Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 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 600 517 428
Rank change year-on-year -83 -89 +74
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Management 322 537 1,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.54% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.56% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 196 295 727
10th Percentile £46,199 £45,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £85,625 £86,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £117,236 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,730 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.72% +18.18% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in the UK

Backlog Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Backlog Management in the UK

Backlog Management
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Backlog Management in the UK

Backlog Management
Top 16 Job Locations

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 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 -59 295 £65,000 -5.80% 89
UK excluding London -101 178 £56,730 -12.72% 61
London +43 131 £80,000 +14.29% 35
Work from Home -62 114 £62,500 -13.79% 41
South West +25 61 £57,500 -17.86% 7
South East -37 42 £61,250 +2.08% 22
North of England -19 37 £58,348 -30.54% 15
North West -8 23 £55,000 - 6
Midlands -29 20 £57,659 +15.32% 8
West Midlands -18 11 £60,319 +26.99% 7
Scotland -90 11 £52,500 -30.62% 5
Yorkshire +25 9 £60,000 -32.19% 7
East Midlands -9 9 £37,500 -31.82% 1
North East +1 5 £70,000 +4.48% 2
East of England -6 4 £47,500 +5.56% 4
Wales +7 3 £60,000 - 1

Backlog Management
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 46 (14.29%) Confluence
2 21 (6.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.24%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.62%) CMS
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.17%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.62%) Trello
5 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.31%) InVision
5 1 (0.31%) Sketch
5 1 (0.31%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.62%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.31%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 122 (37.89%) Azure
2 90 (27.95%) Azure DevOps
3 88 (27.33%) AWS
4 76 (23.60%) GCP
5 34 (10.56%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (8.07%) Power Platform
7 18 (5.59%) Entra ID
8 14 (4.35%) PowerApps
9 13 (4.04%) Power Automate
10 12 (3.73%) SaaS
10 12 (3.73%) Serverless
11 11 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (3.42%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (2.80%) GitHub
13 7 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (2.17%) Miro
13 7 (2.17%) npm
13 7 (2.17%) Yarn
14 4 (1.24%) dbt
14 4 (1.24%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.24%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (23.91%) Data Warehouse
2 76 (23.60%) Looker
3 72 (22.36%) BigQuery
4 23 (7.14%) Power BI
5 10 (3.11%) Tableau
6 8 (2.48%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.24%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.24%) HDInsight
7 4 (1.24%) Parquet
7 4 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.24%) QlikView
7 4 (1.24%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.62%) Metadata
8 2 (0.62%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.31%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 101 (31.37%) JIRA
2 8 (2.48%) Selenium
2 8 (2.48%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.31%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.31%) Git
3 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.31%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.31%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 130 (40.37%) Analytical Skills
2 111 (34.47%) Social Skills
3 76 (23.60%) Billing
4 59 (18.32%) Finance
5 23 (7.14%) Marketing
6 16 (4.97%) Banking
7 11 (3.42%) Fire and Rescue
7 11 (3.42%) Retail
8 10 (3.11%) Electronics
8 10 (3.11%) Police
9 8 (2.48%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.55%) Games
11 5 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.55%) Local Government
11 5 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.24%) Digital Health
12 4 (1.24%) Digital Healthcare
12 4 (1.24%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (25.47%) Data Manager
2 72 (22.36%) Engineering Manager
3 69 (21.43%) Product Owner
4 42 (13.04%) Analyst
5 39 (12.11%) Product Manager
6 38 (11.80%) Lead
7 23 (7.14%) Developer
8 20 (6.21%) Senior
9 18 (5.59%) Business Analyst
10 15 (4.66%) Test Analyst
11 11 (3.42%) Applications Developer
11 11 (3.42%) Senior Applications Developer
11 11 (3.42%) Senior Developer
12 10 (3.11%) Scrum Master
13 8 (2.48%) Technical Product Owner
14 7 (2.17%) Infrastructure Manager
15 6 (1.86%) Delivery Manager
15 6 (1.86%) Digital Product Owner
16 5 (1.55%) Digital Product Manager
16 5 (1.55%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.42%) JSON
2 8 (2.48%) Web Services
3 7 (2.17%) Node.js
3 7 (2.17%) OpenAPI
3 7 (2.17%) Swagger
3 7 (2.17%) Vue
3 7 (2.17%) VuePress
4 5 (1.55%) .NET
5 4 (1.24%) RESTful
5 4 (1.24%) XML
5 4 (1.24%) YAML
6 2 (0.62%) ADO
6 2 (0.62%) CSS
6 2 (0.62%) HTML
7 1 (0.31%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.31%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 198 (61.49%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.59%) Clustering
3 6 (1.86%) Reinsurance
4 4 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.24%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (0.93%) Blockchain
5 3 (0.93%) Derivative
5 3 (0.93%) Housing Association
5 3 (0.93%) Low-Code
5 3 (0.93%) Management Information System
5 3 (0.93%) PMI
5 3 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (0.62%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.62%) NHS
6 2 (0.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.31%) SCADA
7 1 (0.31%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.59%) Windows
1 18 (5.59%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.62%) Android
2 2 (0.62%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (78.88%) Agile
2 194 (60.25%) Product Backlog
3 183 (56.83%) Scrum
4 128 (39.75%) Problem-Solving
5 127 (39.44%) Roadmaps
6 120 (37.27%) DevOps
7 108 (33.54%) User Stories
8 94 (29.19%) Project Management
9 89 (27.64%) CI/CD
10 85 (26.40%) Product Roadmap
11 82 (25.47%) Line Management
12 79 (24.53%) Business Strategy
12 79 (24.53%) Data Modelling
13 78 (24.22%) Data Engineering
14 76 (23.60%) ETL
15 72 (22.36%) Platform Engineering
16 69 (21.43%) Acceptance Criteria
17 56 (17.39%) User Experience
18 49 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
18 49 (15.22%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 31 (9.63%) SQL
2 20 (6.21%) PowerShell
3 9 (2.80%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.48%) Scala
5 7 (2.17%) C#
5 7 (2.17%) Go
6 3 (0.93%) Python
7 1 (0.31%) Java
Qualifications
1 43 (13.35%) Degree
2 12 (3.73%) CSPO
3 10 (3.11%) Security Cleared
4 6 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.86%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.24%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.93%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.93%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.62%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.62%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (34.16%) QA
2 12 (3.73%) GDPR
3 4 (1.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.93%) SLA
5 2 (0.62%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.31%) EMIR
6 1 (0.31%) MiFID
6 1 (0.31%) PMO
6 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (6.21%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.59%) VMware ESXi
3 14 (4.35%) Firmware
4 10 (3.11%) Embedded Firmware
5 8 (2.48%) Docker
6 2 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (5.59%) Microsoft Clustering
1 18 (5.59%) Microsoft Intune
1 18 (5.59%) Single Sign-On
1 18 (5.59%) vCenter Server
2 2 (0.62%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 80 (24.84%) Google
2 24 (7.45%) ServiceNow
3 23 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 22 (6.83%) VMware
5 20 (6.21%) Sun
6 18 (5.59%) Commvault
7 5 (1.55%) Intel
8 4 (1.24%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.24%) Cadence
8 4 (1.24%) Databricks
8 4 (1.24%) Dataiku
9 3 (0.93%) Adobe
9 3 (0.93%) Freshdesk
9 3 (0.93%) Mercator
9 3 (0.93%) SAP
10 2 (0.62%) Facebook
10 2 (0.62%) NEC
10 2 (0.62%) Oracle
10 2 (0.62%) Pega
10 2 (0.62%) Twitter