Product Backlog Contracts in the East Midlands

Product Backlogs
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Product Backlog skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Backlog over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 63 85
Rank change year-on-year +12 +22 -4
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 3 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.55% 0.39% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.49% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £280 £415
25th Percentile - £381 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +15.79% -23.69%
75th Percentile - £575 £513
90th Percentile - £590 £535
England median daily rate £575 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +4.55% -2.22% -2.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Product Backlog 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 467 608 914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.32% 78.35% 88.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 410 690
10th Percentile £201 £200 £213
25th Percentile £322 £270 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.48% -8.89% +2.56%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £575
90th Percentile £596 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 56 73
10th Percentile - £11.33 £11.98
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.64 £17.00 £18.37
Median % change year-on-year +9.63% -7.43% -0.73%
75th Percentile £24.30 £26.15 £30.00
90th Percentile £32.76 £38.75 £54.30
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.33 £36.77
% change year-on-year -19.99% -1.19% +51.01%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in the East Midlands

Product Backlog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Product Backlog in the East Midlands

Product Backlog
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 Product Backlog within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 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
Derbyshire - 3 £800 -
Product Backlog
England

Product Backlog
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
2 2 (66.67%) Test Leader
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Test Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) PLM
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Siemens