Backlog Management Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Backlog Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 3.60% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £319 - -
25th Percentile £343 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
75th Percentile £441 - -
90th Percentile £518 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £358 - £525

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 210 110 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 94.59% 97.35% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 92 71
10th Percentile £315 £308 £220
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £400 £481
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -16.84% +13.18%
75th Percentile £474 £525 £523
90th Percentile £537 £622 £535
Northamptonshire median daily rate £411 £402 £480
% change year-on-year +2.43% -16.35% +9.09%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Backlog Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Backlog Management job vacancy trend in Northampton

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Backlog Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Backlog Management

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in Northampton over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in Northampton

Backlog Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) JIRA
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Banking
4 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Product Owner
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Salesforce Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) PMO Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) PMO Manager
3 1 (12.50%) PMO Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Onboarding
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
1 7 (87.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 4 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 4 (50.00%) User Stories
3 3 (37.50%) Client Onboarding
3 3 (37.50%) Product Vision
3 3 (37.50%) Sprint Review
3 3 (37.50%) User Experience
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Dependency Management
4 2 (25.00%) Epics
4 2 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
4 2 (25.00%) Product Backlog
4 2 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Change
4 2 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) PMO
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (12.50%) PSD2
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) DocuSign
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft