Backlog Refinement Contracts in the West Midlands

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 132 155
Rank change year-on-year +21 +23 -29
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 2 6 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.10% 0.25% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.29% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 14
10th Percentile - - £496
25th Percentile - - £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 £581
Median % change year-on-year - -22.58% +10.71%
75th Percentile - £492 £638
90th Percentile - £513 £788
England median daily rate £525 £544 £530
% change year-on-year -3.45% +2.59% +6.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,619 2,084 3,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.06% 88.57% 90.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 1,427 2,350
10th Percentile £275 £263 £271
25th Percentile £368 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +14.71%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £699 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 49 67
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.40 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.94
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% +8.82% +2.16%
75th Percentile £40.38 £27.13 £19.68
90th Percentile £58.00 £48.75 £21.11
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Backlog Refinement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in the West Midlands

Backlog Refinement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Refinement in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Refinement in the West Midlands

Backlog Refinement
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 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
Warwickshire - 2 - - 2
Backlog Refinement
England

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) SAP CO
1 2 (100.00%) SAP FI
1 2 (100.00%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (100.00%) SAP SD
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) SAP CO Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) SAP Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) SAP FI Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Record to Report
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP