Backlog Management Jobs in the UK excluding London

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Backlog Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Management over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 601 497 465
Rank change year-on-year -104 -32 -4
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Management 175 275 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.47% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.50% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 82 149 278
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,199 £53,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% +18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,938 £97,328 £68,750
90th Percentile £73,680 £117,236 £82,875
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Backlog Management 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,033 55,511 69,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.47% 95.56% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 42,006 28,806 41,464
10th Percentile £27,336 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Backlog Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in the UK excluding London

Backlog Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Backlog Management in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Backlog Management in the UK excluding London

Backlog Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Backlog Management in the UK excluding London

Backlog Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +13 63 £55,000 -19.75% 4
South East -29 41 £61,250 -2.00% 18
North of England -10 33 £60,875 -23.91% 10
Midlands -34 20 £57,659 +15.32% 8
North West -6 18 £55,000 - 4
West Midlands -21 11 £60,319 +26.99% 7
Scotland -73 11 £52,500 -30.62% 7
Yorkshire +29 9 £60,000 -32.19% 5
East Midlands -13 9 £37,500 -31.82% 1
North East -2 6 £70,000 +4.48% 1
East of England -11 4 £47,500 +5.56% 2
Wales - 3 £60,000 - 1
Backlog Management
UK

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 17 (9.71%) Confluence
2 5 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.14%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.14%) CMS
4 1 (0.57%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.86%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.14%) Trello
5 1 (0.57%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.57%) InVision
5 1 (0.57%) Sketch
5 1 (0.57%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Maximo
2 1 (0.57%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 80 (45.71%) Azure
2 76 (43.43%) Azure DevOps
3 72 (41.14%) AWS
3 72 (41.14%) GCP
4 16 (9.14%) Power Platform
5 13 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (7.43%) Power Automate
5 13 (7.43%) PowerApps
6 7 (4.00%) Miro
7 5 (2.86%) SaaS
8 4 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.14%) Asana
9 2 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.14%) Basecamp
9 2 (1.14%) OCI
9 2 (1.14%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (1.14%) Smartsheet
10 1 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.57%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (41.14%) BigQuery
1 72 (41.14%) Data Warehouse
1 72 (41.14%) Looker
2 14 (8.00%) Power BI
3 2 (1.14%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.57%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.57%) Metadata
4 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (19.43%) JIRA
2 2 (1.14%) Selenium
3 1 (0.57%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.57%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 89 (50.86%) Analytical Skills
2 73 (41.71%) Billing
3 43 (24.57%) Social Skills
4 28 (16.00%) Finance
5 19 (10.86%) Marketing
6 11 (6.29%) Fire and Rescue
6 11 (6.29%) Retail
7 6 (3.43%) Banking
8 5 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.86%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Automotive
10 2 (1.14%) Back Office
10 2 (1.14%) Games
10 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.14%) Police
11 1 (0.57%) Electronics
11 1 (0.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 73 (41.71%) Data Manager
2 72 (41.14%) Engineering Manager
3 24 (13.71%) Product Manager
4 20 (11.43%) Product Owner
5 14 (8.00%) Analyst
6 12 (6.86%) Senior
7 11 (6.29%) Applications Developer
7 11 (6.29%) Developer
7 11 (6.29%) Senior Applications Developer
7 11 (6.29%) Senior Developer
8 9 (5.14%) Business Analyst
8 9 (5.14%) Scrum Master
9 8 (4.57%) Lead
10 5 (2.86%) Digital Product Manager
10 5 (2.86%) Project Manager
11 4 (2.29%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (2.29%) Technical Leader
12 3 (1.71%) Technical Analyst
12 3 (1.71%) Technical Business Analyst
13 2 (1.14%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.29%) .NET
1 4 (2.29%) Web Services
2 3 (1.71%) ADO
3 2 (1.14%) CSS
3 2 (1.14%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 125 (71.43%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (1.71%) Blockchain
3 3 (1.71%) Derivative
4 2 (1.14%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.14%) Housing Association
4 2 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.57%) PMI
5 1 (0.57%) SCADA
5 1 (0.57%) Tandem
5 1 (0.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.14%) Android
1 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (94.29%) Agile
2 124 (70.86%) Product Backlog
3 116 (66.29%) Scrum
4 101 (57.71%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (50.86%) Project Management
6 87 (49.71%) DevOps
7 78 (44.57%) Business Strategy
8 77 (44.00%) CI/CD
9 76 (43.43%) Line Management
10 74 (42.29%) Data Modelling
11 72 (41.14%) Data Engineering
11 72 (41.14%) ETL
11 72 (41.14%) Platform Engineering
12 60 (34.29%) Roadmaps
13 42 (24.00%) User Stories
14 35 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
15 30 (17.14%) User Experience
16 26 (14.86%) Sprint Planning
17 23 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
18 22 (12.57%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.14%) C#
1 2 (1.14%) JavaScript
1 2 (1.14%) PowerShell
1 2 (1.14%) Python
1 2 (1.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (8.00%) Degree
2 8 (4.57%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.43%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.14%) CSPO
4 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (50.86%) QA
2 3 (1.71%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.71%) SLA
3 1 (0.57%) GDPR
3 1 (0.57%) PMO
3 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.14%) Firmware
2 1 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 73 (41.71%) Google
2 17 (9.71%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.29%) Cadence
3 4 (2.29%) Intel
4 3 (1.71%) Freshdesk
4 3 (1.71%) SAP
4 3 (1.71%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.14%) Adobe
5 2 (1.14%) ESRI
5 2 (1.14%) IBM
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle
5 2 (1.14%) Twitter
6 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.57%) Facebook
6 1 (0.57%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.57%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.57%) NEC
6 1 (0.57%) Okta
6 1 (0.57%) Pega
6 1 (0.57%) Salesforce