Backlog Management Contracts in England

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Backlog Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 387 392
Rank change year-on-year +31 +5 -39
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 129 156 280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.42% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.48% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 126 186
10th Percentile £390 £314 £409
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £504 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% -12.43% +4.07%
75th Percentile £634 £613 £638
90th Percentile £739 £663 £700
UK median daily rate £506 £500 £558
% change year-on-year +1.20% -10.39% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £54.00
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year - -9.87% -18.47%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile - - £73.13
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 £58.25
% change year-on-year - -9.87% -17.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Backlog Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in England

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in England

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in England

Backlog Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Backlog Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Backlog Management in England

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +29 72 £575 +4.55% 164
North of England +18 19 £402 -9.41% 40
South East +42 17 £494 -10.18% 43
North West +19 15 £402 +518.46% 27
Midlands +17 12 £515 -10.43% 23
West Midlands +19 9 £520 +35.95% 19
South West +39 6 £600 +26.32% 8
Yorkshire +5 4 £370 -17.78% 13
East Midlands 0 3 £450 -24.37% 3
Backlog Management
UK

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 18 (13.95%) Confluence
2 5 (3.88%) JBoss
2 5 (3.88%) Tomcat
2 5 (3.88%) WebLogic
2 5 (3.88%) WebSphere
3 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.33%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.78%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.78%) Sketch
4 1 (0.78%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.55%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.78%) Primavera
3 1 (0.78%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 23 (17.83%) Azure
2 16 (12.40%) AWS
3 13 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (6.20%) SaaS
5 6 (4.65%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.10%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.33%) Mimecast
8 3 (2.33%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.33%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.55%) Figma
9 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.55%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (0.78%) GCP
10 1 (0.78%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.65%) Firewall
2 3 (2.33%) Broadband
3 2 (1.55%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.78%) 2G
4 1 (0.78%) 3G
4 1 (0.78%) 4G
4 1 (0.78%) 5G
4 1 (0.78%) DHCP
4 1 (0.78%) DNS
4 1 (0.78%) MQTT
4 1 (0.78%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.78%) VLAN
4 1 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.88%) DB2
2 4 (3.10%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.33%) GIS
4 2 (1.55%) Big Data
4 2 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.55%) Power BI
4 2 (1.55%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.55%) Tableau
5 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (24.81%) JIRA
2 10 (7.75%) Git
3 7 (5.43%) Bitbucket
3 7 (5.43%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.88%) GitLab
5 2 (1.55%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.78%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.78%) Storybook
General
1 58 (44.96%) Social Skills
2 37 (28.68%) Finance
3 24 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.08%) Banking
4 13 (10.08%) Telecoms
5 11 (8.53%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.65%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.88%) Back Office
9 4 (3.10%) Electronics
9 4 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.10%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.10%) Retail
10 3 (2.33%) Automotive
10 3 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.33%) Marketing
11 2 (1.55%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.55%) Legal
12 1 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (20.93%) Product Owner
2 20 (15.50%) Scrum Master
3 18 (13.95%) Analyst
4 14 (10.85%) Business Analyst
4 14 (10.85%) Product Manager
5 11 (8.53%) Project Manager
6 10 (7.75%) Lead
6 10 (7.75%) Senior
7 8 (6.20%) Senior Product Owner
8 7 (5.43%) Developer
9 5 (3.88%) Product Lead
10 4 (3.10%) Agile Scrum Master
11 3 (2.33%) Automation Developer
11 3 (2.33%) Delivery Manager
11 3 (2.33%) Digital Transformation
11 3 (2.33%) Incident Analyst
11 3 (2.33%) ServiceNow Manager
11 3 (2.33%) Software Engineer
12 2 (1.55%) .NET Software Engineer
12 2 (1.55%) VB Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.20%) REST
2 5 (3.88%) .NET
2 5 (3.88%) RAML
2 5 (3.88%) SOAP
2 5 (3.88%) Web Services
2 5 (3.88%) WSDL
3 4 (3.10%) EJB
3 4 (3.10%) J2EE
3 4 (3.10%) JSP
3 4 (3.10%) Servlets
3 4 (3.10%) Spring
3 4 (3.10%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.33%) .NET Framework
4 3 (2.33%) ADO
4 3 (2.33%) AWS CDK
4 3 (2.33%) Entity Framework
5 2 (1.55%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.55%) Dapper ORM
5 2 (1.55%) WinForms
6 1 (0.78%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 66 (51.16%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.88%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.88%) Onboarding
2 5 (3.88%) Private Cloud
3 4 (3.10%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.33%) FMCG
4 3 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.55%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.55%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.78%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.78%) IoT
6 1 (0.78%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.33%) Windows
2 1 (0.78%) Android
2 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (76.74%) Agile
2 55 (42.64%) Product Backlog
2 55 (42.64%) Scrum
3 42 (32.56%) Roadmaps
4 37 (28.68%) User Stories
5 32 (24.81%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 27 (20.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 25 (19.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (19.38%) Sprint Planning
8 24 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (17.83%) DevOps
10 22 (17.05%) Product Roadmap
11 21 (16.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 19 (14.73%) Product Strategy
13 18 (13.95%) Decision-Making
13 18 (13.95%) Product Vision
13 18 (13.95%) Sprint Retrospective
14 17 (13.18%) Coaching
14 17 (13.18%) Project Management
15 16 (12.40%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.08%) SQL
2 8 (6.20%) Python
3 7 (5.43%) Java
3 7 (5.43%) JavaScript
4 5 (3.88%) C#
5 3 (2.33%) Bash
6 2 (1.55%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.55%) VB
6 2 (1.55%) VB6
7 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.78%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (8.53%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.98%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.20%) Degree
4 3 (2.33%) CCNA
4 3 (2.33%) CCNP
4 3 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.33%) CSPO
4 3 (2.33%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.55%) PMP
6 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.78%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.98%) QA
2 5 (3.88%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.88%) PMO
3 2 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.55%) GDPR
4 1 (0.78%) Basel II
4 1 (0.78%) COPPA
4 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.78%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.78%) EMIR
4 1 (0.78%) GRC
4 1 (0.78%) MiFID
4 1 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (3.88%) Docker
2 3 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 6 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.10%) Ansible
3 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.33%) SCCM
3 3 (2.33%) Terraform
4 2 (1.55%) Opsgenie
5 1 (0.78%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.78%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 17 (13.18%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.30%) ServiceNow
3 6 (4.65%) Atlassian
3 6 (4.65%) Oracle
4 5 (3.88%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.10%) Fortinet
5 4 (3.10%) Infoblox
5 4 (3.10%) SAP
6 3 (2.33%) BMC
6 3 (2.33%) BT
6 3 (2.33%) Murex
6 3 (2.33%) Remedy
7 2 (1.55%) Adobe
7 2 (1.55%) Databricks
7 2 (1.55%) Google
7 2 (1.55%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.55%) Workday
8 1 (0.78%) IBM
8 1 (0.78%) Splunk
8 1 (0.78%) Veeam