Backlog Prioritisation Job Trends in the Midlands

Backlog Prioritisation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Backlog Prioritisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 218 220
Rank change year-on-year +17 +2 +54
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 15 18 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.19% 0.28% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.31% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 13
10th Percentile £50,700 £60,750 £35,400
25th Percentile £52,813 £67,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.07% - +45.83%
75th Percentile £66,000 £85,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £67,250 - £75,618
England median annual salary £67,000 £64,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.28% -19.69% +14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Backlog Prioritisation 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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,306 5,768 4,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.32% 90.45% 86.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,486 2,526 4,080
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,153
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Backlog Prioritisation job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Backlog Prioritisation
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Backlog Prioritisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Backlog Prioritisation

Backlog Prioritisation
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in the Midlands

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
West Midlands +26 13 £60,000 -14.29% 6
East Midlands -13 2 £46,500 -41.88% 6
Backlog Prioritisation
England

Backlog Prioritisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) CMS
1 3 (20.00%) nginx
2 1 (6.67%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (20.00%) Photoshop
1 3 (20.00%) Trello
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Shopify
2 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
1 3 (20.00%) GitHub
2 2 (13.33%) Asana
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.67%) Figma
3 1 (6.67%) Miro
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) Vite
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
3 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Product Owner
2 4 (26.67%) Lead
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Business Development Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Development Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Digital Product Owner
4 2 (13.33%) Product Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Product Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Software Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Software Development Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Software Development Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Product Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Product Owner
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Applications Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Applications Support
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Product Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) CSS
1 4 (26.67%) HTML
2 3 (20.00%) Laravel
2 3 (20.00%) LEMP Stack
2 3 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
2 3 (20.00%) Vue
2 3 (20.00%) YAML
3 1 (6.67%) .NET
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.67%) Ajax
3 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
3 1 (6.67%) jQuery
3 1 (6.67%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (6.67%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (6.67%) WCF
3 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Agile
2 10 (66.67%) Product Backlog
3 9 (60.00%) Roadmaps
4 7 (46.67%) Backlog Management
4 7 (46.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (46.67%) User Stories
5 6 (40.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 6 (40.00%) Product Vision
6 5 (33.33%) Business Strategy
6 5 (33.33%) Decision-Making
6 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (33.33%) Product Management
6 5 (33.33%) Scrum
6 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (33.33%) User Experience
7 4 (26.67%) B2C
8 3 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
8 3 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
8 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (20.00%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (20.00%) Bash
2 3 (20.00%) PHP
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.67%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) Salesforce