Backlog Management Contracts in the City of London

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
Central London > City of London

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

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 114 158
Rank change year-on-year +1 +44 -20
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 9 11 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.51% 0.50% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.56% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 7
10th Percentile £378 £488 £280
25th Percentile £456 £534 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +11.36% -3.51%
75th Percentile £564 £675 £622
90th Percentile £578 £719 £706
Central London median daily rate £543 £600 £531
% change year-on-year -9.58% +12.94% -6.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,975 3,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.51% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,036 1,399 2,240
10th Percentile £363 £361 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £568 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -5.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -13.58%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in the City of London

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Management in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in the City of London

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in the City of London

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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%) Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Information Security
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
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