Product Backlog Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Product Backlogs
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 431 402 413
Rank change year-on-year -29 +11 -111
Permanent jobs citing Product Backlog 78 165 163
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.46% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.52% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 59 61 143
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,608 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £47,418
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,375 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,500 £80,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.15% -7.14% +3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Product Backlog job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Product Backlog
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Product Backlog.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Product Backlog

Product Backlog
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Backlog in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Backlog in the UK excluding London

Product Backlog
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 Product Backlog within the UK excluding London 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
Midlands +9 21 £57,500 +4.55% 14
South East +29 20 £80,000 +23.08% 26
North of England -24 15 £58,125 -12.26% 13
West Midlands +11 12 £65,000 +11.11% 8
North West -5 9 £74,000 +20.82% 5
East Midlands -10 9 £42,500 -2.86% 6
South West -1 7 £58,750 +23.68% 7
Wales +15 6 £54,969 -0.06% 2
East of England +25 4 £67,250 -7.24% 10
North East +14 4 £42,831 -18.42% 5
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
Yorkshire -22 2 £69,375 +2.78% 3
Scotland -23 2 - - 1
Product Backlog
UK

Product Backlog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (15.38%) Confluence
2 4 (5.13%) CMS
2 4 (5.13%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.85%) nginx
4 2 (2.56%) CICS
5 1 (1.28%) Appian
5 1 (1.28%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (3.85%) Photoshop
1 3 (3.85%) Trello
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (3.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.97%) SaaS
2 6 (7.69%) Azure
2 6 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (6.41%) AWS
3 5 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.13%) Power Automate
5 3 (3.85%) GitHub
6 2 (2.56%) Asana
6 2 (2.56%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.28%) Azure Cognitive Services
7 1 (1.28%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.28%) Boomi
7 1 (1.28%) Figma
7 1 (1.28%) Miro
7 1 (1.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.85%) MySQL
2 2 (2.56%) DB2
2 2 (2.56%) Power BI
3 1 (1.28%) GIS
3 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (20.51%) JIRA
2 3 (3.85%) Git
2 3 (3.85%) Rational Rhapsody
2 3 (3.85%) Vite
General
1 40 (51.28%) Social Skills
2 22 (28.21%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (19.23%) Finance
4 11 (14.10%) Marketing
5 8 (10.26%) Law
5 8 (10.26%) Retail
6 7 (8.97%) Banking
6 7 (8.97%) Legal
7 3 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.56%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.28%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (47.44%) Product Owner
2 19 (24.36%) Product Manager
3 9 (11.54%) Business Analyst
4 7 (8.97%) Lead
5 5 (6.41%) Analyst
5 5 (6.41%) Project Manager
5 5 (6.41%) Senior
5 5 (6.41%) Technical Product Owner
6 4 (5.13%) Agile Product Owner
6 4 (5.13%) CRM Manager
6 4 (5.13%) Digital Product Manager
6 4 (5.13%) IT Manager
6 4 (5.13%) IT Project Manager
6 4 (5.13%) Payments Business Analyst
6 4 (5.13%) Unified Communications Manager
7 3 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (3.85%) SIEM Engineer
7 3 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.13%) CSS
1 4 (5.13%) HTML
1 4 (5.13%) Web Services
2 3 (3.85%) Laravel
2 3 (3.85%) LEMP Stack
2 3 (3.85%) Tailwind CSS
2 3 (3.85%) Vue
2 3 (3.85%) YAML
3 2 (2.56%) REST
4 1 (1.28%) .NET
4 1 (1.28%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.28%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.28%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.28%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.28%) CSS3
4 1 (1.28%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.28%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.28%) HTML5
4 1 (1.28%) React
4 1 (1.28%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 56 (71.79%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.97%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.13%) Digital Media
4 4 (5.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (3.85%) e-Learning
5 3 (3.85%) Reinsurance
6 2 (2.56%) Cybercrime
6 2 (2.56%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.56%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.56%) VSAM
7 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.28%) Equities
7 1 (1.28%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.85%) Linux
2 2 (2.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (96.15%) Agile
2 41 (52.56%) Roadmaps
3 31 (39.74%) Scrum
4 30 (38.46%) Backlog Management
5 27 (34.62%) Product Roadmap
6 25 (32.05%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 25 (32.05%) User Stories
7 23 (29.49%) Product Vision
8 22 (28.21%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (25.64%) Sprint Planning
10 19 (24.36%) User Experience
11 18 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (17.95%) Acceptance Criteria
13 13 (16.67%) Decision-Making
13 13 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 13 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
14 12 (15.38%) Product Management
15 11 (14.10%) AI
15 11 (14.10%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.97%) JavaScript
2 4 (5.13%) Python
3 3 (3.85%) Bash
3 3 (3.85%) Go
3 3 (3.85%) PHP
4 2 (2.56%) COBOL
4 2 (2.56%) JCL
5 1 (1.28%) C#
5 1 (1.28%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.13%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.56%) CSPO
3 2 (2.56%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.28%) Degree
4 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.23%) QA
2 4 (5.13%) SEPA
2 4 (5.13%) TARGET2
3 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.28%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (7.69%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 7 (8.97%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.41%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.13%) Civica
4 3 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.56%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.28%) ESRI
6 1 (1.28%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) SAP
6 1 (1.28%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.28%) SnapLogic