Backlog Management Contracts in the South West

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 144 153
Rank change year-on-year +30 +9 -17
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 5 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.28% 0.40% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.48% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 4
10th Percentile £546 - £526
25th Percentile £558 £463 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £583
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -18.45% +5.91%
75th Percentile - £488 £647
90th Percentile - £588 £664
England median daily rate £514 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.14% -8.70% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,595 2,704 3,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.78% 82.16% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 976 1,696 2,209
10th Percentile £214 £257 £313
25th Percentile £363 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 373 309
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.85 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £29.75 £16.54
Median hourly rate £28.55 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.09% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.31
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

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

Backlog Management
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 24 June 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
Gloucestershire - 3 £600 - 8
Bristol - 2 £555 - 16
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 5 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Electronics
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (40.00%) Marketing
3 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
1 3 (60.00%) Product Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Coaching
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Epics
2 3 (60.00%) Product Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Product Vision
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (60.00%) User Stories
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (40.00%) Sprint Review
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (40.00%) SAP