Backlog Refinement Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.04% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £419 - -
25th Percentile £447 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £514 - -
90th Percentile £659 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £455 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -20.91% +4.55% +22.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 599 134 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 88.74% 93.06% 64.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 92 56
10th Percentile £350 £308 £200
25th Percentile £411 £399 £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £460 £358
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +28.49% -33.46%
75th Percentile £525 £537 £499
90th Percentile £624 £548 £516
West Midlands median daily rate £484 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 1 7
10th Percentile £20.25 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% +141.36% -81.05%
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile £60.75 - £11.85
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £24.34 £22.50
% change year-on-year +39.65% +8.18% -10.00%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Backlog Refinement job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement in Shropshire over the 6 months to 2 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Refinement in Shropshire

Backlog Refinement
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 2 July 2026. 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
Telford - 6 £474 - 1
Shrewsbury - 1 £755 -
Backlog Refinement
West Midlands

Backlog Refinement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Figma
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Balsamiq
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Business Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum Master
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
3 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Pega Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Scrum Master
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) REST
1 2 (28.57%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) Handlebars
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) RAML
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) BYOD
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Sprint Planning
2 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 4 (57.14%) Scrum
4 3 (42.86%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (42.86%) Business Analysis
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Epics
4 3 (42.86%) Kanban
4 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
4 3 (42.86%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (42.86%) Sprint Review
4 3 (42.86%) Systems Analysis
4 3 (42.86%) User Stories
4 3 (42.86%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (28.57%) Burndown Charts
5 2 (28.57%) Impact Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) Technical Discovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
1 1 (14.29%) Pega