Backlog Management Job Trends in the North of England

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Backlog Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 239 256
Rank change year-on-year -13 +17 +67
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Management 11 37 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.10% 0.39% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.43% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 9 18 14
10th Percentile £38,965 £44,750 £42,439
25th Percentile £39,331 £45,688 £46,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £57,730
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +3.93% -27.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,313 £64,721
90th Percentile £89,100 £77,500 £83,329
England median annual salary £67,250 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.46% -13.33% +7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,633 8,529 6,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 82.34% 89.80% 90.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,561 3,882 5,257
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -0.94%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,225 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Backlog Management job vacancy trend in the North of England

Backlog Management
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Backlog Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Backlog Management

Backlog Management
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Backlog Management in the North of England

Backlog Management
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Management within the North of England region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
North West +5 6 £83,500 +71.28% 7
North East - 4 £40,662 - 1
Yorkshire -12 1 £80,000 +6.67% 6
Backlog Management
England

Backlog Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (27.27%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) IaaS
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Advertising
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Product Owner
2 2 (18.18%) Product Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Product Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Support Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Support Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Cybercrime
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
1 6 (54.55%) Product Backlog
1 6 (54.55%) Roadmaps
2 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 5 (45.45%) User Stories
3 4 (36.36%) Product Vision
4 3 (27.27%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
4 3 (27.27%) ITSM
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Product Roadmap
4 3 (27.27%) Project Delivery
4 3 (27.27%) Service Management
5 2 (18.18%) B2B
5 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
5 2 (18.18%) ITIL
5 2 (18.18%) Kanban
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (18.18%) Value Proposition
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 1 (9.09%) CISSP
1 1 (9.09%) CSPO
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Atlassian
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Freshdesk