Backlog Management Contracts in Cheshire

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 46 51 62
Rank change year-on-year +5 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 12 7 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.67% 1.39% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 1.65% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 1
10th Percentile £358 - -
25th Percentile £391 - £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £65 £515
Median % change year-on-year +518.46% -87.38% -
75th Percentile £584 - £523
90th Percentile £738 - -
North West median daily rate £402 £65 £675
% change year-on-year +518.46% -90.37% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in Cheshire

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in Cheshire

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in Cheshire

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire 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
Knutsford - 6 £402 - 1
Chester - 1 £725 - 1
Crewe - 1 - -
Backlog Management
North West

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (25.00%) JBoss
1 3 (25.00%) Tomcat
1 3 (25.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) DB2
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Automotive
4 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Scrum Master
2 2 (16.67%) Automation Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Java Scrum Master
2 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
3 1 (8.33%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) EJB
1 3 (25.00%) J2EE
1 3 (25.00%) JSP
1 3 (25.00%) RAML
1 3 (25.00%) REST
1 3 (25.00%) Servlets
1 3 (25.00%) SOAP
1 3 (25.00%) Spring
1 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (25.00%) Web Services
1 3 (25.00%) WSDL
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (75.00%) Scrum
3 7 (58.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 7 (58.33%) SDLC
4 6 (50.00%) Budget Control
4 6 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (41.67%) Conflict Resolution
5 5 (41.67%) Servant Leadership
5 5 (41.67%) Situational Awareness
6 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (25.00%) API Development
7 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (25.00%) Configuration Management
7 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
7 3 (25.00%) DevOps
7 3 (25.00%) Sprint Backlog
7 3 (25.00%) Sprint Review
7 3 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (25.00%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) Bash
5 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) CCNA
1 2 (16.67%) CCNP
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (25.00%) Infoblox
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
1 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Adobe
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce