Backlog Prioritisation Contracts

Backlog Prioritisation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 455 510 537
Rank change year-on-year +55 +27 +15
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 143 210 336
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.35% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.39% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 145 230
10th Percentile £401 £406 £407
25th Percentile £507 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -4.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £698 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +20.00% -2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.71 - -
Median hourly rate £32.36 - -
75th Percentile £41.75 - -
90th Percentile £57.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 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 Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 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 +72 128 £600 +14.29% 65
London +75 69 £563 -2.17% 35
UK excluding London +28 65 £600 +20.00% 31
Work from Home +104 62 £575 +9.52% 35
North of England +47 25 £663 +24.41% 9
North West +30 21 £663 +24.41% 5
Midlands +28 19 £575 +9.52% 2
East Midlands +28 13 £595 +226.03% 1
South East -9 9 £675 +50.00% 10
Scotland +26 8 £522 -0.10% 2
West Midlands +25 6 £550 +2.33% 1
South West +20 4 £588 +6.82% 6
Yorkshire +19 3 £600 - 3
East of England +6 1 - - 1
North East - 1 - - 1

Backlog Prioritisation
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 18 (12.59%) Confluence
2 5 (3.50%) CMS
3 3 (2.10%) Drupal
4 2 (1.40%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.70%) Joomla!
5 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.50%) Shopify
2 2 (1.40%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.70%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (18.18%) Azure
2 18 (12.59%) AWS
3 17 (11.89%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (9.09%) SaaS
5 12 (8.39%) Amazon S3
6 10 (6.99%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (6.99%) Route 53
7 9 (6.29%) Amazon ECR
7 9 (6.29%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (6.29%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (6.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (3.50%) Serverless
9 4 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.80%) GCP
9 4 (2.80%) Google Analytics
9 4 (2.80%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.10%) GitHub
10 3 (2.10%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.40%) DHCP
1 2 (1.40%) DNS
1 2 (1.40%) Firewall
1 2 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.70%) LAN
2 1 (0.70%) Network Security
2 1 (0.70%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.29%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (3.50%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.80%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.10%) Power BI
5 2 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.40%) Big Data
5 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.40%) GIS
5 2 (1.40%) Tableau
6 1 (0.70%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 14 (9.79%) JIRA
2 10 (6.99%) GitLab
3 9 (6.29%) webpack
4 4 (2.80%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.80%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.40%) Selenium
5 2 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.70%) Postman
6 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.70%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 42 (29.37%) Finance
2 37 (25.87%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.09%) Banking
5 11 (7.69%) Marketing
5 11 (7.69%) Retail
6 10 (6.99%) Investment Banking
7 8 (5.59%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.90%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (4.20%) Corporate Banking
9 6 (4.20%) Retail Banking
10 5 (3.50%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.80%) Billing
11 4 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.40%) Back Office
12 2 (1.40%) Local Government
13 1 (0.70%) Legal
13 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 50 (34.97%) Product Owner
2 19 (13.29%) Senior
3 15 (10.49%) Architect
3 15 (10.49%) Product Manager
4 12 (8.39%) Analyst
4 12 (8.39%) Business Analyst
5 11 (7.69%) Lead
6 10 (6.99%) Digital Product Owner
6 10 (6.99%) Scrum Master
6 10 (6.99%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (6.29%) Senior Product Owner
8 7 (4.90%) Technical Leader
9 6 (4.20%) Technical Manager
9 6 (4.20%) Technical Product Manager
10 5 (3.50%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (2.80%) Data Analyst
11 4 (2.80%) Project Manager
11 4 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (2.80%) Senior Business Analyst
11 4 (2.80%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.09%) Node.js
1 13 (9.09%) React
2 9 (6.29%) Express.js
2 9 (6.29%) Redux
3 4 (2.80%) CSS
3 4 (2.80%) HTML
4 3 (2.10%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.40%) CSS3
5 2 (1.40%) HTML5
5 2 (1.40%) Jest
5 2 (1.40%) LDAP
5 2 (1.40%) Middleware
5 2 (1.40%) React Native
5 2 (1.40%) REST
6 1 (0.70%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.70%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (46.85%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.20%) CMDB
3 5 (3.50%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.10%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.10%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.40%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.40%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.40%) Clustering
6 2 (1.40%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.40%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.40%) Freedom of Information Act
6 2 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.40%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.70%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.70%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.70%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.10%) Linux
2 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (75.52%) Agile
2 64 (44.76%) Product Backlog
3 60 (41.96%) Roadmaps
4 52 (36.36%) User Stories
5 51 (35.66%) Scrum
6 41 (28.67%) Backlog Management
7 34 (23.78%) Product Roadmap
8 32 (22.38%) Acceptance Criteria
9 28 (19.58%) DevOps
10 27 (18.88%) Backlog Refinement
11 26 (18.18%) Product Strategy
12 24 (16.78%) Analytics
12 24 (16.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (16.78%) Product Management
13 23 (16.08%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (13.29%) Business Case
14 19 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (12.59%) Sprint Planning
16 17 (11.89%) Coaching
16 17 (11.89%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (5.59%) SQL
2 6 (4.20%) Python
3 4 (2.80%) TypeScript
4 3 (2.10%) C#
4 3 (2.10%) Java
5 2 (1.40%) C
5 2 (1.40%) Go
5 2 (1.40%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.40%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.70%) Bash
6 1 (0.70%) Groovy
6 1 (0.70%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (14.69%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.49%) Degree
3 14 (9.79%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.40%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.40%) MBA
5 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.70%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.59%) QA
2 11 (7.69%) PMO
3 4 (2.80%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.70%) GDPR
4 1 (0.70%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (4.20%) Docker
2 4 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (8.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.10%) Grafana
2 3 (2.10%) Terraform
3 1 (0.70%) Ansible
3 1 (0.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.59%) ServiceNow
3 7 (4.90%) SAP
4 6 (4.20%) Google
5 5 (3.50%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.80%) Databricks
7 3 (2.10%) Adobe
7 3 (2.10%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.10%) Optimizely
7 3 (2.10%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.40%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.40%) Splunk
9 1 (0.70%) Ariba
9 1 (0.70%) Dell
9 1 (0.70%) Intel
9 1 (0.70%) TSYS