Backlog Refinement Job Trends in Edinburgh

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 83 100
Rank change year-on-year +9 +17 +35
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 7 5 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.62% 0.55% 0.076%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.56% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £82,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +35.50%
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £53,750 - £54,000
% change year-on-year - - -10.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 808 888 1,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 71.13% 97.48% 88.15%
Number of salaries quoted 471 400 933
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £79,736 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £97,500
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Backlog Refinement job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Backlog Refinement
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Backlog Refinement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Backlog Refinement

Backlog Refinement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
1 1 (14.29%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
1 6 (85.71%) Azure DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) GitHub
1 6 (85.71%) GitHub Copilot
1 6 (85.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 6 (85.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
1 6 (85.71%) Marketing
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Salesforce Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Lightning Web Components
1 6 (85.71%) REST
1 6 (85.71%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) AI
2 6 (85.71%) Architectural Patterns
2 6 (85.71%) Asset Management
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Clean Code
2 6 (85.71%) Coaching
2 6 (85.71%) Data Modelling
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Observability
2 6 (85.71%) Sprint Planning
2 6 (85.71%) Sprint Retrospective
2 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Backlog Management
3 1 (14.29%) Information Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Workshops
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft