Backlog Refinement Contracts in Scotland

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 122 159 162
Rank change year-on-year +37 +3 -7
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 6 4 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.27% 0.14% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.15% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 16
10th Percentile £353 £436 £403
25th Percentile £396 £444 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £463 £438
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +5.71% +2.94%
75th Percentile £513 £528 £488
90th Percentile £535 £564 £536
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,967 2,651 3,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.60% 92.63% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,908 2,312
10th Percentile £229 £263 £240
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 46
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £18.35
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -55.69% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £49.34
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in Scotland

Backlog Refinement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Refinement in Scotland

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Refinement in Scotland

Backlog Refinement
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +4 5 £400 -11.11% 3
Edinburgh +41 1 - - 2
Backlog Refinement
UK

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Java Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Backend Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
1 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (16.67%) OpenTracing
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Release Management
1 5 (83.33%) Scrum
1 5 (83.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) SDLC
3 3 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 1 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (16.67%) Post-Production
5 1 (16.67%) Product Management
5 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
5 1 (16.67%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Kotlin
2 3 (50.00%) Scala
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft