Backlog Refinement Contracts in Birmingham

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Refinement over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 - 69
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.19% - 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.00%
75th Percentile £538 - £492
90th Percentile - - £513
West Midlands median daily rate £525 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -22.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in Birmingham

Backlog Refinement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Refinement in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Refinement in Birmingham

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Development
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories