Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Backlog Prioritisation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Backlog Prioritisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Prioritisation 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 92 141 120
Rank change year-on-year +49 -21 +40
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 10 4 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.66% 0.15% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.17% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 19
10th Percentile £433 £509 £340
25th Percentile £472 £552 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £641 £413
Median % change year-on-year -22.93% +55.39% -22.46%
75th Percentile £536 £702 £494
90th Percentile £550 £710 £608
South East median daily rate £522 £638 £450
% change year-on-year -18.12% +41.67% -21.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Backlog Prioritisation 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 Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the Thames Valley

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the Thames Valley

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in the Thames Valley

Backlog Prioritisation
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 Prioritisation 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 +37 10 £494 -22.93% 7
Backlog Prioritisation
South East

Backlog Prioritisation
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 2 (20.00%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Product Owner
2 4 (40.00%) Scrum Master
3 2 (20.00%) Agile Product Owner
3 2 (20.00%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (10.00%) Product Manager
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Manager
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Scrum
2 9 (90.00%) Roadmaps
3 7 (70.00%) Agile
3 7 (70.00%) Product Roadmap
4 6 (60.00%) Product Backlog
4 6 (60.00%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (40.00%) Backlog Management
5 4 (40.00%) Coaching
5 4 (40.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (30.00%) Burndown Charts
6 3 (30.00%) Kanban
6 3 (30.00%) Product Strategy
6 3 (30.00%) Statistics
7 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 2 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
7 2 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Blue Prism
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Nokia
2 2 (20.00%) Rakuten
3 1 (10.00%) Genesys
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow