Backlog Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 312 309
Rank change year-on-year +48 -3 +21
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 75 87 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.42% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.49% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 76 92
10th Percentile £369 £208 £407
25th Percentile £406 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £493 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -10.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £596 £588 £638
90th Percentile £669 £623 £700
UK median daily rate £506 £500 £558
% change year-on-year +1.20% -10.39% +1.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Backlog Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in the UK excluding London

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in the UK excluding London

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in the UK excluding London

Backlog Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Backlog Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Backlog Management in the UK excluding London

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Scotland +17 21 £450 -10.00% 5
North of England +22 19 £402 -9.41% 34
South East +42 17 £494 -10.18% 38
North West +16 15 £402 +518.46% 24
Midlands +15 13 £515 -10.43% 19
West Midlands +21 10 £520 +35.95% 15
South West +36 6 £600 +26.32% 7
Yorkshire +4 4 £370 -17.78% 10
East Midlands +4 3 £450 -24.37% 3
Backlog Management
UK

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (20.00%) Confluence
2 5 (6.67%) JBoss
2 5 (6.67%) Tomcat
2 5 (6.67%) WebLogic
2 5 (6.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.33%) Primavera
2 1 (1.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.67%) Azure
2 9 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (10.67%) AWS
4 5 (6.67%) SaaS
5 4 (5.33%) IaaS
5 4 (5.33%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.67%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.67%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.00%) Broadband
2 2 (2.67%) Firewall
2 2 (2.67%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.33%) 2G
3 1 (1.33%) 3G
3 1 (1.33%) 4G
3 1 (1.33%) 5G
3 1 (1.33%) DHCP
3 1 (1.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.67%) DB2
2 1 (1.33%) GIS
2 1 (1.33%) Power BI
2 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (29.33%) JIRA
2 6 (8.00%) Bitbucket
3 5 (6.67%) Git
4 3 (4.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.67%) GitLab
5 2 (2.67%) Toad
6 1 (1.33%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 27 (36.00%) Finance
3 17 (22.67%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (14.67%) Telecoms
5 7 (9.33%) Banking
6 6 (8.00%) Marketing
7 5 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (6.67%) Public Sector
8 4 (5.33%) Investment Banking
9 3 (4.00%) Electronics
9 3 (4.00%) Manufacturing
9 3 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (4.00%) Retail
10 2 (2.67%) Automotive
10 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.33%) Humanities
11 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (25.33%) Scrum Master
2 16 (21.33%) Analyst
3 11 (14.67%) Business Analyst
4 10 (13.33%) Product Owner
5 7 (9.33%) Project Manager
6 4 (5.33%) Agile Scrum Master
6 4 (5.33%) Developer
6 4 (5.33%) Lead
6 4 (5.33%) Product Manager
6 4 (5.33%) Senior
7 3 (4.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.00%) Business Systems Analyst
7 3 (4.00%) Digital Transformation
7 3 (4.00%) Incident Analyst
7 3 (4.00%) Product Lead
7 3 (4.00%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (2.67%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (2.67%) IT Manager
8 2 (2.67%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (2.67%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.00%) REST
2 5 (6.67%) RAML
2 5 (6.67%) SOAP
2 5 (6.67%) Web Services
2 5 (6.67%) WSDL
3 4 (5.33%) EJB
3 4 (5.33%) J2EE
3 4 (5.33%) JSP
3 4 (5.33%) Servlets
3 4 (5.33%) Spring
3 4 (5.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.33%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 40 (53.33%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.00%) Virtual Team
3 5 (6.67%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.67%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.67%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.33%) NHS
6 1 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (85.33%) Agile
2 37 (49.33%) Scrum
3 27 (36.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 25 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (26.67%) Product Backlog
5 20 (26.67%) User Stories
6 19 (25.33%) DevOps
6 19 (25.33%) Roadmaps
7 17 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (22.67%) Sprint Planning
7 17 (22.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (21.33%) Kanban
9 12 (16.00%) Coaching
9 12 (16.00%) Product Vision
10 11 (14.67%) Conflict Resolution
10 11 (14.67%) Sprint Retrospective
11 10 (13.33%) Product Roadmap
11 10 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 9 (12.00%) Budget Control
12 9 (12.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.67%) SQL
2 7 (9.33%) Java
3 6 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.00%) Python
5 2 (2.67%) Bash
5 2 (2.67%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.67%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.33%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.33%) Degree
2 4 (5.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.67%) CCNA
3 2 (2.67%) CCNP
3 2 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.33%) CBAP
4 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) PMO
2 4 (5.33%) GDPR
3 3 (4.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.33%) Automotive SPICE
4 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.33%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 2 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (2.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (4.00%) Ansible
2 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.33%) Amdocs OSS
3 1 (1.33%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 12 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (12.00%) ServiceNow
3 6 (8.00%) Oracle
4 4 (5.33%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.00%) BMC
5 3 (4.00%) BT
5 3 (4.00%) Fortinet
5 3 (4.00%) Infoblox
5 3 (4.00%) Remedy
5 3 (4.00%) SAP
6 1 (1.33%) Adobe
6 1 (1.33%) Cramer
6 1 (1.33%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.33%) Siemens
6 1 (1.33%) Veeam