Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in Scotland

Backlog Prioritisation
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 105 121 148
Rank change year-on-year +16 +27 +2
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 11 8 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.68% 0.36% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.41% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 11
10th Percentile £323 £269 £505
25th Percentile £358 £422 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £522 £523
Median % change year-on-year -20.98% -0.10% +7.18%
75th Percentile £488 £553 £538
90th Percentile £570 £571 £574
UK median daily rate £492 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -14.43% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £68.00 -
UK median hourly rate £71.61 £32.36 -
% change year-on-year +121.33% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in Scotland

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in Scotland

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in Scotland

Backlog Prioritisation
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 Prioritisation within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh +10 7 £538 +7.07% 2
Glasgow +5 4 £358 -23.79% 2
Backlog Prioritisation
UK

Backlog Prioritisation
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 (27.27%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (9.09%) JBoss
2 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
2 1 (9.09%) WebLogic
2 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) IaaS
1 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) DB2
1 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Toad
3 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Marketing
4 2 (18.18%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
4 2 (18.18%) Retail
4 2 (18.18%) Retail Banking
5 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Front Office
5 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Product Owner
2 4 (36.36%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Business Systems Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Scrum Master
3 2 (18.18%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Payments Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Tableau Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Tableau Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) RAML
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) SOAP
1 1 (9.09%) Web Services
1 1 (9.09%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
3 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 8 (72.73%) Backlog Management
3 5 (45.45%) Customer Experience
4 4 (36.36%) Analytics
4 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
4 4 (36.36%) Product Vision
4 4 (36.36%) User Stories
5 3 (27.27%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (27.27%) Business Case
5 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
5 3 (27.27%) Data Collection
5 3 (27.27%) Digital Customer Experience
5 3 (27.27%) Objectives and Key Results
5 3 (27.27%) Product Backlog
5 3 (27.27%) User Experience
5 3 (27.27%) UX Design
6 2 (18.18%) Impact Assessments
6 2 (18.18%) Reverse Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Scrum
6 2 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Adobe
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle