Product Backlog Jobs

Product Backlogs
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Product Backlog skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Product Backlog over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 422 364
Rank change year-on-year -88 -58 +106
Permanent jobs citing Product Backlog 456 688 1,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.74% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.78% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 217 380 885
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,294 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £75,000
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 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90,509 88,622 165,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.69% 95.42% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,528 53,835 83,218
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,950 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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% +8.81%

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 11 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 11 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 -106 367 £62,500 +2.16% 76
UK excluding London -117 319 £57,500 +4.55% 45
Work from Home -143 112 £57,500 - 44
London -13 102 £72,500 +1.75% 34
South West +26 82 £57,500 +27.78% 7
South East -91 64 £56,750 +13.50% 15
Midlands -76 57 £49,750 -9.55% 13
Scotland -28 51 £52,500 -12.50% 3
North of England -65 41 £64,109 +11.49% 6
West Midlands -66 28 £60,319 +26.32% 9
East Midlands -40 26 £37,500 -31.82% 4
North East -5 17 £47,500 -26.92% 1
Wales +20 14 £55,000 -15.38% 2
North West -65 13 £62,500 +8.70% 2
Yorkshire +2 11 £65,000 +2.77% 3
East of England -23 10 £48,750 -11.36% 1

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 (15.35%) Confluence
2 12 (2.63%) 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 (3.29%) Sketch
2 11 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.32%) Trello
4 3 (0.66%) InVision
4 3 (0.66%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (3.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.66%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (0.44%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.22%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.22%) Magento
5 1 (0.22%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 124 (27.19%) Azure
2 95 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
3 78 (17.11%) AWS
4 73 (16.01%) GCP
5 33 (7.24%) Power Platform
6 25 (5.48%) SaaS
7 23 (5.04%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (3.73%) Figma
9 11 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.41%) Power Automate
10 10 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (1.97%) PowerApps
12 8 (1.75%) GitHub
12 8 (1.75%) 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 4 (0.88%) SAN
2 2 (0.44%) WebEx
3 1 (0.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 72 (15.79%) BigQuery
2 72 (15.79%) Looker
3 20 (4.39%) Power BI
4 15 (3.29%) Relational Database
5 11 (2.41%) Tableau
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
10 1 (0.22%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 112 (24.56%) JIRA
2 5 (1.10%) Eclipse
2 5 (1.10%) IntelliJ
2 5 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (0.88%) Git
4 2 (0.44%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.22%) Selenium
5 1 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 158 (34.65%) Social Skills
2 143 (31.36%) Analytical Skills
3 133 (29.17%) Finance
4 90 (19.74%) Marketing
5 72 (15.79%) Billing
6 63 (13.82%) Law
7 58 (12.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (6.58%) Retail
9 18 (3.95%) Banking
10 16 (3.51%) Games
11 15 (3.29%) Public Sector
12 13 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (2.41%) Legal
13 11 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.32%) 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
1 108 (23.68%) Product Owner
2 80 (17.54%) Product Manager
3 75 (16.45%) Data Manager
4 72 (15.79%) Engineering Manager
5 62 (13.60%) Lead
6 45 (9.87%) Analyst
7 40 (8.77%) Senior
8 35 (7.68%) Business Analyst
9 27 (5.92%) Consultant
10 22 (4.82%) Functional Consultant
11 16 (3.51%) Agile Coach
12 15 (3.29%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 14 (3.07%) Developer
14 12 (2.63%) Scrum Master
15 11 (2.41%) Senior Manager
15 11 (2.41%) Software Engineer
16 10 (2.19%) Technical Product Owner
17 9 (1.97%) CRM Consultant
17 9 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
17 9 (1.97%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.07%) CSS
1 14 (3.07%) HTML
2 12 (2.63%) React
3 11 (2.41%) .NET
4 8 (1.75%) REST
5 6 (1.32%) AngularJS
5 6 (1.32%) Spring
6 5 (1.10%) Servlets
6 5 (1.10%) SOAP
6 5 (1.10%) Web Services
7 4 (0.88%) SAP Fiori
8 3 (0.66%) LESS
8 3 (0.66%) Sass
8 3 (0.66%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 2 (0.44%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.44%) ADO
9 2 (0.44%) JSON
9 2 (0.44%) XML
10 1 (0.22%) EDI
10 1 (0.22%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 279 (61.18%) Product Ownership
2 21 (4.61%) Management Information System
3 13 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (2.85%) Mobile App
3 13 (2.85%) PMI
4 10 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.54%) Robotics
6 7 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.32%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.32%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (0.88%) Housing Association
9 4 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.66%) Blockchain
10 3 (0.66%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.32%) Android
1 6 (1.32%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.10%) AIX
2 5 (1.10%) Linux
2 5 (1.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (86.62%) Agile
2 248 (54.39%) Scrum
3 219 (48.03%) Roadmaps
4 193 (42.32%) User Stories
5 186 (40.79%) Backlog Management
6 169 (37.06%) DevOps
7 165 (36.18%) Problem-Solving
8 139 (30.48%) Product Roadmap
9 126 (27.63%) Product Vision
9 126 (27.63%) Project Management
10 98 (21.49%) CI/CD
11 87 (19.08%) Mentoring
12 86 (18.86%) ETL
13 84 (18.42%) Line Management
13 84 (18.42%) User Experience
14 82 (17.98%) Acceptance Criteria
15 81 (17.76%) Business Strategy
16 79 (17.32%) Data Modelling
17 78 (17.11%) Backlog Prioritisation
18 77 (16.89%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (7.89%) SQL
2 16 (3.51%) Python
3 15 (3.29%) JavaScript
4 13 (2.85%) Java
5 9 (1.97%) C#
6 6 (1.32%) R
6 6 (1.32%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.10%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.88%) ABAP
9 3 (0.66%) Bicep
9 3 (0.66%) C++
9 3 (0.66%) Go
9 3 (0.66%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.66%) Rust
9 3 (0.66%) Scala
10 2 (0.44%) C
10 2 (0.44%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 73 (16.01%) Degree
2 24 (5.26%) CSPO
2 24 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.51%) Master's Degree
4 13 (2.85%) PMI Certification
5 9 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (1.97%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.54%) DBS Check
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
11 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (22.59%) QA
2 14 (3.07%) 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 5 (1.10%) Docker
2 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.10%) 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 (16.67%) Google
2 50 (10.96%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.85%) Salesforce
3 13 (2.85%) ServiceNow
4 9 (1.97%) SAP
5 6 (1.32%) Cadence
6 4 (0.88%) Marketo
7 3 (0.66%) Intel
7 3 (0.66%) Mercator
7 3 (0.66%) Oracle
8 2 (0.44%) Adobe
8 2 (0.44%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.44%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.44%) Civica
8 2 (0.44%) NEC
8 2 (0.44%) Pega
8 2 (0.44%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.22%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.22%) IFS
9 1 (0.22%) MuleSoft