Product Backlogs
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Product Backlog skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Product Backlog over the 6 months to 28 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 402 343 387
Rank change year-on-year -59 +44 +71
Permanent jobs citing Product Backlog 367 1,306 1,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 1.04% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.09% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 295 725 812
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £80,949 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,539 £92,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,882 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.22% -0.21% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Backlog 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 51,121 120,104 122,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.72% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 36,956 73,203 81,032
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,313 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.69% +7.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +4.17%

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 28 November 2023.

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 28 November 2023. 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 -37 342 £65,000 -3.70% 105
UK excluding London -39 215 £55,000 +0.22% 61
Work from Home -57 155 £65,000 -2.41% 54
London -20 139 £77,500 +7.27% 42
Midlands +95 81 £52,500 +5.00% 11
North of England +23 59 £58,500 +1.74% 16
West Midlands +64 52 £57,500 +17.35% 9
South East -14 31 £47,500 -18.80% 16
North West +91 30 £57,500 +4.77% 7
East Midlands +68 29 £52,500 +5.00% 2
Yorkshire +7 26 £82,786 +37.98% 6
South West +46 17 £60,000 +20.00% 13
Wales +3 11 £55,000 +0.22% 2
East of England +108 8 £45,000 -5.53% 2
Scotland -7 8 £92,778 +69.05%
North East +38 3 £55,000 +3.29% 3

