Backlog Management Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Backlog Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 20 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 2.80% - 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% - 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 0 2
10th Percentile £452 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.29%
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £637 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £492 - £425
% change year-on-year - - -39.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 685 283 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.80% 91.88% 95.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 161 235
10th Percentile £317 £220 £385
25th Percentile £401 £421 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £621 £675 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £515 £539
% change year-on-year -6.80% -4.41% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £19.10
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +18.42%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +52.54%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Backlog Management job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Backlog Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Backlog Management

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in Sheffield over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in Sheffield

Backlog Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) AWS
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
1 4 (20.00%) GCP
1 4 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.00%) CloudBees
2 1 (5.00%) Cohesity
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 12 (60.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 9 (45.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Product Owner
2 7 (35.00%) Incident Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
3 3 (15.00%) Major Incident Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (55.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Product Backlog
2 10 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (40.00%) Agile
4 8 (40.00%) Product Vision
4 8 (40.00%) Roadmaps
5 7 (35.00%) Incident Management
5 7 (35.00%) ITSM
5 7 (35.00%) Mentoring
5 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (30.00%) DevOps
6 6 (30.00%) Incident Response
6 6 (30.00%) User Stories
7 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 5 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
8 4 (20.00%) Data Strategy
8 4 (20.00%) IT Strategy
8 4 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
8 4 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (20.00%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Bash
1 2 (10.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) GDPR
1 7 (35.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Ansible
2 2 (10.00%) NetBackup
3 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) ServiceNow
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Commvault
3 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.00%) Veritas