Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in Cheshire

Backlog Prioritisation
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 48 59
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 0
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 12 9 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.45% 1.69% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 2.02% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 1
10th Percentile £356 £603 -
25th Percentile £358 £713 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £725 £450
Median % change year-on-year -45.38% +61.11% -21.74%
75th Percentile £417 £738 -
90th Percentile £696 - -
North West median daily rate £401 £663 £450
% change year-on-year -39.47% +47.22% -12.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 472 446 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 96.52% 83.68% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 300 303
10th Percentile £313 £310 £301
25th Percentile £358 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £476 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.35% -4.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £586
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 32 29
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.00 £14.95
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.73 £22.53
Median hourly rate £35.20 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% +14.60% +40.22%
75th Percentile £81.44 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 - £40.00
North West median hourly rate £30.40 £26.39 £35.02
% change year-on-year +15.20% -24.63% +53.91%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in Cheshire

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in Cheshire

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in Cheshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in Cheshire

Backlog Prioritisation
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 Prioritisation within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 31 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 - 8 £389 - 2
Chester -10 2 £713 -1.72% 1
Backlog Prioritisation
North West

Backlog Prioritisation
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%) Confluence
1 3 (25.00%) JBoss
1 3 (25.00%) Tomcat
1 3 (25.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (25.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (25.00%) Git
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (75.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Scrum Master
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Java Scrum Master
2 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Payments Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Product Owner
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
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 2 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (25.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (83.33%) Scrum
3 9 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (66.67%) SDLC
5 7 (58.33%) Backlog Management
6 6 (50.00%) Budget Control
6 6 (50.00%) Servant Leadership
7 5 (41.67%) Conflict Resolution
7 5 (41.67%) Situational Awareness
8 3 (25.00%) API Development
9 2 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
9 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
9 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
9 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
9 2 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
9 2 (16.67%) Sprint Review
9 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (16.67%) User Stories
9 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) CSPO
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft