Backlog Management Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Backlog Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 90 97
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 +13
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 7 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.32% 0.24% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.27% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £325 £229 -
25th Percentile £363 £293 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £625
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -36.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £513 £419 £638
90th Percentile £535 £430 -
England median daily rate £525 £504 £550
% change year-on-year +4.27% -8.45% -4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,717 1,117 1,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.83% 88.65% 83.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 816 516 505
10th Percentile £192 £200 £199
25th Percentile £396 £375 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £591 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £642
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 271 492
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.59
25th Percentile £16.28 £17.97 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.25 £37.50 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -12.28% +115.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £82.10 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Backlog Management job vacancy trend in the East of England

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in the East of England

Backlog Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Backlog Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Backlog Management

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 12 August 2026. 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
Hertfordshire -15 3 £375 -6.25% 6
Cambridgeshire - 2 - - 7
Essex - 1 £550 -
Bedfordshire - 1 - - 1
Backlog Management
England

Backlog Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (42.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Miro
3 1 (14.29%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Scrum Master
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Junior
2 1 (14.29%) Junior Scrum Master
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Product Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) CMDB
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Robotics
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (42.86%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (42.86%) Software Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Business Case
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Coaching
4 2 (28.57%) Kanban
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Release Train
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Servant Leadership
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Systems Thinking
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
1 1 (14.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
1 1 (14.29%) VMware