Product Backlog Contract Job Trends in Reading

Product Backlogs
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Product Backlog skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 71 84
Rank change year-on-year +10 +13 +2
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 4 24 3
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.67% 2.20% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 2.51% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 20 1
10th Percentile £383 £567 -
25th Percentile £431 £601 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +19.05% -17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £538
90th Percentile - £653 -
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £625 £456
% change year-on-year -16.00% +36.99% -28.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 548 958 965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.18% 87.89% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 529 648
10th Percentile £330 £350 £250
25th Percentile £450 £475 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +7.06%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 21 16
10th Percentile - £14.50 £32.17
25th Percentile £14.75 £26.25 £58.44
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.46 £63.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.33% -4.64% +15.26%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.41 £69.51
90th Percentile £69.40 £74.87 £75.13
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.31 £58.49 £61.79
% change year-on-year -44.76% -5.34% +22.36%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Product Backlog job vacancy trend in Reading

Product Backlog
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Product Backlog.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Product Backlog

Product Backlog
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Backlog in Reading over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Backlog in Reading

Product Backlog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Mart
General
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Product Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
1 3 (75.00%) Sprint Planning
1 3 (75.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 2 (50.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Burndown Charts
3 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Flow Diagram
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (25.00%) HubSpot
1 1 (25.00%) Juniper
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce