Backlog Refinement Jobs in England

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Backlog Refinement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Refinement over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 708 684 639
Rank change year-on-year -24 -45 +46
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 123 256 579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.28% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.30% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 57 125 246
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -3.85% +26.83%
75th Percentile £88,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +28.00% -3.85% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Backlog Refinement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,254 86,133 128,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.46% 95.62% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 53,821 51,154 73,474
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,410 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Backlog Refinement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in England

Backlog Refinement
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backlog Refinement in England.

Salary trend for Backlog Refinement in England

Backlog Refinement
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Backlog Refinement in England

Backlog Refinement
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Refinement within the England region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +67 61 £87,500 +25.00% 15
Midlands -28 21 £57,659 -7.75% 5
North of England +41 19 £47,500 -17.39% 1
South West -18 13 £50,000 -27.35% 3
East Midlands - 13 £67,500 -
North West -12 10 - - 1
West Midlands -23 8 £55,000 -12.00% 5
South East -31 8 £63,750 +21.43% 6
North East - 5 £47,500 -
Yorkshire +85 4 £50,000 -2.44%
East of England +13 3 £45,000 -30.77% 1
Backlog Refinement
UK

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 39 (31.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (12.20%) MS Visio
2 11 (8.94%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (4.88%) Trello
4 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (13.82%) Azure
2 16 (13.01%) Miro
3 7 (5.69%) AWS
3 7 (5.69%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.63%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) GCP
6 1 (0.81%) PaaS
6 1 (0.81%) SaaS
6 1 (0.81%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.69%) Power BI
1 7 (5.69%) Relational Database
2 6 (4.88%) Big Data
2 6 (4.88%) Snowflake Schema
2 6 (4.88%) Star Schema
2 6 (4.88%) Tableau
3 3 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.81%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.81%) Metadata
5 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.81%) MySQL
5 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 56 (45.53%) JIRA
2 3 (2.44%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.63%) Git
3 2 (1.63%) REST Assured
3 2 (1.63%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.81%) Appium
4 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.81%) JUnit
4 1 (0.81%) Mockito
4 1 (0.81%) Postman
4 1 (0.81%) Selenium
4 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (31.71%) Analytical Skills
1 39 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.95%) Finance
3 7 (5.69%) Retail
4 5 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (4.07%) Marketing
5 4 (3.25%) Banking
5 4 (3.25%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.44%) Automotive
6 3 (2.44%) Games
6 3 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.81%) Front Office
7 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.81%) Law
Job Titles
1 30 (24.39%) Product Owner
2 29 (23.58%) Analyst
3 28 (22.76%) Business Analyst
4 19 (15.45%) Senior
5 16 (13.01%) Senior Analyst
6 15 (12.20%) Senior Business Analyst
7 14 (11.38%) Product Manager
8 9 (7.32%) Lead
8 9 (7.32%) Scrum Master
9 8 (6.50%) Delivery Manager
10 7 (5.69%) E-Commerce Executive
11 6 (4.88%) Technical Analyst
11 6 (4.88%) Technical Business Analyst
12 5 (4.07%) Developer
12 5 (4.07%) Digital Product Owner
12 5 (4.07%) E-Commerce Tester
12 5 (4.07%) QA Tester
12 5 (4.07%) Tester
13 4 (3.25%) Software Manager
14 3 (2.44%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.44%) REST
1 3 (2.44%) RESTful
2 1 (0.81%) .NET
2 1 (0.81%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.81%) Ajax
2 1 (0.81%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.81%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (0.81%) Classic ASP
2 1 (0.81%) CSS3
2 1 (0.81%) HTML
2 1 (0.81%) HTML5
2 1 (0.81%) jQuery
2 1 (0.81%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (0.81%) LINQ
2 1 (0.81%) Murex MxML
2 1 (0.81%) OpenCV
2 1 (0.81%) React
2 1 (0.81%) Spring
2 1 (0.81%) Spring Boot
2 1 (0.81%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 63 (51.22%) Product Ownership
2 13 (10.57%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.25%) Reinsurance
4 3 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.44%) Blockchain
4 3 (2.44%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.44%) Derivative
4 3 (2.44%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.44%) Over-the-Top Content
4 3 (2.44%) Virtual Reality
5 2 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.63%) PMI
6 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.81%) Equities
6 1 (0.81%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.44%) Unix
2 1 (0.81%) Android
2 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (88.62%) Agile
2 77 (62.60%) Scrum
3 63 (51.22%) Acceptance Criteria
4 61 (49.59%) User Stories
5 55 (44.72%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 49 (39.84%) Epics
7 48 (39.02%) Product Backlog
8 44 (35.77%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (32.52%) Roadmaps
10 38 (30.89%) Backlog Management
10 38 (30.89%) Project Management
11 37 (30.08%) Product Roadmap
12 32 (26.02%) Product Vision
13 30 (24.39%) Requirements Gathering
14 28 (22.76%) Business Analysis
14 28 (22.76%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 27 (21.95%) Stakeholder Management
16 26 (21.14%) DevOps
17 25 (20.33%) Product Requirements
18 23 (18.70%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 30 (24.39%) SQL
2 8 (6.50%) Python
3 7 (5.69%) R
4 6 (4.88%) T-SQL
5 4 (3.25%) Java
6 2 (1.63%) C#
6 2 (1.63%) Go
6 2 (1.63%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.81%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.81%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 38 (30.89%) Degree
2 30 (24.39%) Security Cleared
3 24 (19.51%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.50%) Master's Degree
5 7 (5.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.88%) IIBA
7 2 (1.63%) CSPO
7 2 (1.63%) MBA
7 2 (1.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.94%) QA
2 7 (5.69%) PMO
3 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (1.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.13%) Cadence
3 5 (4.07%) Oracle
4 2 (1.63%) SAP
5 1 (0.81%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.81%) Murex
5 1 (0.81%) Progress
5 1 (0.81%) Reuters
5 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.81%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.81%) Sybase