Backlog Prioritisation Contract Job Trends in Devon

Backlog Prioritisation
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Devon requiring Backlog Prioritisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - 35
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Devon 2.10% - 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% - 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £407 - -
25th Percentile £412 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £553 - -
90th Percentile £557 - -
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £588
% change year-on-year - -14.89% +6.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 224 93 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 78.32% 87.74% 80.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 43 152
10th Percentile £173 £145 £150
25th Percentile £338 £149 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -2.94% -8.60%
75th Percentile £619 £513 £519
90th Percentile £694 £600 £600
South West median daily rate £511 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -1.05% -1.73% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 16 31
10th Percentile £16.05 £26.40 £10.42
25th Percentile £17.75 £48.50 £13.86
Median hourly rate £24.71 £65.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.98% +116.67% -45.45%
75th Percentile £46.00 £70.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £66.40 £73.75 £72.50
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -9.39%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Backlog Prioritisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon.

Backlog Prioritisation job vacancy trend in Devon

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Backlog Prioritisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Backlog Prioritisation

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Devon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in Devon over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in Devon

Backlog Prioritisation
Contract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation within the Devon region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Exeter - 5 £477 - 3
Backlog Prioritisation
South West

Backlog Prioritisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Product Manager
2 5 (83.33%) Digital Product Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Services Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 6 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 3 (50.00%) Business Case
2 3 (50.00%) Contract Negotiation
2 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (50.00%) Product Management
2 3 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 3 (50.00%) User Experience
3 2 (33.33%) Product Thinking
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft