Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in the East Midlands

Backlog Prioritisation
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Backlog Prioritisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Prioritisation over the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 53 70
Rank change year-on-year -7 +17 +26
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 11 13 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.43% 1.72% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 2.15% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 0
10th Percentile £346 £525 -
25th Percentile £354 £531 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £595 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.83% - -
75th Percentile £444 £622 -
90th Percentile £804 £623 -
England median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 660 605 769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.05% 79.92% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 414 577
10th Percentile £217 £254 £213
25th Percentile £331 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £625 £623 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 38 42
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.74 £13.02
25th Percentile £15.68 £14.45 £20.13
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.75 £43.02
Median % change year-on-year -9.06% -51.76% +100.07%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.10 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the East Midlands

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the East Midlands

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 8 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in the East Midlands

Backlog Prioritisation
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 Prioritisation within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 August 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 -14 8 £358 -39.83% 4
Derbyshire - 2 £813 - 1
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 2
Backlog Prioritisation
England

Backlog Prioritisation
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 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) JBoss
1 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
1 1 (9.09%) WebLogic
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Fusion 360
1 1 (9.09%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) SaaS
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Product Owner
2 3 (27.27%) Scrum Master
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Digital Product Owner
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) ETL Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) ETRM Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Payments Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) RAML
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) SOAP
1 1 (9.09%) Web Services
1 1 (9.09%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Derivative
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) Scrum
3 6 (54.55%) User Stories
4 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
4 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (36.36%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (36.36%) Backlog Management
5 4 (36.36%) Business Analysis
5 4 (36.36%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (36.36%) User Experience
6 3 (27.27%) Budget Control
6 3 (27.27%) Business Process Modelling
6 3 (27.27%) Process Improvement
6 3 (27.27%) Product Management
6 3 (27.27%) SDLC
6 3 (27.27%) Servant Leadership
6 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
6 3 (27.27%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) EMIR
1 1 (9.09%) MiFID
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Siemens
2 1 (9.09%) Autodesk
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Trayport