Backlog Management Contracts

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Backlog Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 420 403 364
Rank change year-on-year -17 -39 +59
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 179 342 650
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.57% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.64% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 221 436
10th Percentile £363 £413 £415
25th Percentile £450 £463 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.39% +1.45% +13.99%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.76% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - - £57.55
25th Percentile £51.25 £54.00 £67.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £58.25 £70.90
Median % change year-on-year -9.87% -17.84% +41.80%
75th Percentile £53.75 £63.75 £72.00
90th Percentile - £73.13 £75.11
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Backlog Management 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Backlog Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in the UK

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in the UK

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in the UK

Backlog Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Backlog Management in the UK

Backlog Management
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Management within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +18 156 £510 -11.35% 80
UK excluding London +12 86 £495 -10.00% 45
London +15 82 £550 -5.17% 31
Work from Home +48 65 £525 -5.91% 38
North of England +29 20 £444 -36.61% 9
South East -7 20 £550 -8.33% 17
Scotland +32 17 £500 -4.76% 2
Midlands +18 17 £575 +27.78% 5
East Midlands +28 13 £595 +25.26% 3
South West +25 13 £475 -26.92% 8
North West +18 13 £65 -90.37% 3
Yorkshire +13 7 £450 -35.71% 6
West Midlands +15 4 £383 -15.00% 2

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 32 (17.88%) Confluence
2 13 (7.26%) SharePoint
3 11 (6.15%) SharePoint Server
4 4 (2.23%) CMS
5 2 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 19 (10.61%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (7.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (6.70%) MS Visio
4 9 (5.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (2.79%) Adobe XD
5 5 (2.79%) InVision
5 5 (2.79%) Sketch
5 5 (2.79%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 7 (3.91%) Primavera
2 2 (1.12%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.56%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 33 (18.44%) Azure
2 10 (5.59%) Azure Stack
2 10 (5.59%) Power Platform
3 9 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (3.91%) Figma
4 7 (3.91%) SaaS
5 6 (3.35%) AWS
6 5 (2.79%) Serverless
7 4 (2.23%) GitHub
7 4 (2.23%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 3 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.68%) OCI
9 2 (1.12%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (1.12%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (1.12%) Asana
9 2 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.12%) Miro
9 2 (1.12%) Oracle CX
9 2 (1.12%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.26%) Firewall
2 11 (6.15%) BGP
3 7 (3.91%) PPP
4 3 (1.68%) DNS
5 2 (1.12%) DHCP
5 2 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.56%) 3G
6 1 (0.56%) 4G
6 1 (0.56%) 5G
6 1 (0.56%) Broadband
6 1 (0.56%) DSL
6 1 (0.56%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.56%) LAN
6 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.35%) Power BI
2 3 (1.68%) Big Data
2 3 (1.68%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.12%) GIS
3 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (32.40%) JIRA
2 5 (2.79%) Axure RP
3 4 (2.23%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.68%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.12%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.12%) Selenium
General
1 71 (39.66%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.64%) Public Sector
3 23 (12.85%) Finance
4 22 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (5.59%) Banking
7 9 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (5.03%) Marketing
7 9 (5.03%) Retail
7 9 (5.03%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.47%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.35%) Billing
10 4 (2.23%) Back Office
10 4 (2.23%) Electronics
10 4 (2.23%) General Ledger
10 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.23%) Legal
10 4 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.68%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 55 (30.73%) Analyst
2 39 (21.79%) Business Analyst
3 37 (20.67%) Product Owner
4 21 (11.73%) Product Manager
5 15 (8.38%) Senior
6 12 (6.70%) Scrum Master
7 10 (5.59%) Lead
8 9 (5.03%) Senior Analyst
8 9 (5.03%) Senior Business Analyst
9 7 (3.91%) Designer
9 7 (3.91%) Pega Business Analyst
9 7 (3.91%) Service Designer
10 6 (3.35%) Data Business Analyst
11 5 (2.79%) Service Analyst
11 5 (2.79%) Service Management Analyst
12 4 (2.23%) Consultant
12 4 (2.23%) Project Manager
12 4 (2.23%) Senior Product Owner
12 4 (2.23%) Technical Analyst
13 3 (1.68%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.23%) HTML
1 4 (2.23%) Node.js
2 3 (1.68%) .NET
2 3 (1.68%) ADO
3 2 (1.12%) CSS
3 2 (1.12%) CSS3
3 2 (1.12%) HTML5
3 2 (1.12%) Jest
3 2 (1.12%) JSON
3 2 (1.12%) LDAP
3 2 (1.12%) React
3 2 (1.12%) React Native
3 2 (1.12%) REST
3 2 (1.12%) XML
4 1 (0.56%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 64 (35.75%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.15%) Private Cloud
3 6 (3.35%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.79%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.23%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.23%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.12%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.12%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.12%) Clustering
6 2 (1.12%) CMDB
6 2 (1.12%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.12%) Derivative
6 2 (1.12%) Equities
6 2 (1.12%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.12%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.12%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.56%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.26%) Windows
2 3 (1.68%) Linux
3 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (66.48%) Agile
2 73 (40.78%) User Stories
3 70 (39.11%) Roadmaps
4 66 (36.87%) Product Backlog
5 57 (31.84%) Scrum
6 41 (22.91%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 40 (22.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 38 (21.23%) Product Roadmap
9 34 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (17.32%) Acceptance Criteria
11 26 (14.53%) DevOps
11 26 (14.53%) Sprint Planning
12 25 (13.97%) Business Analysis
12 25 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (13.97%) Project Management
13 24 (13.41%) Epics
13 24 (13.41%) Product Strategy
14 23 (12.85%) Product Management
15 21 (11.73%) Requirements Gathering
16 20 (11.17%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.03%) SQL
2 7 (3.91%) Python
3 3 (1.68%) Java
4 2 (1.12%) C
4 2 (1.12%) C#
4 2 (1.12%) Go
4 2 (1.12%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.12%) Kotlin
4 2 (1.12%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.12%) VB.NET
5 1 (0.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 34 (18.99%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.41%) Degree
3 22 (12.29%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.26%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.12%) CSPO
5 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.12%) MBA
5 2 (1.12%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.12%) PMP
6 1 (0.56%) CBAP
6 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.56%) IIBA
6 1 (0.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.50%) QA
2 13 (7.26%) PMO
3 11 (6.15%) Government Security Classifications
4 7 (3.91%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.91%) WCAG
5 6 (3.35%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.68%) GAAP
7 2 (1.12%) EMIR
7 2 (1.12%) MiFID
7 2 (1.12%) SLA
8 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.56%) GDPR
8 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.12%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (2.23%) Terraform
2 2 (1.12%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.56%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 32 (17.88%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.15%) Atlassian
2 11 (6.15%) SAP
3 9 (5.03%) Pega
4 7 (3.91%) Adobe
4 7 (3.91%) Oracle
5 5 (2.79%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.68%) Databricks
6 3 (1.68%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.12%) Ariba
7 2 (1.12%) Civica
7 2 (1.12%) Cognizant
7 2 (1.12%) Genesys
8 1 (0.56%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.56%) Cadence
8 1 (0.56%) Charles River
8 1 (0.56%) Citrix
8 1 (0.56%) Google
8 1 (0.56%) HP
8 1 (0.56%) VMware