Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in Lancashire

Backlog Prioritisation
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.01% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £390 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £410 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £420 £725 £475
% change year-on-year -42.07% +52.63% -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.16 - -
North West median hourly rate £70.08 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 177 151 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 89.39% 70.89% 87.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 59 129
10th Percentile £363 £217 £350
25th Percentile £425 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -0.08% +0.08%
75th Percentile £591 £630 £634
90th Percentile £671 £742 £688
North West median daily rate £455 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.10% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 38 54
10th Percentile £18.87 - £20.58
25th Percentile £23.32 £16.06 £29.30
Median hourly rate £44.09 £35.36 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +24.69% -23.43% +59.46%
75th Percentile £63.40 £43.10 £49.88
90th Percentile £71.32 £47.63 £70.57
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.76
% change year-on-year -28.14% +13.80% +41.21%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in Lancashire

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Backlog Prioritisation
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Preston - 2 £400 -
Backlog Prioritisation
North West

Backlog Prioritisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Digital
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Networks
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (50.00%) Employee Productivity
2 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SIAM
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow