Backlog Refinement Contracts in the City of London

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 166 182
Rank change year-on-year +47 +16 -37
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 10 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.45% 0.16% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.18% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile £463 £505 £389
25th Percentile £491 £519 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £610 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +25.06% -
75th Percentile £581 £675 £573
90th Percentile £593 £684 £625
Central London median daily rate £520 £610 £488
% change year-on-year -14.75% +25.06% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,011 3,350 3,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.50% 91.88% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,422 2,249 2,943
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.93 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £43.25 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.20% +5.49% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in the City of London

Backlog Refinement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Refinement in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Refinement in the City of London

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Refinement in the City of London

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 6 (60.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Solr
2 1 (10.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
1 6 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Gradle
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) JMeter
1 1 (10.00%) JUnit
1 1 (10.00%) Maven
1 1 (10.00%) Mocha
1 1 (10.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
1 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (10.00%) TestNG
1 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Product Owner
2 4 (40.00%) Digital Product Owner
3 1 (10.00%) Product Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Chai
1 1 (10.00%) JAXB
1 1 (10.00%) JAX-RS
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
1 1 (10.00%) Spring
1 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 7 (70.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) Product Backlog
2 7 (70.00%) Sprint Planning
2 7 (70.00%) User Stories
3 6 (60.00%) Business Case
3 6 (60.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (60.00%) Product Requirements
3 6 (60.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 6 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (60.00%) Workflow
3 6 (60.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (10.00%) Product Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (10.00%) Service Catalogue
5 1 (10.00%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) SAP
1 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk