Product Backlog Contracts in the East of England

Product Backlogs
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Product Backlog skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Backlog over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 121 135
Rank change year-on-year +20 +14 -20
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 9 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.47% 0.097% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.11% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £423 £483 £463
25th Percentile £438 £486 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £503
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -1.74% +11.67%
75th Percentile £497 £498 £538
90th Percentile £503 £499 £563
England median daily rate £550 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% +21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.50 - -
75th Percentile £65.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.50 - £28.00
% change year-on-year - - -51.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Product Backlog 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 the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,645 1,801 2,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 86.13% 87.13% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 709 1,065 1,274
10th Percentile £206 £201 £185
25th Percentile £333 £313 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 605 340 385
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.62 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.47% +58.84% -13.58%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £39.55
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Product Backlog as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in the East of England

Product Backlog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Backlog in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Product Backlog in the East of England

Product Backlog
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Backlog in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Product Backlog in the East of England

Product Backlog
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Backlog within the East of England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Bedfordshire - 5 - -
Hertfordshire +5 4 £475 -5.00% 3
Product Backlog
England

Product Backlog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) SaaS
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (44.44%) Marketing
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Games
4 1 (11.11%) Electronics
4 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Salesforce Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) CSS
1 4 (44.44%) HTML
1 4 (44.44%) Lightning Web Components
1 4 (44.44%) REST
1 4 (44.44%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Customer Requirements
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
1 5 (55.56%) Requirements Engineering
1 5 (55.56%) Sprint Review
1 5 (55.56%) Systems Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Web Development
3 3 (33.33%) Change Management
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) CRM
4 2 (22.22%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
4 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (11.11%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Apex Code
1 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) PMP
2 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Salesforce
2 3 (33.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) SAP