Backlog Management Contracts in London

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Backlog Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Management over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 331 299
Rank change year-on-year +20 -32 +5
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 82 171 357
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.46% 0.63% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.69% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 115 238
10th Percentile £385 £382 £438
25th Percentile £438 £497 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £656
90th Percentile £700 £695 £700
England median daily rate £510 £566 £560
% change year-on-year -9.98% +1.16% +16.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - - £57.01
25th Percentile £51.25 £54.00 £65.65
Median hourly rate £52.50 £58.25 £71.45
Median % change year-on-year -9.87% -18.47% +4.52%
75th Percentile £53.75 £63.75 £73.30
90th Percentile - £73.13 £75.63
England median hourly rate £52.50 £58.25 £70.90
% change year-on-year -9.87% -17.84% +3.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Backlog Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,803 24,767 35,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.42% 91.14% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,321 17,758 26,094
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 288 429
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.23
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.86 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +9.86% +10.18%
75th Percentile £47.50 £62.55 £50.00
90th Percentile £66.10 £78.15 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 +39 12 £600 +12.94% 2
West London +11 2 £450 -28.00% 3
South London +11 1 £513 +2.50%
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 (8.54%) Confluence
2 4 (4.88%) CMS
3 2 (2.44%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Adobe XD
1 3 (3.66%) InVision
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.66%) Sketch
1 3 (3.66%) Zeplin
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.95%) Azure
2 8 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (8.54%) Power Platform
4 6 (7.32%) SaaS
5 5 (6.10%) Figma
6 4 (4.88%) AWS
7 3 (3.66%) Serverless
8 2 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (2.44%) Asana
8 2 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.44%) GitHub
8 2 (2.44%) Miro
8 2 (2.44%) PaaS
8 2 (2.44%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (1.22%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.22%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 1 (1.22%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.66%) DNS
2 2 (2.44%) DHCP
2 2 (2.44%) Firewall
2 2 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.22%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.88%) Power BI
2 3 (3.66%) Big Data
2 3 (3.66%) Data Lake
2 3 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.44%) GIS
3 2 (2.44%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (26.83%) JIRA
2 3 (3.66%) Axure RP
2 3 (3.66%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (2.44%) Jenkins
General
1 29 (35.37%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.63%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.98%) Banking
3 9 (10.98%) Finance
4 6 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.32%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (4.88%) Back Office
5 4 (4.88%) Retail
6 3 (3.66%) General Ledger
6 3 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.66%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.66%) Marketing
6 3 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.66%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.44%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.22%) Billing
8 1 (1.22%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.22%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.22%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (28.05%) Analyst
2 22 (26.83%) Business Analyst
3 18 (21.95%) Product Owner
4 11 (13.41%) Product Manager
4 11 (13.41%) Senior
5 9 (10.98%) Scrum Master
6 6 (7.32%) Data Business Analyst
6 6 (7.32%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (7.32%) Senior Business Analyst
7 5 (6.10%) Designer
7 5 (6.10%) Lead
7 5 (6.10%) Service Designer
8 4 (4.88%) Consultant
8 4 (4.88%) Senior Product Owner
9 3 (3.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 3 (3.66%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
9 3 (3.66%) Data Analyst
9 3 (3.66%) Insurance Business Analyst
9 3 (3.66%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
10 2 (2.44%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.66%) .NET
2 2 (2.44%) LDAP
2 2 (2.44%) Node.js
3 1 (1.22%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.22%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 38 (46.34%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.66%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.44%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.44%) Clustering
4 2 (2.44%) CMDB
4 2 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.44%) Derivative
4 2 (2.44%) Equities
4 2 (2.44%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.44%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (2.44%) Freedom of Information Act
4 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.22%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.22%) IVR
5 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.44%) Linux
2 1 (1.22%) Windows
2 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (68.29%) Agile
2 35 (42.68%) Scrum
2 35 (42.68%) User Stories
3 34 (41.46%) Roadmaps
4 32 (39.02%) Product Backlog
5 22 (26.83%) Acceptance Criteria
6 19 (23.17%) Product Roadmap
7 18 (21.95%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (20.73%) Business Analysis
8 17 (20.73%) DevOps
9 16 (19.51%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 15 (18.29%) Requirements Gathering
11 12 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (14.63%) Sprint Planning
12 11 (13.41%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (12.20%) Data Modelling
13 10 (12.20%) Mentoring
13 10 (12.20%) Project Management
13 10 (12.20%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.98%) SQL
2 4 (4.88%) Python
3 2 (2.44%) C
3 2 (2.44%) C#
3 2 (2.44%) Go
3 2 (2.44%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.44%) VB.NET
4 1 (1.22%) C++
4 1 (1.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (14.63%) Degree
2 5 (6.10%) SC Cleared
2 5 (6.10%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.44%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.44%) MBA
4 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.22%) CBAP
4 1 (1.22%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.20%) QA
2 6 (7.32%) Data Quality
3 5 (6.10%) Accessibility
3 5 (6.10%) WCAG
4 3 (3.66%) GAAP
5 2 (2.44%) EMIR
5 2 (2.44%) MiFID
6 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (2.44%) Docker
2 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (2.44%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (8.54%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.88%) ServiceNow
3 3 (3.66%) Adobe
3 3 (3.66%) Databricks
3 3 (3.66%) SAP
4 2 (2.44%) Civica
4 2 (2.44%) Oracle
4 2 (2.44%) Pega
4 2 (2.44%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.22%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.22%) Charles River
5 1 (1.22%) VMware