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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 622 553 551
Rank change year-on-year -69 -2 +62
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 275 495 956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.49% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.51% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 147 283 407
10th Percentile £47,500 £39,294 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,875 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,805 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.55% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,328 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,236 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +10.00%

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 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
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 8 May 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 8 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
England -72 252 £74,402 +14.47% 74
UK excluding London -153 163 £65,000 +13.04% 37
London +86 105 £80,000 +3.23% 39
Work from Home -67 100 £73,805 +14.25% 36
North of England +2 49 £70,000 +21.74% 8
South East -37 42 £52,500 +66.67% 13
Midlands -23 33 £62,659 +31.91% 6
Yorkshire +67 25 £70,000 -25.57% 4
East Midlands -13 17 - - 2
North West -26 17 £73,805 +28.36% 3
West Midlands -15 16 £62,659 +35.48% 4
South West -48 16 £48,750 -29.17% 6
Scotland -73 10 £57,000 -41.72% 1
North East +4 7 £47,500 - 1
East of England -11 5 £51,250 -6.82% 1
Wales +12 4 - - 2
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 23 (8.36%) Confluence
2 3 (1.09%) CMS
3 1 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (3.27%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.36%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (7.64%) Power Platform
2 13 (4.73%) SaaS
3 9 (3.27%) Azure
4 8 (2.91%) GCP
5 7 (2.55%) AWS
5 7 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (1.82%) Serverless
7 4 (1.45%) Amazon Cognito
7 4 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (1.45%) Boomi
7 4 (1.45%) Datadog
7 4 (1.45%) dbt
7 4 (1.45%) Fivetran
7 4 (1.45%) Prefect
7 4 (1.45%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.09%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (0.73%) Asana
9 2 (0.73%) Basecamp
9 2 (0.73%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.82%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.64%) Power BI
2 7 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (2.55%) Tableau
3 6 (2.18%) RDBMS
3 6 (2.18%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.45%) Parquet
6 3 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.36%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.36%) Big Data
8 1 (0.36%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.36%) Metadata
8 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 39 (14.18%) JIRA
2 2 (0.73%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.36%) GitLab
3 1 (0.36%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.36%) Toad
General
1 73 (26.55%) Social Skills
2 49 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (10.91%) Finance
3 30 (10.91%) Marketing
4 29 (10.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (7.27%) Retail
6 16 (5.82%) Legal
7 14 (5.09%) Brand Awareness
7 14 (5.09%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.55%) Publishing
9 6 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.82%) Back Office
11 4 (1.45%) Automotive
11 4 (1.45%) Law
12 3 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.73%) Banking
14 1 (0.36%) Games
14 1 (0.36%) Local Government
14 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.36%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 64 (23.27%) Product Owner
2 51 (18.55%) Senior
3 48 (17.45%) Analyst
4 39 (14.18%) Product Manager
5 33 (12.00%) Senior User Researcher
5 33 (12.00%) User Researcher
6 28 (10.18%) Lead
7 21 (7.64%) Business Analyst
8 18 (6.55%) Scrum Master
8 18 (6.55%) Systems Analyst
9 17 (6.18%) Operations Analyst
10 16 (5.82%) Lead Product Manager
11 14 (5.09%) Customer Experience Manager
12 13 (4.73%) Delivery Manager
13 10 (3.64%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 10 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
14 8 (2.91%) Engineering Manager
14 8 (2.91%) Project Manager
15 7 (2.55%) E-Commerce Executive
16 5 (1.82%) E-Commerce Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.64%) Web Services
2 8 (2.91%) React
3 4 (1.45%) JSON
3 4 (1.45%) RESTful
4 3 (1.09%) .NET
5 2 (0.73%) CSS
5 2 (0.73%) HTML
6 1 (0.36%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.36%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.36%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 151 (54.91%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.45%) Onboarding
3 13 (4.73%) Data Structures
4 11 (4.00%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.27%) PMI
6 8 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (2.91%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.82%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.45%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.73%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.36%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.36%) LIMS
10 1 (0.36%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.36%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.09%) Android
1 3 (1.09%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.36%) Linux
2 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (80.00%) Agile
2 121 (44.00%) Roadmaps
3 104 (37.82%) Scrum
4 91 (33.09%) Product Roadmap
5 88 (32.00%) Product Vision
6 87 (31.64%) Product Backlog
7 68 (24.73%) Customer Experience
8 63 (22.91%) Project Management
9 62 (22.55%) User Stories
10 60 (21.82%) Backlog Refinement
11 55 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 53 (19.27%) Mentoring
13 52 (18.91%) Empathy Maps
14 51 (18.55%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 50 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
16 48 (17.45%) Stakeholder Management
17 46 (16.73%) Actionable Insight
18 45 (16.36%) Backlog Management
18 45 (16.36%) User Research
19 40 (14.55%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 69 (25.09%) SQL
2 14 (5.09%) C
3 10 (3.64%) Python
4 9 (3.27%) TypeScript
5 4 (1.45%) Scala
6 2 (0.73%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.36%) Bash
7 1 (0.36%) Groovy
7 1 (0.36%) Java
7 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.36%) R
7 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.36%) Tcl
7 1 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 52 (18.91%) Degree
2 46 (16.73%) SC Cleared
2 46 (16.73%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.64%) Master's Degree
3 10 (3.64%) MBA
4 9 (3.27%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.36%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.73%) Accessibility
2 24 (8.73%) QA
3 13 (4.73%) PMO
4 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.36%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (0.36%) Ansible
1 1 (0.36%) Grafana
1 1 (0.36%) Kibana
1 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (4.73%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.36%) Cadence
3 9 (3.27%) Google
4 7 (2.55%) Genesys
5 5 (1.82%) Alteryx
5 5 (1.82%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.82%) YouTube
6 4 (1.45%) Dataiku
6 4 (1.45%) SAP
7 1 (0.36%) Adobe
7 1 (0.36%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.36%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.36%) Okta
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle
7 1 (0.36%) Sitecore