Backlog Refinement Jobs in the UK excluding London

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Backlog Refinement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Refinement over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 684 601 616
Rank change year-on-year -83 +15 -62
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 80 156 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.26% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.27% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 24 72 127
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - +18.31%
75th Percentile £61,563 £66,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,625 £72,647 £82,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +28.00% -3.85% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,475 57,466 67,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.95% 95.60% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 41,116 29,651 41,279
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Backlog Refinement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in the UK excluding London

Backlog Refinement
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backlog Refinement in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Backlog Refinement in the UK excluding London

Backlog Refinement
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Backlog Refinement in the UK excluding London

Backlog Refinement
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Refinement within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands -28 21 £57,659 -7.75% 5
North of England +41 19 £47,500 -17.39% 1
South West -18 13 £50,000 -27.35% 3
East Midlands - 13 £67,500 -
North West -12 10 - - 1
Scotland -50 10 £54,000 -10.77% 5
West Midlands -23 8 £55,000 -12.00% 5
South East -31 8 £63,750 +21.43% 6
North East - 5 £47,500 -
Yorkshire +85 4 £50,000 -2.44%
Wales +16 3 - -
East of England +13 3 £45,000 -30.77% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Backlog Refinement
UK

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 38 (47.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 21 (26.25%) MS Visio
2 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (7.50%) Trello
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.00%) Miro
2 11 (13.75%) Azure
3 10 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 8 (10.00%) AWS
5 2 (2.50%) GCP
5 2 (2.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.25%) PaaS
6 1 (1.25%) SaaS
6 1 (1.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.50%) Power BI
2 7 (8.75%) Relational Database
3 6 (7.50%) Big Data
3 6 (7.50%) Snowflake Schema
3 6 (7.50%) Star Schema
3 6 (7.50%) Tableau
4 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.25%) Metadata
4 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.25%) MySQL
4 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 50 (62.50%) JIRA
2 2 (2.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.25%) JUnit
3 1 (1.25%) Mockito
3 1 (1.25%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.25%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (38.75%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.00%) Finance
3 7 (8.75%) Retail
4 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.25%) Marketing
5 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.75%) Automotive
6 3 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 34 (42.50%) Analyst
2 32 (40.00%) Business Analyst
3 23 (28.75%) Senior
4 21 (26.25%) Senior Analyst
5 20 (25.00%) Senior Business Analyst
6 13 (16.25%) Scrum Master
7 8 (10.00%) Product Manager
8 7 (8.75%) E-Commerce Executive
9 6 (7.50%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (7.50%) Technical Analyst
9 6 (7.50%) Technical Business Analyst
10 5 (6.25%) E-Commerce Tester
10 5 (6.25%) QA Tester
10 5 (6.25%) Tester
11 4 (5.00%) Product Owner
12 3 (3.75%) Developer
12 3 (3.75%) Lead
13 2 (2.50%) E-Commerce Manager
13 2 (2.50%) E-Commerce Project Manager
13 2 (2.50%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.50%) React
2 1 (1.25%) .NET
2 1 (1.25%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.25%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.25%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (1.25%) CSS
2 1 (1.25%) CSS3
2 1 (1.25%) Entity Framework
2 1 (1.25%) HTML
2 1 (1.25%) HTML5
2 1 (1.25%) OpenAPI
2 1 (1.25%) REST
2 1 (1.25%) RESTful
2 1 (1.25%) Spring
2 1 (1.25%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.25%) Swagger
2 1 (1.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 22 (27.50%) Product Ownership
2 16 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.75%) Blockchain
3 3 (3.75%) Derivative
4 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.25%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.25%) Android
1 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (87.50%) Agile
2 50 (62.50%) Scrum
3 37 (46.25%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 32 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 32 (40.00%) Project Management
5 30 (37.50%) Actionable Insight
5 30 (37.50%) Epics
5 30 (37.50%) Requirements Gathering
6 29 (36.25%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 29 (36.25%) Business Analysis
7 24 (30.00%) User Stories
8 22 (27.50%) User Research
9 21 (26.25%) Requirements Workshops
9 21 (26.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (25.00%) Business Process Modelling
10 20 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
10 20 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (25.00%) Product Backlog
10 20 (25.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
10 20 (25.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.00%) Python
1 8 (10.00%) SQL
2 7 (8.75%) R
3 6 (7.50%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.50%) C#
4 2 (2.50%) Java
4 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (46.25%) Security Cleared
2 35 (43.75%) Degree
3 31 (38.75%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (8.75%) Master's Degree
5 6 (7.50%) IIBA
6 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.50%) PMO
2 9 (11.25%) QA
3 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (16.25%) Cadence
2 9 (11.25%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.75%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.50%) SAP
5 1 (1.25%) Google
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle
5 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow