Backlog Refinement Contracts with Work from Home Options

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 417 483
Rank change year-on-year +105 +66 -37
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 36 59 139
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.23% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.26% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 39 96
10th Percentile £400 £450 £394
25th Percentile £447 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.22% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £594 £619 £611
90th Percentile £638 £701 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - +12.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,319 22,924 40,623
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,917 16,193 29,494
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 527 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.67 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Backlog Refinement
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Backlog Refinement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Backlog Refinement trend for jobs with a WFH option

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Backlog Refinement.

Backlog Refinement daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Backlog Refinement over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Backlog Refinement daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (27.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) SAP CO
1 2 (5.56%) SAP FI
1 2 (5.56%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (5.56%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (13.89%) AWS
4 3 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (8.33%) Serverless
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.78%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.78%) NuGet
6 1 (2.78%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.78%) Big Data
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (27.78%) JIRA
2 3 (8.33%) Git
3 2 (5.56%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.56%) Cypress.io
3 2 (5.56%) GitLab
3 2 (5.56%) Gradle
3 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.56%) JMeter
3 2 (5.56%) JUnit
3 2 (5.56%) Maven
3 2 (5.56%) Mocha
3 2 (5.56%) REST Assured
3 2 (5.56%) Selenium
3 2 (5.56%) SoapUI
3 2 (5.56%) TestNG
3 2 (5.56%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Finance
2 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Banking
5 1 (2.78%) French Language
5 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.78%) Marketing
5 1 (2.78%) Public Speaking
5 1 (2.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) Analyst
2 12 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 9 (25.00%) Product Owner
4 4 (11.11%) Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Digital Product Owner
5 3 (8.33%) Product Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Agile Business Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Automation Tester
6 2 (5.56%) Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) SAP CO Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) SAP FI Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Tester
7 1 (2.78%) Delivery Manager
7 1 (2.78%) Product Manager
7 1 (2.78%) Project Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) .NET
2 3 (8.33%) Middleware
2 3 (8.33%) REST
2 3 (8.33%) SOAP
3 2 (5.56%) Chai
3 2 (5.56%) JAXB
3 2 (5.56%) JAX-RS
3 2 (5.56%) Node.js
3 2 (5.56%) Spring
3 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.78%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.78%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.78%) RESTful
4 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.56%) CMDB
3 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.78%) BBC
4 1 (2.78%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.78%) Replication
4 1 (2.78%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (80.56%) Agile
2 19 (52.78%) User Stories
3 18 (50.00%) Product Backlog
4 17 (47.22%) Sprint Planning
5 12 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
6 11 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 9 (25.00%) DevOps
8 8 (22.22%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 8 (22.22%) Product Requirements
8 8 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (19.44%) Business Case
9 7 (19.44%) Scrum
10 6 (16.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
10 6 (16.67%) Roadmaps
10 6 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
10 6 (16.67%) Workflow
11 5 (13.89%) Requirements Gathering
11 5 (13.89%) SDLC
12 4 (11.11%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) C#
2 3 (8.33%) Java
2 3 (8.33%) Python
3 2 (5.56%) C
3 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.56%) SQL
4 1 (2.78%) Bicep
4 1 (2.78%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.78%) CSPO
4 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) SAP
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow