Backlog Refinement Contract Job Trends in Telford

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford 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 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 0.94% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £414 - -
25th Percentile £435 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 - -
75th Percentile £504 - -
90th Percentile £510 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 568 119 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 89.31% 95.97% 66.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 87 54
10th Percentile £350 £313 £298
25th Percentile £413 £400 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £463 £358
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% +29.19% -33.70%
75th Percentile £525 £537 £501
90th Percentile £625 £549 £517
Shropshire median daily rate £469 £460 £358
% change year-on-year +1.96% +28.49% -33.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 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 £61.00 - £11.85
Shropshire median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £10.42
% change year-on-year +108.75% +141.36% -81.05%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Backlog Refinement job vacancy trend in Telford

Backlog Refinement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Figma
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Balsamiq
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum Master
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Architect
3 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Pega Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Scrum Master
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
1 2 (33.33%) REST
1 2 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) Handlebars
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) RAML
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) BYOD
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Sprint Planning
2 5 (83.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 4 (66.67%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (50.00%) Business Analysis
4 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Epics
4 3 (50.00%) Kanban
4 3 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (50.00%) Sprint Review
4 3 (50.00%) Systems Analysis
4 3 (50.00%) User Stories
4 3 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (33.33%) Backlog Management
5 2 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
5 2 (33.33%) Product Backlog
5 2 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft
1 1 (16.67%) Pega