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 17 (4.63%) Confluence
2 6 (1.63%) IIS
3 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.54%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.54%) Adobe Captivate
2 2 (0.54%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.54%) Sketch
2 2 (0.54%) Trello
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.09%) Oracle Financials
2 4 (1.09%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.27%) Magento
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle iSupplier
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.27%) Sage X3
3 1 (0.27%) Shopify
3 1 (0.27%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 105 (28.61%) Azure
2 36 (9.81%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (8.17%) ChatGPT
3 30 (8.17%) Power Automate
4 25 (6.81%) Power Platform
5 23 (6.27%) Dynamics 365
5 23 (6.27%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (5.18%) AWS
7 13 (3.54%) PowerApps
8 7 (1.91%) SaaS
9 6 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.82%) Figma
10 3 (0.82%) GCP
10 3 (0.82%) PaaS
11 2 (0.54%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.54%) GitHub
11 2 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.54%) Google Analytics
11 2 (0.54%) Miro
11 2 (0.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.63%) WebEx
2 5 (1.36%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.54%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.27%) DNS
4 1 (0.27%) HTTP
4 1 (0.27%) Internet
4 1 (0.27%) SSL
4 1 (0.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.99%) SQL Server
2 19 (5.18%) Power BI
3 6 (1.63%) Tableau
4 5 (1.36%) Big Data
5 4 (1.09%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.82%) Data Vault
6 3 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.82%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.54%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.54%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.54%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.27%) GIS
8 1 (0.27%) Metabase
8 1 (0.27%) Metadata
8 1 (0.27%) MySQL
8 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (10.35%) JIRA
2 9 (2.45%) Git
3 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.27%) GitLab
3 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.27%) Redmine
General
1 110 (29.97%) Finance
2 84 (22.89%) Social Skills
3 54 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.90%) Banking
5 28 (7.63%) Influencing Skills
6 22 (5.99%) Pharmaceutical
7 17 (4.63%) Digital Healthcare
8 16 (4.36%) Legal
9 12 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (3.00%) Public Sector
11 10 (2.72%) Back Office
11 10 (2.72%) Law
12 9 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.45%) Retail
13 8 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.36%) Front Office
14 5 (1.36%) Marketing
14 5 (1.36%) Tech for Good
15 4 (1.09%) Automotive
15 4 (1.09%) Billing
Job Titles
1 115 (31.34%) Product Owner
2 68 (18.53%) Analyst
3 59 (16.08%) Business Analyst
4 43 (11.72%) Developer
5 41 (11.17%) Product Manager
6 32 (8.72%) Full Stack Developer
7 31 (8.45%) Lead
7 31 (8.45%) Senior
8 24 (6.54%) Digital Product Owner
9 20 (5.45%) Consultant
10 19 (5.18%) Scrum Master
11 17 (4.63%) Service Manager
12 15 (4.09%) Technical Analyst
13 14 (3.81%) C# Developer
14 13 (3.54%) Full-Stack C# Developer
15 12 (3.27%) Technical Business Analyst
16 11 (3.00%) Insurance Business Analyst
16 11 (3.00%) Project Analyst
16 11 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
16 11 (3.00%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.90%) .NET
2 24 (6.54%) AngularJS
3 23 (6.27%) CSS
3 23 (6.27%) HTML
4 21 (5.72%) .NET Core
5 20 (5.45%) .NET Framework
6 15 (4.09%) ASP.NET
6 15 (4.09%) ASP.NET MVC
6 15 (4.09%) jQuery
7 8 (2.18%) Velocity
8 5 (1.36%) React
9 3 (0.82%) Node.js
9 3 (0.82%) XML
10 2 (0.54%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (0.54%) Flutter
10 2 (0.54%) FpML
10 2 (0.54%) JSON
10 2 (0.54%) Murex MxML
10 2 (0.54%) REST
11 1 (0.27%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 209 (56.95%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.90%) Virtual Team
3 11 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.91%) Reinsurance
6 6 (1.63%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.63%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (1.36%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.36%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.36%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.09%) Culture of Ownership
9 3 (0.82%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.82%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.82%) FMCG
9 3 (0.82%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.82%) NHS
10 2 (0.54%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.54%) PMI
10 2 (0.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.45%) Windows
2 7 (1.91%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (1.36%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.27%) Android
5 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) Linux
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (76.57%) Agile
2 207 (56.40%) User Stories
3 197 (53.68%) Roadmaps
4 135 (36.78%) Product Roadmap
5 126 (34.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 117 (31.88%) Scrum
7 103 (28.07%) Acceptance Criteria
8 96 (26.16%) Backlog Management
9 70 (19.07%) Epics
10 62 (16.89%) Artificial Intelligence
11 60 (16.35%) User Experience
12 58 (15.80%) Product Vision
13 57 (15.53%) Business Analysis
14 55 (14.99%) Backlog Refinement
15 53 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
16 51 (13.90%) DevOps
17 49 (13.35%) Continuous Improvement
18 47 (12.81%) Wireframes
19 44 (11.99%) Sprint Planning
20 43 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 84 (22.89%) SQL
2 35 (9.54%) C#
3 26 (7.08%) TypeScript
4 20 (5.45%) JavaScript
5 17 (4.63%) T-SQL
6 15 (4.09%) Python
7 13 (3.54%) Java
8 3 (0.82%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.54%) Dart
9 2 (0.54%) R
10 1 (0.27%) C
10 1 (0.27%) C++
10 1 (0.27%) Delphi
10 1 (0.27%) PHP
10 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (9.54%) Degree
2 22 (5.99%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.18%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.63%) CSPO
4 6 (1.63%) IIBA
5 4 (1.09%) SAFe Agilist
6 3 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.82%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.27%) APMP
8 1 (0.27%) CBAP
8 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.27%) ISEB
8 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.27%) PMP
8 1 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.27%) Accessibility
2 9 (2.45%) QA
3 6 (1.63%) GDPR
4 3 (0.82%) WCAG
5 2 (0.54%) GxP
5 2 (0.54%) PMO
5 2 (0.54%) SLA
6 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (1.63%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.36%) vSphere
3 3 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.27%) Docker
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (1.36%) Nessus
2 2 (0.54%) Terraform
3 1 (0.27%) CloudForms
3 1 (0.27%) Grafana
3 1 (0.27%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 80 (21.80%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.18%) VMware
3 6 (1.63%) Atlassian
3 6 (1.63%) Oracle
4 5 (1.36%) arcserve
4 5 (1.36%) ServiceNow
4 5 (1.36%) Sophos
5 4 (1.09%) Alteryx
5 4 (1.09%) Databricks
5 4 (1.09%) Google
5 4 (1.09%) Mercator
6 2 (0.54%) Adobe
6 2 (0.54%) Cisco
6 2 (0.54%) Murex
6 2 (0.54%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.54%) SAP
6 2 (0.54%) Veeam
7 1 (0.27%) Intel
7 1 (0.27%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.27%) Splunk