Product Backlog Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Product Backlogs
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Product Backlog skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 2.78% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £405 - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £450 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £438 - £551
% change year-on-year - - -10.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

Product Backlog 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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 149 80 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 82.78% 76.92% 64.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 40 84
10th Percentile £228 £323 £259
25th Percentile £340 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £545
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -17.43% +5.83%
75th Percentile £544 £588 £653
90th Percentile £663 £608 £713
Hampshire median daily rate £535 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -2.73% -3.51% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 0 6
10th Percentile £12.21 - £22.25
25th Percentile £12.29 - £31.81
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £52.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +127.82%
75th Percentile £40.00 - £76.88
90th Percentile £85.33 - £78.75
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £56.38 £47.50
% change year-on-year -63.26% +18.68% +5.56%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Backlog relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

Product Backlog job vacancy trend in Southampton

Product Backlog
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Product Backlog.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Product Backlog

Product Backlog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Adobe Campaign
1 3 (60.00%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Mining
1 3 (60.00%) OLAP
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Advertising
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Data Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Data Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) User Stories
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (60.00%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (60.00%) Data Management
3 3 (60.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (60.00%) Information Governance
3 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 3 (60.00%) Prototyping
3 3 (60.00%) Quality Management
3 3 (60.00%) Requirements Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (60.00%) Use Case
3 3 (60.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Adobe
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
1 3 (60.00%) Salesforce
1 3 (60.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud