Backlog Management Contracts in Chester

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 1.35% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £365 -
% change year-on-year +22.47% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60 44 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 81.08% 77.19% 85.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 47
10th Percentile £325 £450 £301
25th Percentile £475 £542 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £618 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +23.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £718 £738 £584
90th Percentile £798 - £673
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.89% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 15
10th Percentile £22.67 £31.20 £21.95
25th Percentile £33.40 - £30.54
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +6.06% +51.52%
75th Percentile - £47.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £73.20 - £38.01
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year -8.57% +14.60% +45.43%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in Chester

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall