Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in the South West

Backlog Prioritisation
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Backlog Prioritisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Prioritisation over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 136 151
Rank change year-on-year +28 +15 +6
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.21% 0.072% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.087% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile - £401 £524
25th Percentile - £402 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £405 £550
Median % change year-on-year +23.61% -26.45% -
75th Percentile - £407 £602
90th Percentile - £408 £672
England median daily rate £465 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -15.45% - -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,735 2,307 2,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.85% 83.20% 87.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,013 1,473 2,060
10th Percentile £213 £264 £313
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +2.48%
75th Percentile £615 £634 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 255 251
10th Percentile £14.98 £13.86 £19.00
25th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 £42.55
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £64.15
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +5.23% +18.79%
75th Percentile £64.06 £72.50 £75.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £76.50 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £40.85
% change year-on-year -40.82% +4.05% +51.39%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation 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
DemandTrendContract 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 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol - 2 £500 - 1
Somerset - 2 - - 1
Backlog Prioritisation
England

Backlog Prioritisation
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (25.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Figma
1 1 (25.00%) Google Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Pendo
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Product Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Product Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 2 (50.00%) UX Design
2 2 (50.00%) Wealth Management
3 1 (25.00%) A/B Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (25.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
3 1 (25.00%) Journey Map
3 1 (25.00%) Product Management
3 1 (25.00%) Product Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Product Vision
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) User Research
3 1 (25.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Hotjar