Backlog Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 132 128
Rank change year-on-year +46 -4 +23
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 16 13 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.06% 0.48% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.56% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 14
10th Percentile £461 £466 £375
25th Percentile £473 £509 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% +15.00% -4.21%
75th Percentile £564 £638 £559
90th Percentile £575 £696 £658
South East median daily rate £494 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -10.18% -8.33% +10.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Backlog Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in the Thames Valley

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in the Thames Valley

Backlog Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Backlog Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Backlog Management in the Thames Valley

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +34 14 £487 -18.83% 8
Buckinghamshire +16 2 £550 - 2
Backlog Management
South East

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
2 2 (12.50%) PowerApps
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Broadband
2 2 (12.50%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (6.25%) 2G
3 1 (6.25%) 3G
3 1 (6.25%) 4G
3 1 (6.25%) 5G
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Digital Transformation
2 3 (18.75%) Incident Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Scrum Master
3 2 (12.50%) Agile Scrum Master
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Incident Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) JIRA Expert
4 1 (6.25%) Network Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Network Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) OSS Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Product Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Project Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Project Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Low-Code
2 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Agile
2 4 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 4 (25.00%) Product Backlog
2 4 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
2 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (25.00%) Scrum
3 3 (18.75%) Burndown Charts
3 3 (18.75%) Coaching
3 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (18.75%) Customer Experience
3 3 (18.75%) Digital Transformation Strategy
3 3 (18.75%) Escalation Management
3 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
3 3 (18.75%) Kanban
3 3 (18.75%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (18.75%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (18.75%) Statistics
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) PMO
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Amdocs OSS
1 1 (6.25%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) BMC
2 3 (18.75%) BT
2 3 (18.75%) Remedy
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.25%) Cramer
3 1 (6.25%) PagerDuty
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow