Backlog Refinement Contracts in South Yorkshire

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.34% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £436 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £495 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £598 £431
% change year-on-year -24.69% +38.55% -17.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in South Yorkshire

Backlog Refinement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Refinement in South Yorkshire

Backlog Refinement
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Sheffield - 5 £450 -
Backlog Refinement
Yorkshire

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (60.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Payments Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Payments Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Sprint Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (40.00%) Sprint Review
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Financial Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow