Backlog Refinement Job Trends in Basingstoke

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Basingstoke requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 51 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 0.34% 0.20% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.29% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £52,500 -
Hampshire median annual salary - £52,500 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Basingstoke

Backlog Refinement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Basingstoke.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 263 343 289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 88.85% 68.88% 93.23%
Number of salaries quoted 235 240 187
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £49,125 £52,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.07% +35.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,900 £85,250 £77,500
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

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

Backlog Refinement job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Backlog Refinement
Salary Trend in Basingstoke

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Backlog Refinement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Backlog Refinement

Backlog Refinement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Server Building
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform