Backlog Refinement Contract Job Trends in Hatfield

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
Hertfordshire > Hatfield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hatfield requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hatfield 0.88% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £248 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £266 - -
75th Percentile £283 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £513 £400 -
% change year-on-year +28.13% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hatfield

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 Hatfield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 91 46 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hatfield 79.82% 97.87% 88.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 29 31
10th Percentile £263 £134 £140
25th Percentile £402 £400 £174
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £225
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +133.33% -58.62%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £400
90th Percentile £673 £615 £525
Hertfordshire median daily rate £510 £540 £405
% change year-on-year -5.56% +33.33% -22.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 13
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.68 £13.17
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.91 £13.86
Median hourly rate £18.27 £16.92 £15.10
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% +12.05% +5.96%
75th Percentile £18.50 £17.45 £15.40
90th Percentile £20.09 £17.90 £15.73
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £61.76 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% +10.00% -23.08%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Hatfield

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

Backlog Refinement job vacancy trend in Hatfield

Backlog Refinement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hatfield 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Miro
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Coordinator
1 1 (100.00%) Project Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree