Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in the North of England

Backlog Prioritisation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Backlog Prioritisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Prioritisation over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 170 197
Rank change year-on-year +27 +27 +25
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 28 17 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.80% 0.35% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.42% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 4
10th Percentile £357 £603 £380
25th Percentile £380 £631 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £663 £475
Median % change year-on-year -39.32% +39.47% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £738 £517
90th Percentile £725 - £548
England median daily rate £494 £595 £538
% change year-on-year -16.97% +10.70% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £67.77 - -
25th Percentile £68.17 - -
Median hourly rate £70.08 - -
75th Percentile £71.92 - -
90th Percentile £72.27 - -
England median hourly rate £70.08 £32.36 -
% change year-on-year +116.60% - -

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 3,136 4,079 4,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.93% 83.47% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,032 2,424 3,352
10th Percentile £275 £300 £300
25th Percentile £379 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% -0.50% +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £665 £688
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 398 208
10th Percentile £12.79 £11.10 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.81 £12.55 £15.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.06 £22.84
Median % change year-on-year +14.03% -3.44% +19.64%
75th Percentile £52.38 £46.18 £43.28
90th Percentile £78.13 £63.75 £55.90
England median hourly rate £26.45 £37.75 £35.03
% change year-on-year -29.93% +7.76% +36.41%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the North of England

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the North of England

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +13 23 £402 -42.05% 52
Yorkshire +4 4 £600 - 34
North East +2 1 - - 5
Backlog Prioritisation
England

Backlog Prioritisation
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 6 (21.43%) Confluence
2 4 (14.29%) JBoss
2 4 (14.29%) Tomcat
2 4 (14.29%) WebLogic
2 4 (14.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) AWS
2 2 (7.14%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) SaaS
3 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.57%) GCP
3 1 (3.57%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) LAN
1 1 (3.57%) Network Security
1 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) JIRA
2 4 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 4 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (39.29%) Finance
2 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 7 (25.00%) Banking
4 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Scrum Master
2 7 (25.00%) Product Owner
3 5 (17.86%) Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Business Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Java Scrum Master
6 2 (7.14%) Product Manager
6 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Technical Business Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Agile Scrum Master
7 1 (3.57%) Head of Digital
7 1 (3.57%) Head of Networks
7 1 (3.57%) Payments Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Payments Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Python Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
7 1 (3.57%) SQL Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) EJB
1 4 (14.29%) J2EE
1 4 (14.29%) JSP
1 4 (14.29%) RAML
1 4 (14.29%) REST
1 4 (14.29%) Servlets
1 4 (14.29%) SOAP
1 4 (14.29%) Spring
1 4 (14.29%) Spring Boot
1 4 (14.29%) Web Services
1 4 (14.29%) WSDL
2 2 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 20 (71.43%) Product Ownership
2 4 (14.29%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (89.29%) Agile
2 16 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (53.57%) Scrum
4 11 (39.29%) Backlog Management
4 11 (39.29%) Roadmaps
4 11 (39.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (35.71%) SDLC
6 8 (28.57%) User Stories
7 7 (25.00%) Budget Control
7 7 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
7 7 (25.00%) Product Backlog
7 7 (25.00%) Servant Leadership
8 6 (21.43%) Situational Awareness
8 6 (21.43%) Sprint Planning
9 5 (17.86%) Backlog Refinement
9 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (17.86%) Product Strategy
9 5 (17.86%) Translating Business Requirements
10 4 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
10 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) Java
2 6 (21.43%) SQL
3 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) Python
4 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) CSPO
3 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) GRC
2 1 (3.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Ansible
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Oracle
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow