Backlog Management Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 0.40% - 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% - 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £475 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 205 195 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 82.00% 86.67% 91.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 93 205
10th Percentile £223 £313 £315
25th Percentile £350 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £569 £590 £650
90th Percentile £625 £650 £741
North East median daily rate £465 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 35 0
10th Percentile £11.60 £11.50 -
25th Percentile £12.39 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £18.24 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% - -
75th Percentile £41.56 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 £40.75
% change year-on-year -5.71% -57.06% +146.97%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Backlog Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in Tyne and Wear

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Management in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in Tyne and Wear

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 20 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £475 - 3
Backlog Management
North East

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps