Backlog Refinement Jobs in the North of England

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Refinement over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 375 410
Rank change year-on-year +52 +35 -20
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 6 19 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.054% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% 0.13% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 27
10th Percentile £42,075 - £50,750
25th Percentile £44,438 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,250 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% -17.39% +27.78%
75th Percentile £55,438 £48,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £57,425 £49,500 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £77,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -22.58% +24.00% -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,591 14,483 16,946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.74% 83.70% 96.88%
Number of salaries quoted 5,818 11,118 8,093
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Backlog Refinement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in the North of England

Backlog Refinement
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backlog Refinement in the North of England.

Salary trend for Backlog Refinement in the North of England

Backlog Refinement
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Backlog Refinement in the North of England

Backlog Refinement
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 Refinement within the North of England region over the 6 months to 6 May 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 +9 5 £50,250 - 3
North East +44 1 - - 1
Backlog Refinement
England

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Product Owner
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Backlog Management
2 4 (66.67%) Product Vision
2 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
3 3 (50.00%) Data Science
3 3 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
3 3 (50.00%) Storytelling
3 3 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) Product Backlog
4 2 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (33.33%) Requirements Workshops
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (33.33%) Sprint Review
5 1 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 1 (16.67%) Business Case
5 1 (16.67%) Story Mapping
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Facebook