Backlog Refinement Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 0.48% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £353 - -
East of England median daily rate £575 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +12.20% +2.50% -6.98%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 152 44 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 73.43% 88.00% 69.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 30 32
10th Percentile £313 £212 £187
25th Percentile £356 £240 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £370 £400
Median % change year-on-year +26.69% -7.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £520 £500 £538
90th Percentile £638 £550 £629
East of England median daily rate £500 £501 £450
% change year-on-year -0.10% +11.22% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 9
10th Percentile £14.40 £13.47 -
25th Percentile £14.61 £14.78 £14.05
Median hourly rate £16.60 £17.46 £14.60
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +19.59% +4.29%
75th Percentile £18.22 £20.48 £51.91
90th Percentile £18.75 £23.28 £52.27
East of England median hourly rate £47.25 £21.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +125.00% -30.00% +50.00%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Backlog Refinement job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

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

Backlog Refinement
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Ipswich - 1 £353 -
Backlog Refinement
East of England

Backlog Refinement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
1 1 (100.00%) IPv4
1 1 (100.00%) IPv6
1 1 (100.00%) PPP
1 1 (100.00%) UPnP
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) xDSL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines