Backlog Management Contracts in South Yorkshire

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - -12
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.27% - 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% - 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £365 - -
25th Percentile £389 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 - -
75th Percentile £512 - -
90th Percentile £583 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £484 £450 £700
% change year-on-year +7.50% -35.71% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 451 423 463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.35% 86.50% 92.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 233 288
10th Percentile £291 £314 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £552
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.41% +10.39%
75th Percentile £551 £580 £675
90th Percentile £638 £622 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 21 35
10th Percentile £16.86 £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.55 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.51 £12.83 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +44.27% +20.70% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.87 £13.23 -
90th Percentile - £22.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.69 £13.23 £10.63
% change year-on-year +63.95% +24.46% -42.54%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in South Yorkshire

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in South Yorkshire

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in South Yorkshire

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Sheffield - 6 £484 - 5
Backlog Management
Yorkshire

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Incident Manager
2 2 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 2 (33.33%) IT Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 4 (66.67%) ITSM
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Budget Management
3 2 (33.33%) Budgeting
3 2 (33.33%) Business Transformation
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Project Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Quality Management
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) GDPR
1 4 (66.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (33.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Veeam