Backlog Refinement Jobs in the City of London

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Refinement over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 166 226
Rank change year-on-year +32 +60 +55
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 5 11 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.26% 0.33% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.36% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 5
10th Percentile £52,500 £92,500 -
25th Percentile £56,250 - £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £100,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +42.86% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £107,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 - £79,750
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £100,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -35.00% +42.86% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,838 3,064 4,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.23% 91.65% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,383 2,397 3,613
10th Percentile £42,100 £41,315 £42,800
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Backlog Refinement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in the City of London

Backlog Refinement
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backlog Refinement in the City of London.

Salary trend for Backlog Refinement in the City of London

Backlog Refinement
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Backlog Refinement in the City of London

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Magento
1 1 (20.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) BigCommerce
3 1 (20.00%) Google Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Coach
3 1 (20.00%) Insurance Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Product Backlog
3 2 (40.00%) Product Vision
3 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (40.00%) User Stories
3 2 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (20.00%) Business Case
4 1 (20.00%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) LLM
4 1 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Story Mapping
4 1 (20.00%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce