Backlog Management Contract Job Trends in East London

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring Backlog Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 32 37
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 0.85% 0.66% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.69% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £209
25th Percentile - £518 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £535 £340
Median % change year-on-year -32.71% +57.35% -36.45%
75th Percentile - £553 £419
90th Percentile - - £465
London median daily rate £525 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +10.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 111 145 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 94.87% 96.03% 91.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 126 208
10th Percentile £190 £300 £203
25th Percentile £316 £413 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £585 £595 £650
90th Percentile £700 £690 £750
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £23.33 £21.11 £14.71
25th Percentile £24.24 £21.13 £15.52
Median hourly rate £32.00 £21.80 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +46.82% +29.35% -37.55%
75th Percentile £58.75 £23.09 £17.89
90th Percentile £80.36 £23.48 £18.51
London median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -10.01% -6.67% +3.45%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Job postings citing Backlog Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in East London.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in East London

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Backlog Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Backlog Management

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Management within the East London region over the 6 months to 20 September 2025. 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
Tower Hamlets - 1 £360 -
Backlog Management
London

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) ETRM
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript