Product Backlog Contracts in Northamptonshire

Product Backlogs
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Product Backlog skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Backlog over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 36 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 1.99% 0.37% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 0.42% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £297 - -
25th Percentile £331 £213 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £348 £225 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.44% - -
75th Percentile £407 £238 -
90th Percentile £451 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £358 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -35.00% -12.00% +3.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

Product Backlog 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 288 238 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 95.36% 88.81% 91.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 185 132
10th Percentile £268 £354 £213
25th Percentile £346 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £445 £464
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% -4.09% -0.22%
75th Percentile £447 £567 £554
90th Percentile £525 £620 £593
East Midlands median daily rate £405 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% -5.26% +3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 14
10th Percentile £17.57 £25.41 £12.64
25th Percentile - £28.88 £32.58
Median hourly rate £21.39 £36.34 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.14% -28.75% +45.71%
75th Percentile - £44.36 £51.50
90th Percentile £38.20 £48.17 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £20.00 £31.76
% change year-on-year -5.65% -37.03% +47.72%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Product Backlog as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in Northamptonshire

Product Backlog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Backlog in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Product Backlog in Northamptonshire

Product Backlog
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Backlog in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Backlog in Northamptonshire

Product Backlog
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 Product Backlog within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Northampton -11 5 £358 +58.89% 1
Product Backlog
East Midlands

Product Backlog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Product Owner
2 2 (33.33%) Digital Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) User Stories
2 5 (83.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 5 (83.33%) Backlog Management
2 5 (83.33%) Scrum
3 4 (66.67%) Fintech
3 4 (66.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (50.00%) Product Vision
4 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (33.33%) Iteration Planning
5 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Change
5 2 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
5 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
5 2 (33.33%) Sprint Review
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
1 1 (16.67%) PSD2
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft