Product Backlog Job Trends in the South West

Product Backlogs
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Product Backlog skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 169 202
Rank change year-on-year -1 +33 +51
Permanent jobs citing Product Backlog 7 20 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.14% 0.48% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.56% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 6 13 16
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53,750 £42,608 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.68% -20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £57,500 £96,539
90th Percentile £88,125 £75,400 -
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,639 3,549 4,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.62% 85.58% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 1,776 3,216
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,454 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,627
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Backlog relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Product Backlog job vacancy trend in the South West

Product Backlog
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Product Backlog.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Product Backlog

Product Backlog
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Backlog in the South West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Backlog in the South West

Product Backlog
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 Product Backlog within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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 +12 6 £57,500 -20.42%
Somerset -18 1 £87,500 - 3
Product Backlog
England

Product Backlog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (14.29%) Boomi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Product Owner
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) CSS3
1 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
1 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) HTML5
1 1 (14.29%) ML.NET
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Product Ownership
2 3 (42.86%) Reinsurance
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Cybercrime
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Backlog Management
3 4 (57.14%) AI
3 4 (57.14%) Data Science
3 4 (57.14%) Fintech
3 4 (57.14%) Machine Learning
3 4 (57.14%) User Stories
4 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
4 3 (42.86%) Economics
4 3 (42.86%) Insurtech
4 3 (42.86%) Natural Language Processing
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Risk Assessment
4 3 (42.86%) SOA
4 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) SDLC
6 1 (14.29%) API Development
6 1 (14.29%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
1 1 (14.29%) SnapLogic