Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Backlog Prioritisation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 354 420
Rank change year-on-year +20 +66 -36
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 62 93 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.40% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.44% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 63 57
10th Percentile £415 £350 £406
25th Percentile £525 £413 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -3.85% +9.47%
75th Percentile £694 £545 £575
90th Percentile £730 £614 £650
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £532
% change year-on-year +9.52% -1.32% +7.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £65.76
UK median hourly rate £32.36 - £65.76

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Backlog Prioritisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK excluding London

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK excluding London

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK excluding London

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK excluding London

Backlog Prioritisation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +42 23 £663 +24.41% 8
Midlands +42 19 £575 +9.52% 4
North West +27 19 £663 +24.41% 3
East Midlands +34 13 £595 +226.03% 1
South East -6 11 £588 +34.29% 12
Scotland +35 6 £435 -17.14% 2
West Midlands +19 6 £550 +2.33% 3
Yorkshire +19 3 £600 - 4
South West +13 3 £600 +9.09% 5
East of England -3 1 - - 1
North East - 1 - - 1
Backlog Prioritisation
UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (4.84%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.61%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.74%) AWS
2 9 (14.52%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (14.52%) Amazon S3
2 9 (14.52%) Route 53
3 8 (12.90%) Amazon ECR
3 8 (12.90%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (12.90%) Amazon SQS
3 8 (12.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (6.45%) Azure
4 4 (6.45%) SaaS
4 4 (6.45%) SuccessFactors
5 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.84%) Serverless
6 2 (3.23%) GitHub
6 2 (3.23%) Miro
6 2 (3.23%) Veeva
7 1 (1.61%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.61%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.61%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.52%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.61%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (14.52%) GitLab
2 8 (12.90%) webpack
3 4 (6.45%) JIRA
4 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.23%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.23%) Selenium
6 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
General
1 21 (33.87%) Finance
2 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.29%) Banking
5 4 (6.45%) Marketing
5 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.84%) Billing
6 3 (4.84%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (19.35%) Architect
1 12 (19.35%) Product Owner
2 9 (14.52%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (12.90%) Lead
3 8 (12.90%) Senior
4 5 (8.06%) Analyst
4 5 (8.06%) Business Analyst
4 5 (8.06%) Product Manager
4 5 (8.06%) Technical Leader
5 4 (6.45%) Scrum Master
5 4 (6.45%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (6.45%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Debt Manager
6 3 (4.84%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.23%) Applications Architect
7 2 (3.23%) CRM Manager
7 2 (3.23%) CRM Project Manager
7 2 (3.23%) Financial Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Technical Manager
7 2 (3.23%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.13%) Node.js
1 10 (16.13%) React
2 8 (12.90%) Express.js
2 8 (12.90%) Redux
3 2 (3.23%) CSS
3 2 (3.23%) CSS3
3 2 (3.23%) HTML
3 2 (3.23%) HTML5
3 2 (3.23%) Jest
3 2 (3.23%) Middleware
3 2 (3.23%) React Native
3 2 (3.23%) REST
4 1 (1.61%) .NET
4 1 (1.61%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (27.42%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.84%) Taxonomies
3 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Linux
1 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (59.68%) Agile
2 24 (38.71%) Roadmaps
3 23 (37.10%) Backlog Management
4 22 (35.48%) Product Backlog
5 19 (30.65%) Scrum
6 17 (27.42%) Product Roadmap
7 16 (25.81%) User Stories
8 14 (22.58%) Product Strategy
9 12 (19.35%) CI/CD
10 11 (17.74%) End-to-End Testing
10 11 (17.74%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (17.74%) Test Automation
11 10 (16.13%) Business Strategy
11 10 (16.13%) Full Stack Development
11 10 (16.13%) Product Management
12 9 (14.52%) Containerisation
12 9 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (14.52%) DevOps
12 9 (14.52%) Project Management
13 8 (12.90%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.45%) Python
2 2 (3.23%) Java
2 2 (3.23%) Kotlin
2 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.61%) Bash
3 1 (1.61%) Groovy
3 1 (1.61%) R
3 1 (1.61%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.29%) Degree
4 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (19.35%) QA
2 10 (16.13%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (4.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (14.52%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.84%) Terraform
3 1 (1.61%) Ansible
3 1 (1.61%) Grafana
3 1 (1.61%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (4.84%) Google
1 3 (4.84%) MuleSoft
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.23%) SAP
3 1 (1.61%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.61%) Databricks
3 1 (1.61%) Salesforce