Hybrid/Remote Product Backlog Job Trends

Product Backlogs
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Product Backlog skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 369 354
Rank change year-on-year +62 -15 -77
Permanent jobs citing Product Backlog 64 63 137
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.43% 0.38% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.41% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 56 33 123
10th Percentile £48,125 £42,608 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,750 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.55% -21.43% +5.10%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £87,021
90th Percentile £120,000 £81,250 £96,539
UK median annual salary £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.15% -7.14% +3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,070 15,388 20,350
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.44% 93.64% 93.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8,286 9,071 16,480
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,750 £45,164
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Backlog and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Backlog job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Product Backlog
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Product Backlog.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Product Backlog

Product Backlog
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Product Backlog over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Product Backlog salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Product Backlog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 7 (10.94%) Confluence
2 4 (6.25%) CMS
2 4 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.69%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (4.69%) Photoshop
2 2 (3.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Shopify
2 1 (1.56%) Magento
2 1 (1.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.94%) AWS
2 6 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (7.81%) SaaS
4 4 (6.25%) Azure
4 4 (6.25%) GitHub
4 4 (6.25%) Power Automate
5 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.56%) BigCommerce
7 1 (1.56%) Boomi
7 1 (1.56%) Figma
7 1 (1.56%) Serverless
7 1 (1.56%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.56%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.69%) MySQL
2 2 (3.13%) Power BI
3 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.56%) GIS
3 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (14.06%) JIRA
2 3 (4.69%) Git
2 3 (4.69%) Rational Rhapsody
2 3 (4.69%) Vite
3 1 (1.56%) GitLab
General
1 34 (53.13%) Social Skills
2 23 (35.94%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (18.75%) Finance
4 9 (14.06%) Marketing
5 5 (7.81%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.69%) Law
7 3 (4.69%) Legal
8 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.56%) Advertising
9 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (50.00%) Product Owner
2 11 (17.19%) Product Manager
3 7 (10.94%) Lead
4 5 (7.81%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) IT Manager
5 4 (6.25%) IT Project Manager
5 4 (6.25%) Product Lead
5 4 (6.25%) Technical Product Owner
5 4 (6.25%) Unified Communications Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Lead DevOps
6 3 (4.69%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) SIEM Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Head of AI
8 1 (1.56%) Digital Product Manager
8 1 (1.56%) Integration Developer
8 1 (1.56%) Senior
8 1 (1.56%) Senior E-Commerce Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) Web Services
2 3 (4.69%) CSS
2 3 (4.69%) HTML
2 3 (4.69%) Laravel
2 3 (4.69%) LEMP Stack
2 3 (4.69%) Tailwind CSS
2 3 (4.69%) Vue
2 3 (4.69%) YAML
3 2 (3.13%) REST
4 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.56%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.56%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 45 (70.31%) Product Ownership
2 9 (14.06%) Reinsurance
3 7 (10.94%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.25%) Digital Media
5 3 (4.69%) Cybercrime
5 3 (4.69%) e-Learning
5 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.13%) AI Agents
6 2 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.13%) Educational Technology
6 2 (3.13%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (92.19%) Agile
2 36 (56.25%) Roadmaps
3 27 (42.19%) Backlog Management
3 27 (42.19%) User Stories
4 22 (34.38%) Product Roadmap
5 20 (31.25%) Scrum
6 18 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (26.56%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 17 (26.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (23.44%) User Experience
9 13 (20.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (20.31%) Product Vision
10 12 (18.75%) Acceptance Criteria
10 12 (18.75%) AI
10 12 (18.75%) Strategic Thinking
11 11 (17.19%) Product Management
11 11 (17.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (15.63%) Decision-Making
12 10 (15.63%) E-Commerce
13 9 (14.06%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.38%) JavaScript
2 5 (7.81%) PHP
2 5 (7.81%) Python
3 4 (6.25%) Go
4 3 (4.69%) Bash
5 1 (1.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (6.25%) Degree
2 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.69%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.13%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.63%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (10.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.56%) Ansible
2 1 (1.56%) Grafana
2 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (7.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.25%) Civica
2 4 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.69%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.56%) Adobe
4 1 (1.56%) ESRI
4 1 (1.56%) Google
4 1 (1.56%) Mercator
4 1 (1.56%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.56%) PayPal
4 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.56%) SnapLogic