Backlog Refinement Contract Job Trends in Sussex

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
South East > Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sussex requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sussex 4.17% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £445
% change year-on-year -4.55% +23.53% -12.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sussex

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 Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17 3 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sussex 70.83% 60.00% 63.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 10
10th Percentile - - £350
25th Percentile £238 - £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £323 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -35.50% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £650 - £563
90th Percentile £675 - £580
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +2.80% -1.96% +0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £26.03
25th Percentile £15.00 - £35.52
Median hourly rate £16.00 £13.85 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.52% -72.30% -20.00%
75th Percentile £17.00 - £55.00
90th Percentile - - £63.00
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.30 £47.50
% change year-on-year +107.51% -46.74% -5.00%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Sussex

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

Backlog Refinement job vacancy trend in Sussex

Backlog Refinement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sussex 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 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG