Backlog Prioritisation Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Backlog Prioritisation
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Backlog Prioritisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 77 97
Rank change year-on-year +8 +20 +23
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 5 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.49% 0.67% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.84% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £327 £518 -
25th Percentile £333 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -37.83% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £383 £656 £538
90th Percentile £390 £683 -
South East median daily rate £433 £550 £465
% change year-on-year -21.36% +18.28% -19.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 880 953 1,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.44% 79.88% 87.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 622 661
10th Percentile £315 £360 £283
25th Percentile £450 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £535
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +6.54% +1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £636
90th Percentile £650 £713 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 65 102
10th Percentile £16.17 £23.85 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.01
Median hourly rate £20.71 £70.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.41% +33.33% +16.67%
75th Percentile £27.50 £75.00 £61.88
90th Percentile £53.00 £78.75 £73.75
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £53.50
% change year-on-year -64.48% +8.97% +50.87%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Backlog Prioritisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Backlog Prioritisation job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Backlog Prioritisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Backlog Prioritisation

Backlog Prioritisation
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Backlog Prioritisation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Backlog Prioritisation

Backlog Prioritisation
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
Southampton +4 1 - - 1
Farnborough - 1 £380 -
Fleet - 1 £335 -
Backlog Prioritisation
South East

Backlog Prioritisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) User Stories
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Backlog Management
2 4 (80.00%) Product Backlog
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum
3 3 (60.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (20.00%) Business Transformation
5 1 (20.00%) CRM
5 1 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
5 1 (20.00%) Fintech
5 1 (20.00%) Migration
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 1 (20.00%) Sprint Review
5 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CSPO
2 1 (20.00%) OCP
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (20.00%) PSD2
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce