Product Backlog Contract Job Trends in Hounslow

Product Backlogs
West London > Hounslow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hounslow requiring Product Backlog skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hounslow 4.17% - 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% - 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £255 - -
25th Percentile £300 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.33%
75th Percentile £500 - £475
90th Percentile £545 - -
West London median daily rate £400 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -23.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
West London median hourly rate - - £52.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hounslow

Product Backlog 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 Hounslow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45 59 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hounslow 93.75% 81.94% 94.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 34 67
10th Percentile £248 £301 £73
25th Percentile £350 £363 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £484 £579
90th Percentile £809 £643 £638
West London median daily rate £500 £409 £500
% change year-on-year +22.25% -18.20% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 8
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile £33.00 £20.75 £54.06
Median hourly rate £34.00 £26.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -60.00% -
75th Percentile £39.00 £29.50 £76.50
90th Percentile £41.40 £31.30 £90.00
West London median hourly rate £25.15 £24.80 £34.67
% change year-on-year +1.43% -28.48% -42.22%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in Hounslow

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

Product Backlog job vacancy trend in Hounslow

Product Backlog
Daily Rate Trend in Hounslow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing Product Backlog.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing Product Backlog

Product Backlog
Daily Rate Histogram in Hounslow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Backlog in Hounslow over the 6 months to 19 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Backlog in Hounslow

Product Backlog
Contract Job Locations in Hounslow

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Backlog within the Hounslow region over the 6 months to 19 January 2026. 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
Osterley - 1 £250 -
Product Backlog
West London

Product Backlog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hounslow 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Product Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Product Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft