Backlog Refinement Job Trends in Hampshire

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 6 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 0.20% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
75th Percentile £72,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +30.00% -25.93% +17.39%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,263 1,324 3,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 73.86% 81.58% 83.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,623 929 2,308
10th Percentile £28,300 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -7.67%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Backlog Refinement job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Backlog Refinement
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Backlog Refinement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Backlog Refinement

Backlog Refinement
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Refinement within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 29 March 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
Basingstoke - 3 - -
Backlog Refinement
South East

Backlog Refinement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Robot Framework
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
1 2 (33.33%) TestRail
General
1 2 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Manual Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) User Stories
3 3 (50.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 3 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 2 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Grafana
2 2 (33.33%) Nessus
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform