Backlog Refinement Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 1.17% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £478 - -
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £523 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £550 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 212 89 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 82.81% 98.89% 79.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 62 41
10th Percentile £322 £394 £345
25th Percentile £476 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% -13.04% +17.95%
75th Percentile £613 £594 £679
90th Percentile £724 £648 £744
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £580
% change year-on-year - -5.17% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 0
10th Percentile £40.00 £70.50 -
25th Percentile £42.29 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.33% - -
75th Percentile £51.00 - -
90th Percentile - £76.13 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £37.00 £57.63 £57.35
% change year-on-year -35.79% +0.48% +9.24%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

Backlog Refinement job vacancy trend in Farnborough

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

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

Backlog Refinement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Automotive
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum Master
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Scrum Master
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Systems Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Junior
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Scrum Master
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Management
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Review
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Budgeting
3 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (33.33%) Burndown Charts
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) Servant Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SAFe Agilist
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) QA