Backlog Management Contracts in Berkshire

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Backlog Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 113 96
Rank change year-on-year +34 -17 +23
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 14 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.19% 0.55% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 0.62% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 10
10th Percentile £458 £463 £350
25th Percentile £468 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +20.00% -4.21%
75th Percentile £495 £650 £580
90th Percentile £528 £698 £689
South East median daily rate £494 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -10.18% -8.33% +10.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Backlog Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in Berkshire

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in Berkshire

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +37 12 £494 -20.96% 2
Wokingham - 1 - -
Backlog Management
South East

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Broadband
2 2 (14.29%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (7.14%) 2G
3 1 (7.14%) 3G
3 1 (7.14%) 4G
3 1 (7.14%) 5G
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (57.14%) Telecoms
2 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Digital Transformation
2 3 (21.43%) Incident Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Scrum Master
3 2 (14.29%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Incident Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) JIRA Expert
4 1 (7.14%) Network Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Network Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) OSS Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Product Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Project Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Project Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 4 (28.57%) Product Backlog
2 4 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
2 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 4 (28.57%) Scrum
3 3 (21.43%) Burndown Charts
3 3 (21.43%) Coaching
3 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (21.43%) Customer Experience
3 3 (21.43%) Digital Transformation Strategy
3 3 (21.43%) Escalation Management
3 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
3 3 (21.43%) Kanban
3 3 (21.43%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (21.43%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) Statistics
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Programme Management
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) PMO
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Amdocs OSS
1 1 (7.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) BMC
1 3 (21.43%) BT
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
1 3 (21.43%) Remedy
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.14%) Cramer
2 1 (7.14%) PagerDuty
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow