Product Backlog Contracts in the UK excluding London

Product Backlogs
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Product Backlog skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Backlog over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 308 303
Rank change year-on-year +31 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 116 151 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.63% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.70% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 94 158
10th Percentile £411 £404 £413
25th Percentile £463 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £641 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £666
UK median daily rate £550 £555 £550
% change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile - - £26.55
25th Percentile £65.25 - £27.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +145.61% -50.43%
75th Percentile £65.75 - £37.99
90th Percentile £66.88 - £43.23
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £70.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +150.00% -42.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Product Backlog is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,509 21,592 27,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.76% 89.53% 88.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,486 14,972 19,224
10th Percentile £248 £252 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,026 1,320 1,373
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.99 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.60 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in the UK excluding London

Product Backlog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Product Backlog in the UK excluding London

Product Backlog
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Backlog in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Backlog in the UK excluding London

Product Backlog
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Backlog in the UK excluding London

Product Backlog
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 Product Backlog within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +25 55 £600 +8.11% 13
North of England +15 17 £465 -15.55% 10
Midlands +9 16 £550 +22.22% 12
Scotland +29 14 £575 +4.55% 1
West Midlands +15 13 £550 +22.22% 6
East of England +24 9 £475 -3.80% 7
North West +12 6 £438 -5.41% 3
Yorkshire +1 6 £450 -18.18% 7
South West +21 5 £587 -9.65% 7
North East - 5 £501 -
East Midlands +19 3 £550 +15.79% 6
Wales +13 1 £175 -70.83% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £640 -
Product Backlog
UK

Product Backlog
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 17 (14.66%) Confluence
2 6 (5.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.86%) Alfresco
Applications
1 4 (3.45%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.72%) Trello
3 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.72%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (25.86%) Azure
2 16 (13.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 16 (13.79%) Azure Monitor
3 13 (11.21%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (10.34%) Entra ID
5 9 (7.76%) AWS
5 9 (7.76%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (6.90%) Azure Functions
6 8 (6.90%) Serverless
7 7 (6.03%) GitHub
7 7 (6.03%) SaaS
8 4 (3.45%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (2.59%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 3 (2.59%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (2.59%) OCI
9 3 (2.59%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.86%) IaaS
10 1 (0.86%) Miro
10 1 (0.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.86%) LAN
1 1 (0.86%) Network Security
1 1 (0.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.21%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.86%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 23 (19.83%) JIRA
2 17 (14.66%) Git
3 4 (3.45%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (2.59%) Mocha
5 1 (0.86%) GitLab
5 1 (0.86%) Selenium
General
1 36 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 30 (25.86%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (25.86%) Finance
3 14 (12.07%) Marketing
3 14 (12.07%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 7 (6.03%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.31%) Electronics
6 5 (4.31%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (3.45%) Billing
7 4 (3.45%) Retail
8 3 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.72%) Games
9 2 (1.72%) Legal
9 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.86%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (19.83%) Analyst
1 23 (19.83%) Developer
2 20 (17.24%) Product Owner
3 15 (12.93%) Full Stack Developer
4 14 (12.07%) Business Analyst
5 13 (11.21%) Azure Developer
5 13 (11.21%) Product Manager
6 9 (7.76%) Consultant
6 9 (7.76%) Lead
6 9 (7.76%) Product Analyst
7 8 (6.90%) Scrum Master
8 7 (6.03%) Architect
9 6 (5.17%) Senior
10 5 (4.31%) Full Stack Python Developer
10 5 (4.31%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Principal Systems Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Python Developer
10 5 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.31%) Systems Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.66%) React
2 9 (7.76%) CSS
2 9 (7.76%) HTML
3 6 (5.17%) Node.js
4 4 (3.45%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (3.45%) REST
4 4 (3.45%) Visualforce
5 3 (2.59%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.59%) Jest
5 3 (2.59%) Redux
6 2 (1.72%) .NET
6 2 (1.72%) ADO
7 1 (0.86%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.86%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 55 (47.41%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.59%) Cyberattack
4 3 (2.59%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.59%) Taxonomies
5 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.86%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.86%) BBC
6 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.86%) EPoS
6 1 (0.86%) FMCG
6 1 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.86%) IoT
6 1 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.86%) Linux
1 1 (0.86%) Windows
1 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (68.10%) Agile
2 44 (37.93%) Roadmaps
3 34 (29.31%) DevOps
4 32 (27.59%) Backlog Management
5 29 (25.00%) Scrum
5 29 (25.00%) User Stories
6 24 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (20.69%) Product Roadmap
7 23 (19.83%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 23 (19.83%) SDLC
8 19 (16.38%) CI/CD
8 19 (16.38%) Epics
8 19 (16.38%) Project Management
9 18 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (14.66%) Product Management
11 16 (13.79%) Change Management
12 15 (12.93%) Full Stack Development
12 15 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (12.07%) Business Case
13 14 (12.07%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.07%) Python
2 11 (9.48%) JavaScript
3 6 (5.17%) Java
4 4 (3.45%) Apex Code
4 4 (3.45%) C
4 4 (3.45%) SQL
5 3 (2.59%) PHP
6 1 (0.86%) C++
Qualifications
1 20 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 19 (16.38%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.62%) Degree
4 3 (2.59%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.72%) PMP
6 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.86%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.86%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.17%) QA
2 4 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.59%) PMO
3 3 (2.59%) SLA
4 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.72%) WCAG
5 1 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.86%) GDPR
5 1 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (12.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.86%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (7.76%) Salesforce
1 9 (7.76%) SAP
2 8 (6.90%) Oracle
3 5 (4.31%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.31%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 3 (2.59%) Foundry
4 3 (2.59%) MuleSoft
4 3 (2.59%) Palantir
5 1 (0.86%) Ariba
5 1 (0.86%) Citrix
5 1 (0.86%) Concur
5 1 (0.86%) HP