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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 117 160
Rank change year-on-year +3 +43 -11
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 10 10 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.59% 0.46% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.51% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 6
10th Percentile £300 £556 £369
25th Percentile £358 £603 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £564 £675 £673
90th Percentile £576 £719 £719
Central London median daily rate £503 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -19.60% -3.85% +13.54%

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 1,585 1,954 3,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.57% 90.63% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,367 2,145
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -6.25% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 24
10th Percentile £18.15 £19.95 £14.55
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -23.93% -14.63%
75th Percentile £41.48 £40.46 £57.50
90th Percentile £59.25 £49.41 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -15.66%

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 2 June 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 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (10.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (20.00%) Mimecast
1 2 (20.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Star Schema
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) IT Director
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Director
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Scrum Master
3 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Strategy Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) CSS
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 3 (30.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 3 (30.00%) Change Management
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (30.00%) Product Backlog
2 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (20.00%) Data Reconciliation
3 2 (20.00%) Epics
3 2 (20.00%) Financial Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Project Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Sprint Review
3 2 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) User Stories
3 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Basel II
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) SCCM
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft