Backlog Management Job Trends in Merseyside

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Backlog Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - 84
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Management 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.087% - 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £63,217
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £58,750 £59,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.84% +7.73% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

Backlog Management 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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 809 435 954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 70.47% 94.98% 75.06%
Number of salaries quoted 520 172 795
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £46,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.54% +2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,125 £61,875
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,375 £80,497
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Backlog Management job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Backlog Management
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Backlog Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Backlog Management

Backlog Management
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Management within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Liverpool - 1 £57,500 - 1
Backlog Management
North West

Backlog Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Project Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories