Backlog Refinement Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 0.98% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £556 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £569 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £531 - £375
% change year-on-year - - +10.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 80 114 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 78.43% 80.85% 82.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 73 88
10th Percentile £425 £485 £360
25th Percentile £463 £547 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £664 £738 £675
90th Percentile £751 £1,055 £738
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £41.28 £46.00 £38.65
25th Percentile £49.19 £55.00 £42.63
Median hourly rate £64.25 £67.50 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +37.06% -39.57%
75th Percentile £81.19 £73.75 £55.88
90th Percentile £90.23 - £59.85
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £51.21 £67.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year -24.13% +38.55% -11.42%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Backlog Refinement job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Backlog Refinement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared