Backlog Management Contracts in the North West

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 6 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 133 146
Rank change year-on-year +24 +13 +21
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 16 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.81% 0.11% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.13% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 4
10th Percentile £364 £382 £628
25th Percentile £382 £408 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £450 £688
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -34.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £584 £469 £700
90th Percentile £723 £480 -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £588
% change year-on-year - -10.64% +6.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,766 2,323 2,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.69% 84.78% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,162 1,437 1,890
10th Percentile £301 £308 £313
25th Percentile £388 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £555 £588 £588
90th Percentile £661 £675 £675
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 270 140
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.73 £14.03 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.00 £32.88
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -17.88% +40.56%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £46.39
90th Percentile £84.06 £66.61 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £36.54
% change year-on-year -24.85% +2.63% +46.16%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in the North West

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in the North West

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in the North West over the 6 months to 6 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in the North West

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Cheshire +3 12 £402 +10.14% 27
Manchester +16 2 £660 +42.70% 52
Lancashire - 1 £400 - 13
Backlog Management
England

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (25.00%) JBoss
1 4 (25.00%) Tomcat
1 4 (25.00%) WebLogic
1 4 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (18.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) DB2
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 3 (18.75%) JIRA
3 2 (12.50%) GitLab
3 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Automotive
5 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Scrum Master
2 2 (12.50%) Automation Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Java Scrum Master
2 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Data Scientist
3 1 (6.25%) Product Owner
3 1 (6.25%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Product Owner
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) EJB
1 4 (25.00%) J2EE
1 4 (25.00%) JSP
1 4 (25.00%) RAML
1 4 (25.00%) REST
1 4 (25.00%) Servlets
1 4 (25.00%) SOAP
1 4 (25.00%) Spring
1 4 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (25.00%) Web Services
1 4 (25.00%) WSDL
2 1 (6.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Product Ownership
2 4 (25.00%) Private Cloud
3 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Agile
2 12 (75.00%) Scrum
3 10 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (56.25%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 8 (50.00%) SDLC
6 7 (43.75%) Budget Control
6 7 (43.75%) Conflict Resolution
6 7 (43.75%) Servant Leadership
6 7 (43.75%) Sprint Planning
7 6 (37.50%) Situational Awareness
8 5 (31.25%) DevOps
8 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (31.25%) Sprint Review
9 4 (25.00%) API Development
10 3 (18.75%) Backlog Refinement
10 3 (18.75%) Coaching
10 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (18.75%) Data Ingestion
10 3 (18.75%) Sprint Backlog
10 3 (18.75%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (18.75%) Python
5 2 (12.50%) Bash
6 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) CCNA
1 2 (12.50%) CCNP
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) Fortinet
2 3 (18.75%) Infoblox
2 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Adobe
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce