Backlog Management Contracts in London

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 281 310 332
Rank change year-on-year +29 +22 -41
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 72 81 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.57% 0.45% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.51% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 60 110
10th Percentile £438 £384 £411
25th Percentile £500 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.17% +0.87%
75th Percentile £663 £638 £638
90th Percentile £746 £694 £689
England median daily rate £545 £504 £575
% change year-on-year +8.24% -12.43% +4.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £54.00
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year - -9.87% -18.47%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile - - £73.13
England median hourly rate - £52.50 £58.25
% change year-on-year - -9.87% -18.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in London

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in London

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in London

Backlog Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Backlog Management in London.

Hourly rate trend for Backlog Management in London

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Management within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +1 9 £543 -9.58% 7
West London +14 4 £600 +33.33% 4
South London +7 1 - -
East London - 1 £585 - 1
Backlog Management
England

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (9.72%) Confluence
2 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.39%) JBoss
3 1 (1.39%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.39%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.17%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.39%) Adobe XD
4 1 (1.39%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.39%) Sketch
4 1 (1.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.78%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.83%) Azure
2 9 (12.50%) AWS
3 7 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (8.33%) SaaS
5 4 (5.56%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.17%) Mimecast
6 3 (4.17%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.78%) Figma
7 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.78%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.39%) GCP
8 1 (1.39%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.39%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (1.39%) DHCP
2 1 (1.39%) DNS
2 1 (1.39%) MQTT
2 1 (1.39%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.39%) VLAN
2 1 (1.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.78%) Big Data
2 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.78%) GIS
2 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.39%) DB2
3 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.39%) Power BI
3 1 (1.39%) Redis
3 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (25.00%) JIRA
2 6 (8.33%) Git
3 3 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.78%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.78%) GitLab
5 1 (1.39%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.39%) Storybook
5 1 (1.39%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 23 (31.94%) Finance
3 11 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.11%) Banking
5 6 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.94%) Back Office
7 3 (4.17%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Legal
8 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.39%) Automotive
9 1 (1.39%) Electronics
9 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.39%) Publishing
9 1 (1.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (29.17%) Product Owner
2 10 (13.89%) Product Manager
3 8 (11.11%) Analyst
3 8 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 7 (9.72%) Senior
4 7 (9.72%) Senior Product Owner
5 6 (8.33%) Lead
5 6 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 6 (8.33%) Scrum Master
6 3 (4.17%) Software Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) .NET Software Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) C# Software Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) Consultant
7 2 (2.78%) Data Analyst
7 2 (2.78%) Developer
7 2 (2.78%) Digital Product Owner
7 2 (2.78%) Product Lead
7 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow Manager
7 2 (2.78%) VB Software Engineer
8 1 (1.39%) Digital Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.94%) .NET
2 3 (4.17%) .NET Framework
2 3 (4.17%) ADO
2 3 (4.17%) AWS CDK
2 3 (4.17%) Entity Framework
2 3 (4.17%) REST
3 2 (2.78%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.78%) Dapper ORM
3 2 (2.78%) WinForms
4 1 (1.39%) CSS
4 1 (1.39%) EDI
4 1 (1.39%) HTML
4 1 (1.39%) Kafka
4 1 (1.39%) Node.js
4 1 (1.39%) RAML
4 1 (1.39%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.39%) SOAP
4 1 (1.39%) Web Services
4 1 (1.39%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 37 (51.39%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.78%) FMCG
3 2 (2.78%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.39%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.39%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.39%) IoT
4 1 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.39%) PMI
4 1 (1.39%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.39%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (1.39%) Android
2 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (72.22%) Agile
2 38 (52.78%) Product Backlog
3 27 (37.50%) Roadmaps
4 25 (34.72%) Scrum
5 23 (31.94%) User Stories
6 16 (22.22%) Analytics
7 13 (18.06%) Decision-Making
7 13 (18.06%) Product Management
7 13 (18.06%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 12 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
9 11 (15.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (13.89%) Acceptance Criteria
10 10 (13.89%) Product Strategy
10 10 (13.89%) Requirements Gathering
11 9 (12.50%) DevOps
11 9 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (12.50%) Product Vision
11 9 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
11 9 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.11%) SQL
2 5 (6.94%) C#
3 4 (5.56%) Python
4 2 (2.78%) VB
4 2 (2.78%) VB6
5 1 (1.39%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.94%) Degree
2 5 (6.94%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.17%) CSPO
3 3 (4.17%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.78%) PMP
5 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.39%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.39%) Basel II
3 1 (1.39%) COPPA
3 1 (1.39%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (1.39%) EMIR
3 1 (1.39%) GDPR
3 1 (1.39%) GRC
3 1 (1.39%) MiFID
3 1 (1.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (6.94%) Docker
2 3 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (4.17%) SCCM
1 3 (4.17%) Terraform
2 1 (1.39%) Opsgenie
2 1 (1.39%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 9 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.94%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.17%) Murex
5 2 (2.78%) Databricks
5 2 (2.78%) Google
5 2 (2.78%) Workday
6 1 (1.39%) Adobe
6 1 (1.39%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.39%) Calypso
6 1 (1.39%) IBM
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle
6 1 (1.39%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.39%) Splunk