Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Backlog Prioritisation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 271 332 365
Rank change year-on-year +61 +33 +57
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 65 67 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.32% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.38% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 50 62
10th Percentile £356 £418 £350
25th Percentile £369 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £506
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +18.52% -1.22%
75th Percentile £606 £694 £548
90th Percentile £695 £726 £616
UK median daily rate £492 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -14.43% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £67.55 - -
25th Percentile £67.62 - -
Median hourly rate £71.61 £68.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.31% - -
75th Percentile £76.98 - -
90th Percentile £77.87 - -
UK median hourly rate £71.61 £32.36 -
% change year-on-year +121.33% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
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 £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK excluding London

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK excluding London

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK excluding London

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK excluding London

Backlog Prioritisation
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 Prioritisation within the UK excluding London 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
South East +53 18 £522 -18.12% 28
North of England +11 17 £401 -39.47% 16
North West +9 13 £392 -40.83% 10
Scotland +16 11 £413 -20.98% 4
Midlands +13 10 £379 -34.09% 9
East Midlands +3 6 £358 -39.83% 6
South West +47 5 £500 -14.89% 12
West Midlands +12 4 £400 -27.27% 3
Yorkshire +8 3 £556 -7.29% 4
East of England +31 2 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £625 - 2
North East 0 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 - - 2
Backlog Prioritisation
UK

Backlog Prioritisation
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 10 (15.38%) Confluence
2 5 (7.69%) JBoss
2 5 (7.69%) Tomcat
2 5 (7.69%) WebLogic
2 5 (7.69%) WebSphere
3 2 (3.08%) Appian
4 1 (1.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 3 (4.62%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.54%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.54%) Fusion 360
2 1 (1.54%) Siemens NX
2 1 (1.54%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.54%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.77%) AWS
2 6 (9.23%) Azure
3 5 (7.69%) SaaS
4 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.08%) GCP
6 1 (1.54%) Figma
6 1 (1.54%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.54%) IaaS
6 1 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.54%) Miro
6 1 (1.54%) Pendo
6 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.69%) DB2
2 4 (6.15%) Oracle Database
3 3 (4.62%) Tableau
4 2 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.08%) Metadata
4 2 (3.08%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (20.00%) JIRA
2 6 (9.23%) Git
3 5 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.08%) Balsamiq
4 2 (3.08%) Toad
5 1 (1.54%) Cucumber
General
1 28 (43.08%) Social Skills
2 21 (32.31%) Finance
3 9 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.77%) Banking
4 7 (10.77%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.62%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.62%) Marketing
5 3 (4.62%) Retail
6 2 (3.08%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.54%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.54%) Front Office
7 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (32.31%) Product Owner
2 16 (24.62%) Scrum Master
3 10 (15.38%) Analyst
4 8 (12.31%) Architect
5 7 (10.77%) Business Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Agile Scrum Master
6 4 (6.15%) Consultant
6 4 (6.15%) IFS Consultant
6 4 (6.15%) Project Manager
6 4 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.62%) Agile Product Owner
7 3 (4.62%) Digital Product Owner
7 3 (4.62%) Product Manager
8 2 (3.08%) Business Systems Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Data Manager
8 2 (3.08%) Product Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Technical Business Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Technical Manager
8 2 (3.08%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.69%) RAML
1 5 (7.69%) REST
1 5 (7.69%) SOAP
1 5 (7.69%) Web Services
1 5 (7.69%) WSDL
2 4 (6.15%) EJB
2 4 (6.15%) J2EE
2 4 (6.15%) JSP
2 4 (6.15%) Servlets
2 4 (6.15%) Spring
2 4 (6.15%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.08%) Middleware
4 1 (1.54%) CSS
4 1 (1.54%) HTML
4 1 (1.54%) Playwright
4 1 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (63.08%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.69%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.08%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.54%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.54%) Derivative
5 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (81.54%) Agile
2 37 (56.92%) Scrum
3 27 (41.54%) Backlog Management
4 24 (36.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (35.38%) Roadmaps
6 21 (32.31%) User Stories
7 15 (23.08%) Acceptance Criteria
7 15 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (23.08%) Product Roadmap
8 14 (21.54%) Decision-Making
8 14 (21.54%) Product Backlog
9 13 (20.00%) SDLC
9 13 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
9 13 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (16.92%) Product Vision
10 11 (16.92%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 11 (16.92%) User Experience
11 10 (15.38%) Product Management
11 10 (15.38%) Product Strategy
11 10 (15.38%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 16 (24.62%) SQL
2 7 (10.77%) Java
3 6 (9.23%) PL/SQL
4 5 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (21.54%) Degree
2 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared
2 4 (6.15%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) QA
2 4 (6.15%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (13.85%) Oracle
2 8 (12.31%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.15%) IFS
4 2 (3.08%) Adobe
4 2 (3.08%) Blue Prism
4 2 (3.08%) Cisco
4 2 (3.08%) Google
4 2 (3.08%) Nokia
4 2 (3.08%) Rakuten
4 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.08%) Siemens
5 1 (1.54%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.54%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.54%) Genesys
5 1 (1.54%) Hotjar