Backlog Management Contracts in the North of England

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Backlog Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Management over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 172 196
Rank change year-on-year +25 +24 +15
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 21 8 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.63% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.20% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 8 10
10th Percentile £363 £403 £582
25th Percentile £380 £442 £672
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £450 £700
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -35.71% +33.33%
75th Percentile £568 £491 -
90th Percentile £704 £511 £705
England median daily rate £525 £525 £588
% change year-on-year - -10.64% +6.82%

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 2,986 3,985 5,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.91% 84.73% 90.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,922 2,416 3,435
10th Percentile £265 £300 £303
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +4.44%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 380 205
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.99 £12.53 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.34 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +30.04% -30.18% +45.44%
75th Percentile £51.00 £45.96 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £62.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

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 30 May 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 30 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
North West +23 16 £402 -10.67% 103
Yorkshire +18 4 £370 -17.78% 72
North East - 1 £475 - 24
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 4 (19.05%) Confluence
1 4 (19.05%) JBoss
1 4 (19.05%) Tomcat
1 4 (19.05%) WebLogic
1 4 (19.05%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) DB2
2 1 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Bitbucket
1 4 (19.05%) Git
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) GitLab
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (47.62%) Finance
2 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Banking
4 3 (14.29%) Investment Banking
4 3 (14.29%) Retail
5 1 (4.76%) Automotive
5 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Scrum Master
2 4 (19.05%) Project Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Automation Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Developer
3 2 (9.52%) IT Manager
3 2 (9.52%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Java Scrum Master
3 2 (9.52%) Product Owner
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 1 (4.76%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (4.76%) Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Data Scientist
4 1 (4.76%) Product Manager
4 1 (4.76%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Product Owner
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) EJB
1 4 (19.05%) J2EE
1 4 (19.05%) JSP
1 4 (19.05%) RAML
1 4 (19.05%) REST
1 4 (19.05%) Servlets
1 4 (19.05%) SOAP
1 4 (19.05%) Spring
1 4 (19.05%) Spring Boot
1 4 (19.05%) Web Services
1 4 (19.05%) WSDL
2 1 (4.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (61.90%) Product Ownership
2 4 (19.05%) Private Cloud
3 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (14.29%) Onboarding
4 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Agile
2 15 (71.43%) Scrum
3 11 (52.38%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 11 (52.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (38.10%) SDLC
4 8 (38.10%) Sprint Planning
5 7 (33.33%) Budget Control
5 7 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
5 7 (33.33%) DevOps
5 7 (33.33%) Servant Leadership
6 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (28.57%) Situational Awareness
7 5 (23.81%) Sprint Review
7 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (19.05%) API Development
8 4 (19.05%) Backlog Refinement
8 4 (19.05%) Decision-Making
8 4 (19.05%) Kanban
8 4 (19.05%) Sprint Retrospective
8 4 (19.05%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Java
2 5 (23.81%) SQL
3 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
4 3 (14.29%) Python
5 2 (9.52%) Bash
6 1 (4.76%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) CCNA
1 2 (9.52%) CCNP
1 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.52%) PMO
3 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 3 (14.29%) Infoblox
2 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Adobe
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.76%) Veeam