Backlog Management Contracts in Berkshire

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Backlog Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Management over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 93 118
Rank change year-on-year -20 +25 -18
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 11 19 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.56% 1.06% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.17% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 7
10th Percentile £463 £350 £511
25th Percentile £506 £463 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £522
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.21% +4.40%
75th Percentile £650 £580 £575
90th Percentile £698 £689 £613
South East median daily rate £550 £600 £545
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% +3.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Backlog Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,755 1,623 2,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.77% 90.52% 90.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 1,052 1,388
10th Percentile £213 £349 £270
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £678 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.91% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 48 43
10th Percentile £19.00 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £25.72 £17.25
Median hourly rate £61.00 £57.82 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% +174.67% -1.06%
75th Percentile £71.75 £73.69 £33.75
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.51 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.99
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.43% -20.05%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in Berkshire

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Management in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in Berkshire

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in Berkshire

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Management within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -15 6 £625 +8.70%
Newbury 0 3 £500 +42.86% 4
Backlog Management
South East

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Broadband
2 1 (9.09%) 3G
2 1 (9.09%) 4G
2 1 (9.09%) 5G
2 1 (9.09%) DSL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Billing
4 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
5 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (9.09%) General Ledger
5 1 (9.09%) Legal
5 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Product Owner
2 1 (9.09%) Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery Project Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Product Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Scrum Master
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (9.09%) Blockchain
2 1 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (9.09%) IoT
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Roadmaps
2 9 (81.82%) Product Backlog
2 9 (81.82%) Product Roadmap
3 7 (63.64%) Agile
3 7 (63.64%) User Stories
4 5 (45.45%) Epics
4 5 (45.45%) Scrum
5 4 (36.36%) Business Strategy
5 4 (36.36%) Contingency Planning
5 4 (36.36%) Matrix Organization
5 4 (36.36%) Product Management
6 3 (27.27%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (27.27%) Market Research
6 3 (27.27%) Technology Roadmap
7 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
7 2 (18.18%) Product Requirements
7 2 (18.18%) Product Vision
7 2 (18.18%) Runbook
7 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) CSPO
1 1 (9.09%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Ariba
1 1 (9.09%) Concur
1 1 (9.09%) HP
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) SAP