Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in the North West

Backlog Prioritisation
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Backlog Prioritisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Prioritisation over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 151 167
Rank change year-on-year +38 +16 -26
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 21 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.76% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.24% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 7
10th Percentile £549 £469 £413
25th Percentile £631 £497 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year +24.41% +1.43% +13.51%
75th Percentile £738 £555 £594
90th Percentile - £582 £718
England median daily rate £600 £525 £570
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% +14.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Backlog Prioritisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,396 2,893 3,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.28% 90.60% 88.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,533 2,057 2,616
10th Percentile £306 £313 £238
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 144 165
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.30 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +70.82% +10.76%
75th Percentile £45.22 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the North West

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the North West

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in the North West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in the North West

Backlog Prioritisation
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 Prioritisation within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Manchester +25 12 £663 +26.19% 4
Cheshire +14 9 £725 +61.11% 1
Backlog Prioritisation
England

Backlog Prioritisation
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Amazon EC2
1 8 (38.10%) Amazon ECR
1 8 (38.10%) Amazon EKS
1 8 (38.10%) Amazon S3
1 8 (38.10%) Amazon SQS
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
1 8 (38.10%) Route 53
1 8 (38.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.76%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) GitLab
1 8 (38.10%) webpack
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Investment Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Marketing
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Architect
2 8 (38.10%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (28.57%) Lead
4 4 (19.05%) Technical Leader
5 3 (14.29%) Product Manager
6 2 (9.52%) Applications Architect
6 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow Manager
6 2 (9.52%) Technical Manager
6 2 (9.52%) Technical Product Manager
6 2 (9.52%) Technical Services Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Agile Project Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) Commercial Architect
7 1 (4.76%) CRM Manager
7 1 (4.76%) CRM Project Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Senior
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) Express.js
1 8 (38.10%) Node.js
1 8 (38.10%) React
1 8 (38.10%) Redux
2 2 (9.52%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Agile
2 8 (38.10%) API Development
2 8 (38.10%) Architectural Design
2 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 8 (38.10%) Containerisation
2 8 (38.10%) Customer Engagement
2 8 (38.10%) End-to-End Testing
2 8 (38.10%) ETL
2 8 (38.10%) Front End Development
2 8 (38.10%) Full Stack Development
2 8 (38.10%) QA Automation
2 8 (38.10%) Test Automation
3 7 (33.33%) Business Strategy
4 6 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (23.81%) DevOps
5 5 (23.81%) Technology Strategy
6 3 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
6 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 3 (14.29%) Scrum
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) QA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow