Backlog Prioritisation Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Backlog Prioritisation
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Backlog Prioritisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 2.41% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £310 - -
25th Percentile £322 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £352 - -
75th Percentile £360 - -
90th Percentile £406 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £355 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +189.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 264 135 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 90.72% 93.10% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 104 113
10th Percentile £313 £315 £213
25th Percentile £358 £356 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £417 £468
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% -10.90% +10.12%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £525
90th Percentile £550 £619 £569
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £428 £450
% change year-on-year -1.78% -4.97% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 19
10th Percentile - - £11.15
25th Percentile - £23.10 £14.00
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - -30.86% +91.94%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £22.50 £17.95
% change year-on-year -20.58% +25.38% +6.63%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Backlog Prioritisation job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Backlog Prioritisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Backlog Prioritisation

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in Northamptonshire

Backlog Prioritisation
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 22 January 2026. 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
Northampton - 7 £352 - 1
Backlog Prioritisation
East Midlands

Backlog Prioritisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (28.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Product Owner
2 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) ETL Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Payments Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Payments Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Acceptance Criteria
2 6 (85.71%) Scrum
2 6 (85.71%) User Stories
3 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (57.14%) Sprint Planning
4 4 (57.14%) Sprint Retrospective
5 3 (42.86%) Epics
5 3 (42.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (28.57%) Backlog Refinement
6 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
6 2 (28.57%) Change Management
6 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
6 2 (28.57%) Fintech
6 2 (28.57%) Product Backlog
6 2 (28.57%) Product Vision
6 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (28.57%) Sprint Review
6 2 (28.57%) Wireframes
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
1 1 (14.29%) PSD2
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft