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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 418 473
Rank change year-on-year +43 +55 +48
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 101 119 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.32% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.38% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 78 121
10th Percentile £357 £400 £363
25th Percentile £388 £516 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £718 £738
UK median daily rate £494 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -17.67% +14.29% -
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 21,947 31,578 42,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.31% 85.86% 89.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,275 20,635 30,003
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £766
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 956 2,303 1,521
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.84 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.81
Median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £59.93 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

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 30 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 30 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 +31 47 £550 -6.38% 67
North of England +13 23 £402 -39.32% 87
North West +9 17 £401 -39.47% 45
Midlands +15 16 £358 -37.74% 73
South East +57 9 £487 -18.83% 113
West Midlands +18 8 £400 -27.27% 45
East Midlands +6 8 £358 -39.83% 24
South West +46 5 £500 -16.67% 43
Yorkshire +21 5 £600 - 33
North East 0 1 - - 9
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 16 (15.84%) Confluence
2 6 (5.94%) JBoss
2 6 (5.94%) Tomcat
2 6 (5.94%) WebLogic
2 6 (5.94%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.98%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.99%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.99%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.99%) Fusion 360
2 1 (0.99%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.99%) Sketch
2 1 (0.99%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.99%) Primavera
2 1 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.99%) Shopify
2 1 (0.99%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.86%) AWS
1 14 (13.86%) Azure
2 11 (10.89%) SaaS
3 8 (7.92%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.95%) GCP
4 5 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.97%) Figma
6 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (1.98%) OCI
6 2 (1.98%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.99%) BigCommerce
7 1 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.99%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.99%) Miro
7 1 (0.99%) Pendo
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.96%) Firewall
2 3 (2.97%) Broadband
2 3 (2.97%) Network Security
2 3 (2.97%) Wireless
3 2 (1.98%) BGP
3 2 (1.98%) DHCP
3 2 (1.98%) DNS
3 2 (1.98%) EIGRP
3 2 (1.98%) HTTP
3 2 (1.98%) IPsec
3 2 (1.98%) OSPF
3 2 (1.98%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (1.98%) SSL
3 2 (1.98%) TACACS
3 2 (1.98%) VLAN
3 2 (1.98%) VPN
4 1 (0.99%) MPLS
4 1 (0.99%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.99%) SMS
4 1 (0.99%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.94%) DB2
2 3 (2.97%) Tableau
3 2 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.98%) Metadata
3 2 (1.98%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (1.98%) Star Schema
4 1 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.99%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (19.80%) JIRA
2 6 (5.94%) Bitbucket
2 6 (5.94%) Git
3 1 (0.99%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.99%) Storybook
General
1 46 (45.54%) Social Skills
2 37 (36.63%) Finance
3 20 (19.80%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.89%) Banking
5 9 (8.91%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.94%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.94%) Retail
8 5 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.96%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.97%) Back Office
11 2 (1.98%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.98%) Marketing
12 1 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (27.72%) Product Owner
2 25 (24.75%) Scrum Master
3 16 (15.84%) Analyst
4 12 (11.88%) Product Manager
5 11 (10.89%) Business Analyst
6 7 (6.93%) Lead
7 6 (5.94%) Digital Product Owner
8 4 (3.96%) Agile Scrum Master
8 4 (3.96%) Architect
8 4 (3.96%) Senior
9 3 (2.97%) Data Manager
9 3 (2.97%) Product Analyst
9 3 (2.97%) Project Manager
9 3 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.97%) Technical Analyst
10 2 (1.98%) Implementation Specialist
10 2 (1.98%) Senior Analyst
10 2 (1.98%) Senior Test Analyst
10 2 (1.98%) Technical Business Analyst
10 2 (1.98%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.94%) RAML
1 6 (5.94%) REST
1 6 (5.94%) SOAP
1 6 (5.94%) Web Services
1 6 (5.94%) WSDL
2 4 (3.96%) EJB
2 4 (3.96%) J2EE
2 4 (3.96%) JSP
2 4 (3.96%) Servlets
2 4 (3.96%) Spring
2 4 (3.96%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.97%) Middleware
4 1 (0.99%) CSS
4 1 (0.99%) EDI
4 1 (0.99%) HTML
4 1 (0.99%) OLE
4 1 (0.99%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (67.33%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.94%) Private Cloud
3 4 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.98%) FMCG
5 2 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.99%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.99%) Derivative
6 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.99%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.99%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (87.13%) Agile
2 59 (58.42%) Scrum
3 40 (39.60%) Continuous Improvement
4 38 (37.62%) Roadmaps
5 37 (36.63%) Product Backlog
6 35 (34.65%) Backlog Management
7 32 (31.68%) User Stories
8 29 (28.71%) Product Roadmap
9 28 (27.72%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (22.77%) Product Management
11 22 (21.78%) Acceptance Criteria
11 22 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (19.80%) Sprint Planning
13 16 (15.84%) Product Strategy
13 16 (15.84%) Product Vision
13 16 (15.84%) SDLC
13 16 (15.84%) User Experience
14 15 (14.85%) Sprint Retrospective
15 14 (13.86%) Decision-Making
15 14 (13.86%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.90%) SQL
2 7 (6.93%) Java
3 5 (4.95%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.99%) Python
4 1 (0.99%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.99%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (14.85%) Degree
2 8 (7.92%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.95%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.97%) CSPO
4 3 (2.97%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.99%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.99%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.95%) Accessibility
1 5 (4.95%) QA
2 2 (1.98%) WCAG
3 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.99%) NIST
3 1 (0.99%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (2.97%) Docker
2 2 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.98%) Nagios
3 1 (0.99%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (16.83%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.92%) Oracle
3 6 (5.94%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.96%) Cisco
4 4 (3.96%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.97%) Google
6 2 (1.98%) Adobe
6 2 (1.98%) Arista
6 2 (1.98%) Juniper
6 2 (1.98%) SAP
6 2 (1.98%) Siemens
6 2 (1.98%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.98%) Workday
7 1 (0.99%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.99%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.99%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.99%) Okta
7 1 (0.99%) Sitecore