Product Backlog Jobs in the UK excluding London

Product Backlogs
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Product Backlog skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Product Backlog over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 457 470 351
Rank change year-on-year +13 -119 +67
Permanent jobs citing Product Backlog 118 314 515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.44% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.53% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 79 134 227
10th Percentile £38,250 £41,250 £37,950
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,313 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £71,652
90th Percentile £79,236 £82,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £59,857 £62,500 £60,249
% change year-on-year -4.23% +3.74% -7.31%

All Process and 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 36,887 59,718 56,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.92% 83.64% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,036 41,241 29,108
10th Percentile £26,902 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,810 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.62% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in the UK excluding London

Product Backlog
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Product Backlog in the UK excluding London

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 17 May 2025.

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 17 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 +27 32 £50,000 -23.08% 38
Midlands +31 28 £48,000 -4.95% 22
Scotland +93 22 £73,750 +40.48% 6
North West +5 22 £51,500 -17.60% 19
South West +52 19 £65,000 +8.33% 13
West Midlands +46 18 £48,000 -18.52% 17
South East +34 13 £65,000 +13.04% 48
East Midlands +3 10 £37,500 - 5
Yorkshire +51 8 £44,730 -31.18% 13
Wales +32 3 £59,857 +8.83% 4
North East +31 2 £51,250 +7.89% 6
East of England +40 1 £72,500 +48.72% 9
Product Backlog
UK

Product Backlog
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 17 (14.41%) Confluence
2 4 (3.39%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.54%) CMS
4 2 (1.69%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.24%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (6.78%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.69%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.17%) Miro
2 11 (9.32%) AWS
3 9 (7.63%) Azure
4 5 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.24%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.24%) SaaS
5 4 (3.39%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (3.39%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (3.39%) Figma
5 4 (3.39%) Google Workspace
5 4 (3.39%) Slack
5 4 (3.39%) Snowflake
6 3 (2.54%) GCP
7 1 (0.85%) Boomi
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.85%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.63%) NoSQL
2 8 (6.78%) Tableau
3 4 (3.39%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (3.39%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.69%) Data Vault
4 2 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.69%) Metadata
4 2 (1.69%) Power BI
5 1 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 33 (27.97%) JIRA
2 4 (3.39%) Balsamiq
3 3 (2.54%) Git
4 2 (1.69%) GitLab
General
1 58 (49.15%) Social Skills
2 36 (30.51%) Finance
3 26 (22.03%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.02%) Influencing Skills
5 10 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (8.47%) Law
6 7 (5.93%) Marketing
7 6 (5.08%) Legal
8 5 (4.24%) Banking
8 5 (4.24%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.39%) Retail
10 3 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.69%) Digital Health
11 2 (1.69%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.69%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.85%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.85%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.85%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (30.51%) Product Owner
2 26 (22.03%) Analyst
3 20 (16.95%) Business Analyst
3 20 (16.95%) Product Manager
4 15 (12.71%) Lead
5 13 (11.02%) Architect
6 9 (7.63%) Enterprise Architect
7 8 (6.78%) Agile Product Owner
8 6 (5.08%) Digital Product Owner
8 6 (5.08%) Lead Architect
8 6 (5.08%) Lead Enterprise Architect
8 6 (5.08%) Senior
8 6 (5.08%) Senior Manager
8 6 (5.08%) Senior Product Manager
9 5 (4.24%) Scrum Master
10 4 (3.39%) Business Architect
10 4 (3.39%) Consultant
10 4 (3.39%) Data Science Leader
10 4 (3.39%) Junior
11 3 (2.54%) Digital Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.24%) GraphQL
2 4 (3.39%) Kafka
3 2 (1.69%) Gherkin
3 2 (1.69%) REST
3 2 (1.69%) Swagger
4 1 (0.85%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 57 (48.31%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.54%) PMI
4 2 (1.69%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.85%) NHS
5 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.85%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (83.90%) Agile
2 68 (57.63%) Roadmaps
3 40 (33.90%) Scrum
4 37 (31.36%) Backlog Management
5 32 (27.12%) User Stories
6 31 (26.27%) Product Roadmap
7 28 (23.73%) Business Strategy
7 28 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (23.73%) Product Vision
8 26 (22.03%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 23 (19.49%) Product Management
10 22 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (17.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (16.10%) Requirements Gathering
13 17 (14.41%) Coaching
13 17 (14.41%) Product Requirements
14 16 (13.56%) Acceptance Criteria
14 16 (13.56%) Kanban
15 15 (12.71%) CRM
15 15 (12.71%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (5.93%) SQL
2 4 (3.39%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (7.63%) Degree
2 6 (5.08%) CSPO
3 3 (2.54%) PMI Certification
3 3 (2.54%) PMP
4 2 (1.69%) CISSP
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (0.85%) CBAP
5 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.85%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 6 (5.08%) GDPR
1 6 (5.08%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.69%) PMO
3 2 (1.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (2.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (12.71%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.63%) Salesforce
3 5 (4.24%) Google
3 5 (4.24%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.69%) Avaloq
4 2 (1.69%) Databricks
4 2 (1.69%) Informatica
4 2 (1.69%) Qualys
4 2 (1.69%) Siebel
4 2 (1.69%) Sitecore
4 2 (1.69%) UiPath
5 1 (0.85%) Facebook
5 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.85%) SnapLogic