Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 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 746 713 665
Rank change year-on-year -33 -48 +43
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 142 285 684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.28% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.29% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 62 147 259
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -3.85% +27.45%
75th Percentile £88,750 £74,375 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.09% - +19.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 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 Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in the UK

Backlog Refinement
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Backlog Refinement in the UK

Backlog Refinement
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Backlog Refinement in the UK

Backlog Refinement
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 Refinement 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 -61 124 £80,000 +28.00% 32
UK excluding London -88 81 £54,000 -6.09% 25
London +70 61 £87,500 +25.00% 14
Work from Home -25 26 £57,500 - 15
Midlands -24 22 £55,000 -12.00% 6
North of England +33 19 £47,500 -17.39% 1
South West -26 13 £50,000 -27.35% 3
East Midlands - 13 £67,500 -
North West -9 10 - - 1
Scotland -54 10 £54,000 -10.77% 6
West Midlands -29 9 £52,250 -16.40% 6
South East -31 8 £63,750 +21.43% 8
North East - 5 £47,500 -
Yorkshire +82 4 £50,000 -2.44%
East of England +8 3 £45,000 -30.77%
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
Wales - 3 - -

Backlog Refinement
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 53 (37.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 24 (16.90%) MS Visio
2 11 (7.75%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (4.23%) Trello
4 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.61%) Miro
2 18 (12.68%) Azure
3 11 (7.75%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.63%) AWS
5 5 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.41%) GCP
6 2 (1.41%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) PaaS
7 1 (0.70%) SaaS
7 1 (0.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.75%) Power BI
2 8 (5.63%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.23%) Big Data
3 6 (4.23%) Snowflake Schema
3 6 (4.23%) Star Schema
3 6 (4.23%) Tableau
4 3 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.41%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.70%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.70%) Metadata
6 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.70%) MySQL
6 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 73 (51.41%) JIRA
2 3 (2.11%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.41%) Git
3 2 (1.41%) REST Assured
3 2 (1.41%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.70%) Appium
4 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.70%) JUnit
4 1 (0.70%) Mockito
4 1 (0.70%) Postman
4 1 (0.70%) Selenium
4 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (33.80%) Social Skills
2 39 (27.46%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (21.83%) Finance
4 7 (4.93%) Retail
5 5 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (3.52%) Marketing
6 4 (2.82%) Banking
6 4 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.82%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.11%) Automotive
7 3 (2.11%) Games
8 2 (1.41%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.70%) Front Office
9 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (26.76%) Analyst
2 37 (26.06%) Business Analyst
3 31 (21.83%) Product Owner
4 28 (19.72%) Senior
5 25 (17.61%) Senior Analyst
6 24 (16.90%) Senior Business Analyst
7 17 (11.97%) Scrum Master
8 14 (9.86%) Product Manager
9 10 (7.04%) Lead
10 8 (5.63%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (4.93%) E-Commerce Executive
12 6 (4.23%) Developer
12 6 (4.23%) Technical Analyst
12 6 (4.23%) Technical Business Analyst
13 5 (3.52%) Digital Product Owner
13 5 (3.52%) E-Commerce Tester
13 5 (3.52%) QA Tester
13 5 (3.52%) Tester
14 4 (2.82%) Software Manager
15 3 (2.11%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.11%) REST
1 3 (2.11%) RESTful
2 2 (1.41%) .NET
2 2 (1.41%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.41%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.41%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (1.41%) CSS
2 2 (1.41%) CSS3
2 2 (1.41%) HTML
2 2 (1.41%) HTML5
2 2 (1.41%) React
3 1 (0.70%) Ajax
3 1 (0.70%) Classic ASP
3 1 (0.70%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.70%) jQuery
3 1 (0.70%) LINQ
3 1 (0.70%) SOAP
3 1 (0.70%) Spring
3 1 (0.70%) Web Services
3 1 (0.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (45.07%) Product Ownership
2 18 (12.68%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.82%) Reinsurance
4 3 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.11%) Blockchain
4 3 (2.11%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.11%) Derivative
4 3 (2.11%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.11%) Over-the-Top Content
4 3 (2.11%) Virtual Reality
5 2 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.41%) PMI
6 1 (0.70%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.70%) Equities
6 1 (0.70%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.11%) Unix
2 1 (0.70%) Android
2 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (90.14%) Agile
2 95 (66.90%) Scrum
3 72 (50.70%) Acceptance Criteria
4 62 (43.66%) User Stories
5 60 (42.25%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 58 (40.85%) Epics
7 49 (34.51%) Product Backlog
8 45 (31.69%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (30.28%) Project Management
10 42 (29.58%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 41 (28.87%) Roadmaps
12 39 (27.46%) Backlog Management
12 39 (27.46%) Requirements Gathering
13 38 (26.76%) Product Roadmap
14 37 (26.06%) Business Analysis
15 36 (25.35%) Actionable Insight
15 36 (25.35%) Stakeholder Management
16 33 (23.24%) Product Vision
17 31 (21.83%) DevOps
18 27 (19.01%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 30 (21.13%) SQL
2 8 (5.63%) Python
3 7 (4.93%) R
4 6 (4.23%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.82%) Java
6 3 (2.11%) C#
6 3 (2.11%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.41%) Go
8 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.70%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (33.80%) Degree
2 44 (30.99%) Security Cleared
3 38 (26.76%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.34%) Master's Degree
5 8 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (4.23%) IIBA
8 2 (1.41%) CSPO
8 2 (1.41%) MBA
8 2 (1.41%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.45%) PMO
2 11 (7.75%) QA
3 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (2.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.56%) Cadence
3 5 (3.52%) Oracle
4 4 (2.82%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.41%) SAP
5 2 (1.41%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.70%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.70%) Google
6 1 (0.70%) Murex
6 1 (0.70%) Progress
6 1 (0.70%) Reuters
6 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.70%) Sybase