Backlog Refinement Job Trends in Cheltenham

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 0.41% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £73,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - -
75th Percentile £81,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £77,500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 380 81 384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 77.71% 88.04% 93.66%
Number of salaries quoted 266 47 290
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £83,750
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Backlog Refinement job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Backlog Refinement
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Backlog Refinement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Backlog Refinement

Backlog Refinement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform