Product Backlogs
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Product Backlog skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Product Backlog 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 482 389 384
Rank change year-on-year -93 -5 +86
Permanent jobs citing Product Backlog 466 874 1,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.84% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.87% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 238 419 856
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,029 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% -1.49% +13.04%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £89,041 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year - +2.68% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Backlog 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%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in the UK

Product Backlog
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Product Backlog in the UK

Product Backlog
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Product Backlog in the UK

Product Backlog
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Backlog 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 -99 387 £65,000 +1.52% 87
UK excluding London -107 319 £57,500 - 52
London -15 117 £80,000 +14.29% 36
Work from Home -156 107 £60,000 -1.93% 47
South West +49 75 £60,000 -4.00% 7
South East -76 68 £63,750 +15.91% 13
Midlands -39 62 £49,750 -9.55% 13
North of England -42 47 £65,000 +7.89% 11
Scotland -46 47 £85,572 +42.62% 1
East Midlands -12 30 £40,000 -27.27% 6
West Midlands -29 29 £57,500 +21.05% 7
Yorkshire +23 20 £65,000 +1.52% 7
North West -24 15 £59,625 +3.70% 4
Wales +19 12 £55,000 -20.00% 3
North East +6 12 £47,500 -26.92%
East of England -9 8 £48,750 -11.36% 7

Product Backlog
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 64 (13.73%) Confluence
2 7 (1.50%) CMS
3 4 (0.86%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 16 (3.43%) Sketch
2 11 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.29%) Trello
4 3 (0.64%) InVision
4 3 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Captivate
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 12 (2.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.43%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.43%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.21%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.21%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 124 (26.61%) Azure
2 91 (19.53%) Azure DevOps
3 80 (17.17%) AWS
4 75 (16.09%) GCP
5 32 (6.87%) Power Platform
6 22 (4.72%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (4.08%) SaaS
8 18 (3.86%) Figma
8 18 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.36%) PowerApps
10 10 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (2.15%) Power Automate
11 8 (1.72%) GitHub
11 8 (1.72%) Miro
12 4 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.86%) Google Analytics
12 4 (0.86%) Snowflake
13 3 (0.64%) PaaS
14 2 (0.43%) Asana
14 2 (0.43%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.07%) Unified Communications
1 5 (1.07%) WebEx
2 1 (0.21%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (16.31%) Data Warehouse
2 72 (15.45%) BigQuery
2 72 (15.45%) Looker
3 21 (4.51%) Power BI
4 14 (3.00%) Tableau
5 12 (2.58%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.50%) Big Data
7 6 (1.29%) RDBMS
7 6 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (1.29%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.43%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.21%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.21%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 111 (23.82%) JIRA
2 4 (0.86%) Eclipse
2 4 (0.86%) IntelliJ
2 4 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (0.64%) Git
4 2 (0.43%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.21%) Selenium
5 1 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 149 (31.97%) Analytical Skills
2 146 (31.33%) Social Skills
3 139 (29.83%) Finance
4 81 (17.38%) Marketing
5 72 (15.45%) Billing
6 61 (13.09%) Law
7 56 (12.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (5.58%) Retail
9 20 (4.29%) Banking
10 15 (3.22%) Public Sector
11 14 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (2.36%) Legal
13 10 (2.15%) Games
13 10 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.72%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.64%) Digital Health
16 3 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
16 3 (0.64%) Health Technology
16 3 (0.64%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 116 (24.89%) Product Owner
2 77 (16.52%) Engineering Manager
3 75 (16.09%) Data Manager
4 71 (15.24%) Product Manager
5 63 (13.52%) Lead
6 52 (11.16%) Analyst
7 39 (8.37%) Senior
8 38 (8.15%) Business Analyst
9 26 (5.58%) Consultant
10 21 (4.51%) Functional Consultant
11 18 (3.86%) Scrum Master
12 16 (3.43%) Agile Coach
13 14 (3.00%) Developer
14 13 (2.79%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 11 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
15 11 (2.36%) Technical Analyst
15 11 (2.36%) Technical Business Analyst
16 9 (1.93%) Digital Product Owner
16 9 (1.93%) Product Analyst
16 9 (1.93%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.00%) CSS
1 14 (3.00%) HTML
2 13 (2.79%) .NET
3 11 (2.36%) React
4 9 (1.93%) AngularJS
5 6 (1.29%) REST
6 5 (1.07%) Web Services
7 4 (0.86%) .NET Core
7 4 (0.86%) Servlets
7 4 (0.86%) SOAP
7 4 (0.86%) Spring
8 3 (0.64%) LESS
8 3 (0.64%) Sass
8 3 (0.64%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 2 (0.43%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.43%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (0.43%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (0.43%) jQuery
9 2 (0.43%) JSON
9 2 (0.43%) Murex MxML
Miscellaneous
1 287 (61.59%) Product Ownership
2 23 (4.94%) Management Information System
3 13 (2.79%) PMI
4 12 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (2.58%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.15%) Video Conferencing
6 9 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.50%) Low-Code
7 7 (1.50%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.29%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.07%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.07%) Digital Signage
9 5 (1.07%) Robotics
9 5 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.86%) Housing Association
10 4 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.64%) Blockchain
11 3 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.07%) Android
1 5 (1.07%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.86%) AIX
2 4 (0.86%) Linux
2 4 (0.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (87.12%) Agile
2 260 (55.79%) Scrum
3 225 (48.28%) Roadmaps
4 207 (44.42%) User Stories
5 199 (42.70%) Backlog Management
6 163 (34.98%) Problem-Solving
7 162 (34.76%) DevOps
8 140 (30.04%) Product Roadmap
9 138 (29.61%) Product Vision
10 132 (28.33%) Project Management
11 101 (21.67%) CI/CD
12 90 (19.31%) User Experience
13 89 (19.10%) Mentoring
14 88 (18.88%) Analytics
15 87 (18.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
16 84 (18.03%) Acceptance Criteria
16 84 (18.03%) ETL
17 83 (17.81%) Business Strategy
17 83 (17.81%) Line Management
18 81 (17.38%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 43 (9.23%) SQL
2 17 (3.65%) JavaScript
3 15 (3.22%) Python
4 13 (2.79%) Java
5 11 (2.36%) C#
6 8 (1.72%) T-SQL
7 6 (1.29%) R
7 6 (1.29%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.86%) Bicep
8 4 (0.86%) Go
8 4 (0.86%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.86%) Rust
9 3 (0.64%) Scala
10 2 (0.43%) C
10 2 (0.43%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (14.81%) Degree
2 23 (4.94%) CSPO
2 23 (4.94%) Security Cleared
3 13 (2.79%) Master's Degree
3 13 (2.79%) PMI Certification
4 9 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.50%) DBS Check
5 7 (1.50%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.29%) IIBA
7 4 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.64%) MBA
9 2 (0.43%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.43%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (22.10%) QA
2 12 (2.58%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.64%) WCAG
4 2 (0.43%) AUTOSAR
4 2 (0.43%) GDPR
4 2 (0.43%) SLA
5 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (1.07%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.07%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.21%) Terraform
Vendors
1 76 (16.31%) Google
2 56 (12.02%) Microsoft
3 18 (3.86%) ServiceNow
4 6 (1.29%) Cadence
4 6 (1.29%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.07%) Alteryx
5 5 (1.07%) Cisco
5 5 (1.07%) Intel
6 4 (0.86%) Marketo
7 3 (0.64%) Mercator
8 2 (0.43%) Adobe
8 2 (0.43%) Civica
8 2 (0.43%) Murex
8 2 (0.43%) NEC
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle
8 2 (0.43%) Pega
8 2 (0.43%) SAP
8 2 (0.43%) Veeam
8 2 (0.43%) VMware
9 1 (0.21%) Atlassian