Backlog Management Contracts in the South West

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Backlog Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 160 141
Rank change year-on-year +20 -19 -5
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 13 10 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.41% 0.28% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.31% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 28
10th Percentile - £496 £459
25th Percentile £463 £613 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £488 - £588
90th Percentile £588 £700 £600
England median daily rate £500 £575 £553
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.07% +15.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Backlog Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,648 3,251 3,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.98% 89.66% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,690 2,398 2,327
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.30%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 334 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £17.00 £20.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.37 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.96 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.12% +53.06% +2.08%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Backlog Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Management in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
Wiltshire +13 11 £475 -36.67% 1
Devon -2 2 £600 - 2
Backlog Management
England

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 11 (84.62%) Confluence
1 11 (84.62%) SharePoint
1 11 (84.62%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) Azure
2 10 (76.92%) Azure Stack
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (84.62%) BGP
1 11 (84.62%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) Selenium
General
1 11 (84.62%) Organisational Skills
1 11 (84.62%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Service Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Service Management Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Full Stack Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Java Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) CSS
1 2 (15.38%) CSS3
1 2 (15.38%) HTML
1 2 (15.38%) HTML5
1 2 (15.38%) Jest
1 2 (15.38%) Node.js
1 2 (15.38%) React
1 2 (15.38%) React Native
1 2 (15.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (84.62%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Capacity Management
1 11 (84.62%) Continuous Improvement
1 11 (84.62%) ITIL
1 11 (84.62%) ITSM
1 11 (84.62%) Knowledge Transfer
1 11 (84.62%) Network Management
1 11 (84.62%) Security Monitoring
1 11 (84.62%) Service Management
2 2 (15.38%) Agile
2 2 (15.38%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (15.38%) BDD
2 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
2 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
2 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (15.38%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (15.38%) Loose Coupling
2 2 (15.38%) Runbook
2 2 (15.38%) SDLC
2 2 (15.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Java
1 2 (15.38%) Kotlin
1 2 (15.38%) Python
1 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) DV Cleared
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (84.62%) Government Security Classifications
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Atlassian
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft