Backlog Refinement Contract Job Trends in Burgess Hill

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
West Sussex > Burgess Hill

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Burgess Hill requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Burgess Hill 2.78% - 3.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% - 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - -
West Sussex median daily rate £450 - £400

All Process & Methodology Skills
Burgess Hill

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 Burgess Hill.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36 23 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Burgess Hill 100.00% 100.00% 92.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 8 12
10th Percentile £275 £279 £317
25th Percentile £276 £297 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £313 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% -21.88% +41.59%
75th Percentile £310 £400 £447
90th Percentile £357 £550 £486
West Sussex median daily rate £470 £456 £450
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.39% -5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile - £16.17 -
25th Percentile £50.00 £16.95 £20.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £18.82 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +192.24% -12.47% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £20.69 £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Sussex median hourly rate £43.56 £18.82 £21.50
% change year-on-year +131.46% -12.47% -2.98%

Backlog Refinement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Burgess Hill 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) NFC
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) KYC
1 1 (100.00%) Matrix Organization
1 1 (100.00%) Product Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL