Product Backlog Jobs

Product Backlogs
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 503 409
Rank change year-on-year -50 -94 -43
Permanent jobs citing Product Backlog 158 453 761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.44% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.52% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 101 223 397
10th Percentile £40,500 £45,000 £39,294
25th Percentile £48,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +3.74% -7.31%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in the UK

Product Backlog
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Product Backlog in the UK

Product Backlog
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Backlog over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Product Backlog in the UK

Product Backlog
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 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
England -52 132 £60,000 -4.00% 707
UK excluding London +12 111 £55,000 -4.35% 723
Work from Home +64 56 £60,000 +4.35% 162
London +47 39 £72,000 -0.69% 71
North of England +39 30 £51,250 -21.15% 174
Midlands +57 27 £48,000 -3.52% 140
South West +45 20 £70,000 +19.15% 86
North West +14 20 £51,500 -17.60% 84
West Midlands +48 17 £48,000 -20.42% 81
Scotland +86 15 £72,500 +38.10% 32
South East +36 12 £63,750 +10.87% 190
East Midlands +30 10 £37,000 -1.33% 51
Yorkshire +52 7 £50,000 -23.08% 67
Wales +40 6 £54,929 -0.13% 18
North East +37 3 £52,500 +10.53% 23
East of England +39 1 £72,500 +48.72% 102

Product Backlog
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 16 (10.13%) Confluence
2 6 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.90%) CMS
4 2 (1.27%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.70%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.80%) Trello
3 5 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.16%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (6.33%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.27%) Siebel CRM
3 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.63%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.63%) Magento
3 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.23%) SaaS
2 12 (7.59%) AWS
2 12 (7.59%) Azure
2 12 (7.59%) Miro
2 12 (7.59%) Power Platform
3 6 (3.80%) Amazon EMR
3 6 (3.80%) Amazon SageMaker
3 6 (3.80%) Snowflake
4 5 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.53%) Figma
5 4 (2.53%) GCP
5 4 (2.53%) Google Workspace
5 4 (2.53%) Slack
6 2 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.63%) BigCommerce
7 1 (0.63%) Boomi
7 1 (0.63%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.63%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.63%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.23%) Tableau
2 7 (4.43%) Power BI
3 5 (3.16%) BusinessObjects
3 5 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.16%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.53%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 36 (22.78%) JIRA
2 4 (2.53%) Balsamiq
3 2 (1.27%) Git
3 2 (1.27%) GitLab
General
1 74 (46.84%) Social Skills
2 46 (29.11%) Finance
3 35 (22.15%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (10.76%) Marketing
5 16 (10.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (8.86%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (6.96%) Law
8 9 (5.70%) Retail
9 6 (3.80%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.80%) Publishing
10 5 (3.16%) Banking
11 3 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.27%) Digital Health
12 2 (1.27%) Health Technology
12 2 (1.27%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.27%) Legal
12 2 (1.27%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.63%) Advertising
13 1 (0.63%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 52 (32.91%) Product Owner
2 32 (20.25%) Product Manager
3 27 (17.09%) Analyst
4 21 (13.29%) Business Analyst
5 18 (11.39%) Lead
6 15 (9.49%) Senior
7 14 (8.86%) Architect
8 10 (6.33%) Agile Product Owner
8 10 (6.33%) Senior Manager
8 10 (6.33%) Senior Product Manager
9 9 (5.70%) Enterprise Architect
10 7 (4.43%) Scrum Master
11 6 (3.80%) Data Science Leader
11 6 (3.80%) Digital Product Owner
11 6 (3.80%) Lead Architect
11 6 (3.80%) Lead Enterprise Architect
12 5 (3.16%) Business Architect
12 5 (3.16%) Junior
13 4 (2.53%) Consultant
13 4 (2.53%) Junior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.80%) GraphQL
1 6 (3.80%) Kafka
2 3 (1.90%) REST
3 2 (1.27%) EDI
3 2 (1.27%) Gherkin
3 2 (1.27%) Swagger
4 1 (0.63%) ADO
4 1 (0.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 86 (54.43%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.43%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.90%) PMI
5 2 (1.27%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.27%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.27%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.27%) NHS
5 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.27%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.63%) Femtech
6 1 (0.63%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.63%) PropTech
6 1 (0.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (81.01%) Agile
2 91 (57.59%) Roadmaps
3 55 (34.81%) Backlog Management
4 53 (33.54%) Scrum
5 47 (29.75%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 47 (29.75%) User Stories
6 42 (26.58%) Product Roadmap
7 41 (25.95%) Product Vision
8 37 (23.42%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (21.52%) Business Strategy
9 34 (21.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (21.52%) Product Management
10 27 (17.09%) Product Strategy
11 26 (16.46%) Acceptance Criteria
12 25 (15.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 22 (13.92%) User Experience
14 21 (13.29%) CRM
14 21 (13.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 19 (12.03%) Requirements Gathering
15 19 (12.03%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.43%) SQL
2 6 (3.80%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (12.66%) Degree
2 13 (8.23%) CSPO
3 3 (1.90%) PMI Certification
3 3 (1.90%) PMP
4 2 (1.27%) CISSP
5 1 (0.63%) CBAP
5 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.63%) ISEB
5 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.96%) QA
2 6 (3.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 6 (3.80%) GDPR
2 6 (3.80%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.16%) PMO
4 2 (1.27%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.27%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.63%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (1.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (1.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (11.39%) Salesforce
2 16 (10.13%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.16%) Google
4 4 (2.53%) Avaloq
4 4 (2.53%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.53%) Siebel
5 2 (1.27%) Databricks
5 2 (1.27%) Facebook
5 2 (1.27%) Pardot
5 2 (1.27%) Qualys
5 2 (1.27%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.27%) UiPath
5 2 (1.27%) YouTube
6 1 (0.63%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.63%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.63%) SnapLogic