Backlog Refinement Contract Job Trends in East London

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in East London 0.84% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
London median daily rate £523 £475 £563
% change year-on-year +10.05% -15.56% -2.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 98 103 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 82.35% 93.64% 93.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 87 189
10th Percentile £328 £294 £355
25th Percentile £425 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.85% +2.23%
75th Percentile £630 £600 £644
90th Percentile £700 £675 £770
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 14
10th Percentile £20.25 £14.66 £11.95
25th Percentile £21.85 £24.66 £13.70
Median hourly rate £24.43 £28.60 £23.32
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% +22.64% +3.71%
75th Percentile £26.44 £37.00 £33.78
90th Percentile £28.00 £38.80 £38.28
London median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
% change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.58%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Backlog Refinement job vacancy trend in East London

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Backlog Refinement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Backlog Refinement

Backlog Refinement
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 20 April 2026. 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
Tower Hamlets - 1 £450 -
Backlog Refinement
London

Backlog Refinement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle