Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in London

Backlog Prioritisation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 328 390
Rank change year-on-year +31 +62 +49
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 47 65 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.38% 0.37% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.42% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 40 71
10th Percentile £381 £358 £450
25th Percentile £469 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +0.88%
75th Percentile £663 £625 £681
90th Percentile £733 £638 £775
England median daily rate £500 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £31.71 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £31.71 -
% change year-on-year +120.75% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,308 15,427 23,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.23% 88.39% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,584 11,065 16,744
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £449 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 315 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.05
25th Percentile £23.99 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -29.34% +11.62%
75th Percentile £49.88 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.90 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in London

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in London

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in London

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in London

Backlog Prioritisation
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 Prioritisation within the London region over the 6 months to 31 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 +5 11 £600 +23.08% 4
South London +2 2 £688 +80.92% 1
West London - 1 - -
Backlog Prioritisation
England

Backlog Prioritisation
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 8 (17.02%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) JBoss
2 1 (2.13%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.13%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.13%) Shopify
1 1 (2.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.77%) Azure
2 5 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.51%) SaaS
4 3 (6.38%) AWS
5 2 (4.26%) Figma
5 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (4.26%) OCI
5 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.13%) BigCommerce
6 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) MPLS
1 1 (2.13%) Network Security
1 1 (2.13%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.13%) SMS
1 1 (2.13%) WAN
1 1 (2.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.26%) Star Schema
2 1 (2.13%) DB2
2 1 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.13%) Power BI
2 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (25.53%) JIRA
2 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.13%) Git
2 1 (2.13%) Storybook
General
1 25 (53.19%) Social Skills
2 17 (36.17%) Finance
3 13 (27.66%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.89%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (10.64%) Retail
6 4 (8.51%) Banking
6 4 (8.51%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (6.38%) Back Office
7 3 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (4.26%) Marketing
8 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Product Owner
2 9 (19.15%) Scrum Master
3 8 (17.02%) Analyst
4 7 (14.89%) Product Manager
5 5 (10.64%) Business Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) Lead
6 3 (6.38%) Senior
7 2 (4.26%) Digital Product Owner
7 2 (4.26%) Implementation Specialist
7 2 (4.26%) Product Lead
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Product Owner
7 2 (4.26%) Technical Manager
7 2 (4.26%) Workday Specialist
8 1 (2.13%) Delivery Manager
8 1 (2.13%) Financial Analyst
8 1 (2.13%) Junior
8 1 (2.13%) Programme Manager
8 1 (2.13%) Reinsurance Business Analyst
8 1 (2.13%) Technical Product Manager
8 1 (2.13%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.13%) EDI
1 1 (2.13%) Middleware
1 1 (2.13%) OLE
1 1 (2.13%) RAML
1 1 (2.13%) REST
1 1 (2.13%) SOAP
1 1 (2.13%) VML
1 1 (2.13%) Web Services
1 1 (2.13%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 32 (68.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.26%) FMCG
2 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (87.23%) Agile
2 23 (48.94%) Scrum
3 22 (46.81%) Product Backlog
3 22 (46.81%) Roadmaps
4 17 (36.17%) Product Roadmap
5 16 (34.04%) User Stories
6 15 (31.91%) Backlog Management
7 13 (27.66%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (23.40%) Acceptance Criteria
8 11 (23.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (21.28%) Product Management
9 10 (21.28%) Sprint Planning
10 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (17.02%) DevOps
11 8 (17.02%) Project Management
11 8 (17.02%) Sprint Retrospective
12 7 (14.89%) Product Vision
12 7 (14.89%) User Experience
13 6 (12.77%) Decision-Making
13 6 (12.77%) Epics
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.13%) SQL
1 1 (2.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.64%) Degree
3 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.38%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.26%) CSPO
6 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) NIST
2 1 (2.13%) PMO
2 1 (2.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.38%) Oracle
3 2 (4.26%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.26%) SAP
3 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.26%) Workday
4 1 (2.13%) Adobe
4 1 (2.13%) Okta
4 1 (2.13%) Sitecore