Backlog Refinement Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 - 81
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.13% - 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £494 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £475 £500 -
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 641 416 718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 83.90% 89.08% 84.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 275 540
10th Percentile £330 £303 £360
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £543
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +5.99% -3.90%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £688 £732
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 16 14
10th Percentile - £18.69 £12.00
25th Percentile £13.45 £18.87 -
Median hourly rate £38.50 £22.25 £12.79
Median % change year-on-year +73.03% +73.96% -80.91%
75th Percentile £85.25 £25.15 £15.64
90th Percentile - - £30.25
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £25.15 £62.25
% change year-on-year +128.63% -59.60% -4.23%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Backlog Refinement job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

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

Backlog Refinement
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
Corsham - 1 £463 - 1
Backlog Refinement
South West

Backlog Refinement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Enrichment
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica