Product Backlog Jobs in England

Product Backlogs
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Product Backlog skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Product Backlog over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 483 389
Rank change year-on-year -68 -94 -22
Permanent jobs citing Product Backlog 140 376 736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.44% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.51% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 97 204 358
10th Percentile £40,950 £45,000 £39,294
25th Percentile £48,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,684 £62,859 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% +0.57% -3.85%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £59,857 £62,500 £60,249
% change year-on-year -4.23% +3.74% -7.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Product Backlog 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,536 73,513 84,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.12% 85.20% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,795 53,935 50,179
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,308
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in England

Product Backlog
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Product Backlog in England

Product Backlog
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Backlog in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Product Backlog in England

Product Backlog
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Backlog within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. 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 +45 44 £70,000 -3.45% 91
North of England +27 32 £50,000 -23.08% 39
Midlands +31 28 £48,000 -4.95% 22
North West +5 22 £51,500 -17.60% 20
South West +52 19 £65,000 +8.33% 12
West Midlands +46 18 £48,000 -18.52% 17
South East +34 13 £65,000 +13.04% 30
East Midlands +3 10 £37,500 - 5
Yorkshire +51 8 £44,730 -31.18% 13
North East +31 2 £51,250 +7.89% 6
East of England +40 1 £72,500 +48.72% 9
Product Backlog
UK

Product Backlog
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 17 (12.14%) Confluence
2 4 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.14%) CMS
4 2 (1.43%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (6.43%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (5.00%) Trello
3 5 (3.57%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (7.14%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.43%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.57%) Miro
2 10 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 9 (6.43%) AWS
3 9 (6.43%) SaaS
4 7 (5.00%) Azure
5 4 (2.86%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (2.86%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.86%) Figma
5 4 (2.86%) Google Workspace
5 4 (2.86%) Slack
5 4 (2.86%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.71%) Boomi
6 1 (0.71%) GCP
6 1 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.71%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.71%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.29%) Tableau
2 9 (6.43%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.00%) Power BI
4 5 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.86%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (2.86%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.14%) Metadata
7 2 (1.43%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 39 (27.86%) JIRA
2 4 (2.86%) Balsamiq
3 3 (2.14%) Git
4 1 (0.71%) GitLab
General
1 63 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 46 (32.86%) Finance
3 39 (27.86%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.71%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (7.86%) Marketing
6 10 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (7.14%) Law
7 8 (5.71%) Retail
8 6 (4.29%) Financial Institution
8 6 (4.29%) Publishing
9 5 (3.57%) Banking
10 4 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.43%) Advertising
12 2 (1.43%) Digital Health
12 2 (1.43%) Health Technology
12 2 (1.43%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.43%) Legal
12 2 (1.43%) Local Government
12 2 (1.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 54 (38.57%) Product Owner
2 28 (20.00%) Product Manager
3 26 (18.57%) Analyst
4 19 (13.57%) Business Analyst
5 14 (10.00%) Lead
6 11 (7.86%) Agile Product Owner
7 10 (7.14%) Architect
8 9 (6.43%) Senior
9 7 (5.00%) Digital Product Owner
10 6 (4.29%) Enterprise Architect
10 6 (4.29%) Lead Architect
10 6 (4.29%) Lead Enterprise Architect
10 6 (4.29%) Senior Manager
10 6 (4.29%) Senior Product Manager
11 5 (3.57%) Scrum Master
12 4 (2.86%) Business Architect
12 4 (2.86%) Digital Product Manager
12 4 (2.86%) Head of Strategy
12 4 (2.86%) Junior
12 4 (2.86%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.57%) GraphQL
2 4 (2.86%) Kafka
3 2 (1.43%) Gherkin
3 2 (1.43%) REST
3 2 (1.43%) Swagger
4 1 (0.71%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 81 (57.86%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.14%) PMI
4 2 (1.43%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.43%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.43%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.43%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.43%) NHS
4 2 (1.43%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.71%) Femtech
5 1 (0.71%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.71%) PropTech
5 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.71%) Smart City
5 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (83.57%) Agile
2 86 (61.43%) Roadmaps
3 53 (37.86%) Backlog Management
4 52 (37.14%) User Stories
5 50 (35.71%) Scrum
6 45 (32.14%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 41 (29.29%) Product Roadmap
8 39 (27.86%) Product Vision
9 36 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (21.43%) Product Management
11 29 (20.71%) Business Strategy
12 27 (19.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (18.57%) Acceptance Criteria
13 26 (18.57%) Stakeholder Management
14 25 (17.86%) Product Strategy
15 24 (17.14%) Sprint Planning
16 22 (15.71%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 22 (15.71%) User Experience
17 19 (13.57%) Decision-Making
18 18 (12.86%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.00%) SQL
2 4 (2.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (12.14%) Degree
2 9 (6.43%) CSPO
3 3 (2.14%) PMI Certification
3 3 (2.14%) PMP
4 1 (0.71%) CBAP
4 1 (0.71%) CISSP
4 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.71%) ISEB
4 1 (0.71%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.86%) QA
2 6 (4.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 6 (4.29%) GDPR
2 6 (4.29%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.86%) PMO
4 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.71%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.71%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 2 (1.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (2.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 14 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 5 (3.57%) ServiceNow
3 4 (2.86%) Avaloq
3 4 (2.86%) Google
3 4 (2.86%) Siebel
4 3 (2.14%) Facebook
5 2 (1.43%) Databricks
5 2 (1.43%) Informatica
5 2 (1.43%) Pardot
5 2 (1.43%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.43%) UiPath
5 2 (1.43%) YouTube
6 1 (0.71%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.71%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.71%) Qualys
6 1 (0.71%) SnapLogic