Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Backlog Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Management over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 521 434
Rank change year-on-year -63 -87 +88
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Management 318 536 1,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.54% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.56% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 194 295 732
10th Percentile £46,199 £45,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £51,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £117,236 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.31% +18.18% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Backlog Management 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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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% +10.53%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in the UK

Backlog Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Backlog Management in the UK

Backlog Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Backlog Management in the UK

Backlog Management
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Management within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 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 -39 291 £65,000 -5.80% 85
UK excluding London -111 177 £57,000 -12.31% 58
London +48 127 £80,000 +14.29% 32
Work from Home -46 112 £62,500 -13.79% 37
South West +12 61 £57,500 -17.86% 7
South East -21 42 £61,250 +2.08% 21
North of England -28 36 £60,000 -28.57% 13
North West -13 21 £55,000 - 5
Midlands -37 20 £57,659 +15.32% 8
West Midlands -19 11 £60,319 +26.99% 7
Scotland -84 11 £52,500 -30.62% 5
Yorkshire +25 9 £60,000 -32.19% 6
East Midlands -16 9 £37,500 -31.82% 1
North East +3 6 £70,000 +4.48% 2
East of England -1 4 £47,500 +5.56% 4
Wales +11 3 £60,000 - 1

Backlog Management
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 45 (14.15%) Confluence
2 21 (6.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.26%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.63%) CMS
5 1 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 7 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.20%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.63%) Trello
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.31%) InVision
5 1 (0.31%) Sketch
5 1 (0.31%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 3 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.63%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.31%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 120 (37.74%) Azure
2 89 (27.99%) Azure DevOps
3 86 (27.04%) AWS
4 74 (23.27%) GCP
5 34 (10.69%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (8.18%) Power Platform
7 18 (5.66%) Entra ID
8 14 (4.40%) PowerApps
9 13 (4.09%) Power Automate
10 12 (3.77%) SaaS
11 11 (3.46%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (3.46%) Serverless
12 10 (3.14%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (2.52%) GitHub
14 7 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (2.20%) Miro
14 7 (2.20%) npm
14 7 (2.20%) Yarn
15 4 (1.26%) dbt
15 4 (1.26%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.26%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (24.21%) Data Warehouse
2 76 (23.90%) Looker
3 72 (22.64%) BigQuery
4 23 (7.23%) Power BI
5 10 (3.14%) Tableau
6 6 (1.89%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.26%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.26%) HDInsight
7 4 (1.26%) Parquet
7 4 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.26%) QlikView
7 4 (1.26%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.63%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.31%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 99 (31.13%) JIRA
2 8 (2.52%) Selenium
2 8 (2.52%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.31%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.31%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 128 (40.25%) Analytical Skills
2 112 (35.22%) Social Skills
3 76 (23.90%) Billing
4 58 (18.24%) Finance
5 24 (7.55%) Marketing
6 16 (5.03%) Banking
7 11 (3.46%) Fire and Rescue
7 11 (3.46%) Retail
8 10 (3.14%) Electronics
8 10 (3.14%) Police
9 8 (2.52%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.57%) Games
11 5 (1.57%) Health Technology
11 5 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.57%) Local Government
11 5 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.26%) Digital Health
12 4 (1.26%) Digital Healthcare
12 4 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (25.47%) Data Manager
2 72 (22.64%) Engineering Manager
3 67 (21.07%) Product Owner
4 42 (13.21%) Analyst
5 37 (11.64%) Lead
5 37 (11.64%) Product Manager
6 22 (6.92%) Developer
7 20 (6.29%) Senior
8 18 (5.66%) Business Analyst
9 15 (4.72%) Test Analyst
10 11 (3.46%) Applications Developer
10 11 (3.46%) Senior Applications Developer
10 11 (3.46%) Senior Developer
11 9 (2.83%) Scrum Master
12 8 (2.52%) Technical Product Owner
13 7 (2.20%) Delivery Manager
13 7 (2.20%) Infrastructure Manager
14 5 (1.57%) Digital Product Owner
14 5 (1.57%) Junior Developer
14 5 (1.57%) Product Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.46%) JSON
2 8 (2.52%) Web Services
3 7 (2.20%) Node.js
3 7 (2.20%) OpenAPI
3 7 (2.20%) Swagger
3 7 (2.20%) Vue
3 7 (2.20%) VuePress
4 4 (1.26%) .NET
4 4 (1.26%) RESTful
4 4 (1.26%) XML
4 4 (1.26%) YAML
5 2 (0.63%) ADO
5 2 (0.63%) CSS
5 2 (0.63%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 193 (60.69%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.66%) Clustering
3 6 (1.89%) Reinsurance
4 4 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.26%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (0.94%) Blockchain
5 3 (0.94%) Derivative
5 3 (0.94%) Housing Association
5 3 (0.94%) Management Information System
5 3 (0.94%) NHS
5 3 (0.94%) PMI
5 3 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (0.63%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.63%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.31%) CMDB
7 1 (0.31%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.66%) Windows
1 18 (5.66%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.63%) Android
2 2 (0.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (78.30%) Agile
2 192 (60.38%) Product Backlog
3 180 (56.60%) Scrum
4 127 (39.94%) Problem-Solving
5 124 (38.99%) Roadmaps
6 118 (37.11%) DevOps
7 105 (33.02%) User Stories
8 94 (29.56%) Project Management
9 87 (27.36%) CI/CD
10 82 (25.79%) Line Management
10 82 (25.79%) Product Roadmap
11 79 (24.84%) Business Strategy
11 79 (24.84%) Data Modelling
12 77 (24.21%) Data Engineering
13 76 (23.90%) ETL
14 72 (22.64%) Platform Engineering
15 68 (21.38%) Acceptance Criteria
16 54 (16.98%) User Experience
17 49 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
18 47 (14.78%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 27 (8.49%) SQL
2 20 (6.29%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.83%) JavaScript
4 7 (2.20%) Go
4 7 (2.20%) Scala
5 6 (1.89%) C#
6 2 (0.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 43 (13.52%) Degree
2 12 (3.77%) CSPO
3 10 (3.14%) Security Cleared
4 6 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.89%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.26%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.94%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.94%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.63%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.63%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (34.28%) QA
2 12 (3.77%) GDPR
3 4 (1.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (0.94%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.94%) SLA
5 2 (0.63%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.31%) EMIR
6 1 (0.31%) MiFID
6 1 (0.31%) PMO
6 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (6.29%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.66%) VMware ESXi
3 14 (4.40%) Firmware
4 10 (3.14%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (2.20%) Docker
6 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (5.66%) Microsoft Clustering
1 18 (5.66%) Microsoft Intune
1 18 (5.66%) Single Sign-On
1 18 (5.66%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 79 (24.84%) Google
2 24 (7.55%) ServiceNow
3 23 (7.23%) Microsoft
4 22 (6.92%) VMware
5 20 (6.29%) Sun
6 18 (5.66%) Commvault
7 4 (1.26%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.26%) Cadence
7 4 (1.26%) Databricks
7 4 (1.26%) Dataiku
7 4 (1.26%) Intel
8 3 (0.94%) Adobe
8 3 (0.94%) Freshdesk
8 3 (0.94%) Mercator
8 3 (0.94%) SAP
9 2 (0.63%) NEC
9 2 (0.63%) Oracle
9 2 (0.63%) Pega
9 2 (0.63%) Twitter
9 2 (0.63%) Veeam