Product Backlog Jobs in the West Midlands

Product Backlogs
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 226 182
Rank change year-on-year +47 -44 +34
Permanent jobs citing Product Backlog 18 27 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.43% 0.34% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.42% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 15 23 17
10th Percentile - £41,250 £42,000
25th Percentile - £46,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £60,319 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.42% +26.99% -9.52%
75th Percentile £55,000 £66,875 £55,000
90th Percentile £71,900 £73,950 £57,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,814 6,401 5,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.20% 81.10% 96.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,573 4,665 3,155
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,350 £30,602
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Product Backlog as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in the West Midlands

Product Backlog
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Product Backlog in the West Midlands

Product Backlog
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Backlog in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Product Backlog in the West Midlands

Product Backlog
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Backlog within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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
Birmingham +42 11 £48,000 -3.52% 5
Staffordshire +15 2 £48,000 -26.15% 7
Walsall - 2 £55,000 - 2
Warwickshire +3 1 - - 7
Coventry -5 1 £70,000 +64.71% 1
Worcestershire - 1 £69,000 -
Product Backlog
England

Product Backlog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Retail
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Product Owner
2 8 (44.44%) Agile Product Owner
3 4 (22.22%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Product Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Scrum Master
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Business Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) PMO Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Portfolio Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Supply Chain Manager
Miscellaneous
1 12 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Agile
2 13 (72.22%) Roadmaps
3 12 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (61.11%) Backlog Management
4 11 (61.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 10 (55.56%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 10 (55.56%) Coaching
5 10 (55.56%) CRM
5 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (55.56%) Scrum
6 9 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 8 (44.44%) Epics
7 8 (44.44%) Kanban
7 8 (44.44%) Lean Six Sigma
7 8 (44.44%) Mentoring
7 8 (44.44%) Process Improvement
7 8 (44.44%) Project Roadmap
7 8 (44.44%) Six Sigma
7 8 (44.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (22.22%) Product Roadmap
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) CBAP
2 1 (5.56%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) PMO
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
1 8 (44.44%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow