Backlog Refinement Contracts in Glasgow

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 86 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.58% 0.22% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £353 £434 -
25th Percentile £396 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile £513 £463 -
90th Percentile £535 £466 -
Scotland median daily rate £400 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -13.51% +2.78% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 795 857 931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.01% 94.38% 92.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 624 705
10th Percentile £275 £325 £258
25th Percentile £400 £410 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £538
90th Percentile £654 £701 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 29 13
10th Percentile £12.38 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £23.70
Median hourly rate £18.00 £14.25 £39.99
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -64.37% +105.08%
75th Percentile £40.94 £35.00 £43.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £59.11 £49.23
Scotland median hourly rate £18.79 £17.21 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.18% -56.98% -

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Refinement in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement in Glasgow over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Refinement in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (20.00%) OpenTracing
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Release Management
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) SDLC
3 3 (60.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (20.00%) Post-Production
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Kotlin
2 3 (60.00%) Scala
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft