Backlog Refinement Contracts in Central London

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 124 166
Rank change year-on-year +9 +42 +31
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 14 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.68% 0.26% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.28% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £380 £481 -
25th Percentile £462 £535 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £650 £618
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +5.26% -3.14%
75th Percentile £793 £750 £647
90th Percentile £869 £795 £664
London median daily rate £515 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -6.36% -6.38% +10.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,925 2,126 3,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.77% 91.52% 90.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,251 1,467 2,228
10th Percentile £331 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +5.73%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £713
90th Percentile £775 £789 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 21 24
10th Percentile £22.08 £20.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £16.33
Median hourly rate £32.50 £33.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -5.71% -16.67%
75th Percentile £50.75 £61.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £88.30
London median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% -18.07% +16.90%

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 24 July 2025.

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 24 July 2025. 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 +12 14 £608 -6.54% 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 3 (21.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Chatbot
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (21.43%) SaaS
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Star Schema
2 1 (7.14%) Data Mining
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Back Office
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Analyst
2 7 (50.00%) Business Analyst
3 5 (35.71%) Digital Analyst
4 3 (21.43%) Digital Business Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Data Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Finance Business Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Financial Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Agile Coach
6 1 (7.14%) Business Support Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Business Systems Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Data Product Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Digital Product Owner
6 1 (7.14%) Pensions Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Product Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Product Owner
6 1 (7.14%) Scrum Master
6 1 (7.14%) Senior
6 1 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Systems Support
6 1 (7.14%) Systems Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Agile
2 12 (85.71%) User Stories
3 11 (78.57%) Acceptance Criteria
4 9 (64.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (64.29%) Sprint Planning
5 7 (50.00%) Scrum
5 7 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 7 (50.00%) Sprint Review
5 7 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (42.86%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 6 (42.86%) Product Backlog
7 5 (35.71%) Backlog Management
7 5 (35.71%) Epics
7 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (28.57%) Analytics
8 4 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (28.57%) Financial Modelling
8 4 (28.57%) Impact Assessments
8 4 (28.57%) Project Governance
8 4 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Hyperion
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle
1 1 (7.14%) Tagetik