Backlog Management Contracts in the East Midlands

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Backlog Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Management over the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 53 86
Rank change year-on-year -2 +33 +7
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 6 12 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.03% 1.53% 0.100%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.96% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 1
10th Percentile £402 £505 -
25th Percentile £403 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £595 £400
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +48.75% -
75th Percentile £447 £622 -
90th Percentile £625 £623 -
England median daily rate £543 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +3.33% -8.70% +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 512 613 885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 87.52% 78.19% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 417 691
10th Percentile £214 £200 £213
25th Percentile £325 £272 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £411 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% -13.47% +7.95%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £588
90th Percentile £588 £622 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 56 48
10th Percentile £13.81 £11.33 £11.80
25th Percentile £14.01 £12.74 £16.34
Median hourly rate £18.64 £16.82 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +10.84% -26.09% +13.75%
75th Percentile £24.07 £26.15 £51.50
90th Percentile £36.49 £35.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £37.42
% change year-on-year -23.29% -2.46% +49.68%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in the East Midlands

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Management in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in the East Midlands

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -7 5 £415 -30.25% 13
Derbyshire - 1 £800 - 17
Backlog Management
England

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum Master
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) FIDO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Identity
3 2 (33.33%) Fraud Detection
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 2 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 2 (33.33%) Product Backlog
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (33.33%) User Stories
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
1 2 (33.33%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Siemens