Backlog Refinement Contract Job Trends in Fareham

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
Hampshire > Fareham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Fareham requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Fareham 0.93% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £550 - £408
% change year-on-year - - -25.91%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Fareham

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 Fareham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 79 26 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Fareham 73.15% 92.86% 67.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 15 11
10th Percentile £398 - £363
25th Percentile £413 £256 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £372 £450
Median % change year-on-year +41.23% -17.39% -2.70%
75th Percentile £538 £450 £531
90th Percentile £568 £509 £600
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.70% +12.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 5
10th Percentile £12.94 - £18.50
25th Percentile - £15.25 £22.25
Median hourly rate £13.45 £15.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.23% -80.00% +297.64%
75th Percentile £14.98 £15.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £16.83 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £38.25 £46.25 £57.35
% change year-on-year -17.30% -19.35% +9.24%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Fareham

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

Backlog Refinement job vacancy trend in Fareham

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Trend in Fareham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Fareham citing Backlog Refinement

Backlog Refinement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Fareham 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C++ Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Qt Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Qt
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python