Backlog Refinement Jobs in the South West

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Backlog Refinement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Refinement over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 275 263 278
Rank change year-on-year -12 +15 -8
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 16 14 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.17% 0.20% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.21% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 23
10th Percentile £37,750 £60,000 £32,500
25th Percentile - £61,250 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £68,823 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -41.88% +29.58% -3.43%
75th Percentile £43,750 £72,647 £65,000
90th Percentile £54,250 - £68,000
England median annual salary £76,250 £63,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +19.61% -1.92% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Backlog Refinement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,732 6,516 7,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 84.15% 94.43% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,553 3,657 4,985
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,932
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,200 £38,353
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +7.42%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in the South West

Backlog Refinement
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backlog Refinement in the South West.

Salary trend for Backlog Refinement in the South West

Backlog Refinement
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement in the South West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Backlog Refinement in the South West

Backlog Refinement
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Refinement within the South West region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Bristol +13 16 £40,000 -41.88% 2
Backlog Refinement
England

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 (18.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (37.50%) Trello
2 2 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
1 6 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 2 (12.50%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Big Data
1 6 (37.50%) Power BI
1 6 (37.50%) Relational Database
1 6 (37.50%) Snowflake Schema
1 6 (37.50%) Star Schema
1 6 (37.50%) Tableau
2 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) JIRA
2 4 (25.00%) WebDriver
3 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 2 (12.50%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Automotive
2 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Analyst
2 10 (62.50%) Business Analyst
3 6 (37.50%) Technical Analyst
3 6 (37.50%) Technical Business Analyst
4 4 (25.00%) Developer
4 4 (25.00%) Developer in Test
5 3 (18.75%) Senior
5 3 (18.75%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (12.50%) Senior Business Analyst
7 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
7 1 (6.25%) Scrum Master
7 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Analyst
7 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Android
1 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Agile
2 10 (62.50%) Business Analysis
3 9 (56.25%) Scrum
3 9 (56.25%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 8 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 8 (50.00%) Epics
4 8 (50.00%) Project Delivery
4 8 (50.00%) User Stories
5 7 (43.75%) Analytics
5 7 (43.75%) DevOps
5 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (43.75%) Project Management
6 6 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (37.50%) Data Architecture
6 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
6 6 (37.50%) GAP Analysis
6 6 (37.50%) ITIL
6 6 (37.50%) Use Case
6 6 (37.50%) Visualisation
6 6 (37.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
1 7 (43.75%) R
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) T-SQL
3 4 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Degree
1 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (37.50%) IIBA
2 6 (37.50%) Master's Degree
3 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) PMO
1 1 (6.25%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Cadence