Backlog Refinement Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 84 73
Rank change year-on-year +19 -11 +18
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 3 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.43% 0.12% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.13% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £353
25th Percentile £513 £423 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £446 £400
Median % change year-on-year +17.71% +11.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £469 £500
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £529 £451 £450
% change year-on-year +17.18% +0.22% -2.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 575 776 868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 81.79% 93.72% 92.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 494 549
10th Percentile £306 £308 £313
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £675 £606 £694
Scotland median daily rate £450 £455 £480
% change year-on-year -1.10% -5.21% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 39
10th Percentile £16.11 £16.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.25 £23.17 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.85% +28.69% +44.00%
75th Percentile £46.61 £67.56 £47.35
90th Percentile £54.00 £77.63 £65.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% +10.05%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Backlog Refinement job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Backlog Refinement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Banking Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Investment Banking Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (33.33%) Business Case
3 1 (33.33%) Business Process Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Change
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Servant Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Backlog
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle