Backlog Refinement Contracts in Cheshire

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 61 55
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 -8
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.59% 0.19% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.21% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.05% -9.52% +6.06%
North West median daily rate £413 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -15.28% +2.63% -4.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 484 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.42% 91.49% 86.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 328 263
10th Percentile £276 £275 £214
25th Percentile £400 £397 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.68% +5.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £538
90th Percentile £632 £660 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 23 26
10th Percentile £13.70 £19.06 £10.28
25th Percentile £16.61 £23.15 £15.55
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +29.96% -22.79%
75th Percentile £42.31 £35.00 £33.62
90th Percentile £44.13 £39.20 £60.88
North West median hourly rate £21.56 £35.00 £20.49
% change year-on-year -38.41% +70.82% +10.76%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in Cheshire

Backlog Refinement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Refinement in Cheshire

Backlog Refinement
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Knutsford - 2 £413 -
Macclesfield -15 1 - -
Backlog Refinement
North West

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Veeva
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum Master
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) CRM Manager
2 1 (33.33%) CRM Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Demand Management
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree