Product Backlog Contracts in Reading

Product Backlogs
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Product Backlog skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Backlog over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 72 95
Rank change year-on-year +10 +23 -36
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 30 14 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.53% 1.35% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 1.50% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 8 4
10th Percentile £446 £544 £435
25th Percentile £588 £638 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +47.36% +15.16%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £513
90th Percentile £688 £704 £515
Berkshire median daily rate £638 £500 £511
% change year-on-year +27.50% -2.20% +2.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Product Backlog is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,069 935 1,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.21% 90.43% 90.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 619 821
10th Percentile £213 £363 £238
25th Percentile £413 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £658 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in Reading

Product Backlog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Product Backlog in Reading

Product Backlog
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Backlog in Reading over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Backlog in Reading

Product Backlog
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 18 (60.00%) Azure
2 16 (53.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 16 (53.33%) Azure Monitor
3 13 (43.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (40.00%) Entra ID
5 8 (26.67%) Azure Functions
5 8 (26.67%) Serverless
6 3 (10.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 3 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (43.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (53.33%) Git
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (3.33%) Selenium
General
1 14 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (13.33%) Billing
4 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Azure Developer
1 13 (43.33%) Developer
1 13 (43.33%) Full Stack Developer
2 9 (30.00%) Analyst
3 8 (26.67%) Product Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Full Stack Python Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Python Developer
5 4 (13.33%) Product Owner
6 3 (10.00%) Consultant
6 3 (10.00%) Designer
6 3 (10.00%) Functional Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Functional Consultant
6 3 (10.00%) Lead
6 3 (10.00%) Lead Designer
7 2 (6.67%) IT Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) Disaster Recovery Project Manager
8 1 (3.33%) Oracle Consultant
8 1 (3.33%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 1 (3.33%) Oracle P2P Consultant
8 1 (3.33%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (43.33%) React
2 3 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (10.00%) CSS
2 3 (10.00%) HTML
2 3 (10.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (56.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) SDLC
2 17 (56.67%) Agile
3 16 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 16 (53.33%) DevOps
4 13 (43.33%) Full Stack Development
4 13 (43.33%) Microservices
5 11 (36.67%) Roadmaps
5 11 (36.67%) Unit Testing
6 8 (26.67%) Change Management
6 8 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (20.00%) Backlog Management
7 6 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
8 5 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
8 5 (16.67%) CRM
8 5 (16.67%) Customer Service
8 5 (16.67%) Epics
8 5 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
8 5 (16.67%) User Stories
9 4 (13.33%) Business Strategy
9 4 (13.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) Python
2 3 (10.00%) C
2 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (10.00%) PHP
3 1 (3.33%) Java
System Software
1 13 (43.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle