Backlog Management Contract Job Trends in the North East

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Backlog Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.32% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £337 - -
25th Percentile £364 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - -
75th Percentile £459 - -
90th Percentile £476 - -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.38% +8.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 260 262 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 85.53% 91.93% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 98 158
10th Percentile £186 £325 £313
25th Percentile £373 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £452 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.66% +0.44% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £626 £691 £650
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 35 11
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +48.85% +14.29%
75th Percentile £20.63 £46.18 £39.97
90th Percentile £32.93 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.40% -7.78% +28.77%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Backlog Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Backlog Management job vacancy trend in the North East

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Backlog Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Backlog Management

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in the North East over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in the North East

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Management within the North East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Tyne and Wear - 4 £420 - 2
Backlog Management
England

Backlog Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Business Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Product Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (25.00%) API Development
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Journey Map
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Identification
2 1 (25.00%) User Journey Map
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana