Backlog Refinement Contract Job Trends in Bath

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
Somerset > Bath

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bath requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bath 2.02% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £467 - -
25th Percentile £473 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - -
75th Percentile £503 - -
90th Percentile £506 - -
Somerset median daily rate £490 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bath

Backlog Refinement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bath.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87 65 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath 87.88% 94.20% 81.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 51 38
10th Percentile £380 £225 £384
25th Percentile £461 £394 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% +5.26% +10.14%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £534
90th Percentile £675 - £591
Somerset median daily rate £525 £523 £500
% change year-on-year +0.48% +4.50% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.25
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £12.50
75th Percentile - - £12.75
90th Percentile £15.50 - -
Somerset median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
% change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -51.46%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Bath

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Backlog Refinement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath.

Backlog Refinement job vacancy trend in Bath

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Trend in Bath

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing Backlog Refinement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing Backlog Refinement

Backlog Refinement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bath by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Burndown Charts
1 2 (100.00%) Epics
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Project Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Servant Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Value Proposition
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian