Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in the North West

Backlog Prioritisation
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 116 150
Rank change year-on-year +9 +34 +17
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 13 21 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.66% 0.76% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.88% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 4
10th Percentile £356 £549 £469
25th Percentile £358 £631 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £663 £533
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% +24.41% +1.43%
75th Percentile £411 £738 £555
90th Percentile £694 - £582
England median daily rate £494 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -17.67% +14.29% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £31.71 -
% change year-on-year +120.75% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
Cheshire +1 10 £393 -45.79% 4
Manchester +6 1 - - 3
Lancashire - 1 £400 - 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) JBoss
1 4 (30.77%) Tomcat
1 4 (30.77%) WebLogic
1 4 (30.77%) WebSphere
2 3 (23.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Bitbucket
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) JIRA
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Scrum Master
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Java Scrum Master
2 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (7.69%) Payments Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) EJB
1 4 (30.77%) J2EE
1 4 (30.77%) JSP
1 4 (30.77%) RAML
1 4 (30.77%) REST
1 4 (30.77%) Servlets
1 4 (30.77%) SOAP
1 4 (30.77%) Spring
1 4 (30.77%) Spring Boot
1 4 (30.77%) Web Services
1 4 (30.77%) WSDL
2 2 (15.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Product Ownership
2 4 (30.77%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (76.92%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (76.92%) Scrum
2 10 (76.92%) SDLC
3 9 (69.23%) Backlog Management
4 7 (53.85%) Budget Control
4 7 (53.85%) Servant Leadership
5 6 (46.15%) Conflict Resolution
5 6 (46.15%) Situational Awareness
6 4 (30.77%) API Development
7 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (15.38%) Analytical Thinking
8 2 (15.38%) Architectural Design
8 2 (15.38%) Coaching
8 2 (15.38%) DevOps
8 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
8 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
8 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
9 1 (7.69%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft