Backlog Management Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
England > North of England

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 159 168
Rank change year-on-year -10 +9 +30
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 42 3 18
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.89% 0.084% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.096% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 3 18
10th Percentile £408 £356 -
25th Percentile £454 £393 £65
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £460 £438
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +5.14% -32.69%
75th Percentile £559 £492 £495
90th Percentile £639 £508 £508
England median daily rate £496 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.74% +9.52% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,189 3,114 4,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.62% 86.69% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,790 1,775 2,737
10th Percentile £215 £263 £290
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £671 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 157 191
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.36 £17.25 £17.74
Median hourly rate £28.96 £27.50 £28.44
Median % change year-on-year +5.29% -3.31% +27.82%
75th Percentile £51.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.25 £66.45 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Backlog Management job vacancy trend in the North of England

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 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
Yorkshire -16 27 £496 +2.01% 9
North West -18 9 £465 +37.78% 7
North East - 6 £454 - 2
Backlog Management
England

Backlog Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) JBoss
2 1 (2.38%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.38%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.90%) AWS
1 5 (11.90%) Azure
2 4 (9.52%) GCP
2 4 (9.52%) OpenShift
3 2 (4.76%) GitHub
4 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.38%) CloudBees
4 1 (2.38%) Cohesity
4 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.38%) DB2
Development Applications
1 18 (42.86%) JIRA
2 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.38%) Git
2 1 (2.38%) GitLab
2 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (38.10%) Finance
2 14 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (26.19%) Social Skills
4 8 (19.05%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.14%) Banking
5 3 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.76%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.76%) Games
7 1 (2.38%) Legal
7 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Product Owner
2 9 (21.43%) Incident Manager
3 4 (9.52%) Analyst
3 4 (9.52%) Business Analyst
3 4 (9.52%) Lead
3 4 (9.52%) Product Manager
4 3 (7.14%) Major Incident Manager
5 2 (4.76%) Designer
5 2 (4.76%) Senior
5 2 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (4.76%) Service Designer
6 1 (2.38%) CRM Analyst
6 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM Business Analyst
6 1 (2.38%) Python Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow Manager
6 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow Project Manager
6 1 (2.38%) Technology Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (2.38%) RAML
2 1 (2.38%) RESTful
2 1 (2.38%) SOAP
2 1 (2.38%) Web Services
2 1 (2.38%) WSDL
2 1 (2.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (45.24%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.38%) NHS
4 1 (2.38%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (52.38%) Agile
2 18 (42.86%) Product Backlog
3 15 (35.71%) User Stories
4 14 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 13 (30.95%) Decision-Making
5 13 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (26.19%) Product Vision
8 10 (23.81%) Incident Management
8 10 (23.81%) ITSM
9 9 (21.43%) Incident Response
9 9 (21.43%) Mentoring
9 9 (21.43%) Scrum
10 8 (19.05%) Acceptance Criteria
10 8 (19.05%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 8 (19.05%) DevOps
10 8 (19.05%) Product Roadmap
11 6 (14.29%) SDLC
11 6 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
11 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.76%) Bash
1 2 (4.76%) Python
2 1 (2.38%) Java
2 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.38%) CSPO
1 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
1 1 (2.38%) PMP
1 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.43%) GDPR
1 9 (21.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.76%) WCAG
4 1 (2.38%) PMO
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.76%) Ansible
2 2 (4.76%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.38%) Grafana
3 1 (2.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (23.81%) ServiceNow
2 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.76%) Commvault
3 2 (4.76%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle
4 1 (2.38%) Veritas