Backlog Management Contracts in Scotland

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 113 143
Rank change year-on-year +5 +30 +10
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 12 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.70% 0.27% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.31% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 6
10th Percentile £353 £472 -
25th Percentile £358 £485 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £494 - £575
90th Percentile £513 £523 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% +2.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,574 1,623 2,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.51% 86.98% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 873 1,002 1,601
10th Percentile £263 £210 £248
25th Percentile £375 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £652 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 57 55
10th Percentile £16.59 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.50 £13.16
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +3.49% -29.50%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £56.25
90th Percentile £28.19 £50.80 £64.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.41 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.77% -4.91% +61.35%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in Scotland

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in Scotland

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 8 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in Scotland

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 8 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
Glasgow -13 10 £400 -15.79%
Edinburgh -1 2 £600 +20.00% 4
Backlog Management
UK

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (25.00%) JBoss
1 3 (25.00%) Tomcat
1 3 (25.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (25.00%) Git
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (75.00%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Scrum Master
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Product Owner
3 1 (8.33%) Agile Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) RAML
1 3 (25.00%) REST
1 3 (25.00%) SOAP
1 3 (25.00%) Web Services
1 3 (25.00%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (25.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) NHS
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) Scrum
3 6 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 6 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
4 5 (41.67%) Budget Control
4 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (41.67%) SDLC
4 5 (41.67%) Servant Leadership
5 4 (33.33%) Situational Awareness
6 3 (25.00%) API Development
6 3 (25.00%) DevOps
6 3 (25.00%) Product Backlog
6 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (25.00%) User Stories
6 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
7 2 (16.67%) Data Mapping
7 2 (16.67%) Data Security
7 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (16.67%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) Basel III
2 1 (8.33%) COREP
2 1 (8.33%) FINREP
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle