Backlog Refinement Contracts in Wales

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.04% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £458 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - -
75th Percentile £473 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +3.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 256 290 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 88.58% 75.72% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 190 387
10th Percentile £186 £143 £180
25th Percentile £285 £317 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +3.16% -2.23%
75th Percentile £488 £560 £583
90th Percentile £625 £668 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 34 26
10th Percentile £13.46 £11.75 £14.63
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.27 £16.98
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.70 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year +27.65% +8.61% -15.11%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £22.93
90th Percentile £44.25 £85.70 £49.38
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in Wales

Backlog Refinement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Refinement in Wales

Backlog Refinement
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 30 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
South Wales - 2 £465 - 12
Backlog Refinement
UK

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Finance Business Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Financial Business Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Financial Services Business Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Epics
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Sparx