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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 504 405 371
Rank change year-on-year -99 -34 +95
Permanent jobs citing Product Backlog 455 793 1,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.80% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.83% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 224 397 870
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,294 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,249 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.74% -7.31% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,125 £80,000 £76,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £88,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £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 85,150 95,114 154,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.20% 95.57% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 59,851 56,202 82,517
10th Percentile £29,079 £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% +10.43%

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 19 May 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 19 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 -108 374 £62,500 - 92
UK excluding London -104 313 £57,500 - 58
London -16 109 £72,500 +3.57% 42
Work from Home -148 108 £57,500 -4.17% 51
South West +40 78 £60,000 +11.63% 9
South East -98 63 £57,500 +4.55% 20
Midlands -52 58 £50,500 -8.18% 7
Scotland -45 47 £52,500 -12.50% 3
North of England -54 47 £65,000 +13.04% 13
West Midlands -39 28 £58,909 +20.84% 6
East Midlands -16 27 £37,500 -31.82% 1
Yorkshire +14 18 £65,000 +1.52% 6
North West -37 17 £62,500 +8.70% 6
Wales +12 12 £55,000 -18.52% 1
North East +6 12 £47,500 -26.92% 1
East of England -21 8 £48,750 -11.36% 6

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 64 (14.07%) Confluence
2 10 (2.20%) CMS
3 5 (1.10%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 15 (3.30%) Sketch
2 11 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.32%) Trello
4 3 (0.66%) InVision
4 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.44%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (0.44%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 120 (26.37%) Azure
2 89 (19.56%) Azure DevOps
3 80 (17.58%) AWS
4 75 (16.48%) GCP
5 32 (7.03%) Power Platform
6 22 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (4.62%) SaaS
8 18 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (3.74%) Figma
10 13 (2.86%) Power Automate
11 11 (2.42%) PowerApps
12 10 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (1.76%) GitHub
13 8 (1.76%) Miro
14 4 (0.88%) Google Analytics
15 3 (0.66%) Azure Data Factory
16 2 (0.44%) Asana
16 2 (0.44%) Basecamp
16 2 (0.44%) SAP Commerce Cloud
16 2 (0.44%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.10%) Unified Communications
2 4 (0.88%) WebEx
3 1 (0.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (16.70%) Data Warehouse
2 72 (15.82%) BigQuery
2 72 (15.82%) Looker
3 18 (3.96%) Power BI
4 13 (2.86%) Tableau
5 11 (2.42%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.54%) Big Data
7 6 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (1.32%) Star Schema
8 5 (1.10%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.44%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.22%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 110 (24.18%) 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
1 150 (32.97%) Social Skills
2 149 (32.75%) Analytical Skills
3 134 (29.45%) Finance
4 86 (18.90%) Marketing
5 72 (15.82%) Billing
6 63 (13.85%) Law
7 58 (12.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (5.71%) Retail
9 16 (3.52%) Banking
9 16 (3.52%) Public Sector
10 13 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.64%) Games
12 11 (2.42%) Legal
13 10 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.76%) Tech for Good
15 5 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.88%) Digital Health
16 4 (0.88%) Digital Healthcare
16 4 (0.88%) Health Technology
17 3 (0.66%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 112 (24.62%) Product Owner
2 79 (17.36%) Product Manager
3 77 (16.92%) Engineering Manager
4 75 (16.48%) Data Manager
5 61 (13.41%) Lead
6 47 (10.33%) Analyst
7 37 (8.13%) Senior
8 35 (7.69%) Business Analyst
9 26 (5.71%) Consultant
10 21 (4.62%) Functional Consultant
11 16 (3.52%) Agile Coach
12 14 (3.08%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 13 (2.86%) Developer
14 12 (2.64%) Scrum Master
15 10 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
16 9 (1.98%) Digital Product Owner
16 9 (1.98%) Senior Manager
16 9 (1.98%) Technical Product Owner
17 8 (1.76%) Digital Product Manager
17 8 (1.76%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.86%) CSS
1 13 (2.86%) HTML
2 12 (2.64%) React
3 11 (2.42%) .NET
4 7 (1.54%) AngularJS
4 7 (1.54%) REST
5 5 (1.10%) Spring
5 5 (1.10%) Web Services
6 4 (0.88%) Servlets
6 4 (0.88%) SOAP
7 3 (0.66%) LESS
7 3 (0.66%) Sass
7 3 (0.66%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 2 (0.44%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.44%) ADO
8 2 (0.44%) JSON
8 2 (0.44%) XML
9 1 (0.22%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.22%) Node.js
9 1 (0.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 279 (61.32%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.05%) Management Information System
3 13 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (2.86%) PMI
4 12 (2.64%) Mobile App
5 11 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.20%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (1.54%) Low-Code
7 7 (1.54%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.54%) Robotics
8 6 (1.32%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.10%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.10%) Digital Signage
9 5 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.88%) Housing Association
10 4 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.66%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.10%) Android
1 5 (1.10%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.88%) AIX
2 4 (0.88%) Linux
2 4 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (86.59%) Agile
2 242 (53.19%) Scrum
3 221 (48.57%) Roadmaps
4 198 (43.52%) User Stories
5 194 (42.64%) Backlog Management
6 163 (35.82%) DevOps
6 163 (35.82%) Problem-Solving
7 139 (30.55%) Product Roadmap
8 134 (29.45%) Product Vision
9 132 (29.01%) Project Management
10 99 (21.76%) CI/CD
11 86 (18.90%) Mentoring
12 85 (18.68%) User Experience
13 84 (18.46%) Acceptance Criteria
13 84 (18.46%) Backlog Prioritisation
14 83 (18.24%) Business Strategy
14 83 (18.24%) Line Management
15 82 (18.02%) ETL
16 79 (17.36%) Data Modelling
17 78 (17.14%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 38 (8.35%) SQL
2 14 (3.08%) JavaScript
2 14 (3.08%) Python
3 13 (2.86%) Java
4 9 (1.98%) C#
5 6 (1.32%) R
5 6 (1.32%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.88%) Bicep
6 4 (0.88%) Go
6 4 (0.88%) PowerShell
6 4 (0.88%) Rust
6 4 (0.88%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.66%) Scala
8 2 (0.44%) C
8 2 (0.44%) Embedded C
8 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 69 (15.16%) Degree
2 23 (5.05%) CSPO
3 22 (4.84%) Security Cleared
4 13 (2.86%) Master's Degree
4 13 (2.86%) PMI Certification
5 9 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.54%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.54%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.32%) IIBA
8 4 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.66%) MBA
10 2 (0.44%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.44%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (22.86%) QA
2 11 (2.42%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.66%) 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 (1.32%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.32%) 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 (16.70%) Google
2 55 (12.09%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.86%) ServiceNow
4 8 (1.76%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.32%) Cadence
6 5 (1.10%) Cisco
6 5 (1.10%) Intel
7 4 (0.88%) Alteryx
7 4 (0.88%) Marketo
7 4 (0.88%) SAP
8 3 (0.66%) Mercator
8 3 (0.66%) Oracle
9 2 (0.44%) Civica
9 2 (0.44%) NEC
9 2 (0.44%) Pega
9 2 (0.44%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.44%) Veeam
9 2 (0.44%) VMware
10 1 (0.22%) Adobe
10 1 (0.22%) Atlassian