Backlog Refinement Jobs in England

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Refinement 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 730 691 644
Rank change year-on-year -39 -47 +65
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 121 209 651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.25% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.27% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 56 114 272
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,268 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.00% -3.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £77,188 £75,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £90,875 £85,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,518 £65,000
% change year-on-year +23.93% -6.90% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Backlog Refinement 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 in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,666 78,678 138,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.66% 95.44% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 56,167 48,303 73,640
10th Percentile £29,375 £34,324 £33,458
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,750 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in England

Backlog Refinement
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backlog Refinement in England.

Salary trend for Backlog Refinement in England

Backlog Refinement
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement in England over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Backlog Refinement in England

Backlog Refinement
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Refinement within the England region 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
London +60 58 £85,000 +13.33% 15
Midlands -45 20 £55,000 -12.00% 4
North of England +7 19 £47,500 -17.39% 3
South West -28 12 £57,500 +4.42% 3
East Midlands - 12 - -
North West -40 10 - - 3
South East -51 10 £58,750 +14.63% 4
West Midlands -46 8 £55,000 -12.00% 4
North East -14 5 £47,500 -24.00%
Yorkshire +60 4 £50,000 -2.44%
East of England -8 3 £45,000 -30.77%
Backlog Refinement
UK

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 41 (33.88%) Confluence
2 1 (0.83%) CMS
2 1 (0.83%) Umbraco
Applications
1 15 (12.40%) MS Visio
2 11 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (4.96%) Trello
4 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (13.22%) Miro
2 15 (12.40%) Azure
3 7 (5.79%) AWS
3 7 (5.79%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.48%) SaaS
6 2 (1.65%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.83%) GCP
7 1 (0.83%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.79%) Power BI
1 7 (5.79%) Relational Database
2 6 (4.96%) Big Data
2 6 (4.96%) Snowflake Schema
2 6 (4.96%) Star Schema
2 6 (4.96%) Tableau
3 3 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.83%) Data Mart
4 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.83%) Metadata
4 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.83%) MySQL
4 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 56 (46.28%) JIRA
2 2 (1.65%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.83%) Appium
3 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.83%) Git
3 1 (0.83%) JUnit
3 1 (0.83%) Mockito
3 1 (0.83%) Postman
3 1 (0.83%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.83%) Selenium
3 1 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.83%) WebDriver
General
1 43 (35.54%) Social Skills
2 32 (26.45%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (25.62%) Finance
4 9 (7.44%) Retail
5 8 (6.61%) Marketing
6 4 (3.31%) Banking
6 4 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.48%) Automotive
7 3 (2.48%) Games
7 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.65%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.83%) Front Office
9 1 (0.83%) Law
9 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (22.31%) Analyst
2 26 (21.49%) Business Analyst
3 24 (19.83%) Product Owner
4 18 (14.88%) Senior
5 17 (14.05%) Product Manager
6 16 (13.22%) Senior Analyst
7 15 (12.40%) Senior Business Analyst
8 10 (8.26%) Lead
9 9 (7.44%) Scrum Master
10 8 (6.61%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (5.79%) E-Commerce Executive
12 6 (4.96%) Technical Analyst
12 6 (4.96%) Technical Business Analyst
13 5 (4.13%) E-Commerce Tester
13 5 (4.13%) QA Tester
13 5 (4.13%) Tester
14 4 (3.31%) Developer
14 4 (3.31%) Software Manager
15 3 (2.48%) Project Manager
15 3 (2.48%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.48%) RESTful
2 1 (0.83%) .NET
2 1 (0.83%) Murex MxML
2 1 (0.83%) OpenAPI
2 1 (0.83%) OpenCV
2 1 (0.83%) React
2 1 (0.83%) REST
2 1 (0.83%) Spring
2 1 (0.83%) Spring Boot
2 1 (0.83%) Swagger
2 1 (0.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 62 (51.24%) Product Ownership
2 13 (10.74%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.79%) Reinsurance
4 3 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.48%) Blockchain
4 3 (2.48%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.48%) Derivative
4 3 (2.48%) Over-the-Top Content
4 3 (2.48%) Virtual Reality
5 2 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.83%) Equities
6 1 (0.83%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.83%) PMI
6 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.48%) Unix
2 1 (0.83%) Android
2 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (87.60%) Agile
2 73 (60.33%) Scrum
3 59 (48.76%) Acceptance Criteria
4 56 (46.28%) User Stories
5 51 (42.15%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 46 (38.02%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (37.19%) Epics
7 45 (37.19%) Product Backlog
8 38 (31.40%) Project Management
9 37 (30.58%) Roadmaps
10 34 (28.10%) Product Roadmap
11 28 (23.14%) Backlog Management
11 28 (23.14%) Product Vision
11 28 (23.14%) Requirements Gathering
11 28 (23.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 27 (22.31%) DevOps
13 26 (21.49%) Business Analysis
13 26 (21.49%) Sprint Planning
13 26 (21.49%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (19.01%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.18%) SQL
2 8 (6.61%) Python
3 7 (5.79%) R
4 6 (4.96%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.48%) Java
6 2 (1.65%) C#
6 2 (1.65%) Go
7 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (31.40%) Degree
2 30 (24.79%) Security Cleared
3 24 (19.83%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.61%) Master's Degree
5 7 (5.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.96%) IIBA
7 3 (2.48%) CSPO
8 2 (1.65%) MBA
9 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.09%) QA
2 7 (5.79%) PMO
3 3 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.83%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (1.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (12.40%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.26%) Cadence
3 5 (4.13%) Oracle
4 3 (2.48%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.65%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.65%) SAP
6 1 (0.83%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.83%) Murex
6 1 (0.83%) Progress
6 1 (0.83%) Reuters
6 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.83%) Sybase