Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in Central London

Backlog Prioritisation
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Backlog Prioritisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Prioritisation 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 121 115 162
Rank change year-on-year -6 +47 +5
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 8 18 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.40% 0.74% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.81% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 9
10th Percentile £405 - £763
25th Percentile £514 £481 £825
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £488 £850
Median % change year-on-year +25.64% -42.65% +51.79%
75th Percentile £666 £603 £875
90th Percentile £694 £783 £915
London median daily rate £500 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -11.11% -2.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £33.00 -
London median hourly rate - £31.71 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Backlog Prioritisation 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 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £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 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in Central London

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in Central London

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in Central London

Backlog Prioritisation
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 Prioritisation within the Central London 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
City of London -3 6 £600 +23.08% 2
West End of London - 1 £625 -
City of Westminster - 1 £625 -
Backlog Prioritisation
London

Backlog Prioritisation
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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) OCI
1 2 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Apple Pay
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (12.50%) Google Pay
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Back Office
3 2 (25.00%) Retail
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Product Owner
2 3 (37.50%) Lead
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Product Owner
3 2 (25.00%) Product Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) IT Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Product Owner
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Wallet
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
4 3 (37.50%) Product Backlog
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (37.50%) User Stories
5 2 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
5 2 (25.00%) Change Management
5 2 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Product Strategy
5 2 (25.00%) Product Vision
5 2 (25.00%) Project Management
5 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Klarna