Backlog Refinement Jobs with Work from Home Options

Backlog Refinement (Backlog Grooming)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 569 538 577
Rank change year-on-year -31 +39 -34
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Refinement 31 111 334
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.089% 0.29% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.099% 0.30% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 18 68 154
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,525 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £50,076
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -11.54% +30.00%
75th Percentile £61,994 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £73,750 £82,500
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,355 37,000 72,372
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.11% 96.01% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,586 26,257 41,808
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Backlog Refinement salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Backlog Refinement
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Backlog Refinement over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Backlog Refinement salary 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 7 (22.58%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (19.35%) Azure
2 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.23%) AWS
3 1 (3.23%) GCP
3 1 (3.23%) SaaS
3 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.23%) Metadata
2 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) Appium
2 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) Postman
2 1 (3.23%) REST Assured
2 1 (3.23%) Selenium
2 1 (3.23%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Retail
3 6 (19.35%) Finance
4 4 (12.90%) Marketing
5 3 (9.68%) Games
5 3 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Automotive
7 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (16.13%) E-Commerce Executive
1 5 (16.13%) E-Commerce Tester
1 5 (16.13%) Product Manager
1 5 (16.13%) Product Owner
1 5 (16.13%) QA Tester
1 5 (16.13%) Tester
2 4 (12.90%) Lead
3 3 (9.68%) Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Business Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Release Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Release Train Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Software Team Leader
3 3 (9.68%) Team Leader
4 2 (6.45%) .NET Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Digital Product Owner
4 2 (6.45%) E-Commerce Manager
4 2 (6.45%) E-Commerce Project Manager
4 2 (6.45%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.45%) Software Engineering Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) .NET
2 1 (3.23%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (3.23%) CSS
2 1 (3.23%) CSS3
2 1 (3.23%) Entity Framework
2 1 (3.23%) HTML
2 1 (3.23%) HTML5
2 1 (3.23%) OpenCV
2 1 (3.23%) React
2 1 (3.23%) REST
2 1 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (51.61%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.68%) Client/Server
2 3 (9.68%) Over-the-Top Content
2 3 (9.68%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (77.42%) Agile
2 18 (58.06%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 15 (48.39%) Product Backlog
4 11 (35.48%) Sprint Planning
4 11 (35.48%) User Acceptance Testing
5 10 (32.26%) Roadmaps
6 9 (29.03%) Project Management
6 9 (29.03%) Release Management
7 8 (25.81%) E-Commerce
7 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (25.81%) User Stories
8 7 (22.58%) B2B
8 7 (22.58%) B2C
8 7 (22.58%) Decision-Making
8 7 (22.58%) DevOps
8 7 (22.58%) Product Roadmap
8 7 (22.58%) Requirements Gathering
8 7 (22.58%) Scrum
8 7 (22.58%) Web Development
9 6 (19.35%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) C#
2 1 (3.23%) Java
2 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.23%) Google