Backlog Refinement Contracts in Central London

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Backlog Refinement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Refinement over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 169 182
Rank change year-on-year +45 +13 -17
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 9 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.37% 0.13% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.14% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile £458 £505 £395
25th Percentile £478 £519 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £610 £490
Median % change year-on-year -14.75% +24.49% -
75th Percentile £553 £675 £572
90th Percentile £566 £684 £619
London median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +1.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Backlog Refinement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,190 3,501 4,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.61% 91.34% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,562 2,371 3,191
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 30 42
10th Percentile £20.01 £15.23 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.38 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £29.11 £57.50 £54.38
90th Percentile £41.29 £88.30 £65.43
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +6.12% +12.47%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in Central London

Backlog Refinement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Refinement in Central London

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement in Central London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Refinement in Central London

Backlog Refinement
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Refinement within the Central London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +50 8 £510 -16.39% 1
Backlog Refinement
London

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 7 (77.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
1 6 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Gradle
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JMeter
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) Mocha
2 1 (11.11%) REST Assured
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
2 1 (11.11%) TestNG
2 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Product Owner
2 4 (44.44%) Digital Product Owner
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum Master
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Chai
1 1 (11.11%) JAXB
1 1 (11.11%) JAX-RS
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
1 1 (11.11%) Spring
1 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
1 8 (88.89%) Sprint Planning
2 6 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 6 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 6 (66.67%) Business Case
2 6 (66.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (66.67%) Product Backlog
2 6 (66.67%) Product Requirements
2 6 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
2 6 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (66.67%) User Stories
2 6 (66.67%) Workflow
2 6 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 1 (11.11%) Network Design
4 1 (11.11%) OOP
4 1 (11.11%) Pair Programming
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes