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 22 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 317 333
Rank change year-on-year -14 +16 +13
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 70 113 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.50% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.56% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 81 125
10th Percentile £400 £406 £410
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £613
90th Percentile £623 £700 £665
UK median daily rate £519 £569 £550
% change year-on-year -8.79% +3.41% +12.82%

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 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 22 June 2024.

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 22 June 2024. 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
South East -18 18 £500 -16.67% 13
Midlands +14 17 £575 +27.78% 7
Scotland +52 14 £500 -4.76% 2
South West +11 13 £475 -24.00% 4
East Midlands +18 12 £595 +48.75% 2
North of England +12 8 £450 -35.71% 4
Yorkshire +12 5 £450 -35.71% 2
West Midlands +4 5 £215 -52.22% 5
North West +11 3 £450 -34.55% 1
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 24 (34.29%) Confluence
2 12 (17.14%) SharePoint
3 11 (15.71%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 5 (7.14%) MS Visio
2 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.43%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.71%) Azure
2 10 (14.29%) Azure Stack
3 3 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.86%) AWS
4 2 (2.86%) GitHub
4 2 (2.86%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.86%) Serverless
4 2 (2.86%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (1.43%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (1.43%) IaaS
5 1 (1.43%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.71%) BGP
1 11 (15.71%) Firewall
2 2 (2.86%) Broadband
3 1 (1.43%) 3G
3 1 (1.43%) 4G
3 1 (1.43%) 5G
3 1 (1.43%) DSL
3 1 (1.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 29 (41.43%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.86%) Selenium
General
1 23 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.43%) Finance
3 12 (17.14%) Public Sector
4 11 (15.71%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (11.43%) Manufacturing
6 7 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (10.00%) Telecoms
7 5 (7.14%) Marketing
8 4 (5.71%) Billing
8 4 (5.71%) Electronics
8 4 (5.71%) Retail
9 3 (4.29%) Banking
10 2 (2.86%) Legal
11 1 (1.43%) French Language
11 1 (1.43%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (31.43%) Analyst
2 15 (21.43%) Product Owner
3 9 (12.86%) Business Analyst
3 9 (12.86%) Product Manager
4 5 (7.14%) Service Analyst
4 5 (7.14%) Service Management Analyst
5 3 (4.29%) Debt Manager
5 3 (4.29%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
5 3 (4.29%) Functional Analyst
5 3 (4.29%) Junior
5 3 (4.29%) Junior Product Owner
5 3 (4.29%) Scrum Master
5 3 (4.29%) Senior
6 2 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (2.86%) Full Stack Engineer
6 2 (2.86%) Lead
6 2 (2.86%) Project Manager
6 2 (2.86%) Python Engineer
6 2 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (2.86%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.29%) HTML
2 2 (2.86%) CSS
2 2 (2.86%) CSS3
2 2 (2.86%) HTML5
2 2 (2.86%) Jest
2 2 (2.86%) Node.js
2 2 (2.86%) React
2 2 (2.86%) React Native
2 2 (2.86%) REST
3 1 (1.43%) JSON
3 1 (1.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (31.43%) Product Ownership
2 11 (15.71%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.43%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.43%) IoT
3 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.43%) Robotics
3 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.14%) Windows
2 1 (1.43%) Linux
2 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (54.29%) Agile
2 27 (38.57%) Product Backlog
3 25 (35.71%) Roadmaps
4 23 (32.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (30.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 20 (28.57%) User Stories
7 15 (21.43%) Epics
8 14 (20.00%) Product Management
8 14 (20.00%) Product Strategy
8 14 (20.00%) Scrum
9 13 (18.57%) Product Roadmap
9 13 (18.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (17.14%) ITIL
10 12 (17.14%) Project Management
11 11 (15.71%) Capacity Management
11 11 (15.71%) ITSM
11 11 (15.71%) Knowledge Transfer
11 11 (15.71%) Network Management
11 11 (15.71%) Security Monitoring
11 11 (15.71%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.29%) Python
2 2 (2.86%) Java
2 2 (2.86%) Kotlin
2 2 (2.86%) TypeScript
3 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 21 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (18.57%) DV Cleared
3 9 (12.86%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.86%) CSPO
4 2 (2.86%) Degree
5 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.43%) IIBA
5 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.43%) PMP
5 1 (1.43%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.14%) PMO
2 11 (15.71%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (2.86%) QA
3 2 (2.86%) SLA
4 1 (1.43%) GDPR
4 1 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.86%) Terraform
2 1 (1.43%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 18 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.71%) Atlassian
3 6 (8.57%) SAP
4 1 (1.43%) Adobe
4 1 (1.43%) Ariba
4 1 (1.43%) Cadence
4 1 (1.43%) Citrix
4 1 (1.43%) Concur
4 1 (1.43%) Google
4 1 (1.43%) HP
4 1 (1.43%) Pega
4 1 (1.43%) UiPath