Product Backlog Job Trends in the West Midlands

Product Backlogs
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Product Backlog skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 177 165
Rank change year-on-year +11 -12 +22
Permanent jobs citing Product Backlog 12 22 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.23% 0.53% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.58% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 14
10th Percentile £53,750 £47,800 £41,475
25th Percentile £56,875 £52,125 £48,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +1.74% +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile - £76,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +3.70%

All Process & 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 4,341 3,795 3,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.12% 91.62% 87.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,264 1,687 2,757
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £37,938 £41,563 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Backlog relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Product Backlog job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Product Backlog
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Product Backlog.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Product Backlog

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 14 January 2026. 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 +24 6 £65,000 +8.33%
Bilston - 3 £66,500 - 1
Solihull - 1 £67,500 -
Shropshire - 1 £60,000 - 1
Product Backlog
England

Product Backlog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) CMS
1 3 (25.00%) nginx
2 1 (8.33%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (25.00%) Photoshop
1 3 (25.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) Asana
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
1 3 (25.00%) Vite
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Product Owner
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) SIEM Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Business Development Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Development Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Software Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Software Development Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Software Development Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) CRM Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Product Owner
4 1 (8.33%) Product Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) CSS
1 3 (25.00%) HTML
1 3 (25.00%) Laravel
1 3 (25.00%) LEMP Stack
1 3 (25.00%) Tailwind CSS
1 3 (25.00%) Vue
1 3 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (91.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 6 (50.00%) User Stories
4 5 (41.67%) Backlog Management
4 5 (41.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 5 (41.67%) Decision-Making
4 5 (41.67%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
4 5 (41.67%) Scrum
5 4 (33.33%) Product Management
5 4 (33.33%) Product Vision
5 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (33.33%) User Experience
6 3 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (25.00%) SIEM
6 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 3 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) Go
2 3 (25.00%) PHP
2 3 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes