Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 765 700 641
Rank change year-on-year -65 -59 +63
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 142 265 733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.27% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.28% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 62 136 268
10th Percentile £46,350 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,125 £52,500 £49,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -3.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £74,063 £74,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,875 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.09% - +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,150 95,114 154,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.20% 95.57% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 59,851 56,202 82,517
10th Percentile £29,079 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.43%

Backlog Refinement
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Refinement in the UK

Backlog Refinement
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Backlog Refinement in the UK

Backlog Refinement
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backlog Refinement over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Backlog Refinement in the UK

Backlog Refinement
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Refinement within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England -46 124 £82,500 +32.00% 31
UK excluding London -80 79 £54,000 -6.09% 23
London +66 63 £87,500 +20.69% 13
Work from Home -23 27 £56,250 -2.17% 15
Midlands -26 21 £57,659 -7.75% 5
North of England +34 19 £47,500 -17.39% 2
East Midlands - 13 £67,500 - 1
South West -12 12 £57,500 -16.45% 4
North West -15 10 - - 2
Scotland -66 10 £54,000 -10.77% 3
West Midlands -26 8 £55,000 -12.00% 4
South East -46 8 £58,750 +6.82% 7
North East +2 5 £47,500 -24.00%
Yorkshire +84 4 £50,000 -2.44%
Wales +6 3 - -
East of England -3 3 £45,000 -30.77% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 - -

Backlog Refinement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 55 (38.73%) Confluence
Applications
1 25 (17.61%) MS Visio
2 11 (7.75%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (4.23%) Trello
4 5 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.61%) Miro
2 17 (11.97%) Azure
3 10 (7.04%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.63%) AWS
5 5 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.41%) GCP
6 2 (1.41%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) SaaS
7 1 (0.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.04%) Power BI
2 8 (5.63%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.23%) Big Data
3 6 (4.23%) Snowflake Schema
3 6 (4.23%) Star Schema
3 6 (4.23%) Tableau
4 3 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.41%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.70%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.70%) Metadata
6 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.70%) MySQL
6 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.70%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 74 (52.11%) JIRA
2 2 (1.41%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.41%) Git
3 1 (0.70%) Appium
3 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.70%) JUnit
3 1 (0.70%) Mockito
3 1 (0.70%) Postman
3 1 (0.70%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.70%) Selenium
3 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.70%) WebDriver
General
1 50 (35.21%) Social Skills
2 38 (26.76%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (23.94%) Finance
4 7 (4.93%) Retail
5 5 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (3.52%) Marketing
6 4 (2.82%) Banking
6 4 (2.82%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.11%) Automotive
7 3 (2.11%) Games
7 3 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.41%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.70%) Front Office
9 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 39 (27.46%) Analyst
2 38 (26.76%) Business Analyst
3 28 (19.72%) Product Owner
4 27 (19.01%) Senior
5 25 (17.61%) Senior Analyst
6 24 (16.90%) Senior Business Analyst
7 17 (11.97%) Scrum Master
8 15 (10.56%) Product Manager
9 12 (8.45%) Lead
10 8 (5.63%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (4.93%) E-Commerce Executive
12 6 (4.23%) Technical Analyst
12 6 (4.23%) Technical Business Analyst
13 5 (3.52%) Developer
13 5 (3.52%) Digital Product Owner
13 5 (3.52%) E-Commerce Tester
13 5 (3.52%) QA Tester
13 5 (3.52%) Tester
14 4 (2.82%) Software Manager
15 3 (2.11%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.11%) RESTful
2 2 (1.41%) .NET
2 2 (1.41%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.41%) ASP.NET
2 2 (1.41%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (1.41%) CSS
2 2 (1.41%) CSS3
2 2 (1.41%) HTML
2 2 (1.41%) HTML5
2 2 (1.41%) React
2 2 (1.41%) REST
3 1 (0.70%) Ajax
3 1 (0.70%) Classic ASP
3 1 (0.70%) SOAP
3 1 (0.70%) Spring
3 1 (0.70%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.70%) Swagger
3 1 (0.70%) Vue
3 1 (0.70%) Web Services
3 1 (0.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (45.77%) Product Ownership
2 18 (12.68%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.23%) Reinsurance
4 3 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.11%) Blockchain
4 3 (2.11%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.11%) Derivative
4 3 (2.11%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.11%) Over-the-Top Content
4 3 (2.11%) Virtual Reality
5 2 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.41%) PMI
6 1 (0.70%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.70%) Equities
6 1 (0.70%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.11%) Unix
2 1 (0.70%) Android
2 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (89.44%) Agile
2 94 (66.20%) Scrum
3 73 (51.41%) Acceptance Criteria
4 62 (43.66%) User Stories
5 59 (41.55%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 57 (40.14%) Epics
7 46 (32.39%) Product Backlog
8 45 (31.69%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (30.28%) Project Management
10 42 (29.58%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 39 (27.46%) Requirements Gathering
11 39 (27.46%) Roadmaps
12 37 (26.06%) Actionable Insight
12 37 (26.06%) Backlog Management
12 37 (26.06%) Business Analysis
12 37 (26.06%) Product Roadmap
12 37 (26.06%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (21.83%) DevOps
13 31 (21.83%) Product Vision
14 27 (19.01%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 29 (20.42%) SQL
2 8 (5.63%) Python
3 7 (4.93%) R
4 6 (4.23%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.11%) C#
5 3 (2.11%) Java
5 3 (2.11%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.41%) Go
7 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.70%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (33.80%) Degree
2 44 (30.99%) Security Cleared
3 38 (26.76%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.34%) Master's Degree
5 8 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (4.23%) IIBA
8 2 (1.41%) CSPO
8 2 (1.41%) MBA
8 2 (1.41%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.45%) PMO
2 11 (7.75%) QA
3 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (2.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (10.56%) Cadence
1 15 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.52%) Oracle
3 4 (2.82%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.41%) SAP
5 1 (0.70%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.70%) Google
5 1 (0.70%) Murex
5 1 (0.70%) Progress
5 1 (0.70%) Reuters
5 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.70%) Sybase