Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in the City of London

Backlog Prioritisation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 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 113 110 168
Rank change year-on-year -3 +58 -8
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 6 17 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.34% 0.77% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.86% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 9
10th Percentile £389 - £763
25th Percentile £485 £481 £825
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £488 £850
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -42.65% +51.79%
75th Percentile £675 £603 £875
90th Percentile £698 £783 £915
Central London median daily rate £613 £488 £850
% change year-on-year +25.64% -42.65% +51.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
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% -14.63%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the City of London

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the City of London

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in the City of London

Backlog Prioritisation
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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Apple Pay
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (16.67%) Google Pay
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (16.67%) OCI
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Back Office
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Product Owner
2 2 (33.33%) Digital Product Owner
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Product Owner
3 1 (16.67%) Product Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Wallet
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Product Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Product Vision
4 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (33.33%) User Stories
5 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Fintech
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Klarna
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle