Backlog Management Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Backlog Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 57 58
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 +30
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 10 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.13% 0.17% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 0.19% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile £325 - £518
25th Percentile £354 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -28.64% - -
75th Percentile £438 £575 £581
90th Percentile £499 - £600
England median daily rate £492 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -14.43% +9.52% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 745 514 609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.90% 86.97% 83.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 318 432
10th Percentile £189 £250 £213
25th Percentile £354 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £433 £468
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -7.48% -1.53%
75th Percentile £530 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £641 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 22 44
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.29 £12.30
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.05 £21.90
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +0.69% +30.10%
75th Percentile £25.00 £25.02 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £39.09 £62.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +20.52%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Backlog Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Backlog Management job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in the East Midlands

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Northamptonshire - 8 £358 - 4
Leicestershire -9 2 £425 -22.73% 3
Backlog Management
England

Backlog Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Product Owner
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Salesforce Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce Product Owner
4 1 (10.00%) PMO Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) PMO Manager
4 1 (10.00%) PMO Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (30.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (10.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
1 9 (90.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (60.00%) User Stories
3 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (50.00%) Product Vision
3 5 (50.00%) User Experience
4 4 (40.00%) Analytics
4 4 (40.00%) Product Backlog
4 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (40.00%) Scrum
4 4 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
4 4 (40.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 3 (30.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (30.00%) Client Onboarding
5 3 (30.00%) CRM
5 3 (30.00%) Sprint Review
6 2 (20.00%) Epics
6 2 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
6 2 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) PMO
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (10.00%) PSD2
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) DocuSign
1 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft