Product Backlog Contract Job Trends in London

Product Backlogs
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Product Backlog skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 299 338
Rank change year-on-year +28 +39 +9
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 97 90 96
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.73% 0.56% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.63% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 64 61
10th Percentile £368 £354 £431
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £586
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -1.88% +11.62%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £711 £748 £738
England median daily rate £500 £581 £550
% change year-on-year -13.87% +5.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £33.07 -
England median hourly rate £70.16 £33.07 £62.00
% change year-on-year +112.16% -46.66% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,368 14,266 18,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.48% 89.20% 89.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,148 9,223 13,676
10th Percentile £333 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 176 232
10th Percentile £18.03 £17.75 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.17 £21.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 £37.79 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year -19.28% -5.34% +6.44%
75th Percentile £47.75 £57.81 £62.25
90th Percentile £64.95 £78.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +28.57%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Product Backlog job vacancy trend in London

Product Backlog
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Product Backlog
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Backlog in London over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Backlog in London

Product Backlog
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Product Backlog.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Product Backlog

Product Backlog
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 Product Backlog within the London region over the 6 months to 18 October 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 +20 27 £625 -2.34% 26
West London - 2 £250 - 2
Product Backlog
England

Product Backlog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 11 (11.34%) Confluence
2 6 (6.19%) CMS
3 5 (5.15%) WordPress
4 3 (3.09%) Drupal
5 1 (1.03%) Apache
5 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.06%) Trello
3 1 (1.03%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.03%) InVision
3 1 (1.03%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.06%) HFM
3 1 (1.03%) Endur
3 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.28%) Azure
2 7 (7.22%) Figma
3 6 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.15%) Miro
4 5 (5.15%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.09%) AWS
6 3 (3.09%) SaaS
7 2 (2.06%) GCP
7 2 (2.06%) IaaS
7 2 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.06%) PaaS
8 1 (1.03%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (1.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.03%) Serverless
8 1 (1.03%) Slack
8 1 (1.03%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.03%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.22%) Star Schema
2 3 (3.09%) Power BI
3 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.03%) AlloyDB
4 1 (1.03%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.03%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.03%) Looker
4 1 (1.03%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 27 (27.84%) JIRA
2 2 (2.06%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.03%) Balsamiq
General
1 45 (46.39%) Social Skills
2 28 (28.87%) Finance
3 23 (23.71%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.34%) Influencing Skills
5 10 (10.31%) Banking
6 9 (9.28%) Retail
7 8 (8.25%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (7.22%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (6.19%) Front Office
10 5 (5.15%) Marketing
11 4 (4.12%) Public Sector
12 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (2.06%) Investment Banking
13 1 (1.03%) Complex Adaptive System
13 1 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (1.03%) Legal
13 1 (1.03%) Local Government
13 1 (1.03%) Military
13 1 (1.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (52.58%) Product Owner
2 23 (23.71%) Analyst
3 20 (20.62%) Business Analyst
4 14 (14.43%) Product Manager
5 6 (6.19%) Senior
6 5 (5.15%) Scrum Master
7 4 (4.12%) Digital Product Manager
7 4 (4.12%) Finance Business Analyst
7 4 (4.12%) Financial Analyst
7 4 (4.12%) Lead
7 4 (4.12%) Product Analyst
7 4 (4.12%) Product Business Analyst
7 4 (4.12%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.09%) Charles River Analyst
8 3 (3.09%) Charles River Business Analyst
8 3 (3.09%) Digital Product Owner
8 3 (3.09%) Senior Manager
8 3 (3.09%) Senior Product Manager
8 3 (3.09%) Technical Business Analyst
9 2 (2.06%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.12%) Swagger
1 4 (4.12%) XML
2 3 (3.09%) .NET
3 1 (1.03%) EDI
3 1 (1.03%) JSON
3 1 (1.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 81 (83.51%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.15%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.15%) Reinsurance
3 3 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.09%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.06%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.03%) DTCC
5 1 (1.03%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.03%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.03%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.03%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.03%) NHS
5 1 (1.03%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (85.57%) Agile
2 62 (63.92%) Backlog Management
2 62 (63.92%) User Stories
3 48 (49.48%) Roadmaps
4 43 (44.33%) Scrum
5 38 (39.18%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 34 (35.05%) Product Roadmap
7 29 (29.90%) Stakeholder Management
8 25 (25.77%) Acceptance Criteria
9 24 (24.74%) Sprint Planning
10 22 (22.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (19.59%) Product Vision
12 18 (18.56%) Backlog Refinement
12 18 (18.56%) Sprint Review
13 17 (17.53%) Epics
14 16 (16.49%) Sprint Retrospective
15 14 (14.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 14 (14.43%) User Acceptance Testing
16 13 (13.40%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.31%) SQL
2 3 (3.09%) Python
3 2 (2.06%) Java
4 1 (1.03%) Bash
4 1 (1.03%) C#
4 1 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.03%) Korn
4 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (12.37%) Degree
2 7 (7.22%) CSPO
3 4 (4.12%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.12%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.09%) CBAP
5 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.06%) ISEB
6 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.22%) QA
2 4 (4.12%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.06%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.03%) EMIR
4 1 (1.03%) GDPR
4 1 (1.03%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 2 (2.06%) Terraform
2 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (11.34%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.12%) Charles River
3 3 (3.09%) Databricks
3 3 (3.09%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.09%) SAP
4 2 (2.06%) Hyperion
4 2 (2.06%) Oracle
4 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.06%) Tagetik
5 1 (1.03%) Adobe
5 1 (1.03%) Google
5 1 (1.03%) Intapp
5 1 (1.03%) Murex
5 1 (1.03%) Northgate
5 1 (1.03%) Workday
5 1 (1.03%) WorldPay