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 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 563 495 398
Rank change year-on-year -68 -97 -23
Permanent jobs citing Product Backlog 169 457 798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.46% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.54% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 105 225 397
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £39,294
25th Percentile £48,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,857 £62,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +3.74% -7.31%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% 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 52,380 85,029 95,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.83% 85.31% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,622 59,821 55,996
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,079 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,375 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,810 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.62% -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 17 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 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
England -68 140 £59,684 -5.05% 206
UK excluding London +13 118 £55,000 -4.35% 140
Work from Home +78 57 £60,000 +2.13% 104
London +45 44 £70,000 -3.45% 93
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
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 18 (10.65%) Confluence
2 6 (3.55%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.78%) CMS
4 2 (1.18%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.14%) Trello
3 5 (2.96%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (5.92%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.18%) Siebel CRM
3 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.59%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 14 (8.28%) AWS
2 12 (7.10%) Miro
3 11 (6.51%) Power Platform
3 11 (6.51%) SaaS
4 9 (5.33%) Azure
5 6 (3.55%) Amazon EMR
5 6 (3.55%) Amazon SageMaker
5 6 (3.55%) Snowflake
6 5 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.37%) Figma
7 4 (2.37%) Google Workspace
7 4 (2.37%) Slack
8 3 (1.78%) GCP
9 1 (0.59%) Boomi
9 1 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.59%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.59%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.37%) Internet
2 1 (0.59%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.47%) Tableau
2 11 (6.51%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.14%) Power BI
4 5 (2.96%) BusinessObjects
4 5 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.37%) Metadata
5 4 (2.37%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.78%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.59%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 40 (23.67%) JIRA
2 4 (2.37%) Balsamiq
3 3 (1.78%) Git
4 2 (1.18%) GitLab
General
1 81 (47.93%) Social Skills
2 55 (32.54%) Finance
3 42 (24.85%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.83%) Influencing Skills
5 15 (8.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (8.88%) Marketing
6 10 (5.92%) Law
7 8 (4.73%) Retail
8 6 (3.55%) Banking
8 6 (3.55%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.55%) Legal
8 6 (3.55%) Publishing
9 4 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Advertising
11 2 (1.18%) Digital Health
11 2 (1.18%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.18%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.18%) Local Government
11 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 62 (36.69%) Product Owner
2 32 (18.93%) Product Manager
3 27 (15.98%) Analyst
4 21 (12.43%) Lead
5 20 (11.83%) Business Analyst
6 17 (10.06%) Architect
7 14 (8.28%) Senior
8 12 (7.10%) Enterprise Architect
9 11 (6.51%) Agile Product Owner
10 9 (5.33%) Lead Architect
10 9 (5.33%) Lead Enterprise Architect
10 9 (5.33%) Senior Manager
10 9 (5.33%) Senior Product Manager
11 8 (4.73%) Digital Product Owner
12 6 (3.55%) Data Science Leader
12 6 (3.55%) Scrum Master
13 5 (2.96%) Business Architect
14 4 (2.37%) Consultant
14 4 (2.37%) Head of Architecture
14 4 (2.37%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.55%) Kafka
2 5 (2.96%) GraphQL
3 2 (1.18%) EDI
3 2 (1.18%) Gherkin
3 2 (1.18%) REST
3 2 (1.18%) Swagger
4 1 (0.59%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 94 (55.62%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (1.78%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.78%) PMI
4 2 (1.18%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.18%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.18%) NHS
4 2 (1.18%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.59%) Femtech
5 1 (0.59%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.59%) PropTech
5 1 (0.59%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.59%) Robotics
5 1 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.59%) Smart City
5 1 (0.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (84.02%) Agile
2 104 (61.54%) Roadmaps
3 57 (33.73%) Backlog Management
4 56 (33.14%) Scrum
5 54 (31.95%) User Stories
6 51 (30.18%) Product Vision
7 49 (28.99%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 46 (27.22%) Product Roadmap
9 41 (24.26%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (22.49%) Business Strategy
11 37 (21.89%) Product Management
12 35 (20.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (18.34%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (17.16%) Product Strategy
15 27 (15.98%) Acceptance Criteria
16 26 (15.38%) User Experience
17 24 (14.20%) Sprint Planning
18 22 (13.02%) Decision-Making
18 22 (13.02%) Scaled Agile Framework
19 21 (12.43%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.14%) SQL
2 6 (3.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (11.24%) Degree
2 12 (7.10%) CSPO
3 3 (1.78%) PMI Certification
3 3 (1.78%) PMP
4 2 (1.18%) CISSP
5 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (0.59%) CBAP
5 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.59%) ISEB
5 1 (0.59%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.59%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.51%) QA
2 9 (5.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 9 (5.33%) GDPR
2 9 (5.33%) PCI DSS
3 6 (3.55%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.37%) PMO
5 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.59%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.59%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 2 (1.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (1.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (9.47%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.28%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.96%) Google
3 5 (2.96%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.37%) Avaloq
4 4 (2.37%) Siebel
5 3 (1.78%) Facebook
5 3 (1.78%) Informatica
6 2 (1.18%) Databricks
6 2 (1.18%) Pardot
6 2 (1.18%) Qualys
6 2 (1.18%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.18%) UiPath
6 2 (1.18%) YouTube
7 1 (0.59%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.59%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.59%) SnapLogic