Backlog Management Contracts in Glasgow

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 63 75 72
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 16 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.01% 0.80% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 0.87% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 3
10th Percentile £363 £436 £475
25th Percentile £406 £488 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.91% +4.55% +25.71%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £581
90th Percentile £601 - £585
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in Glasgow

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) JBoss
2 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
2 1 (6.25%) WebLogic
2 1 (6.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (18.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) IaaS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DHCP
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) Toad
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Business Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Scrum Master
3 2 (12.50%) Business Systems Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Agile Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (6.25%) Delivery Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Programme Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) RAML
1 1 (6.25%) REST
1 1 (6.25%) SOAP
1 1 (6.25%) Web Services
1 1 (6.25%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Product Ownership
2 3 (18.75%) Virtual Team
3 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Agile
2 8 (50.00%) Scrum
3 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (37.50%) DevOps
3 6 (37.50%) Kanban
3 6 (37.50%) User Stories
3 6 (37.50%) Workshop Facilitation
4 5 (31.25%) Data Analysis
4 5 (31.25%) Waterfall
5 4 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 4 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
5 4 (25.00%) ITSM
5 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery
6 3 (18.75%) Data Mapping
6 3 (18.75%) Data Security
6 3 (18.75%) IT Asset Management
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
6 3 (18.75%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) CBAP
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle