Backlog Management Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Backlog Management 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 49 - 70
Rank change year-on-year - - -12
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.23% - 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% - 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £254
25th Percentile £204 - £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 - £396
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.58%
75th Percentile £415 - £478
90th Percentile £481 - £521
South East median daily rate £418 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -7.22% -14.29% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 361 390 591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 89.14% 90.70% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 266 456
10th Percentile £204 £203 £195
25th Percentile £244 £261 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -9.76% -2.38%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £678 £653 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 13 36
10th Percentile £25.15 £14.66 £19.25
25th Percentile £29.94 - £44.07
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -60.77% +36.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £29.25 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £51.00 £51.96
% change year-on-year -56.86% -1.85% +38.56%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Backlog Management job vacancy trend in Surrey

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Backlog Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Backlog Management

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in Surrey over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in Surrey

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey 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
Weybridge - 2 £207 - 1
Epsom - 1 £525 -
Guildford - 1 £410 - 1
Backlog Management
South East

Backlog Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) SaaS
1 2 (40.00%) Sauce Labs
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Android Studio
1 2 (40.00%) Browser DevTools
1 2 (40.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Xcode
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) git-flow
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Support
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) UX Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Product Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Ajax
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (40.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) Blazor
2 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Android
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) User Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 2 (40.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) A/B Testing
3 1 (20.00%) B2B
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Business Process Mapping
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Product Backlog
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk