Product Backlog Contracts in England

Product Backlogs
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 353 366 355
Rank change year-on-year +13 -11 +34
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 191 318 535
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.63% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.70% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 213 348
10th Percentile £396 £425 £429
25th Percentile £463 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% +21.05%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £656
90th Percentile £688 £748 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +13.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 6
10th Percentile £31.71 - £20.82
25th Percentile £33.00 - £25.79
Median hourly rate £65.50 - £28.00
75th Percentile £65.75 - £42.35
90th Percentile - - £50.24
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +150.00% -42.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 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% -

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in England

Product Backlog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Product Backlog in England

Product Backlog
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Product Backlog in England

Product Backlog
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Backlog in England

Product Backlog
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Backlog in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Backlog in England

Product Backlog
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 Product Backlog 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 +19 86 £525 -12.50% 39
South East +14 55 £600 +8.11% 20
North of England +15 17 £465 -15.55% 14
Midlands +20 16 £550 +22.22% 11
West Midlands +13 13 £550 +22.22% 6
East of England +18 9 £475 -3.80% 7
North West +16 6 £438 -5.41% 5
Yorkshire +6 6 £450 -18.18% 8
South West +9 5 £587 -9.65% 9
North East - 5 £501 - 1
East Midlands +20 3 £550 +15.79% 5
Product Backlog
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Product Backlog
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 23 (12.04%) Confluence
2 7 (3.66%) CMS
3 4 (2.09%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.57%) Drupal
5 2 (1.05%) Alfresco
5 2 (1.05%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.52%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.09%) MS Visio
1 4 (2.09%) Trello
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.05%) Endur
2 2 (1.05%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 55 (28.80%) Azure
2 21 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (9.95%) AWS
4 18 (9.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 18 (9.42%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (7.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (7.85%) Entra ID
6 14 (7.33%) Serverless
7 12 (6.28%) SaaS
8 11 (5.76%) Azure Functions
9 6 (3.14%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.62%) GitHub
11 4 (2.09%) GCP
11 4 (2.09%) SuccessFactors
12 3 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.57%) Azure Cognitive Search
12 3 (1.57%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (1.57%) PaaS
13 2 (1.05%) Datadog
13 2 (1.05%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.57%) Firewall
2 2 (1.05%) DHCP
2 2 (1.05%) DNS
2 2 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.52%) Broadband
3 1 (0.52%) LAN
3 1 (0.52%) Network Security
3 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.90%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.62%) Big Data
4 4 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.57%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.57%) Power BI
6 2 (1.05%) Data Mart
6 2 (1.05%) GIS
6 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (14.66%) JIRA
2 20 (10.47%) Git
3 4 (2.09%) Mocha
3 4 (2.09%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (1.57%) Selenium
4 3 (1.57%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.52%) GitLab
5 1 (0.52%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 57 (29.84%) Social Skills
2 41 (21.47%) Analytical Skills
2 41 (21.47%) Finance
3 17 (8.90%) Marketing
4 12 (6.28%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.76%) Retail
6 7 (3.66%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.62%) Banking
7 5 (2.62%) Billing
7 5 (2.62%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.09%) Back Office
8 4 (2.09%) Games
9 3 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.57%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.57%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Legal
10 2 (1.05%) Local Government
10 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (27.75%) Product Owner
2 34 (17.80%) Analyst
3 32 (16.75%) Developer
4 25 (13.09%) Business Analyst
5 19 (9.95%) Product Manager
6 18 (9.42%) Full Stack Developer
7 17 (8.90%) Senior
8 16 (8.38%) Scrum Master
9 15 (7.85%) Azure Developer
10 12 (6.28%) Consultant
11 11 (5.76%) Lead
12 9 (4.71%) Product Analyst
13 6 (3.14%) Architect
13 6 (3.14%) Salesforce Developer
14 5 (2.62%) Digital Product Owner
14 5 (2.62%) Full Stack Python Developer
14 5 (2.62%) Principal Engineer
14 5 (2.62%) Project Manager
14 5 (2.62%) Python Developer
14 5 (2.62%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.99%) React
2 12 (6.28%) CSS
2 12 (6.28%) HTML
3 10 (5.24%) Node.js
4 6 (3.14%) Lightning Web Components
4 6 (3.14%) REST
4 6 (3.14%) Visualforce
5 5 (2.62%) .NET
6 4 (2.09%) Jest
6 4 (2.09%) Redux
7 3 (1.57%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.05%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.05%) ADO
8 2 (1.05%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (1.05%) LDAP
8 2 (1.05%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.52%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.52%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 119 (62.30%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.14%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.09%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.09%) Freedom of Information
5 4 (2.09%) Freedom of Information Act
5 4 (2.09%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.57%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.57%) Cyberattack
6 3 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.57%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.05%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.05%) Clustering
7 2 (1.05%) CMDB
7 2 (1.05%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.05%) Derivative
7 2 (1.05%) Digital Signage
7 2 (1.05%) IPTV
7 2 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.57%) Linux
2 1 (0.52%) Windows
2 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (70.16%) Agile
2 67 (35.08%) Roadmaps
3 62 (32.46%) Scrum
3 62 (32.46%) User Stories
4 56 (29.32%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 54 (28.27%) Backlog Management
6 49 (25.65%) DevOps
7 44 (23.04%) Product Roadmap
8 38 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (19.37%) Acceptance Criteria
10 35 (18.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (17.80%) Backlog Refinement
12 28 (14.66%) CI/CD
13 26 (13.61%) Sprint Planning
14 24 (12.57%) Sprint Review
15 23 (12.04%) SDLC
16 22 (11.52%) Change Management
16 22 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
17 21 (10.99%) Product Management
17 21 (10.99%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.42%) Python
2 15 (7.85%) JavaScript
3 10 (5.24%) Java
3 10 (5.24%) SQL
4 6 (3.14%) Apex Code
4 6 (3.14%) C
5 3 (1.57%) C#
5 3 (1.57%) PHP
6 2 (1.05%) Go
7 1 (0.52%) C++
Qualifications
1 16 (8.38%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.85%) Degree
2 15 (7.85%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.09%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.09%) MBA
3 4 (2.09%) PMP
4 3 (1.57%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.52%) CSPO
5 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.52%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.24%) QA
2 7 (3.66%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.62%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.09%) SLA
5 3 (1.57%) PMO
5 3 (1.57%) WCAG
6 1 (0.52%) GDPR
6 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (9.42%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (4.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.05%) Ansible
2 2 (1.05%) Rundeck
3 1 (0.52%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (6.28%) Salesforce
2 9 (4.71%) SAP
3 7 (3.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 6 (3.14%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.14%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.62%) Oracle
6 3 (1.57%) Foundry
6 3 (1.57%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.57%) Palantir
7 2 (1.05%) BigPanda
7 2 (1.05%) Logitech
7 2 (1.05%) Murex
7 2 (1.05%) OpenLink
7 2 (1.05%) Pega
8 1 (0.52%) Ariba
8 1 (0.52%) Citrix
8 1 (0.52%) Dell
8 1 (0.52%) HP
8 1 (0.52%) Intel
8 1 (0.52%) Sitecore