Backlog Management Contracts in Central London

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 123 157
Rank change year-on-year +8 +34 -19
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 9 12 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.45% 0.49% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.54% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 9
10th Percentile £378 £493 £303
25th Percentile £456 £531 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +9.09% -3.51%
75th Percentile £564 £663 £669
90th Percentile £578 £713 £780
London median daily rate £575 £550 £580
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.17% +0.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,211 3,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.89% 90.58% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,574 2,386
10th Percentile £361 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.01 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.11 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.29 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in Central London

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in Central London

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in Central London

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 2 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
City of London +5 9 £543 -11.43% 5
Backlog Management
London

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (22.22%) Mimecast
1 2 (22.22%) OneDrive
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Back Office
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Product Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Strategy Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) IT Director
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Master Data Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Programme Director
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Scrum Master
2 1 (11.11%) Security Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Strategy Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 2 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (11.11%) Credit Risk
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Change Management
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 3 (33.33%) Product Backlog
2 3 (33.33%) Product Requirements
2 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (22.22%) Threat Management
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Kanban
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Basel II
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Murex