Backlog Prioritisation Contract Job Trends in the South West

Backlog Prioritisation
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Backlog Prioritisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 121 147
Rank change year-on-year -9 +26 +23
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 3 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.13% 0.19% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.22% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £402 £566
25th Percentile - £405 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £409 £588
Median % change year-on-year +58.92% -30.38% +9.30%
75th Percentile - £498 £597
90th Percentile - £552 £599
England median daily rate £490 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -10.91% +3.29% +1.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,930 1,849 2,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 84.06% 86.77% 87.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,134 1,137 1,758
10th Percentile £263 £284 £300
25th Percentile £413 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £727 £725
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 130 264
10th Percentile £15.25 £19.41 £20.65
25th Percentile £18.87 £47.63 £45.75
Median hourly rate £29.40 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.78% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Backlog Prioritisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Backlog Prioritisation job vacancy trend in the South West

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Backlog Prioritisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Backlog Prioritisation

Backlog Prioritisation
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 Prioritisation within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Bristol 0 2 - - 3
Somerset - 1 £650 - 1
Backlog Prioritisation
England

Backlog Prioritisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe XD
1 1 (33.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Google Analytics
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
1 1 (33.33%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Retrospective
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Journey Map
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
3 1 (33.33%) User Research
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CSPO
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Hotjar