Backlog Refinement Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for Backlog Refinement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Refinement over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 52 -
Rank change year-on-year +24 - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 0.83% 0.29% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.31% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% - -
North East median daily rate £454 £450 -
% change year-on-year +0.89% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

Backlog Refinement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 209 326 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 86.36% 93.41% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 256 271
10th Percentile £263 £319 £200
25th Percentile £366 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £589 £650 £600
90th Percentile £650 £734 £695
North East median daily rate £500 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -9.09% +12.82% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 0 12
10th Percentile £11.50 - £10.57
25th Percentile £12.13 - £12.54
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.68%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £17.50
90th Percentile £50.00 - £18.63
North East median hourly rate £15.46 £40.75 £16.50
% change year-on-year -62.06% +146.97% +8.20%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Backlog Refinement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in Tyne and Wear

Backlog Refinement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Refinement in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Refinement in Tyne and Wear

Backlog Refinement
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +21 2 £454 +0.89%
Backlog Refinement
North East

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Publishing Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) BBC
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
1 2 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) PDM
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality