Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in Scotland

Backlog Prioritisation
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 151 156
Rank change year-on-year +30 +5 -14
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 8 15 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.53% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.57% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 15
10th Percentile £269 £505 £403
25th Percentile £422 £508 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £523 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +7.18% +2.63%
75th Percentile £553 £538 £516
90th Percentile £571 £574 £535
UK median daily rate £595 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +13.33% -4.55% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £32.36 - £65.76

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,942 2,610 3,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.68% 92.55% 93.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,171 1,872 2,340
10th Percentile £228 £260 £244
25th Percentile £399 £406 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £560 £550
90th Percentile £663 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 55 47
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.32
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.78 £20.38
Median hourly rate £18.79 £17.21 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -56.98% -
75th Percentile £40.94 £50.74 £49.15
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.94 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in Scotland

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in Scotland

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in Scotland

Backlog Prioritisation
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 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
Edinburgh +25 2 £502 -4.38%
Glasgow +6 2 £470 -10.10% 1
West Lothian - 2 £318 -
Backlog Prioritisation
UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
1 3 (37.50%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (12.50%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (12.50%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Scrum Master
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) AWS CDK
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) React
3 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (62.50%) Roadmaps
3 4 (50.00%) Coaching
3 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (50.00%) Product Management
3 4 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
3 4 (50.00%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) Service Design
4 3 (37.50%) Architecture Roadmap
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Kanban
4 3 (37.50%) Product Backlog
4 3 (37.50%) Sprint Backlog
4 3 (37.50%) Storytelling
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) User Experience
5 2 (25.00%) Backlog Management
5 2 (25.00%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Groovy
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
2 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Kibana
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google