Backlog Refinement Contracts in the North of England

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Backlog Refinement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Refinement over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 210 218
Rank change year-on-year +33 +8 -37
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 13 9 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.27% 0.15% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.17% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 17
10th Percentile £425 £384 £395
25th Percentile £444 £405 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.30% -11.90% +6.06%
75th Percentile £562 £500 £550
90th Percentile £637 £675 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% +6.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Backlog Refinement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,110 5,288 6,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.80% 90.70% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,521 3,674 4,657
10th Percentile £288 £303 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 207 261
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.48 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.61 £27.70 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.43% +49.73% -
75th Percentile £44.24 £45.05 £32.77
90th Percentile £53.88 £65.00 £50.78
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Backlog Refinement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in the North of England

Backlog Refinement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Refinement in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Refinement in the North of England

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Refinement in the North of England

Backlog Refinement
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Refinement within the North of England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +26 5 £598 +38.55%
North West +23 5 £413 -15.28%
North East +22 3 £454 +0.89%
Backlog Refinement
England

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Big Data
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Analyst
1 6 (46.15%) Business Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Product Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Scrum Master
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Product Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Services Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Agile Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Transformation Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Product Ownership
2 2 (15.38%) CMDB
3 1 (7.69%) BBC
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) Scrum
2 7 (53.85%) User Stories
3 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (23.08%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 3 (23.08%) Business Analysis
4 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
4 3 (23.08%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
4 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (23.08%) Use Case
5 2 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (15.38%) Coaching
5 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
5 2 (15.38%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (15.38%) ITSM
5 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Service Management
5 2 (15.38%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks