Backlog Management Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Backlog Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 31 -
Rank change year-on-year -33 - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 9 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.40% 0.76% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 0.80% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £464 - -
25th Percentile £492 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 - -
75th Percentile £515 - -
90th Percentile £524 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £520 £215
% change year-on-year -5.38% +141.86% -52.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 543 125 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 84.58% 95.42% 64.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 78 60
10th Percentile £350 £313 £200
25th Percentile £408 £408 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £359
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% +32.31% -33.27%
75th Percentile £506 £537 £497
90th Percentile £552 £544 £519
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 2 8
10th Percentile £25.15 - -
25th Percentile £44.73 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £12.18 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +331.03% +16.89% -81.05%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £11.32
90th Percentile £60.62 - £14.26
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £18.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +88.83% -20.00% +18.42%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Backlog Management job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 12 May 2026. 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
Telford -33 9 £509 - 2
Backlog Management
West Midlands

Backlog Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 4 (44.44%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (22.22%) Figma
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) Balsamiq
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Scrum Master
2 3 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Pega Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
1 8 (88.89%) Product Backlog
2 7 (77.78%) Sprint Planning
2 7 (77.78%) Sprint Retrospective
2 7 (77.78%) Sprint Review
3 6 (66.67%) Scrum
4 5 (55.56%) Conflict Resolution
4 5 (55.56%) User Stories
5 3 (33.33%) Analytics
5 3 (33.33%) Burndown Charts
5 3 (33.33%) Coaching
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
6 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (22.22%) Backlog Refinement
6 2 (22.22%) BPMN
6 2 (22.22%) DevOps
6 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Pega