Backlog Management Contracts in Birmingham

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 45 - 71
Rank change year-on-year - - +21
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.96% - 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% - 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £443 - £378
25th Percentile £488 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.00%
75th Percentile £638 - £438
90th Percentile £705 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £383 £450
% change year-on-year +35.95% -15.00% -19.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in Birmingham

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in Birmingham

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (20.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) GIS
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) User Stories
3 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) CRM
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (20.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Development
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Twin
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
4 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft