Backlog Management Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Backlog Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 86 107
Rank change year-on-year +7 +21 +28
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 8 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.79% 0.084% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.095% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £434 - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.89% - -
75th Percentile £668 - -
90th Percentile £710 - -
North West median daily rate £425 £408 -
% change year-on-year +4.29% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 907 1,048 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.89% 87.55% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 631 1,069
10th Percentile £309 £313 £276
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% - -
75th Percentile £580 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £454 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.01% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 34 59
10th Percentile £15.71 £15.94 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.44 £16.74
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% -2.50%
75th Percentile £39.31 £62.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £74.13 £87.45 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% +21.43% +59.09%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in Manchester

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Backlog Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Backlog Management

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in Manchester

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Games
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Product Owner
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) CRM Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) CRM Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum Master
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Product Owner
3 1 (12.50%) Technology Owner
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 6 (75.00%) User Stories
3 5 (62.50%) Product Backlog
4 4 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 3 (37.50%) Coaching
5 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (37.50%) Product Vision
6 2 (25.00%) DevOps
6 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 2 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (12.50%) Backlog Refinement
7 1 (12.50%) Conflict Resolution
7 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
7 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
7 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
7 1 (12.50%) Servant Leadership
7 1 (12.50%) Sprint Review
7 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow