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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 492 398 374
Rank change year-on-year -94 -24 +102
Permanent jobs citing Product Backlog 459 804 1,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.80% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.84% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 227 396 865
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,027 £51,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,340 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -5.63% +18.18%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £88,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +10.00%

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 84,701 95,929 153,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.52% 95.60% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,701 56,502 82,944
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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%

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 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 -106 377 £63,217 +1.15% 87
UK excluding London -109 315 £57,500 - 50
London +1 111 £72,500 +3.57% 41
Work from Home -138 110 £60,000 - 45
South West +26 78 £60,000 -4.00% 5
South East -91 63 £57,500 +4.55% 17
Midlands -46 58 £50,500 -8.18% 8
Scotland -28 48 £54,750 -8.75% 3
North of England -60 48 £65,000 +13.04% 11
West Midlands -46 28 £58,909 +20.84% 7
East Midlands -21 27 £37,500 -31.82% 1
Yorkshire +19 19 £65,000 +1.52% 7
North West -32 17 £62,500 +8.70% 3
Wales +20 12 £55,000 -18.52% 2
North East +2 12 £47,500 -26.92% 1
East of England -18 8 £48,750 -11.36% 6

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 64 (13.94%) Confluence
2 10 (2.18%) CMS
3 5 (1.09%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 15 (3.27%) Sketch
2 11 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.31%) Trello
4 3 (0.65%) InVision
4 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.44%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (0.44%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 120 (26.14%) Azure
2 89 (19.39%) Azure DevOps
3 80 (17.43%) AWS
4 75 (16.34%) GCP
5 33 (7.19%) Power Platform
6 22 (4.79%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (4.58%) SaaS
8 18 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (3.70%) Figma
10 13 (2.83%) Power Automate
11 11 (2.40%) PowerApps
12 10 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (1.74%) GitHub
13 8 (1.74%) Miro
14 4 (0.87%) Google Analytics
15 3 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
16 2 (0.44%) Asana
16 2 (0.44%) Azure Monitor
16 2 (0.44%) SAP Commerce Cloud
16 2 (0.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.09%) Unified Communications
1 5 (1.09%) WebEx
2 1 (0.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (16.56%) Data Warehouse
2 72 (15.69%) BigQuery
2 72 (15.69%) Looker
3 19 (4.14%) Power BI
4 14 (3.05%) Tableau
5 12 (2.61%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.53%) Big Data
7 6 (1.31%) RDBMS
7 6 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (1.31%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.44%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 111 (24.18%) JIRA
2 4 (0.87%) Eclipse
2 4 (0.87%) Git
2 4 (0.87%) IntelliJ
2 4 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (0.44%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.22%) Selenium
4 1 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 150 (32.68%) Social Skills
2 149 (32.46%) Analytical Skills
3 136 (29.63%) Finance
4 86 (18.74%) Marketing
5 72 (15.69%) Billing
6 63 (13.73%) Law
7 58 (12.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (5.66%) Retail
9 18 (3.92%) Banking
10 16 (3.49%) Public Sector
11 13 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.61%) Games
13 11 (2.40%) Legal
14 10 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.74%) Tech for Good
16 7 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.87%) Digital Health
17 4 (0.87%) Digital Healthcare
17 4 (0.87%) Health Technology
18 3 (0.65%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 112 (24.40%) Product Owner
2 79 (17.21%) Product Manager
3 77 (16.78%) Engineering Manager
4 75 (16.34%) Data Manager
5 63 (13.73%) Lead
6 49 (10.68%) Analyst
7 38 (8.28%) Senior
8 36 (7.84%) Business Analyst
9 26 (5.66%) Consultant
10 21 (4.58%) Functional Consultant
11 16 (3.49%) Agile Coach
12 14 (3.05%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 13 (2.83%) Developer
14 12 (2.61%) Scrum Master
15 11 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
16 9 (1.96%) Digital Product Owner
16 9 (1.96%) Product Analyst
16 9 (1.96%) Senior Manager
16 9 (1.96%) Technical Analyst
16 9 (1.96%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.83%) CSS
1 13 (2.83%) HTML
2 12 (2.61%) React
3 11 (2.40%) .NET
4 7 (1.53%) AngularJS
4 7 (1.53%) REST
5 5 (1.09%) Spring
5 5 (1.09%) Web Services
6 4 (0.87%) Servlets
6 4 (0.87%) SOAP
7 3 (0.65%) LESS
7 3 (0.65%) Sass
7 3 (0.65%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 2 (0.44%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.44%) ADO
8 2 (0.44%) JSON
8 2 (0.44%) XML
9 1 (0.22%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.22%) Node.js
9 1 (0.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 280 (61.00%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.01%) Management Information System
3 13 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (2.83%) PMI
4 12 (2.61%) Mobile App
5 11 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (2.40%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (1.53%) Low-Code
6 7 (1.53%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.53%) Robotics
7 6 (1.31%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.09%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.09%) Digital Signage
8 5 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.87%) Housing Association
9 4 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.65%) Blockchain
10 3 (0.65%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.09%) Android
1 5 (1.09%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.87%) AIX
2 4 (0.87%) Linux
2 4 (0.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (86.49%) Agile
2 245 (53.38%) Scrum
3 224 (48.80%) Roadmaps
4 199 (43.36%) User Stories
5 197 (42.92%) Backlog Management
6 164 (35.73%) Problem-Solving
7 163 (35.51%) DevOps
8 142 (30.94%) Product Roadmap
9 137 (29.85%) Product Vision
10 132 (28.76%) Project Management
11 99 (21.57%) CI/CD
12 88 (19.17%) Mentoring
12 88 (19.17%) User Experience
13 86 (18.74%) Backlog Prioritisation
14 84 (18.30%) Acceptance Criteria
15 83 (18.08%) Business Strategy
15 83 (18.08%) Line Management
16 82 (17.86%) ETL
17 80 (17.43%) Analytics
18 79 (17.21%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 39 (8.50%) SQL
2 14 (3.05%) JavaScript
2 14 (3.05%) Python
3 13 (2.83%) Java
4 9 (1.96%) C#
5 6 (1.31%) R
5 6 (1.31%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.87%) Bicep
6 4 (0.87%) Go
6 4 (0.87%) PowerShell
6 4 (0.87%) Rust
6 4 (0.87%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.65%) Scala
8 2 (0.44%) C
8 2 (0.44%) Embedded C
8 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 70 (15.25%) Degree
2 23 (5.01%) CSPO
3 22 (4.79%) Security Cleared
4 13 (2.83%) Master's Degree
4 13 (2.83%) PMI Certification
5 9 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.53%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.53%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.31%) IIBA
8 4 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.65%) MBA
10 2 (0.44%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.44%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (22.66%) QA
2 11 (2.40%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.65%) WCAG
4 2 (0.44%) AUTOSAR
4 2 (0.44%) GDPR
4 2 (0.44%) SLA
5 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (1.31%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.31%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.22%) Grafana
2 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 76 (16.56%) Google
2 55 (11.98%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.27%) ServiceNow
4 8 (1.74%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.31%) Cadence
6 5 (1.09%) Alteryx
6 5 (1.09%) Cisco
6 5 (1.09%) Intel
7 4 (0.87%) Marketo
7 4 (0.87%) SAP
8 3 (0.65%) Mercator
8 3 (0.65%) Oracle
9 2 (0.44%) Civica
9 2 (0.44%) NEC
9 2 (0.44%) Pega
9 2 (0.44%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.44%) Veeam
9 2 (0.44%) VMware
10 1 (0.22%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.22%) Facebook