Backlog Prioritisation Jobs

Backlog Prioritisation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Backlog Prioritisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Prioritisation 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 648 547 514
Rank change year-on-year -101 -33 +107
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 268 449 1,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.47% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.50% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 141 270 437
10th Percentile £47,231 £39,294 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,805 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.01% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,419 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £117,236 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £53,300
% change year-on-year +18.18% +3.19% +6.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Backlog Prioritisation 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%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
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 Prioritisation 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 -97 244 £73,805 +28.36% 53
UK excluding London -154 165 £65,000 +18.18% 34
Work from Home -68 102 £70,000 +21.74% 30
London +85 96 £80,000 +3.23% 21
North of England -10 51 £70,000 +22.81% 10
South East -42 43 £52,500 +66.67% 8
Midlands -36 32 £65,000 +36.84% 8
Yorkshire +58 27 £70,000 -15.48% 2
East Midlands -15 17 - - 3
North West -48 17 £73,805 +34.19% 7
West Midlands -40 15 £65,000 +44.44% 5
South West -44 15 £45,000 -31.65% 2
Scotland -80 10 £57,000 -31.17% 3
North East -4 7 £47,500 - 1
Wales +13 5 £45,000 -21.74% 2
East of England -22 5 £51,250 -6.82% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 - -

Backlog Prioritisation
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 27 (10.07%) Confluence
2 6 (2.24%) CMS
3 2 (0.75%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (3.36%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (7.09%) Power Platform
2 15 (5.60%) SaaS
3 10 (3.73%) Azure
4 7 (2.61%) AWS
4 7 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (2.61%) GCP
5 5 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (1.87%) Serverless
6 4 (1.49%) Amazon Cognito
6 4 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (1.49%) Boomi
6 4 (1.49%) Datadog
6 4 (1.49%) dbt
6 4 (1.49%) Fivetran
6 4 (1.49%) Prefect
6 4 (1.49%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 4 (1.49%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.12%) GitHub
8 2 (0.75%) Basecamp
8 2 (0.75%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.12%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.09%) Power BI
2 7 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.87%) RDBMS
3 5 (1.87%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.87%) Tableau
4 4 (1.49%) Parquet
5 3 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.12%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.37%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.37%) Big Data
7 1 (0.37%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 42 (15.67%) JIRA
2 4 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.12%) IBM UrbanCode
3 3 (1.12%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.12%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (1.12%) Toad
4 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.37%) GitLab
General
1 73 (27.24%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (12.31%) Marketing
4 29 (10.82%) Finance
5 27 (10.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (8.58%) Retail
7 16 (5.97%) Legal
8 14 (5.22%) Brand Awareness
8 14 (5.22%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.99%) Publishing
10 7 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.87%) Back Office
11 5 (1.87%) Banking
12 4 (1.49%) Automotive
12 4 (1.49%) Law
13 3 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.75%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.37%) Advertising
15 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (23.51%) Product Owner
2 48 (17.91%) Senior
3 42 (15.67%) Analyst
4 40 (14.93%) Product Manager
5 33 (12.31%) Senior User Researcher
5 33 (12.31%) User Researcher
6 28 (10.45%) Lead
7 18 (6.72%) Systems Analyst
8 17 (6.34%) Business Analyst
8 17 (6.34%) Operations Analyst
8 17 (6.34%) Scrum Master
9 16 (5.97%) Lead Product Manager
10 14 (5.22%) Customer Experience Manager
11 13 (4.85%) Delivery Manager
12 10 (3.73%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 8 (2.99%) Project Manager
13 8 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
14 7 (2.61%) E-Commerce Executive
14 7 (2.61%) Engineering Manager
15 5 (1.87%) E-Commerce Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.10%) Web Services
2 7 (2.61%) React
3 5 (1.87%) .NET
4 4 (1.49%) JSON
4 4 (1.49%) RESTful
5 2 (0.75%) CSS
5 2 (0.75%) HTML
6 1 (0.37%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.37%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 148 (55.22%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.60%) Onboarding
3 13 (4.85%) Data Structures
4 11 (4.10%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.73%) Mobile App
6 9 (3.36%) PMI
7 7 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.49%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.49%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.75%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.37%) LIMS
11 1 (0.37%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.37%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.37%) Social Media
11 1 (0.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.49%) Android
1 4 (1.49%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.37%) Linux
2 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (82.09%) Agile
2 113 (42.16%) Roadmaps
3 97 (36.19%) Scrum
4 84 (31.34%) Product Roadmap
5 83 (30.97%) Product Vision
6 81 (30.22%) Product Backlog
7 69 (25.75%) Customer Experience
8 61 (22.76%) Project Management
9 58 (21.64%) Backlog Refinement
10 57 (21.27%) User Stories
11 56 (20.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 51 (19.03%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 48 (17.91%) Mentoring
13 48 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
14 47 (17.54%) Empathy Maps
15 46 (17.16%) Actionable Insight
15 46 (17.16%) Stakeholder Management
16 45 (16.79%) User Research
17 39 (14.55%) Product Strategy
17 39 (14.55%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 61 (22.76%) SQL
2 14 (5.22%) C
3 9 (3.36%) Python
4 7 (2.61%) TypeScript
5 4 (1.49%) Scala
6 3 (1.12%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.12%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.75%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.37%) Bash
8 1 (0.37%) Groovy
8 1 (0.37%) R
8 1 (0.37%) Tcl
8 1 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (18.66%) Degree
2 46 (17.16%) SC Cleared
2 46 (17.16%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.73%) Master's Degree
3 10 (3.73%) MBA
4 9 (3.36%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (0.75%) CSPO
7 1 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (13.81%) Accessibility
2 23 (8.58%) QA
3 13 (4.85%) PMO
4 1 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.37%) GDPR
4 1 (0.37%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (0.37%) Ansible
1 1 (0.37%) Grafana
1 1 (0.37%) Kibana
1 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (5.60%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.48%) Cadence
3 7 (2.61%) Genesys
3 7 (2.61%) Google
3 7 (2.61%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.87%) SAP
4 5 (1.87%) YouTube
5 4 (1.49%) Dataiku
6 3 (1.12%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.12%) Oracle
7 2 (0.75%) Adobe
7 2 (0.75%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.75%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.37%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.37%) Okta