Backlog Refinement Jobs in the UK excluding London

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 687 599
Rank change year-on-year +145 -88 +48
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 29 78 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.075% 0.11% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.080% 0.13% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 11 23 78
10th Percentile £40,500 £45,250 £46,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £51,883
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -6.09% -
75th Percentile £76,875 £59,614 £65,938
90th Percentile £78,750 £67,500 £72,647
UK median annual salary £60,000 £80,000 £61,509
% change year-on-year -25.00% +30.06% -5.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Backlog Refinement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in the UK excluding London

Backlog Refinement
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backlog Refinement in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Backlog Refinement in the UK excluding London

Backlog Refinement
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Backlog Refinement in the UK excluding London

Backlog Refinement
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Refinement within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
North of England +30 8 £45,250 -4.74% 85
Scotland +120 6 - - 13
South West +112 6 £72,500 +26.09% 40
South East +88 6 £47,500 -19.15% 96
North West -4 5 £45,250 - 31
East of England +43 3 - - 53
Yorkshire +60 2 - - 38
North East +44 1 - - 16
Backlog Refinement
UK

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (20.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Trello
2 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.90%) AWS
3 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) Boomi
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) Data Lake
2 5 (17.24%) NoSQL
3 4 (13.79%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Git
General
1 19 (65.52%) Social Skills
2 12 (41.38%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Marketing
4 2 (6.90%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Finance
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (55.17%) Product Owner
2 3 (10.34%) Analyst
2 3 (10.34%) Business Analyst
2 3 (10.34%) Scrum Master
3 2 (6.90%) Project Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Data Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Java Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Junior
4 1 (3.45%) Junior Product Owner
4 1 (3.45%) Lead
4 1 (3.45%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Software Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Software Integration Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Technology Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) GraphQL
2 2 (6.90%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) Spring
3 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (72.41%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.90%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (96.55%) Agile
2 16 (55.17%) Backlog Management
2 16 (55.17%) Roadmaps
3 13 (44.83%) Product Roadmap
3 13 (44.83%) Product Vision
4 12 (41.38%) Creative Thinking
5 10 (34.48%) Product Backlog
6 9 (31.03%) Analytics
6 9 (31.03%) Data Science
6 9 (31.03%) Scrum
6 9 (31.03%) Storytelling
6 9 (31.03%) Strategic Roadmap
7 7 (24.14%) Sprint Planning
7 7 (24.14%) Sprint Retrospective
8 6 (20.69%) Data Governance
8 6 (20.69%) Decision-Making
8 6 (20.69%) DevOps
8 6 (20.69%) User Stories
9 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
9 5 (17.24%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) SQL
2 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.45%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Databricks
2 2 (6.90%) UiPath
3 1 (3.45%) Citrix
3 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.45%) SnapLogic