Backlog Refinement Job Trends in Southampton

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Southampton 0.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45,748 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,578 - -
75th Percentile £49,408 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median annual salary £65,000 - £52,500

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 643 346 666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 74.59% 87.15% 77.44%
Number of salaries quoted 498 246 543
10th Percentile £33,450 £30,000 £31,050
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £96,625 £75,000 £70,000
Hampshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Backlog Refinement relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

Backlog Refinement job vacancy trend in Southampton

Backlog Refinement
Salary Trend in Southampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Backlog Refinement.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Backlog Refinement

Backlog Refinement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Snyk
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft