Backlog Refinement Contracts in Scotland

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 109 130 165
Rank change year-on-year +21 +35 +1
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 6 12 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.34% 0.51% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.56% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 8
10th Percentile £428 £460 -
25th Percentile £433 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £458
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +9.29% -1.08%
75th Percentile £513 £525 £510
90th Percentile £531 £540 £570
UK median daily rate £535 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +7.00% -5.66% +9.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,536 2,152 3,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.05% 91.61% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 890 1,366 2,155
10th Percentile £212 £237 £300
25th Percentile £356 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £537 £572 £570
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 51 65
10th Percentile £13.33 £12.13 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.46 £13.22 £14.22
Median hourly rate £22.88 £19.50 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +17.31% +4.00% -6.09%
75th Percentile £24.18 £57.72 £39.75
90th Percentile £40.90 £78.00 £57.65
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in Scotland

Backlog Refinement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Refinement in Scotland

Backlog Refinement
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +8 4 £475 -5.00%
Edinburgh +13 2 £447 -
Backlog Refinement
UK

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Kafka
2 3 (50.00%) Spring
2 3 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Scrum
2 4 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 4 (66.67%) Post-Production
2 4 (66.67%) Release Management
3 3 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Backlog Management
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Product Backlog
4 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (33.33%) User Experience
4 2 (33.33%) User Stories
4 2 (33.33%) Wireframes
4 2 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk