Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Backlog Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Management over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 501 438
Rank change year-on-year -84 -63 +80
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Management 330 613 1,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.58% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.61% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 204 325 687
10th Percentile £46,199 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,927 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,548 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £117,236 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £64,598 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.99% +17.45% +6.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Backlog Management 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Backlog Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in the UK

Backlog Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backlog Management.

Salary trend for Backlog Management in the UK

Backlog Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Backlog Management in the UK

Backlog Management
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Management within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England -36 304 £65,000 -3.70% 82
UK excluding London -111 182 £57,500 -10.99% 43
London +42 136 £82,500 +17.86% 39
Work from Home -65 116 £65,000 -7.14% 37
South West +13 61 £57,500 -16.10% 6
South East -23 42 £61,250 +2.08% 16
North of England -25 39 £60,994 -27.39% 10
North West +4 23 £55,000 -15.38% 5
Midlands -25 22 £54,000 +13.68% 5
West Midlands -16 13 £55,000 +22.22% 2
Yorkshire +27 11 £65,000 -26.54% 5
Scotland -90 11 £85,572 +13.09% 4
East Midlands -13 9 £37,500 -31.82% 3
North East +3 5 £70,000 +4.48%
East of England +21 4 £47,500 +5.56% 3
Wales +7 3 £60,000 -

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 47 (14.24%) Confluence
2 20 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.91%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.61%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 8 (2.42%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.61%) Trello
6 1 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.30%) InVision
6 1 (0.30%) Sketch
6 1 (0.30%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.61%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.30%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 122 (36.97%) Azure
2 91 (27.58%) Azure DevOps
3 88 (26.67%) AWS
4 76 (23.03%) GCP
5 33 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (8.48%) Power Platform
7 18 (5.45%) Entra ID
8 13 (3.94%) PowerApps
9 12 (3.64%) Power Automate
9 12 (3.64%) Serverless
10 11 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (3.33%) SaaS
11 9 (2.73%) GitHub
12 8 (2.42%) Miro
13 7 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (2.12%) npm
13 7 (2.12%) Yarn
14 4 (1.21%) Amazon Cognito
14 4 (1.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.82%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (23.33%) Data Warehouse
2 76 (23.03%) Looker
3 72 (21.82%) BigQuery
4 26 (7.88%) Power BI
5 11 (3.33%) Tableau
6 8 (2.42%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.21%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.21%) HDInsight
7 4 (1.21%) Parquet
7 4 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.21%) QlikView
7 4 (1.21%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.61%) Metadata
8 2 (0.61%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.30%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.30%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 105 (31.82%) JIRA
2 8 (2.42%) Selenium
2 8 (2.42%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.30%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.30%) Git
3 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.30%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 134 (40.61%) Analytical Skills
2 108 (32.73%) Social Skills
3 74 (22.42%) Billing
4 61 (18.48%) Finance
5 24 (7.27%) Marketing
6 20 (6.06%) Banking
7 11 (3.33%) Fire and Rescue
7 11 (3.33%) Retail
8 10 (3.03%) Electronics
8 10 (3.03%) Police
9 9 (2.73%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.52%) Games
12 5 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.52%) Local Government
12 5 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.91%) Digital Health
13 3 (0.91%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.91%) Legal
Job Titles
1 82 (24.85%) Data Manager
2 72 (21.82%) Engineering Manager
3 70 (21.21%) Product Owner
4 45 (13.64%) Analyst
5 41 (12.42%) Lead
6 38 (11.52%) Product Manager
7 24 (7.27%) Senior
8 23 (6.97%) Developer
9 19 (5.76%) Business Analyst
10 15 (4.55%) Test Analyst
11 11 (3.33%) Applications Developer
11 11 (3.33%) Scrum Master
11 11 (3.33%) Senior Applications Developer
11 11 (3.33%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.42%) Technical Leader
12 8 (2.42%) Technical Product Owner
13 7 (2.12%) Infrastructure Manager
14 6 (1.82%) Delivery Manager
14 6 (1.82%) Product Analyst
14 6 (1.82%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.33%) JSON
2 8 (2.42%) Web Services
3 7 (2.12%) Node.js
3 7 (2.12%) OpenAPI
3 7 (2.12%) Swagger
3 7 (2.12%) Vue
3 7 (2.12%) VuePress
4 5 (1.52%) .NET
5 4 (1.21%) RESTful
5 4 (1.21%) XML
5 4 (1.21%) YAML
6 2 (0.61%) ADO
6 2 (0.61%) CSS
6 2 (0.61%) HTML
7 1 (0.30%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.30%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 201 (60.91%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.45%) Clustering
3 6 (1.82%) Reinsurance
3 6 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (0.91%) Blockchain
6 3 (0.91%) Derivative
6 3 (0.91%) Housing Association
6 3 (0.91%) Low-Code
6 3 (0.91%) Management Information System
6 3 (0.91%) PMI
7 2 (0.61%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.30%) PropTech
8 1 (0.30%) SCADA
8 1 (0.30%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.45%) Windows
1 18 (5.45%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.61%) Android
2 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (79.39%) Agile
2 201 (60.91%) Product Backlog
3 192 (58.18%) Scrum
4 134 (40.61%) Roadmaps
5 130 (39.39%) Problem-Solving
6 120 (36.36%) DevOps
7 115 (34.85%) User Stories
8 94 (28.48%) Project Management
9 91 (27.58%) Product Roadmap
10 89 (26.97%) CI/CD
11 80 (24.24%) Line Management
12 79 (23.94%) Business Strategy
13 78 (23.64%) Data Engineering
13 78 (23.64%) Data Modelling
14 76 (23.03%) ETL
15 72 (21.82%) Platform Engineering
16 70 (21.21%) Acceptance Criteria
17 63 (19.09%) User Experience
18 55 (16.67%) Product Vision
19 49 (14.85%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 34 (10.30%) SQL
2 20 (6.06%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.73%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.42%) Scala
5 7 (2.12%) C#
5 7 (2.12%) Go
6 3 (0.91%) Python
7 1 (0.30%) Java
Qualifications
1 46 (13.94%) Degree
2 12 (3.64%) CSPO
3 9 (2.73%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.12%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.91%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.91%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.61%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.61%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.61%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (33.33%) QA
2 12 (3.64%) GDPR
3 4 (1.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.91%) SLA
5 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.30%) PMO
5 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.45%) VMware ESXi
3 14 (4.24%) Firmware
4 10 (3.03%) Embedded Firmware
5 8 (2.42%) Docker
6 2 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (5.45%) Microsoft Clustering
1 18 (5.45%) Microsoft Intune
1 18 (5.45%) Single Sign-On
1 18 (5.45%) vCenter Server
2 2 (0.61%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 80 (24.24%) Google
2 28 (8.48%) ServiceNow
3 23 (6.97%) Microsoft
4 22 (6.67%) VMware
5 20 (6.06%) Sun
6 18 (5.45%) Commvault
7 6 (1.82%) Alteryx
8 5 (1.52%) Intel
9 4 (1.21%) Cadence
9 4 (1.21%) Databricks
9 4 (1.21%) Dataiku
10 3 (0.91%) Adobe
10 3 (0.91%) Freshdesk
10 3 (0.91%) Mercator
10 3 (0.91%) SAP
11 2 (0.61%) Facebook
11 2 (0.61%) NEC
11 2 (0.61%) Pega
11 2 (0.61%) Twitter
11 2 (0.61%) Veeam