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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 332 358
Rank change year-on-year +59 +26 +47
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 67 60 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.29% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.35% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 45 58
10th Percentile £356 £425 £347
25th Percentile £358 £525 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £600 £494
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% +21.52% -5.95%
75th Percentile £519 £694 £550
90th Percentile £636 £733 £627
UK median daily rate £494 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -17.67% +14.29% -
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 11,716 17,285 20,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.51% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,290 10,280 13,964
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.87%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 847 2,123 1,246
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

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 30 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 30 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
North of England +13 23 £402 -39.32% 104
North West +9 17 £401 -39.47% 54
Midlands +15 16 £358 -37.74% 87
Scotland +12 12 £358 -17.70% 23
South East +57 9 £487 -18.83% 132
West Midlands +18 8 £400 -27.27% 52
East Midlands +6 8 £358 -39.83% 30
South West +46 5 £500 -16.67% 52
Yorkshire +21 5 £600 - 39
Northern Ireland - 2 £625 - 5
North East 0 1 - - 11
Wales - 1 - - 12
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 11 (16.42%) Confluence
2 8 (11.94%) JBoss
2 8 (11.94%) Tomcat
2 8 (11.94%) WebLogic
2 8 (11.94%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.49%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.49%) Fusion 360
2 1 (1.49%) Siemens NX
2 1 (1.49%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.49%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.90%) AWS
2 9 (13.43%) Azure
3 6 (8.96%) GCP
3 6 (8.96%) SaaS
4 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.49%) Figma
5 1 (1.49%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.49%) IaaS
5 1 (1.49%) Miro
5 1 (1.49%) Pendo
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) Firewall
2 3 (4.48%) Broadband
3 2 (2.99%) BGP
3 2 (2.99%) DHCP
3 2 (2.99%) DNS
3 2 (2.99%) EIGRP
3 2 (2.99%) HTTP
3 2 (2.99%) IPsec
3 2 (2.99%) Network Security
3 2 (2.99%) OSPF
3 2 (2.99%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (2.99%) SSL
3 2 (2.99%) TACACS
3 2 (2.99%) VLAN
3 2 (2.99%) VPN
3 2 (2.99%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.94%) DB2
2 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.99%) Metadata
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (2.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (20.90%) JIRA
2 9 (13.43%) Git
3 8 (11.94%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.99%) Toad
5 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
General
1 29 (43.28%) Finance
2 25 (37.31%) Social Skills
3 10 (14.93%) Banking
4 8 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.97%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.48%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.48%) Marketing
7 3 (4.48%) Retail
8 2 (2.99%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.99%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (29.85%) Product Owner
1 20 (29.85%) Scrum Master
2 11 (16.42%) Analyst
3 8 (11.94%) Business Analyst
4 5 (7.46%) Product Manager
5 4 (5.97%) Agile Scrum Master
5 4 (5.97%) Digital Product Owner
5 4 (5.97%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.48%) Architect
6 3 (4.48%) Payments Analyst
6 3 (4.48%) Payments Business Analyst
6 3 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.48%) Systems Analyst
6 3 (4.48%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (2.99%) Data Manager
7 2 (2.99%) Java Scrum Master
7 2 (2.99%) Product Analyst
7 2 (2.99%) Product Business Analyst
7 2 (2.99%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (2.99%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.94%) RAML
1 8 (11.94%) REST
1 8 (11.94%) SOAP
1 8 (11.94%) Web Services
1 8 (11.94%) WSDL
2 4 (5.97%) EJB
2 4 (5.97%) J2EE
2 4 (5.97%) JSP
2 4 (5.97%) Servlets
2 4 (5.97%) Spring
2 4 (5.97%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.99%) Middleware
4 1 (1.49%) CSS
4 1 (1.49%) HTML
4 1 (1.49%) Playwright
4 1 (1.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (70.15%) Product Ownership
2 8 (11.94%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.99%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.49%) Derivative
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.49%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (91.04%) Agile
2 41 (61.19%) Scrum
3 31 (46.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 29 (43.28%) Backlog Management
5 19 (28.36%) Roadmaps
5 19 (28.36%) User Stories
6 17 (25.37%) Product Backlog
7 15 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (20.90%) Product Management
8 14 (20.90%) Product Strategy
8 14 (20.90%) SDLC
9 13 (19.40%) Acceptance Criteria
9 13 (19.40%) Product Roadmap
9 13 (19.40%) Product Vision
9 13 (19.40%) Sprint Planning
10 12 (17.91%) Budget Control
10 12 (17.91%) Conflict Resolution
10 12 (17.91%) Decision-Making
10 12 (17.91%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.90%) SQL
2 7 (10.45%) Java
3 5 (7.46%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.99%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.49%) Python
5 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (14.93%) Degree
2 2 (2.99%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.99%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.49%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.99%) QA
3 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (4.48%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.99%) Nagios
3 1 (1.49%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (17.91%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.94%) Oracle
3 4 (5.97%) Cisco
3 4 (5.97%) Google
3 4 (5.97%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.48%) Adobe
5 2 (2.99%) Arista
5 2 (2.99%) Juniper
5 2 (2.99%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.99%) Siemens
5 2 (2.99%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.49%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.49%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.49%) Hotjar