Backlog Refinement Jobs in England

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 722 697 625
Rank change year-on-year -25 -72 +62
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 126 225 649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.27% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.28% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 61 121 268
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,649
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -3.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,518 £65,000
% change year-on-year +23.93% -6.90% +30.00%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,200 80,466 135,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.51% 95.48% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 55,193 48,975 73,419
10th Percentile £29,022 £34,324 £33,262
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Backlog Refinement in England

Backlog Refinement
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Backlog Refinement in England

Backlog Refinement
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Refinement within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +83 64 £85,000 +17.24% 9
Midlands -33 20 £55,000 -12.00% 5
North of England +19 19 £47,500 -17.39% 6
South West -29 12 £57,500 -6.12% 2
East Midlands - 12 - -
North West -32 10 - - 4
South East -43 10 £60,000 +14.29% 3
West Midlands -44 8 £55,000 -12.00% 5
North East -7 5 £47,500 -24.00% 2
Yorkshire +63 4 £50,000 -2.44%
East of England -8 3 £45,000 -30.77% 1
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 43 (34.13%) Confluence
2 1 (0.79%) CMS
2 1 (0.79%) Umbraco
Applications
1 16 (12.70%) MS Visio
2 11 (8.73%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (4.76%) Trello
4 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (12.70%) Azure
1 16 (12.70%) Miro
2 7 (5.56%) AWS
2 7 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 5 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.59%) SaaS
4 2 (1.59%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.79%) GCP
5 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.56%) Power BI
1 7 (5.56%) Relational Database
2 6 (4.76%) Big Data
2 6 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
2 6 (4.76%) Star Schema
2 6 (4.76%) Tableau
3 3 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.59%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.79%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.79%) Metadata
5 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.79%) MySQL
5 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 58 (46.03%) JIRA
2 2 (1.59%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.59%) Git
3 1 (0.79%) Appium
3 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.79%) JUnit
3 1 (0.79%) Mockito
3 1 (0.79%) Postman
3 1 (0.79%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.79%) Selenium
3 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.79%) WebDriver
General
1 43 (34.13%) Social Skills
2 35 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (24.60%) Finance
4 8 (6.35%) Retail
5 7 (5.56%) Marketing
6 5 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.17%) Banking
8 3 (2.38%) Automotive
8 3 (2.38%) Games
9 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.59%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.79%) Front Office
10 1 (0.79%) Law
10 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (22.22%) Analyst
2 27 (21.43%) Business Analyst
3 26 (20.63%) Product Owner
4 18 (14.29%) Senior
5 17 (13.49%) Product Manager
6 16 (12.70%) Senior Analyst
7 15 (11.90%) Senior Business Analyst
8 11 (8.73%) Lead
9 9 (7.14%) Scrum Master
10 8 (6.35%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (5.56%) E-Commerce Executive
12 6 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
12 6 (4.76%) Technical Business Analyst
13 5 (3.97%) Developer
13 5 (3.97%) E-Commerce Tester
13 5 (3.97%) QA Tester
13 5 (3.97%) Tester
14 4 (3.17%) Digital Product Owner
14 4 (3.17%) Software Manager
15 3 (2.38%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.38%) RESTful
2 2 (1.59%) .NET
2 2 (1.59%) REST
2 2 (1.59%) Web Services
3 1 (0.79%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.79%) Ajax
3 1 (0.79%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.79%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (0.79%) Classic ASP
3 1 (0.79%) CSS3
3 1 (0.79%) jQuery
3 1 (0.79%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (0.79%) LINQ
3 1 (0.79%) OpenAPI
3 1 (0.79%) OpenCV
3 1 (0.79%) React
3 1 (0.79%) Spring
3 1 (0.79%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.79%) Swagger
3 1 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (52.38%) Product Ownership
2 13 (10.32%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.56%) Reinsurance
4 3 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.38%) Blockchain
4 3 (2.38%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.38%) Derivative
4 3 (2.38%) Over-the-Top Content
4 3 (2.38%) Virtual Reality
5 2 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.59%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.79%) Equities
6 1 (0.79%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.79%) PMI
6 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.38%) Unix
2 1 (0.79%) Android
2 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (87.30%) Agile
2 76 (60.32%) Scrum
3 62 (49.21%) Acceptance Criteria
4 59 (46.83%) User Stories
5 53 (42.06%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 47 (37.30%) Epics
6 47 (37.30%) Product Backlog
7 46 (36.51%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (31.75%) Roadmaps
9 38 (30.16%) Project Management
10 36 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
11 33 (26.19%) Backlog Management
12 30 (23.81%) Product Vision
13 29 (23.02%) Requirements Gathering
14 28 (22.22%) DevOps
14 28 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 27 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
16 26 (20.63%) Business Analysis
16 26 (20.63%) Sprint Planning
17 23 (18.25%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.63%) SQL
2 8 (6.35%) Python
3 7 (5.56%) R
4 6 (4.76%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.38%) C#
5 3 (2.38%) Java
6 2 (1.59%) Go
6 2 (1.59%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.79%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 39 (30.95%) Degree
2 30 (23.81%) Security Cleared
3 24 (19.05%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.35%) Master's Degree
5 7 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.76%) IIBA
7 3 (2.38%) CSPO
8 2 (1.59%) MBA
9 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.73%) QA
2 7 (5.56%) PMO
3 2 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.94%) Cadence
3 5 (3.97%) Oracle
4 3 (2.38%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.59%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.59%) SAP
6 1 (0.79%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.79%) Murex
6 1 (0.79%) Progress
6 1 (0.79%) Reuters
6 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.79%) Sybase