Product Backlog Jobs in the North West

Product Backlogs
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Product Backlog skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Product Backlog over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 272 240
Rank change year-on-year +10 -32 -5
Permanent jobs citing Product Backlog 25 17 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.31% 0.17% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.21% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 40
10th Percentile £43,950 £45,689 £39,294
25th Percentile £46,875 £53,177 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £62,125 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.69% +8.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £59,875 £64,688 £61,396
90th Percentile £61,000 £70,000 £88,750
England median annual salary £59,684 £63,217 £64,000
% change year-on-year -5.59% -1.22% -1.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Product Backlog 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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,662 8,161 7,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.78% 82.83% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,126 6,195 3,909
10th Percentile £26,722 £27,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in the North West

Product Backlog
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Product Backlog in the North West.

Salary trend for Product Backlog in the North West

Product Backlog
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Backlog in the North West over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Product Backlog in the North West

Product Backlog
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Backlog within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 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
Manchester +72 23 £53,000 -14.69% 17
Cheshire +13 1 £57,500 +24.87% 6
Lancashire - 1 £43,000 - 9
Product Backlog
England

Product Backlog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.00%) CMS
2 2 (8.00%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) MS Visio
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.00%) Figma
2 4 (16.00%) Google Workspace
2 4 (16.00%) Miro
2 4 (16.00%) Slack
3 3 (12.00%) Amazon EMR
3 3 (12.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) Snowflake
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (4.00%) GCP
5 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) NoSQL
1 6 (24.00%) Tableau
2 4 (16.00%) Metadata
3 3 (12.00%) Data Vault
4 1 (4.00%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.00%) Data Mart
4 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.00%) Neo4j
4 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) JIRA
2 4 (16.00%) Balsamiq
3 1 (4.00%) GitLab
General
1 18 (72.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (44.00%) Finance
3 10 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (16.00%) Financial Institution
7 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
8 1 (4.00%) Banking
8 1 (4.00%) Marketing
8 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Lead
2 8 (32.00%) Product Owner
3 6 (24.00%) Architect
4 5 (20.00%) Analyst
4 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 5 (20.00%) Lead Architect
4 5 (20.00%) Lead Enterprise Architect
5 4 (16.00%) Digital Product Owner
6 3 (12.00%) Business Analyst
7 2 (8.00%) Data Science Leader
8 1 (4.00%) Applications Consultant
8 1 (4.00%) Business Architect
8 1 (4.00%) Business Systems Analyst
8 1 (4.00%) Consultant
8 1 (4.00%) Designer
8 1 (4.00%) Security Analyst
8 1 (4.00%) Security Consultant
8 1 (4.00%) Service Designer
8 1 (4.00%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (44.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.00%) Data Fabric
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) Agile
2 16 (64.00%) Roadmaps
3 11 (44.00%) Business Strategy
4 9 (36.00%) Adaptive Web Design
4 9 (36.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 9 (36.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 9 (36.00%) Data Architecture
4 9 (36.00%) Thought Leadership
5 8 (32.00%) ArchiMate
5 8 (32.00%) Scrum
5 8 (32.00%) TOGAF
6 7 (28.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 7 (28.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 7 (28.00%) Data Management
6 7 (28.00%) IT Strategy
6 7 (28.00%) Mentoring
6 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (28.00%) Technology Strategy
6 7 (28.00%) User Stories
7 6 (24.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 5 (20.00%) GDPR
2 5 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Google
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Informatica
3 2 (8.00%) Siebel
3 2 (8.00%) Sitecore
4 1 (4.00%) Facebook
4 1 (4.00%) Qualys
4 1 (4.00%) StreamSets