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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 - 75
Rank change year-on-year - - -17
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.23% - 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% - 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £269 - £254
25th Percentile £368 - £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - £396
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.58%
75th Percentile £500 - £478
90th Percentile £515 - £521
South East median daily rate £425 £450 £510
% change year-on-year -5.56% -11.76% -7.27%

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 368 415 603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 90.86% 89.83% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 290 474
10th Percentile £204 £203 £195
25th Percentile £234 £263 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £515
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -10.19% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £678 £651 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 15 35
10th Percentile £25.15 £16.07 £19.20
25th Percentile £28.25 - £45.42
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -60.77% +36.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.45 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.02
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +21.84%

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 4 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 4 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
Epsom - 2 £513 -
Guildford - 1 £410 - 1
Weybridge - 1 £207 - 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 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
1 1 (20.00%) Sauce Labs
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Android Studio
2 1 (20.00%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) git-flow
2 1 (20.00%) Xcode
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Product Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (20.00%) Ajax
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) Blazor
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Business Process Mapping
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) A/B Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (20.00%) Business Process Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Epics
3 1 (20.00%) Kaizen
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Product Backlog
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk