Backlog Refinement Jobs in the South West

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 280 253
Rank change year-on-year +104 -27 +36
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 7 12 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.20% 0.13% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.16% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile £51,250 - £60,000
25th Percentile £55,938 £53,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £57,500 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% -16.45% +29.58%
75th Percentile £78,438 £61,250 £72,647
90th Percentile £92,500 - -
England median annual salary £60,000 £80,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +28.00% -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,345 7,717 6,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.28% 83.38% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,918 5,560 3,511
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £80,213
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 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 16 May 2025.

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 16 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
Bristol +49 5 £72,500 +26.09% 4
Somerset - 2 £50,000 -
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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Boomi
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) NoSQL
2 4 (57.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Advertising
1 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Administrator
1 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) IT Administrator
1 1 (14.29%) Junior
1 1 (14.29%) Junior IT Administrator
1 1 (14.29%) Lead
1 1 (14.29%) Scrum Master
1 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) GraphQL
2 2 (28.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Product Backlog
3 5 (71.43%) Business Strategy
3 5 (71.43%) Data Governance
3 5 (71.43%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) API Development
5 2 (28.57%) Backlog Management
5 2 (28.57%) Coaching
5 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) IT Strategy
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (28.57%) Sprint Retrospective
6 1 (14.29%) Conflict Resolution
6 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (14.29%) Servant Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
1 2 (28.57%) UiPath
2 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 1 (14.29%) SnapLogic