Product Backlog Contracts in Berkshire

Product Backlogs
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Product Backlog skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Backlog over the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 80 90
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 +27
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 9 26 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.75% 1.53% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.78% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 22 17
10th Percentile £470 £447 -
25th Percentile £500 £581 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £513
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +21.95% -7.97%
75th Percentile £538 £651 £700
90th Percentile £550 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £525 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -16.00% +19.05% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Product Backlog 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 1,097 1,464 1,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.72% 86.37% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 776 1,004
10th Percentile £350 £325 £310
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £684 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £520
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.87% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 73 57
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.86 £18.10
25th Percentile £17.30 £42.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.97% +2.67% +147.42%
75th Percentile £62.24 £72.33 £72.00
90th Percentile £87.25 £87.46 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £22.75 £57.35 £51.42
% change year-on-year -60.33% +11.53% +85.43%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in Berkshire

Product Backlog
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Product Backlog.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Product Backlog

Product Backlog
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 Product Backlog within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Windsor - 4 £500 - 1
Reading -1 2 £525 -16.00% 3
Wokingham -12 1 - -
Slough - 1 - - 14
Product Backlog
South East

Product Backlog
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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Mart
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Postman
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Consultant
1 5 (55.56%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 3 (33.33%) Functional Consultant
2 3 (33.33%) Product Owner
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) User Stories
2 6 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
3 5 (55.56%) Backlog Refinement
3 5 (55.56%) End-to-End Testing
3 5 (55.56%) Sprint Planning
4 4 (44.44%) Scrum
5 3 (33.33%) ERP
5 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 3 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
6 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (22.22%) Backlog Management
6 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
6 2 (22.22%) CRM
6 2 (22.22%) Epics
6 2 (22.22%) Functional Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Migration
6 2 (22.22%) Product Vision
6 2 (22.22%) Sprint Review
7 1 (11.11%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) HubSpot
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce