Backlog Refinement Contracts in Reading

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Refinement over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 86 85
Rank change year-on-year +29 -1 +9
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 3 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.50% 0.42% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.47% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £430 - £614
25th Percentile £475 £445 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £445 £638
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -30.16% +68.74%
75th Percentile - £446 £666
90th Percentile - £446 £671
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £446 £638
% change year-on-year +12.23% -30.12% +27.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Backlog Refinement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Refinement in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Refinement in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Refinement in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Transformation Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Virgin Media
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft