Backlog Refinement Job Trends in Taunton

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Taunton 0.65% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Somerset median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 -
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 122 19 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Taunton 79.74% 70.37% 81.48%
Number of salaries quoted 102 15 27
10th Percentile £28,000 - £12,000
25th Percentile £32,500 - £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £15,423 £36,214
Median % change year-on-year +175.56% -57.41% -17.49%
75th Percentile £55,000 £39,000 £46,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £55,250 £57,000
Somerset median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Backlog Refinement job vacancy trend in Taunton

Backlog Refinement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) NDS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) ForgeRock
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NetIQ
1 1 (100.00%) Okta
1 1 (100.00%) OpenText