Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in England

Backlog Prioritisation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Backlog Prioritisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Prioritisation 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 390 412 469
Rank change year-on-year +22 +57 +49
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 95 130 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.35% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.40% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 84 132
10th Percentile £356 £438 £401
25th Percentile £385 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.67% +14.29% -7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £628 £643
90th Percentile £693 £710 £738
UK median daily rate £492 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -14.43% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £31.71 -
Median % change year-on-year +120.75% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £32.36 -
90th Percentile - £32.74 -
UK median hourly rate £71.61 £32.36 -
% change year-on-year +121.33% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Backlog Prioritisation 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 Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in England

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in England

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in England

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in England

Backlog Prioritisation
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 Prioritisation 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 +10 41 £500 -11.11% 82
South East +53 18 £522 -18.12% 28
North of England +11 17 £401 -39.47% 16
North West +9 13 £392 -40.83% 10
Midlands +13 10 £379 -34.09% 9
East Midlands +3 6 £358 -39.83% 6
South West +47 5 £500 -14.89% 12
West Midlands +12 4 £400 -27.27% 3
Yorkshire +8 3 £556 -7.29% 4
East of England +31 2 - - 4
North East 0 1 - - 2
Backlog Prioritisation
UK

Backlog Prioritisation
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 15 (15.79%) Confluence
2 5 (5.26%) JBoss
2 5 (5.26%) Tomcat
2 5 (5.26%) WebLogic
2 5 (5.26%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.11%) Appian
4 1 (1.05%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.05%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.05%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.05%) Fusion 360
2 1 (1.05%) Siemens NX
2 1 (1.05%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.05%) Primavera
2 1 (1.05%) Shopify
2 1 (1.05%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.63%) Azure
2 10 (10.53%) SaaS
3 9 (9.47%) AWS
4 8 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.21%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.11%) Figma
6 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (2.11%) OCI
7 1 (1.05%) Apple Pay
7 1 (1.05%) BigCommerce
7 1 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.05%) GCP
7 1 (1.05%) GitHub
7 1 (1.05%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.05%) Google Pay
7 1 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.05%) Miro
7 1 (1.05%) Pendo
7 1 (1.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.16%) Broadband
2 1 (1.05%) PuTTY
2 1 (1.05%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.05%) SMS
2 1 (1.05%) WAN
2 1 (1.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.26%) DB2
2 4 (4.21%) Oracle Database
2 4 (4.21%) Tableau
3 3 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.11%) Metadata
4 2 (2.11%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (2.11%) Power BI
4 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.05%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 18 (18.95%) JIRA
2 5 (5.26%) Bitbucket
2 5 (5.26%) Git
3 2 (2.11%) Balsamiq
4 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.05%) Postman
4 1 (1.05%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.05%) Storybook
4 1 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 45 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 28 (29.47%) Finance
3 17 (17.89%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.37%) Banking
4 7 (7.37%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.32%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (6.32%) Retail
6 4 (4.21%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Back Office
8 2 (2.11%) Military
8 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.05%) Marketing
9 1 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (31.58%) Product Owner
2 17 (17.89%) Scrum Master
3 14 (14.74%) Analyst
4 13 (13.68%) Product Manager
5 9 (9.47%) Business Analyst
6 8 (8.42%) Architect
7 6 (6.32%) Lead
8 5 (5.26%) Digital Product Owner
8 5 (5.26%) Senior
9 4 (4.21%) Agile Product Owner
9 4 (4.21%) Agile Scrum Master
9 4 (4.21%) Consultant
9 4 (4.21%) IFS Consultant
9 4 (4.21%) Product Analyst
9 4 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.16%) Data Manager
10 3 (3.16%) Project Manager
10 3 (3.16%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (3.16%) Technical Business Analyst
11 2 (2.11%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.26%) RAML
1 5 (5.26%) REST
1 5 (5.26%) SOAP
1 5 (5.26%) Web Services
1 5 (5.26%) WSDL
2 4 (4.21%) EJB
2 4 (4.21%) J2EE
2 4 (4.21%) JSP
2 4 (4.21%) Servlets
2 4 (4.21%) Spring
2 4 (4.21%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.11%) Middleware
4 1 (1.05%) CSS
4 1 (1.05%) EDI
4 1 (1.05%) HTML
4 1 (1.05%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (61.05%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.26%) Private Cloud
3 3 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.11%) FMCG
4 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.05%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.05%) Derivative
5 1 (1.05%) Digital Wallet
5 1 (1.05%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.05%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (82.11%) Agile
2 50 (52.63%) Scrum
3 44 (46.32%) Roadmaps
4 33 (34.74%) Product Roadmap
5 32 (33.68%) Backlog Management
5 32 (33.68%) Product Backlog
6 30 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (30.53%) User Stories
8 26 (27.37%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (24.21%) Product Management
10 22 (23.16%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (22.11%) Acceptance Criteria
12 18 (18.95%) SDLC
13 16 (16.84%) Product Strategy
14 15 (15.79%) Decision-Making
14 15 (15.79%) Product Vision
14 15 (15.79%) User Experience
15 14 (14.74%) Sprint Planning
16 13 (13.68%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 12 (12.63%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.74%) SQL
2 7 (7.37%) Java
3 5 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.21%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.05%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (17.89%) Degree
2 7 (7.37%) SC Cleared
2 7 (7.37%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.11%) CSPO
4 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.05%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.05%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.47%) QA
2 5 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.11%) WCAG
4 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.05%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (12.63%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.58%) Oracle
3 4 (4.21%) IFS
3 4 (4.21%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.11%) Adobe
4 2 (2.11%) Blue Prism
4 2 (2.11%) Cisco
4 2 (2.11%) Nokia
4 2 (2.11%) Rakuten
4 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.11%) SAP
4 2 (2.11%) Siemens
4 2 (2.11%) Workday
5 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.05%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.05%) Genesys
5 1 (1.05%) Google
5 1 (1.05%) Hotjar
5 1 (1.05%) Klarna
5 1 (1.05%) Sitecore