Backlog Prioritisation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Backlog Prioritisation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 280 382 453
Rank change year-on-year +102 +71 -31
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 61 86 164
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.38% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 64 110
10th Percentile £400 £406 £400
25th Percentile £481 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +0.48% +8.91%
75th Percentile £625 £591 £638
90th Percentile £735 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £532
% change year-on-year +9.52% -1.32% +7.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Backlog Prioritisation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Backlog Prioritisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Backlog Prioritisation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Backlog Prioritisation.

Backlog Prioritisation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Backlog Prioritisation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Backlog Prioritisation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Backlog Prioritisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (14.75%) Confluence
2 4 (6.56%) Apache
2 4 (6.56%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.28%) CMS
4 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Shopify
2 1 (1.64%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 18 (29.51%) Azure
2 10 (16.39%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (13.11%) Amazon S3
3 8 (13.11%) AWS
3 8 (13.11%) SaaS
4 5 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (8.20%) Serverless
5 4 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (6.56%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (6.56%) dbt
5 4 (6.56%) Route 53
5 4 (6.56%) Snowflake
6 3 (4.92%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.92%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.92%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.28%) Asana
8 1 (1.64%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.20%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.56%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (6.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (6.56%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.92%) Power BI
4 1 (1.64%) GIS
4 1 (1.64%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Git
1 4 (6.56%) GitLab
1 4 (6.56%) JIRA
2 3 (4.92%) webpack
3 1 (1.64%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.31%) Finance
3 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Banking
3 6 (9.84%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.56%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Marketing
6 3 (4.92%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.28%) Billing
7 2 (3.28%) Retail
8 1 (1.64%) Back Office
8 1 (1.64%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.64%) Games
8 1 (1.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (32.79%) Product Owner
2 8 (13.11%) Architect
2 8 (13.11%) Senior
3 7 (11.48%) Analyst
4 6 (9.84%) Business Analyst
5 5 (8.20%) Senior Product Owner
6 4 (6.56%) Data Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (6.56%) Digital Product Owner
6 4 (6.56%) Lead
6 4 (6.56%) Product Manager
6 4 (6.56%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) Debt Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Insurance Business Analyst
8 2 (3.28%) Consultant
8 2 (3.28%) Scrum Master
9 1 (1.64%) Data Architect
9 1 (1.64%) Programme Manager
9 1 (1.64%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.56%) PySpark
2 3 (4.92%) Express.js
2 3 (4.92%) Node.js
2 3 (4.92%) React
2 3 (4.92%) Redux
3 1 (1.64%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (37.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.64%) CMDB
2 1 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.64%) Linux
1 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (73.77%) Agile
2 20 (32.79%) Backlog Management
3 19 (31.15%) Product Backlog
4 18 (29.51%) Roadmaps
4 18 (29.51%) User Stories
5 17 (27.87%) DevOps
5 17 (27.87%) Scrum
5 17 (27.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (26.23%) Product Strategy
7 15 (24.59%) Analytics
8 14 (22.95%) Acceptance Criteria
8 14 (22.95%) Business Case
9 10 (16.39%) Product Management
10 9 (14.75%) Change Management
10 9 (14.75%) Data Modelling
10 9 (14.75%) Sprint Planning
10 9 (14.75%) Translating Business Requirements
11 8 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (13.11%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.75%) SQL
2 6 (9.84%) Python
3 4 (6.56%) Scala
4 3 (4.92%) C#
5 1 (1.64%) Bash
5 1 (1.64%) Groovy
5 1 (1.64%) Java
5 1 (1.64%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.56%) Degree
4 1 (1.64%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.11%) QA
2 7 (11.48%) PMO
3 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.64%) GDPR
3 1 (1.64%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.28%) Docker
3 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (6.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.64%) Ansible
2 1 (1.64%) Grafana
2 1 (1.64%) Kibana
2 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.56%) Ab Initio
2 4 (6.56%) Databricks
3 3 (4.92%) Google
4 1 (1.64%) Ariba
4 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.64%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.64%) SAP
4 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.64%) TSYS