Backlog Refinement Contracts with Work from Home Options

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 415 491
Rank change year-on-year +107 +76 -32
Contract jobs citing Backlog Refinement 33 42 132
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.18% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.20% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 26 94
10th Percentile £358 - £391
25th Percentile £435 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £531
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +8.24% +11.84%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £638
90th Percentile £668 £669 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £538
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.26% +14.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Backlog Refinement
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Backlog Refinement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Backlog Refinement trend for jobs with a WFH option

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Backlog Refinement.

Backlog Refinement daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Backlog Refinement
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Backlog Refinement over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Backlog Refinement daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (30.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Trello
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) SAP CO
1 2 (6.06%) SAP FI
1 2 (6.06%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (6.06%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (6.06%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 13 (39.39%) Azure
2 9 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (15.15%) AWS
4 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (9.09%) Serverless
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.03%) Azure API Management
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.03%) NuGet
5 1 (3.03%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (30.30%) JIRA
2 3 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.03%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.03%) GitLab
3 1 (3.03%) Gradle
3 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.03%) JMeter
3 1 (3.03%) JUnit
3 1 (3.03%) Maven
3 1 (3.03%) Mocha
3 1 (3.03%) Postman
3 1 (3.03%) REST Assured
3 1 (3.03%) Selenium
3 1 (3.03%) SoapUI
3 1 (3.03%) TestNG
3 1 (3.03%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Finance
4 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
5 3 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.06%) Banking
7 1 (3.03%) French Language
7 1 (3.03%) Marketing
7 1 (3.03%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Analyst
2 10 (30.30%) Business Analyst
3 9 (27.27%) Product Owner
4 4 (12.12%) Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Digital Product Owner
4 4 (12.12%) Senior
5 3 (9.09%) Agile Business Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Product Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) SAP CO Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) SAP FI Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Automation Tester
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Payments Business Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) .NET
2 3 (9.09%) REST
3 2 (6.06%) Middleware
3 2 (6.06%) RESTful
3 2 (6.06%) SOAP
4 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.03%) Chai
4 1 (3.03%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.03%) JAXB
4 1 (3.03%) JAX-RS
4 1 (3.03%) Node.js
4 1 (3.03%) Spring
4 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.03%) Swagger
4 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (51.52%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.03%) Blockchain
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.03%) Replication
4 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.03%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (84.85%) Agile
2 19 (57.58%) Sprint Planning
3 18 (54.55%) User Stories
4 17 (51.52%) Product Backlog
5 13 (39.39%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (33.33%) DevOps
7 10 (30.30%) Workshop Facilitation
8 9 (27.27%) Acceptance Criteria
8 9 (27.27%) Scrum
8 9 (27.27%) Translating Business Requirements
9 7 (21.21%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 7 (21.21%) Business Case
9 7 (21.21%) Product Requirements
9 7 (21.21%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (21.21%) Workflow
10 6 (18.18%) Creative Problem-Solving
11 5 (15.15%) Roadmaps
12 4 (12.12%) Event-Driven
12 4 (12.12%) Requirements Gathering
12 4 (12.12%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) C#
2 2 (6.06%) Java
2 2 (6.06%) Python
3 1 (3.03%) Bicep
3 1 (3.03%) C
3 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.03%) Kotlin
3 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.03%) Scala
3 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) CSPO
3 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) SAP
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.03%) Salesforce