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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 60 65
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 +18
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 8 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.04% 0.53% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.66% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 1
10th Percentile £304 £306 -
25th Percentile £331 £447 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -12.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £451 £609 £638
90th Percentile £608 £671 -
England median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -

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 659 604 752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.92% 80.32% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 412 559
10th Percentile £225 £263 £213
25th Percentile £334 £360 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -5.26% +2.98%
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 62 35 44
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £12.18
25th Percentile £16.21 £14.64 £17.10
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.00 £33.40
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -40.11% +55.33%
75th Percentile £25.15 £27.45 £53.81
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Backlog in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 14 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 -12 6 £348 +54.44% 1
Derbyshire - 2 £800 - 4
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 2 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (12.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
1 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Product Owner
2 2 (25.00%) Digital Product Owner
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
1 7 (87.50%) User Stories
2 6 (75.00%) Backlog Management
2 6 (75.00%) Scrum
3 5 (62.50%) Acceptance Criteria
3 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (50.00%) Fintech
4 4 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 4 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (37.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (37.50%) Product Vision
5 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
6 2 (25.00%) Iteration Planning
6 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
6 2 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
6 2 (25.00%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
1 1 (12.50%) PSD2
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Siemens