Backlog Refinement Contracts in London

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Backlog Refinement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Refinement over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 387 427
Rank change year-on-year +38 +40 +47
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 32 44 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.22% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.24% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 22 107
10th Percentile £300 £408 £400
25th Percentile £411 £467 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £583 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +12.02% -
75th Percentile £631 £647 £583
90th Percentile £675 £675 £643
England median daily rate £550 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +10.00% -5.66% +4.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.00 -
England median hourly rate £67.02 £48.93 £71.96
% change year-on-year +36.97% -32.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Backlog Refinement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,962 18,344 33,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 89.71% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,995 13,225 24,324
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +6.82%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £798
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 234 277
10th Percentile £17.43 £18.21 £16.53
25th Percentile £25.17 £21.25 £23.25
Median hourly rate £38.75 £39.09 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +4.23% +8.70%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.25 £59.38
90th Percentile £80.23 £77.50 £75.39
England median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%

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 October 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 October 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 +14 4 £725 +20.83% 1
West London - 2 £300 - 1
East London - 1 £535 - 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 4 (12.50%) Confluence
2 3 (9.38%) CMS
3 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) AWS
3 2 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Big Data
2 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.13%) GIS
3 1 (3.13%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) JIRA
2 3 (9.38%) Postman
3 1 (3.13%) Git
3 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.13%) Maven
3 1 (3.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 17 (53.13%) Finance
2 7 (21.88%) Banking
3 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Back Office
5 1 (3.13%) Front Office
5 1 (3.13%) Marketing
5 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Analyst
2 7 (21.88%) Product Owner
2 7 (21.88%) Senior
3 6 (18.75%) Business Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Banking Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Business Data Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Scrum Master
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Lead
6 2 (6.25%) Product Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Product Owner
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Business Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Digital Product Owner
7 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Pensions Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Pensions Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) .NET
1 3 (9.38%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (6.25%) RESTful
2 2 (6.25%) Swagger
3 1 (3.13%) OpenAPI
3 1 (3.13%) REST
3 1 (3.13%) Spring
3 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Product Ownership
2 4 (12.50%) Reference Data
3 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) Equities
4 1 (3.13%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.13%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (3.13%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.13%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) Agile
2 15 (46.88%) Sprint Planning
2 15 (46.88%) User Stories
3 11 (34.38%) Product Backlog
4 10 (31.25%) Acceptance Criteria
5 9 (28.13%) DevOps
6 8 (25.00%) Scrum
7 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (18.75%) Data Modelling
8 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (15.63%) Data Mapping
8 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (15.63%) Requirements Gathering
8 5 (15.63%) Sprint Retrospective
8 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (15.63%) User Experience
8 5 (15.63%) Workshop Facilitation
9 4 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 4 (12.50%) Product Strategy
9 4 (12.50%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) C#
2 2 (6.25%) SQL
3 1 (3.13%) Java
3 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) CCNA
3 1 (3.13%) CCNP
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.13%) CSPO
3 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) JNCIP
3 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) CA Single Sign-On
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.13%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) SAP
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.13%) Cadence
3 1 (3.13%) Guidewire