Product Backlog Contracts in the City of London

Product Backlogs
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Product Backlog skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Backlog over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 157 165
Rank change year-on-year +48 +8 -32
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 15 13 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.69% 0.37% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.40% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 19
10th Percentile £493 £625 £463
25th Percentile £509 £679 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £875 £588
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% +48.94% +6.82%
75th Percentile £650 £931 £666
90th Percentile £706 £943 £695
Central London median daily rate £575 £875 £588
% change year-on-year -34.29% +48.94% +6.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Product Backlog is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,960 3,251 3,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.45% 91.55% 91.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,387 2,187 2,928
10th Percentile £356 £354 £388
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £677
90th Percentile £825 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.39% +9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 42
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.10 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.61 £21.81
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in the City of London

Product Backlog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Product Backlog in the City of London

Product Backlog
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Backlog in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Backlog in the City of London

Product Backlog
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 7 (46.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
2 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Back Office
3 1 (6.67%) Digital Health
3 1 (6.67%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (6.67%) Health Technology
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Product Owner
2 4 (26.67%) Digital Product Owner
3 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Market Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Product Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Agile Product Owner
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Product Manager
5 1 (6.67%) E-Commerce Manager
5 1 (6.67%) E-Commerce Product Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Finance Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) HR Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) HR Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (6.67%) CSS
2 1 (6.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (80.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Derivative
2 2 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Agile
2 13 (86.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 11 (73.33%) User Stories
4 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (53.33%) Translating Business Requirements
6 7 (46.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 7 (46.67%) Business Case
6 7 (46.67%) DevOps
6 7 (46.67%) Product Requirements
6 7 (46.67%) Sprint Planning
7 6 (40.00%) Backlog Refinement
7 6 (40.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 6 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (40.00%) Workflow
7 6 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
8 5 (33.33%) Product Vision
8 5 (33.33%) Scrum
9 4 (26.67%) Backlog Management
9 4 (26.67%) Product Management
9 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Java
1 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
1 1 (6.67%) QA
1 1 (6.67%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Murex