Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in England

Backlog Prioritisation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Backlog Prioritisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Prioritisation over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 412 469 519
Rank change year-on-year +57 +50 +1
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 130 185 271
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.37% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.41% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 132 187
10th Percentile £438 £401 £413
25th Percentile £513 £450 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% +14.00%
75th Percentile £628 £643 £650
90th Percentile £710 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £31.71 - £65.76
75th Percentile £32.36 - -
90th Percentile £32.74 - -
UK median hourly rate £32.36 - £65.76

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Backlog Prioritisation 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,193 45,529 64,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,105 31,969 45,783
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,246 1,592 1,771
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +53.06% +2.08%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in England

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in England.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in England

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in England

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in England

Backlog Prioritisation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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
London +77 69 £563 -2.17% 36
North of England +49 25 £663 +24.41% 10
North West +34 21 £663 +24.41% 5
Midlands +39 19 £575 +9.52% 1
East Midlands +29 13 £595 +226.03% 1
South East -18 11 £638 +41.67% 12
West Midlands +23 6 £550 +2.33%
South West +8 4 £588 +6.82% 4
Yorkshire +26 3 £600 - 4
East of England 0 1 - - 2
North East - 1 - - 1
Backlog Prioritisation
UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (13.08%) Confluence
2 5 (3.85%) CMS
3 3 (2.31%) Drupal
4 2 (1.54%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.77%) Joomla!
5 1 (0.77%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.77%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Shopify
2 2 (1.54%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.77%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (20.77%) Azure
2 18 (13.85%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (11.54%) AWS
4 13 (10.00%) SaaS
5 9 (6.92%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (6.92%) Amazon ECR
5 9 (6.92%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (6.92%) Amazon S3
5 9 (6.92%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (6.92%) Route 53
5 9 (6.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.08%) GCP
6 4 (3.08%) Google Analytics
6 4 (3.08%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (2.31%) GitHub
7 3 (2.31%) Google Tag Manager
7 3 (2.31%) Miro
7 3 (2.31%) PaaS
7 3 (2.31%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.54%) DHCP
1 2 (1.54%) DNS
1 2 (1.54%) Firewall
1 2 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.77%) LAN
2 1 (0.77%) Network Security
2 1 (0.77%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.15%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.08%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.31%) Power BI
5 2 (1.54%) Big Data
5 2 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.54%) GIS
5 2 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (10.77%) JIRA
2 9 (6.92%) GitLab
2 9 (6.92%) webpack
3 3 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.54%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.54%) Selenium
4 2 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.77%) Postman
5 1 (0.77%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.77%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 43 (33.08%) Finance
2 34 (26.15%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.77%) Banking
5 11 (8.46%) Marketing
5 11 (8.46%) Retail
6 10 (7.69%) Investment Banking
7 7 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (4.62%) Corporate Banking
8 6 (4.62%) Retail Banking
9 5 (3.85%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.85%) Telecoms
10 4 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.31%) Billing
12 2 (1.54%) Back Office
12 2 (1.54%) Local Government
13 1 (0.77%) Games
13 1 (0.77%) Legal
13 1 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (36.92%) Product Owner
2 17 (13.08%) Senior
3 14 (10.77%) Architect
4 12 (9.23%) Product Manager
5 10 (7.69%) Analyst
5 10 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 10 (7.69%) Digital Product Owner
5 10 (7.69%) Lead
5 10 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (6.92%) Senior Product Owner
7 7 (5.38%) Scrum Master
8 6 (4.62%) Technical Leader
9 5 (3.85%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.08%) Data Analyst
10 4 (3.08%) Data Business Analyst
10 4 (3.08%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.08%) Technical Manager
10 4 (3.08%) Technical Product Manager
10 4 (3.08%) Technical Product Owner
11 3 (2.31%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.00%) Node.js
2 11 (8.46%) React
3 9 (6.92%) Express.js
3 9 (6.92%) Redux
4 2 (1.54%) CSS
4 2 (1.54%) CSS3
4 2 (1.54%) HTML
4 2 (1.54%) HTML5
4 2 (1.54%) Jest
4 2 (1.54%) LDAP
4 2 (1.54%) Middleware
4 2 (1.54%) React Native
4 2 (1.54%) REST
5 1 (0.77%) .NET
5 1 (0.77%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (50.77%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.08%) CMDB
2 4 (3.08%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.31%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.31%) Taxonomies
4 2 (1.54%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.54%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.54%) Clustering
4 2 (1.54%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.54%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (1.54%) Freedom of Information Act
4 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.77%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.77%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.77%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.77%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (73.08%) Agile
2 56 (43.08%) Product Backlog
3 50 (38.46%) Roadmaps
4 46 (35.38%) User Stories
5 44 (33.85%) Scrum
6 38 (29.23%) Backlog Management
7 29 (22.31%) Product Roadmap
8 28 (21.54%) Acceptance Criteria
8 28 (21.54%) DevOps
9 24 (18.46%) Backlog Refinement
10 23 (17.69%) Product Strategy
11 22 (16.92%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (16.15%) Analytics
12 21 (16.15%) Business Case
13 20 (15.38%) Product Management
14 19 (14.62%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
16 17 (13.08%) Sprint Planning
16 17 (13.08%) Translating Business Requirements
17 15 (11.54%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.15%) SQL
2 5 (3.85%) Python
3 3 (2.31%) C#
3 3 (2.31%) Java
4 2 (1.54%) C
4 2 (1.54%) Go
4 2 (1.54%) Kotlin
4 2 (1.54%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.77%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (12.31%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.23%) Degree
2 12 (9.23%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.54%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.54%) MBA
4 1 (0.77%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.54%) QA
2 11 (8.46%) PMO
3 2 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.77%) GDPR
4 1 (0.77%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (4.62%) Docker
2 4 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (8.46%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (8.46%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.62%) SAP
3 5 (3.85%) Google
3 5 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.08%) Databricks
4 4 (3.08%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.31%) Adobe
5 3 (2.31%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.31%) Optimizely
5 3 (2.31%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.54%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.77%) Dell
7 1 (0.77%) Intel
7 1 (0.77%) Splunk
7 1 (0.77%) TSYS