Backlog Management Contracts in Reading

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Backlog Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Management 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 48 85 76
Rank change year-on-year +37 -9 +17
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 12 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.01% 0.50% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 0.56% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £456 £544 £478
25th Percentile £465 £581 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.96% +8.70% +5.31%
75th Percentile £495 £692 £688
90th Percentile £534 £706 £695
Berkshire median daily rate £487 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -18.83% +20.00% -4.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Backlog Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in Reading

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Management in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in Reading

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Broadband
2 1 (8.33%) Radio Access Network
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (58.33%) Telecoms
2 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Digital Transformation
2 3 (25.00%) Incident Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Scrum Master
3 2 (16.67%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Incident Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) JIRA Expert
4 1 (8.33%) Network Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Project Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 3 (25.00%) Burndown Charts
2 3 (25.00%) Coaching
2 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 3 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Strategy
2 3 (25.00%) Escalation Management
2 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (25.00%) Kanban
2 3 (25.00%) Product Backlog
2 3 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
2 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (25.00%) Scrum
2 3 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
2 3 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (25.00%) Statistics
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Programme Management
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) PMO
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Amdocs OSS
1 1 (8.33%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) BMC
1 3 (25.00%) BT
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (25.00%) Remedy
2 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (8.33%) Cramer
2 1 (8.33%) PagerDuty