Backlog Prioritisation Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Backlog Prioritisation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Backlog Prioritisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 158 181
Rank change year-on-year -15 +23 +31
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 28 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.60% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.19% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 2 4
10th Percentile £405 £451 £388
25th Percentile £447 £451 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -6.67% +2.63%
75th Percentile £525 £461 £525
90th Percentile £575 £464 £570
England median daily rate £490 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -10.91% +3.29% +1.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,118 3,133 4,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.90% 86.57% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,734 1,786 2,758
10th Percentile £215 £263 £288
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £669 £675
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 160 186
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.29 £17.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.60 £29.00 £28.37
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% +2.22% +28.95%
75th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.45 £67.57 £62.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Backlog Prioritisation job vacancy trend in the North of England

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in the North of England

Backlog Prioritisation
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 Prioritisation within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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 -29 16 £485 +5.38% 13
North West -14 11 £442 -1.78% 15
North East - 1 £550 - 2
Backlog Prioritisation
England

Backlog Prioritisation
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 4 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) JBoss
2 1 (3.57%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.57%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.57%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.29%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) CloudBees
4 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.57%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (46.43%) Finance
2 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.71%) Digital Health
5 3 (10.71%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Banking
6 2 (7.14%) Games
7 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Product Owner
2 5 (17.86%) Analyst
2 5 (17.86%) Business Analyst
2 5 (17.86%) Scrum Master
3 4 (14.29%) Product Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Lead
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) CRM Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) CRM Business Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Product Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Kafka
1 2 (7.14%) RAML
1 2 (7.14%) REST
1 2 (7.14%) SOAP
1 2 (7.14%) Web Services
1 2 (7.14%) WSDL
2 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (82.14%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.57%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Agile
2 15 (53.57%) Product Backlog
3 14 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 12 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (39.29%) User Stories
6 9 (32.14%) Backlog Management
6 9 (32.14%) Scrum
7 8 (28.57%) Roadmaps
8 7 (25.00%) CRM
8 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
9 6 (21.43%) SDLC
9 6 (21.43%) Sprint Planning
9 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (17.86%) Backlog Refinement
10 5 (17.86%) DevOps
10 5 (17.86%) Product Roadmap
11 4 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
11 4 (14.29%) Risk Management
11 4 (14.29%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) SQL
2 1 (3.57%) Bash
2 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) CSPO
2 2 (7.14%) CBAP
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) GDPR
2 2 (7.14%) ISO 20022
2 2 (7.14%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.57%) PSD2
3 1 (3.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Ansible
2 1 (3.57%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) IBM
2 2 (7.14%) IBM Sterling
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) Commvault
3 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.57%) Veritas