Product Backlog Contracts in the City of London

Product Backlogs
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Product Backlog skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Backlog over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 104 159
Rank change year-on-year -1 +55 +2
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 10 17 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.57% 0.79% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.87% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 7
10th Percentile £504 £495 £625
25th Percentile £566 £511 £679
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £875
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -28.57% +48.94%
75th Percentile £793 £638 £931
90th Percentile £869 £700 £943
Central London median daily rate £625 £575 £875
% change year-on-year +8.70% -34.29% +48.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Product Backlog 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 1,630 1,955 3,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.57% 90.51% 91.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,024 1,375 2,163
10th Percentile £352 £350 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £563 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.33
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £28.15 £25.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -26.79% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £41.65 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

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 16 May 2025.

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 1 (10.00%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
1 2 (20.00%) Star Schema
2 1 (10.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata
General
1 4 (40.00%) Back Office
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Product Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Business Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Product Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Finance Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Director
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Product Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Director
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Support
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (10.00%) Credit Risk
3 1 (10.00%) Market Risk
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) Scrum
3 5 (50.00%) Backlog Management
4 4 (40.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 4 (40.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 4 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (40.00%) User Stories
5 3 (30.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (30.00%) Change Management
5 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (30.00%) Epics
5 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
6 2 (20.00%) Migration
6 2 (20.00%) Product Requirements
6 2 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
6 2 (20.00%) Product Strategy
6 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
6 2 (20.00%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
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
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Murex
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle