Backlog Management Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Backlog Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 2.82% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £481 - -
25th Percentile £509 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £609 - -
90th Percentile £634 - -
Somerset median daily rate £563 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59 13 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 83.10% 92.86% 96.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 12 26
10th Percentile £403 £523 £550
25th Percentile £431 £588 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £648 £600
Median % change year-on-year -26.64% +7.92% -10.85%
75th Percentile £600 £900 £605
90th Percentile £642 £990 £619
Somerset median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.85 - £12.50
Median hourly rate £40.54 £12.45 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +225.62% -4.23% -
75th Percentile £43.84 - £14.25
90th Percentile - - £15.60
Somerset median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
% change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -51.46%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Backlog Management job vacancy trend in Taunton

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

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

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Taunton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in Taunton over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in Taunton

Backlog Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Release Train
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Servant Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Backlog
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Supplier Management
2 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA