Backlog Refinement Contracts in Berkshire

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Backlog Refinement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Refinement over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 104 127
Rank change year-on-year -7 +23 -26
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 6 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.31% 0.45% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.49% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - £378
25th Percentile £445 £625 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £650 £501
Median % change year-on-year -31.46% +29.64% +25.35%
75th Percentile £446 £675 £597
90th Percentile £531 - £636
South East median daily rate £445 £520 £480
% change year-on-year -14.38% +8.33% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Backlog Refinement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,732 1,634 2,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.82% 90.93% 90.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 912 1,055 1,373
10th Percentile £213 £350 £271
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £631 £588
90th Percentile £687 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 49 43
10th Percentile £18.95 £19.30 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.44 £24.50 £17.25
Median hourly rate £60.57 £56.89 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +170.24% -
75th Percentile £71.89 £73.59 £33.75
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.40 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
% change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.51%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in Berkshire

Backlog Refinement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Refinement in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Refinement in Berkshire

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement in Berkshire over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Refinement in Berkshire

Backlog Refinement
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Refinement within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 5 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -6 5 £445 -31.50% 1
Wokingham - 1 £575 -
Backlog Refinement
South East

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Analyst
2 5 (83.33%) Product Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) IT Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Network Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 6 (100.00%) SDLC
2 5 (83.33%) CRM
2 5 (83.33%) Customer Service
2 5 (83.33%) Requirements Analysis
2 5 (83.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Project Management
4 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
5 1 (16.67%) Business Enablement
5 1 (16.67%) Business Process Mapping
5 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (16.67%) Epics
5 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Sprint Backlog
5 1 (16.67%) Sprint Review
5 1 (16.67%) Use Case
5 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft