Backlog Prioritisation Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Backlog Prioritisation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Backlog Prioritisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 110 132
Rank change year-on-year -8 +22 +47
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 1 16 7
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.058% 0.74% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.85% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £490 £325
25th Percentile £625 £503 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £414
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +32.93% -28.04%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £521
90th Percentile - £675 £588
South East median daily rate £433 £550 £465
% change year-on-year -21.36% +18.28% -19.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
South East median hourly rate £70.16 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year +33.64% - -

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 1,567 1,875 2,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.37% 86.69% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 976 1,071 1,618
10th Percentile £268 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% - +2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 71 98
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.50 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.91 £27.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £53.24
Median % change year-on-year -56.26% +8.00% +176.58%
75th Percentile £42.67 £62.85 £67.63
90th Percentile £74.70 £74.87 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £53.50
% change year-on-year -64.48% +8.97% +50.87%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Backlog Prioritisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Backlog Prioritisation job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Backlog Prioritisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Backlog Prioritisation

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 19 October 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 +6 1 £650 +18.18% 10
Backlog Prioritisation
South East

Backlog Prioritisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories