Backlog Refinement Contracts in England

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Backlog Refinement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Refinement over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 481 527 570
Rank change year-on-year +46 +43 -1
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 70 110 211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.23% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.26% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 74 133
10th Percentile £388 £402 £401
25th Percentile £445 £450 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -4.42% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £668 £646 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £67.93 -
UK median hourly rate - £67.93 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Backlog Refinement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Backlog Refinement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in England

Backlog Refinement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Refinement in England.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Refinement in England

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Refinement in England

Backlog Refinement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Backlog Refinement in England.

Hourly rate trend for Backlog Refinement in England

Backlog Refinement
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Refinement within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +73 35 £575 - 9
South East -4 11 £445 -12.27% 3
North of England +25 10 £520 +13.97% 6
East of England +3 6 £500 +25.00% 1
Yorkshire +21 5 £598 +38.55%
Midlands +20 3 £413 -8.22% 5
North West +19 3 £413 -13.05% 4
South West +8 3 - - 2
North East +13 2 - - 2
West Midlands +10 2 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 £413 -
Backlog Refinement
UK

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (22.86%) Confluence
2 5 (7.14%) Appian
3 3 (4.29%) CMS
3 3 (4.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Trello
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Workfront
2 2 (2.86%) SAP CO
2 2 (2.86%) SAP FI
2 2 (2.86%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.86%) SAP SD
2 2 (2.86%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 20 (28.57%) Azure
2 15 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (10.00%) AWS
4 5 (7.14%) Unqork
5 3 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.29%) Serverless
6 2 (2.86%) Azure API Management
6 2 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (2.86%) NuGet
6 2 (2.86%) PaaS
6 2 (2.86%) Veeva
7 1 (1.43%) GCP
7 1 (1.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) Network Security
1 1 (1.43%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.29%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.86%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.43%) Big Data
3 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.43%) GIS
3 1 (1.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (4.29%) Git
3 1 (1.43%) Postman
3 1 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 18 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.43%) Finance
3 14 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.43%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (7.14%) Banking
5 5 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.29%) Retail
7 2 (2.86%) Back Office
8 1 (1.43%) French Language
8 1 (1.43%) Marketing
8 1 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.43%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 19 (27.14%) Product Owner
2 17 (24.29%) Analyst
3 12 (17.14%) Business Analyst
4 8 (11.43%) Senior
5 7 (10.00%) Developer
6 6 (8.57%) Architect
6 6 (8.57%) Product Analyst
6 6 (8.57%) Scrum Master
7 5 (7.14%) Appian Architect
8 4 (5.71%) Digital Product Owner
8 4 (5.71%) Project Manager
9 3 (4.29%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Product Manager
9 3 (4.29%) Senior Developer
10 2 (2.86%) Data Integration Engineer
10 2 (2.86%) Full Stack Developer
10 2 (2.86%) IT Analyst
10 2 (2.86%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
10 2 (2.86%) Senior Product Owner
10 2 (2.86%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.43%) RESTful
2 7 (10.00%) .NET
2 7 (10.00%) SOAP
3 5 (7.14%) Web Services
4 3 (4.29%) REST
5 2 (2.86%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.86%) CSS
5 2 (2.86%) Express.js
5 2 (2.86%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.86%) HTML
5 2 (2.86%) MERN Stack
5 2 (2.86%) Node.js
5 2 (2.86%) React
5 2 (2.86%) YAML
6 1 (1.43%) Middleware
6 1 (1.43%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 32 (45.71%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.57%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (7.14%) Wiki
4 2 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.43%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.43%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.43%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.43%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (81.43%) Agile
2 31 (44.29%) User Stories
3 30 (42.86%) Sprint Planning
4 29 (41.43%) Product Backlog
5 28 (40.00%) Scrum
6 26 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (25.71%) Acceptance Criteria
7 18 (25.71%) DevOps
8 16 (22.86%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 16 (22.86%) Workshop Facilitation
9 15 (21.43%) Roadmaps
10 14 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
11 12 (17.14%) Sprint Retrospective
12 10 (14.29%) Sprint Review
13 8 (11.43%) CRM
13 8 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
14 7 (10.00%) Project Management
14 7 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 7 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
14 7 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.00%) C#
2 6 (8.57%) SQL
3 3 (4.29%) Java
4 2 (2.86%) Bicep
4 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.86%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (14.29%) Degree
2 7 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.29%) CSPO
4 3 (4.29%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.43%) PgMP
5 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.86%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.86%) QA
2 1 (1.43%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (7.14%) IBM
1 5 (7.14%) OpenText
1 5 (7.14%) Pega
2 3 (4.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.86%) SAP
3 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.43%) Databricks
4 1 (1.43%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.43%) NCR