Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in the South West

Backlog Prioritisation
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 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 140 165 164
Rank change year-on-year +25 -1 -27
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 4 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.13% 0.17% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.18% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile £455 £491 £393
25th Percentile £524 £506 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £572
90th Percentile - £656 £611
England median daily rate £600 £525 £569
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.69% +13.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,654 3,248 3,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.02% 89.70% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,694 2,395 2,337
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £589
90th Percentile £700 £723 £668
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 332 192
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £16.89 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £61.50 £48.61
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +26.52% +8.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.98
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Backlog Prioritisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the South West

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the South West

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in the South West over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in the South West

Backlog Prioritisation
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Devon -3 2 £600 +9.09%
Wiltshire +2 1 £575 +8.24% 1
Backlog Prioritisation
England

Backlog Prioritisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) CSS3
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) HTML5
1 2 (50.00%) Jest
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) React Native
1 2 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Loose Coupling
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
3 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Release Train
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Kotlin
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian