Backlog Prioritisation Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Backlog Prioritisation
East of England > Hertfordshire

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - 73
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.44% - 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -38.46%
75th Percentile £428 - -
90th Percentile £434 - -
East of England median daily rate £413 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -21.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 415 527 678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 91.81% 85.83% 88.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 162 372
10th Percentile £244 £240 £260
25th Percentile £416 £306 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £406 £550
Median % change year-on-year +30.58% -26.14% +7.32%
75th Percentile £575 £572 £675
90th Percentile £688 £625 £761
East of England median daily rate £500 £446 £500
% change year-on-year +12.11% -10.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 185 151
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.51 £17.75
25th Percentile £22.63 £43.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -23.08% +16.07%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year -37.13% +101.92% -3.37%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in Hertfordshire

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Backlog Prioritisation
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £400 -
Backlog Prioritisation
East of England

Backlog Prioritisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow