Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in the Midlands

Backlog Prioritisation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 116 154
Rank change year-on-year +13 +38 +38
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 15 19 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.75% 0.70% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.86% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 8
10th Percentile £356 £483 £175
25th Percentile £357 £525 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -37.74% +9.52% +23.17%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £550
90th Percentile £815 £623 £570
England median daily rate £494 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -17.67% +11.63% -2.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,768 2,216 2,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.00% 82.20% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,154 1,487 2,017
10th Percentile £200 £234 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £600 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 169 104
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £11.86
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.91 £14.52
Median hourly rate £18.51 £18.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -13.06% +18.31%
75th Percentile £24.75 £33.25 £30.50
90th Percentile £42.78 £55.00 £54.63
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the Midlands

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the Midlands

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in the Midlands

Backlog Prioritisation
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
West Midlands +7 8 £400 -27.27% 12
East Midlands +6 7 £358 -39.83% 4
Backlog Prioritisation
England

Backlog Prioritisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (6.67%) JBoss
1 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
1 1 (6.67%) WebLogic
1 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Fusion 360
1 1 (6.67%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Teamcenter
2 1 (6.67%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) GCP
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) BGP
2 2 (13.33%) DHCP
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) EIGRP
2 2 (13.33%) HTTP
2 2 (13.33%) IPsec
2 2 (13.33%) Network Security
2 2 (13.33%) OSPF
2 2 (13.33%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (13.33%) SSL
2 2 (13.33%) TACACS
2 2 (13.33%) VLAN
2 2 (13.33%) VPN
2 2 (13.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Product Owner
2 3 (20.00%) Digital Product Owner
3 2 (13.33%) Product Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Data Governance Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Data Governance Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Data Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Governance Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Scrum Master
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) RAML
1 1 (6.67%) REST
1 1 (6.67%) SOAP
1 1 (6.67%) Web Services
1 1 (6.67%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Derivative
4 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Agile
2 11 (73.33%) Scrum
3 9 (60.00%) Product Management
4 7 (46.67%) Product Backlog
5 6 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (40.00%) Product Requirements
5 6 (40.00%) Product Strategy
5 6 (40.00%) User Stories
6 5 (33.33%) Backlog Management
6 5 (33.33%) Business Strategy
6 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (33.33%) Product Vision
6 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (26.67%) Change Management
7 4 (26.67%) Coaching
7 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
7 4 (26.67%) ITIL
7 4 (26.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 4 (26.67%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
8 3 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (26.67%) Salesforce
2 2 (13.33%) Arista
2 2 (13.33%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) Juniper
2 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (13.33%) Siemens
2 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (6.67%) Autodesk
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle