Backlog Refinement Contracts in England

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 511 567
Rank change year-on-year +41 +56 -10
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 72 134 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.27% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.30% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 97 133
10th Percentile £401 £403 £401
25th Percentile £445 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% +4.69%
75th Percentile £597 £638 £619
90th Percentile £636 £689 £661
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - +12.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,661 44,294 64,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.54% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,752 31,074 45,519
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,569 1,736
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in England

Backlog Refinement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Refinement in England

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Refinement in England

Backlog Refinement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Backlog Refinement in England.

Hourly rate trend for Backlog Refinement in England

Backlog Refinement
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 7 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
London +53 40 £550 -4.35% 15
North of England +27 11 £520 +12.43% 1
South East +4 11 £445 -14.38% 9
Yorkshire +29 5 £598 +38.55%
North West +21 4 £413 -15.28% 1
Midlands +30 3 £413 -8.22% 8
South West +17 3 - - 3
West Midlands +21 2 - - 8
North East +16 2 - -
East of England -3 2 £500 +17.65%
East Midlands - 1 £413 -
Backlog Refinement
UK

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 17 (23.61%) Confluence
2 2 (2.78%) CMS
2 2 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.39%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Trello
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) SAP CO
1 2 (2.78%) SAP FI
1 2 (2.78%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (2.78%) SAP SD
1 2 (2.78%) VisionPLUS
1 2 (2.78%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.39%) Azure
2 15 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (9.72%) AWS
4 4 (5.56%) GCP
5 3 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.17%) Azure API Management
5 3 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (4.17%) NuGet
5 3 (4.17%) PaaS
5 3 (4.17%) Serverless
6 2 (2.78%) Veeva
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.39%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) Network Security
1 1 (1.39%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.17%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.78%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.39%) Big Data
3 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.39%) GIS
3 1 (1.39%) Power BI
3 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (19.44%) JIRA
2 4 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (1.39%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.39%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.39%) GitLab
3 1 (1.39%) Gradle
3 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.39%) JMeter
3 1 (1.39%) JUnit
3 1 (1.39%) Maven
3 1 (1.39%) Mocha
3 1 (1.39%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.39%) Selenium
3 1 (1.39%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.39%) TestNG
3 1 (1.39%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.44%) Finance
3 13 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.72%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.56%) Banking
7 3 (4.17%) Retail
8 2 (2.78%) Back Office
8 2 (2.78%) Marketing
9 1 (1.39%) French Language
9 1 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.39%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 20 (27.78%) Product Owner
2 18 (25.00%) Analyst
3 13 (18.06%) Business Analyst
4 10 (13.89%) Scrum Master
5 8 (11.11%) Senior
6 7 (9.72%) Developer
7 6 (8.33%) Product Analyst
8 4 (5.56%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Digital Product Owner
8 4 (5.56%) Project Manager
9 3 (4.17%) Product Manager
9 3 (4.17%) Senior Developer
10 2 (2.78%) CRM Project Manager
10 2 (2.78%) Data Manager
10 2 (2.78%) Integration Engineer
10 2 (2.78%) SAP CO Consultant
10 2 (2.78%) SAP Consultant
10 2 (2.78%) SAP FI Consultant
10 2 (2.78%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
10 2 (2.78%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.72%) .NET
2 5 (6.94%) SOAP
3 4 (5.56%) REST
4 3 (4.17%) GraphQL
4 3 (4.17%) Node.js
4 3 (4.17%) RESTful
4 3 (4.17%) YAML
5 2 (2.78%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.78%) CSS
5 2 (2.78%) Express.js
5 2 (2.78%) HTML
5 2 (2.78%) MERN Stack
5 2 (2.78%) Middleware
5 2 (2.78%) React
6 1 (1.39%) Chai
6 1 (1.39%) JAXB
6 1 (1.39%) JAX-RS
6 1 (1.39%) Spring
6 1 (1.39%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.94%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (6.94%) Wiki
3 4 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.78%) CMDB
5 2 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.39%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.39%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.39%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (86.11%) Agile
2 33 (45.83%) Product Backlog
2 33 (45.83%) Scrum
3 32 (44.44%) Sprint Planning
3 32 (44.44%) User Stories
4 24 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (29.17%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 19 (26.39%) Acceptance Criteria
7 17 (23.61%) DevOps
7 17 (23.61%) Sprint Retrospective
7 17 (23.61%) Workshop Facilitation
8 16 (22.22%) Roadmaps
9 15 (20.83%) Sprint Review
10 13 (18.06%) Translating Business Requirements
11 11 (15.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (11.11%) CRM
12 8 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
13 7 (9.72%) Epics
13 7 (9.72%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.11%) C#
2 7 (9.72%) SQL
3 4 (5.56%) Java
3 4 (5.56%) Python
4 3 (4.17%) Bicep
4 3 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (12.50%) Degree
1 9 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.17%) CSPO
3 3 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.39%) PgMP
5 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.78%) QA
3 1 (1.39%) GDPR
3 1 (1.39%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.17%) Terraform
2 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (6.94%) ServiceNow
2 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.78%) SAP
4 1 (1.39%) Databricks
4 1 (1.39%) IBM
4 1 (1.39%) NCR
4 1 (1.39%) OpenText
4 1 (1.39%) Pega
4 1 (1.39%) Salesforce