Backlog Refinement Jobs in the Thames Valley

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 232 234 254
Rank change year-on-year +2 +20 -34
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 8 28 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.12% 0.46% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.48% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4 19 14
10th Percentile £60,125 - -
25th Percentile £64,063 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,875 £76,250
90th Percentile - £91,250 £80,000
South East median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +22.73% -21.43% +47.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,737 5,819 6,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.18% 94.71% 92.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,015 3,162 3,948
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in the Thames Valley

Backlog Refinement
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backlog Refinement in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Backlog Refinement in the Thames Valley

Backlog Refinement
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Backlog Refinement in the Thames Valley

Backlog Refinement
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Refinement within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +14 5 £67,500 -14.29% 2
Buckinghamshire -15 2 £75,000 +11.11%
Oxfordshire +5 1 £60,000 +20.00%
Backlog Refinement
South East

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (62.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Miro
1 2 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
2 4 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 4 (50.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Product Owner
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Product Owner
4 1 (12.50%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum Master
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (50.00%) User Research
4 3 (37.50%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (37.50%) Product Backlog
4 3 (37.50%) User Stories
4 3 (37.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (25.00%) Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Business Process Modelling
5 2 (25.00%) Data Science
5 2 (25.00%) Epics
5 2 (25.00%) Kanban
5 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 2 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) UML
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PMO
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Cadence
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce