Backlog Refinement Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
Suffolk > Ipswich

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 0.73% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £353 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £353 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 109 26 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 79.56% 83.87% 85.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 19 21
10th Percentile £314 £196 £300
25th Percentile £356 £303 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +12.50% -23.81%
75th Percentile £519 £515 £538
90th Percentile £630 £550 £550
Suffolk median daily rate £469 £370 £400
% change year-on-year +26.69% -7.50% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £13.89 £15.84 -
25th Percentile £14.97 £16.36 £14.05
Median hourly rate £17.12 £17.46 £14.60
Median % change year-on-year -1.98% +19.59% +4.29%
75th Percentile £18.49 £18.32 £15.15
90th Percentile £18.75 £18.68 -
Suffolk median hourly rate £16.60 £17.46 £14.60
% change year-on-year -4.94% +19.59% +4.29%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Backlog Refinement job vacancy trend in Ipswich

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

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

Backlog Refinement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
1 1 (100.00%) IPv4
1 1 (100.00%) IPv6
1 1 (100.00%) PPP
1 1 (100.00%) UPnP
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) xDSL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines