Backlog Management Contracts in the North of England

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Backlog Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Management over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 195 202
Rank change year-on-year +25 +7 -21
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 20 24 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.42% 0.41% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.45% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 15 26
10th Percentile - £508 £411
25th Percentile £65 £638 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -36.61% +33.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £488 - £558
90th Percentile £496 - £700
England median daily rate £510 £575 £553
% change year-on-year -11.35% +4.07% +15.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Backlog Management 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,110 5,288 6,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.80% 90.70% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,521 3,674 4,657
10th Percentile £288 £303 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 207 261
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.48 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.61 £27.70 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.43% +49.73% -
75th Percentile £44.24 £45.05 £32.77
90th Percentile £53.88 £65.00 £50.78
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Backlog Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in the North of England

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in the North of England

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in the North of England

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
North West +26 13 £65 -90.37% 3
Yorkshire +16 7 £450 -35.71% 6
Backlog Management
England

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (40.00%) MS Visio
3 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (10.00%) Adobe XD
4 2 (10.00%) InVision
4 2 (10.00%) Sketch
4 2 (10.00%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) PPP
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Axure RP
General
1 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Retail
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Analyst
1 8 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Pega Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Designer
3 2 (10.00%) Service Designer
4 1 (5.00%) PMO Manager
4 1 (5.00%) PMO Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Agile
2 14 (70.00%) User Stories
3 9 (45.00%) Scrum
3 9 (45.00%) Sprint Planning
4 8 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (35.00%) Asset Management
5 7 (35.00%) Decision-Making
5 7 (35.00%) Kanban
5 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (35.00%) Risk Management
5 7 (35.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 7 (35.00%) Sprint Review
6 5 (25.00%) Business Process Modelling
6 5 (25.00%) Use Case
7 3 (15.00%) Product Backlog
7 3 (15.00%) Workshop Facilitation
8 2 (10.00%) Co-Creation
8 2 (10.00%) Design Thinking
8 2 (10.00%) Storytelling
8 2 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Degree
1 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.00%) WCAG
3 1 (5.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (25.00%) Pega
2 2 (10.00%) Adobe
2 2 (10.00%) Cognizant