Backlog Prioritisation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Backlog Prioritisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Prioritisation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 618 542 558
Rank change year-on-year -76 +16 +46
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 283 501 908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.48% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.50% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 146 284 404
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,040 £53,750 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,236 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £53,112
% change year-on-year +4.00% +17.68% +6.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Backlog Prioritisation 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Backlog Prioritisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England -39 259 £77,500 +14.81% 63
UK excluding London -127 170 £65,000 +4.00% 29
London +92 106 £80,000 +3.23% 35
Work from Home -52 100 £73,805 +13.55% 35
North of England +14 46 £70,000 +16.67% 9
South East -23 46 £54,250 +72.22% 10
Midlands -17 35 £65,000 +44.44% 1
Yorkshire +76 24 £70,000 -25.57% 3
South West -17 20 £48,750 -29.17% 5
East Midlands -12 18 - - 1
West Midlands -1 17 £65,000 +44.44%
North West -14 15 £73,805 +28.36% 5
Scotland -77 11 £57,000 -43.98% 2
North East +4 7 £47,500 - 1
East of England -10 5 £51,250 -6.82% 1
Wales +16 4 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 4 - -

Backlog Prioritisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 22 (7.77%) Confluence
2 2 (0.71%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (3.18%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (7.42%) Power Platform
2 13 (4.59%) SaaS
3 8 (2.83%) Azure
3 8 (2.83%) GCP
4 7 (2.47%) AWS
4 7 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (1.77%) Serverless
6 4 (1.41%) Amazon Cognito
6 4 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (1.41%) Boomi
6 4 (1.41%) Datadog
6 4 (1.41%) dbt
6 4 (1.41%) Fivetran
6 4 (1.41%) Prefect
6 4 (1.41%) Snowflake
7 2 (0.71%) Basecamp
7 2 (0.71%) Miro
7 2 (0.71%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (0.71%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.77%) WebEx
2 1 (0.35%) 5G
2 1 (0.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.42%) Power BI
2 7 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (2.47%) Tableau
3 6 (2.12%) RDBMS
3 6 (2.12%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.41%) Parquet
6 3 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.71%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.35%) Big Data
8 1 (0.35%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 39 (13.78%) JIRA
2 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.35%) GitLab
2 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
General
1 74 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.02%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (10.95%) Finance
4 29 (10.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (10.25%) Marketing
5 20 (7.07%) Retail
6 16 (5.65%) Legal
7 15 (5.30%) Telecoms
8 14 (4.95%) Brand Awareness
9 7 (2.47%) Publishing
10 6 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.77%) Back Office
12 4 (1.41%) Automotive
12 4 (1.41%) Law
13 3 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.71%) Local Government
15 1 (0.35%) Banking
15 1 (0.35%) Games
15 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (22.97%) Product Owner
2 51 (18.02%) Senior
3 47 (16.61%) Analyst
4 38 (13.43%) Product Manager
5 33 (11.66%) Senior User Researcher
5 33 (11.66%) User Researcher
6 28 (9.89%) Lead
7 20 (7.07%) Business Analyst
8 18 (6.36%) Scrum Master
8 18 (6.36%) Systems Analyst
9 17 (6.01%) Operations Analyst
10 16 (5.65%) Lead Product Manager
11 14 (4.95%) Customer Experience Manager
12 13 (4.59%) Delivery Manager
13 10 (3.53%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 10 (3.53%) Senior Analyst
14 8 (2.83%) Engineering Manager
15 7 (2.47%) E-Commerce Executive
15 7 (2.47%) Project Manager
16 6 (2.12%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.53%) Web Services
2 9 (3.18%) Middleware
3 8 (2.83%) React
4 4 (1.41%) JSON
4 4 (1.41%) RESTful
5 2 (0.71%) .NET
5 2 (0.71%) CSS
5 2 (0.71%) HTML
6 1 (0.35%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.35%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 151 (53.36%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.30%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.24%) Data Structures
4 11 (3.89%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.18%) PMI
6 8 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.47%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.77%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.77%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.41%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.71%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.35%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.35%) LIMS
11 1 (0.35%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.06%) Android
1 3 (1.06%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.35%) Linux
2 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (77.03%) Agile
2 121 (42.76%) Roadmaps
3 106 (37.46%) Scrum
4 92 (32.51%) Product Roadmap
5 89 (31.45%) Product Vision
6 87 (30.74%) Product Backlog
7 68 (24.03%) Customer Experience
8 63 (22.26%) User Stories
9 62 (21.91%) Backlog Refinement
10 61 (21.55%) Project Management
11 56 (19.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 54 (19.08%) Empathy Maps
13 53 (18.73%) Mentoring
14 51 (18.02%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 49 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
16 48 (16.96%) Backlog Management
17 47 (16.61%) Stakeholder Management
18 46 (16.25%) Actionable Insight
19 45 (15.90%) User Research
20 42 (14.84%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 70 (24.73%) SQL
2 14 (4.95%) C
3 10 (3.53%) Python
4 9 (3.18%) TypeScript
5 4 (1.41%) Scala
6 2 (0.71%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.35%) Bash
7 1 (0.35%) Groovy
7 1 (0.35%) Java
7 1 (0.35%) R
7 1 (0.35%) Tcl
7 1 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 52 (18.37%) Degree
2 46 (16.25%) SC Cleared
2 46 (16.25%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.53%) Master's Degree
3 10 (3.53%) MBA
4 9 (3.18%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.35%) CSPO
5 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.37%) Accessibility
2 23 (8.13%) QA
3 13 (4.59%) PMO
4 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.35%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (0.35%) Ansible
1 1 (0.35%) Grafana
1 1 (0.35%) Kibana
1 1 (0.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (4.24%) Cadence
1 12 (4.24%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.18%) Google
3 7 (2.47%) Genesys
4 5 (1.77%) Alteryx
4 5 (1.77%) YouTube
5 4 (1.41%) Dataiku
5 4 (1.41%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.06%) SAP
7 1 (0.35%) Adobe
7 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.35%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.35%) Okta