Backlog Refinement Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 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 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.23% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% - -
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 - - -
South West median annual salary £52,500 £72,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -27.59% +81.25% -41.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 990 378 1,431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 76.98% 89.79% 86.26%
Number of salaries quoted 669 208 1,075
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,763 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,700 £77,500
South West median annual salary £54,000 £52,600 £50,500
% change year-on-year +2.66% +4.16% -3.81%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Backlog Refinement job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Backlog Refinement
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Backlog Refinement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Backlog Refinement

Backlog Refinement
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Refinement within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 29 April 2026. 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
Cheltenham - 2 £77,500 - 1
Gloucester - 1 - -
Backlog Refinement
South West

Backlog Refinement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (66.67%) PKI
3 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C
1 2 (66.67%) C++
1 2 (66.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform