Product Backlog Contracts in Manchester

Product Backlogs
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Product Backlog skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Backlog over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 112 134
Rank change year-on-year +19 +22 -44
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 5 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.34% 0.32% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.35% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 10
10th Percentile - £360 £429
25th Percentile £463 £420 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £588
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -21.28% +23.68%
75th Percentile £488 £650 £613
90th Percentile - £677 £638
North West median daily rate £438 £451 £588
% change year-on-year -3.05% -23.19% +23.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Product Backlog 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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,294 1,718 2,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.26% 91.77% 88.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 883 1,262 1,819
10th Percentile £325 £315 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £596 £600 £586
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 57 50
10th Percentile £12.42 £16.85 £11.33
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £37.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.29% +140.65% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £24.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.88
North West median hourly rate £22.11 £36.65 £20.07
% change year-on-year -39.67% +82.66% +10.08%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in Manchester

Product Backlog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Backlog in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Product Backlog in Manchester

Product Backlog
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 (20.00%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Mocha
2 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum Master
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Jest
1 3 (60.00%) React
1 3 (60.00%) Redux
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (60.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Product Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft