Backlog Refinement Jobs in Scotland

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Refinement over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 209 246
Rank change year-on-year -63 +37 -56
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 10 6 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.15% 0.14% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.15% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile - £48,053 £45,950
25th Percentile £52,000 £56,381 £53,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,518 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% -13.55% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £64,654 £80,000
90th Percentile £74,200 - -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,518 £65,000
% change year-on-year +23.93% -6.90% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Backlog Refinement 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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,115 4,054 5,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.41% 94.68% 91.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,571 2,031 2,895
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in Scotland

Backlog Refinement
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Backlog Refinement in Scotland

Backlog Refinement
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Backlog Refinement in Scotland

Backlog Refinement
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Refinement within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 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
Glasgow -92 6 £54,000 -
Edinburgh +25 4 £82,000 +35.50%
Backlog Refinement
UK

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (60.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Miro
2 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Scrum Master
2 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (10.00%) CSS
1 1 (10.00%) CSS3
1 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) HTML5
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (90.00%) Scrum
3 6 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
3 6 (60.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 5 (50.00%) Burndown Charts
5 4 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (40.00%) Business Analysis
5 4 (40.00%) Business Process Modelling
5 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (40.00%) Epics
5 4 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
5 4 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (40.00%) Requirements Workshops
5 4 (40.00%) SDLC
5 4 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (40.00%) UML
5 4 (40.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C#
1 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (20.00%) Cadence
3 1 (10.00%) Google