
3 18 (3.98%) Power BI
4 12 (2.65%) Relational Database
4 12 (2.65%) Tableau
5 7 (1.55%) Big Data
6 6 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (1.33%) Star Schema
7 5 (1.11%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.44%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.22%) Metadata
9 1 (0.22%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 114 (25.22%) JIRA
2 4 (0.88%) Eclipse
2 4 (0.88%) Git
2 4 (0.88%) IntelliJ
2 4 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (0.44%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.22%) Selenium
4 1 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 155 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 145 (32.08%) Analytical Skills
3 131 (28.98%) Finance
4 89 (19.69%) Marketing
5 72 (15.93%) Billing
6 63 (13.94%) Law
7 57 (12.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (6.19%) Retail
9 17 (3.76%) Banking
10 16 (3.54%) Public Sector
11 13 (2.88%) Games
11 13 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (2.43%) Legal
12 11 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.55%) Tech for Good
14 5 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.88%) Digital Health
15 4 (0.88%) Digital Healthcare
15 4 (0.88%) Health Technology
16 3 (0.66%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 109 (24.12%) Product Owner
2 80 (17.70%) Product Manager
3 75 (16.59%) Data Manager
4 73 (16.15%) Engineering Manager
5 61 (13.50%) Lead
6 46 (10.18%) Analyst
7 38 (8.41%) Senior
8 35 (7.74%) Business Analyst
9 27 (5.97%) Consultant
10 22 (4.87%) Functional Consultant
11 16 (3.54%) Agile Coach
12 15 (3.32%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 14 (3.10%) Developer
14 12 (2.65%) Scrum Master
15 10 (2.21%) Senior Manager
15 10 (2.21%) Technical Product Owner
16 9 (1.99%) CRM Consultant
16 9 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
16 9 (1.99%) Senior Analyst
16 9 (1.99%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.88%) CSS
1 13 (2.88%) HTML
2 12 (2.65%) .NET
2 12 (2.65%) React
3 7 (1.55%) AngularJS
3 7 (1.55%) REST
4 5 (1.11%) Spring
4 5 (1.11%) Web Services
5 4 (0.88%) Servlets
5 4 (0.88%) SOAP
6 3 (0.66%) LESS
6 3 (0.66%) Sass
6 3 (0.66%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 2 (0.44%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.44%) ADO
7 2 (0.44%) JSON
7 2 (0.44%) XML
8 1 (0.22%) Node.js
8 1 (0.22%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 277 (61.28%) Product Ownership
2 21 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 13 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (2.88%) Mobile App
3 13 (2.88%) PMI
4 10 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (1.55%) Onboarding
5 7 (1.55%) Robotics
6 6 (1.33%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.33%) Low-Code
6 6 (1.33%) Reinsurance
6 6 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (0.88%) Housing Association
8 4 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (0.66%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.33%) Android
1 6 (1.33%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.88%) AIX
2 4 (0.88%) Linux
2 4 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (87.39%) Agile
2 245 (54.20%) Scrum
3 217 (48.01%) Roadmaps
4 194 (42.92%) User Stories
5 188 (41.59%) Backlog Management
6 166 (36.73%) DevOps
7 163 (36.06%) Problem-Solving
8 136 (30.09%) Product Roadmap
9 129 (28.54%) Product Vision
10 126 (27.88%) Project Management
11 99 (21.90%) CI/CD
12 86 (19.03%) User Experience
13 84 (18.58%) Mentoring
14 83 (18.36%) ETL
14 83 (18.36%) Line Management
15 82 (18.14%) Acceptance Criteria
15 82 (18.14%) Business Strategy
16 81 (17.92%) Backlog Prioritisation
17 79 (17.48%) Data Modelling
18 77 (17.04%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (7.96%) SQL
2 15 (3.32%) Python
3 14 (3.10%) JavaScript
4 13 (2.88%) Java
5 10 (2.21%) C#
6 6 (1.33%) R
6 6 (1.33%) T-SQL
7 4 (0.88%) Bicep
7 4 (0.88%) Go
7 4 (0.88%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.88%) Rust
7 4 (0.88%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.66%) Scala
9 2 (0.44%) C
9 2 (0.44%) Embedded C
9 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.22%) ABAP
10 1 (0.22%) C++
10 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 71 (15.71%) Degree
2 24 (5.31%) CSPO
3 22 (4.87%) Security Cleared
4 14 (3.10%) Master's Degree
5 13 (2.88%) PMI Certification
6 9 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.55%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.55%) SC Cleared
8 6 (1.33%) IIBA
9 4 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.66%) MBA
11 2 (0.44%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.44%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (22.79%) QA
2 13 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.88%) WCAG
4 2 (0.44%) AUTOSAR
4 2 (0.44%) GDPR
4 2 (0.44%) SLA
5 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (1.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.22%) Grafana
2 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 76 (16.81%) Google
2 50 (11.06%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.88%) ServiceNow
4 12 (2.65%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.33%) Cadence
6 5 (1.11%) SAP
7 4 (0.88%) Intel
7 4 (0.88%) Marketo
8 3 (0.66%) Alteryx
8 3 (0.66%) Mercator
8 3 (0.66%) Oracle
9 2 (0.44%) Adobe
9 2 (0.44%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.44%) Civica
9 2 (0.44%) NEC
9 2 (0.44%) Pega
9 2 (0.44%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.22%) Cisco
10 1 (0.22%) Facebook
10 1 (0.22%) ForgeRock