Backlog Refinement Contracts in London

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 421 490
Rank change year-on-year +66 +69 -57
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 35 56 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.22% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.24% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 38 63
10th Percentile £288 £450 £408
25th Percentile £507 £511 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +9.30% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £600
90th Percentile £683 £700 £650
England median daily rate £520 £520 £538
% change year-on-year - -3.26% +2.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,450 23,106 35,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 90.87% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,083 16,714 26,163
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 262 405
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +11.79% +7.35%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in London

Backlog Refinement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Refinement in London

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Refinement in London

Backlog Refinement
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +43 8 £623 +2.05% 1
Backlog Refinement
England

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 11 (31.43%) Confluence
2 3 (8.57%) CMS
2 3 (8.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Trello
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 17 (48.57%) Azure
2 13 (37.14%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (11.43%) AWS
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (8.57%) Serverless
5 2 (5.71%) Azure API Management
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (5.71%) NuGet
5 2 (5.71%) PaaS
6 1 (2.86%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) DynamoDB
2 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.86%) Big Data
3 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.86%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (8.57%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) Postman
3 1 (2.86%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 10 (28.57%) Finance
2 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.57%) Retail
5 2 (5.71%) Back Office
6 1 (2.86%) Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Marketing
6 1 (2.86%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Product Owner
2 7 (20.00%) Developer
3 6 (17.14%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) Digital Product Owner
5 3 (8.57%) Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Business Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Data Integration Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Product Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Product Owner
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Product Owner
6 2 (5.71%) Web Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Designer
7 1 (2.86%) MongoDB Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (8.57%) REST
2 3 (8.57%) RESTful
3 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.71%) CSS
3 2 (5.71%) Express.js
3 2 (5.71%) GraphQL
3 2 (5.71%) HTML
3 2 (5.71%) MERN Stack
3 2 (5.71%) Node.js
3 2 (5.71%) React
3 2 (5.71%) SOAP
3 2 (5.71%) YAML
4 1 (2.86%) Middleware
4 1 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (54.29%) Product Ownership
2 5 (14.29%) Wiki
3 4 (11.43%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.86%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.86%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.86%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (2.86%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (82.86%) Agile
2 18 (51.43%) Product Backlog
2 18 (51.43%) Sprint Planning
3 16 (45.71%) DevOps
3 16 (45.71%) User Stories
4 15 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (37.14%) Acceptance Criteria
5 13 (37.14%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 13 (37.14%) Translating Business Requirements
6 11 (31.43%) Workshop Facilitation
7 9 (25.71%) Scrum
8 7 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (20.00%) Roadmaps
8 7 (20.00%) Workflow
9 6 (17.14%) Business Case
9 6 (17.14%) Creative Problem-Solving
9 6 (17.14%) Product Requirements
9 6 (17.14%) Sprint Retrospective
9 6 (17.14%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) C#
2 6 (17.14%) SQL
3 2 (5.71%) Bicep
3 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Degree
2 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.86%) PgMP
4 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.86%) PMO
2 1 (2.86%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) Guidewire
2 1 (2.86%) NCR