Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in Reading

Backlog Prioritisation
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 52 87 73
Rank change year-on-year +35 -14 +23
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 8 4 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.34% 0.34% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 0.37% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 9
10th Percentile £433 £509 -
25th Percentile £472 £552 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £641 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.93% +28.20% -13.04%
75th Percentile £536 £702 £588
90th Percentile £550 £710 £690
Berkshire median daily rate £494 £641 £413
% change year-on-year -22.93% +55.39% -22.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 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 Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in Reading

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in Reading

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in Reading

Backlog Prioritisation
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 2 (25.00%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 7 (87.50%) Telecoms
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Product Owner
1 4 (50.00%) Scrum Master
2 2 (25.00%) Agile Product Owner
2 2 (25.00%) Agile Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Scrum
2 7 (87.50%) Roadmaps
3 6 (75.00%) Agile
3 6 (75.00%) Sprint Planning
4 5 (62.50%) Product Roadmap
5 4 (50.00%) Product Backlog
5 4 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (37.50%) Backlog Management
6 3 (37.50%) Burndown Charts
6 3 (37.50%) Coaching
6 3 (37.50%) Kanban
6 3 (37.50%) Statistics
7 2 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 2 (25.00%) Product Strategy
7 2 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 2 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
7 2 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Blue Prism
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) Nokia
2 2 (25.00%) Rakuten