Backlog Prioritisation Jobs

Backlog Prioritisation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Backlog Prioritisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Prioritisation over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 662 562 519
Rank change year-on-year -100 -43 +101
Permanent jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 264 424 1,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.46% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.48% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 136 259 440
10th Percentile £46,740 £39,294 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,688 £46,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,805 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.36% -11.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Backlog Prioritisation 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 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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% +9.38%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
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 Prioritisation within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England -85 239 £73,805 +28.36% 54
UK excluding London -169 167 £65,000 +18.18% 29
Work from Home -48 102 £70,000 +21.74% 31
London +38 90 £80,000 +4.92% 25
North of England -16 51 £70,000 +27.27% 8
South East -32 44 £52,500 +66.67% 6
Midlands -58 32 £65,000 +26.83% 10
Yorkshire +63 27 £70,000 -2.99% 2
East Midlands -26 17 - - 3
North West -54 17 £73,805 +34.19% 5
South West -42 15 £45,000 -23.33% 2
West Midlands -44 15 £65,000 +44.44% 7
Scotland -76 10 £57,000 -31.17% 2
North East -9 7 £47,500 - 1
Wales +18 6 £45,000 -21.74% 1
East of England -29 5 £51,250 -6.82%
Northern Ireland - 4 - -

Backlog Prioritisation
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 27 (10.23%) Confluence
2 6 (2.27%) CMS
3 2 (0.76%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (3.41%) Spreadsheet
2 7 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (6.82%) Power Platform
2 16 (6.06%) SaaS
3 10 (3.79%) Azure
4 7 (2.65%) AWS
4 7 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (2.65%) GCP
5 5 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (1.89%) Serverless
6 4 (1.52%) Amazon Cognito
6 4 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (1.52%) Boomi
6 4 (1.52%) Datadog
6 4 (1.52%) dbt
6 4 (1.52%) Fivetran
6 4 (1.52%) Prefect
6 4 (1.52%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 4 (1.52%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.14%) GitHub
8 2 (0.76%) Basecamp
8 2 (0.76%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.76%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.82%) Power BI
2 7 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.89%) RDBMS
3 5 (1.89%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.52%) Parquet
4 4 (1.52%) Tableau
5 3 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.14%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.76%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.38%) Big Data
7 1 (0.38%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 41 (15.53%) JIRA
2 4 (1.52%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.14%) IBM UrbanCode
3 3 (1.14%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.14%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (1.14%) Toad
4 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.38%) GitLab
General
1 73 (27.65%) Social Skills
2 42 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (12.88%) Marketing
4 29 (10.98%) Finance
5 27 (10.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (9.09%) Retail
7 16 (6.06%) Legal
8 14 (5.30%) Brand Awareness
8 14 (5.30%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.03%) Publishing
10 5 (1.89%) Back Office
10 5 (1.89%) Banking
11 4 (1.52%) Automotive
11 4 (1.52%) Law
12 3 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.76%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.38%) Advertising
14 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (23.11%) Product Owner
2 47 (17.80%) Senior
3 41 (15.53%) Product Manager
4 40 (15.15%) Analyst
5 33 (12.50%) Senior User Researcher
5 33 (12.50%) User Researcher
6 28 (10.61%) Lead
7 18 (6.82%) Systems Analyst
8 17 (6.44%) Operations Analyst
8 17 (6.44%) Scrum Master
9 16 (6.06%) Business Analyst
9 16 (6.06%) Lead Product Manager
10 14 (5.30%) Customer Experience Manager
11 12 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
12 9 (3.41%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 8 (3.03%) Project Manager
14 7 (2.65%) E-Commerce Executive
14 7 (2.65%) Engineering Manager
14 7 (2.65%) Senior Analyst
15 5 (1.89%) E-Commerce Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.17%) Web Services
2 7 (2.65%) React
3 5 (1.89%) .NET
4 4 (1.52%) JSON
4 4 (1.52%) RESTful
5 2 (0.76%) CSS
5 2 (0.76%) HTML
6 1 (0.38%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.38%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 144 (54.55%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.68%) Onboarding
3 13 (4.92%) Data Structures
4 11 (4.17%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.79%) Mobile App
6 9 (3.41%) PMI
7 7 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.52%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.14%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.76%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.38%) LIMS
11 1 (0.38%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.38%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.38%) Social Media
11 1 (0.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.52%) Android
1 4 (1.52%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.38%) Linux
2 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (82.20%) Agile
2 110 (41.67%) Roadmaps
3 93 (35.23%) Scrum
4 81 (30.68%) Product Roadmap
5 80 (30.30%) Product Vision
6 78 (29.55%) Product Backlog
7 69 (26.14%) Customer Experience
8 61 (23.11%) Project Management
9 56 (21.21%) Backlog Refinement
10 55 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 54 (20.45%) User Stories
12 51 (19.32%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 47 (17.80%) Mentoring
13 47 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
14 46 (17.42%) Actionable Insight
15 45 (17.05%) User Research
16 44 (16.67%) Empathy Maps
16 44 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
17 40 (15.15%) Product Strategy
18 39 (14.77%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 57 (21.59%) SQL
2 14 (5.30%) C
3 9 (3.41%) Python
4 7 (2.65%) TypeScript
5 4 (1.52%) Scala
6 3 (1.14%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.14%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.76%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.38%) Bash
8 1 (0.38%) Groovy
8 1 (0.38%) R
8 1 (0.38%) Tcl
8 1 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 48 (18.18%) Degree
2 46 (17.42%) SC Cleared
2 46 (17.42%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.79%) Master's Degree
3 10 (3.79%) MBA
4 9 (3.41%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (0.76%) CSPO
7 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (14.39%) Accessibility
2 23 (8.71%) QA
3 13 (4.92%) PMO
4 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.38%) GDPR
4 1 (0.38%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (0.38%) Ansible
1 1 (0.38%) Grafana
1 1 (0.38%) Kibana
1 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.55%) Cadence
3 7 (2.65%) Genesys
3 7 (2.65%) Google
3 7 (2.65%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.89%) SAP
4 5 (1.89%) YouTube
5 4 (1.52%) Dataiku
6 3 (1.14%) Oracle
7 2 (0.76%) Adobe
7 2 (0.76%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.76%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.76%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.38%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.38%) Okta