Product Backlog Contracts in Edinburgh

Product Backlogs
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 70 104
Rank change year-on-year +8 +34 -2
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 6 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.95% 0.37% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.41% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £434 - £399
25th Percentile £439 £675 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -34.57% +33.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £522 £725 £545
90th Percentile £584 - £558
Scotland median daily rate £441 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -23.30% +4.55% +18.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 600 724 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.94% 88.83% 95.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 422 884
10th Percentile £219 £228 £254
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £545
90th Percentile £638 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 32 11
10th Percentile - £13.66 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £21.02 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -1.13% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £18.79 £17.47
% change year-on-year +14.90% +7.59% -56.33%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Product Backlog as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in Edinburgh

Product Backlog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Backlog in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Product Backlog in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Backlog in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Backlog in Edinburgh

Product Backlog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (50.00%) MS Visio
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) NHS
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) User Stories
2 4 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (33.33%) Backlog Management
4 2 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
5 1 (16.67%) Product Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Product Vision
5 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (16.67%) Time Management
5 1 (16.67%) Trade-off Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) User Research
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland