Backlog Prioritisation Contracts

Backlog Prioritisation
UK

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 448 498 536
Rank change year-on-year +50 +38 +14
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 131 186 323
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.37% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 132 220
10th Percentile £378 £363 £406
25th Percentile £500 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +26.32% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.71 - -
Median hourly rate £32.36 - £65.76
75th Percentile £41.75 - -
90th Percentile £57.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 - £65.76

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Backlog Prioritisation 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Backlog Prioritisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation.

Hourly rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 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
England +50 119 £600 +14.29% 56
London +79 65 £575 - 25
Work from Home +92 61 £563 +7.14% 28
UK excluding London +16 59 £600 +26.32% 33
North of England +43 22 £663 +47.22% 10
Midlands +33 18 £575 +9.52% 8
North West +28 18 £663 +47.22% 7
East Midlands +20 12 £595 +213.16% 3
South East -25 9 £600 +41.18% 7
Scotland +35 6 £435 -17.14% 4
West Midlands +13 6 £550 +2.33% 5
Yorkshire +22 3 £600 - 2
South West +8 3 £600 +9.09% 2
East of England -4 1 - - 1
North East - 1 - - 1

Backlog Prioritisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (12.98%) Confluence
2 4 (3.05%) Apache
2 4 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.29%) CMS
3 3 (2.29%) Drupal
4 2 (1.53%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.76%) Joomla!
5 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.05%) Shopify
2 1 (0.76%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.76%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 27 (20.61%) Azure
2 20 (15.27%) AWS
3 19 (14.50%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (10.69%) Amazon S3
5 13 (9.92%) SaaS
6 10 (7.63%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (7.63%) Route 53
7 9 (6.87%) Amazon ECR
7 9 (6.87%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (6.87%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (6.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (5.34%) Serverless
9 6 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.05%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (3.05%) dbt
11 4 (3.05%) Snowflake
11 4 (3.05%) SuccessFactors
12 3 (2.29%) GitHub
12 3 (2.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) DHCP
1 2 (1.53%) DNS
1 2 (1.53%) Firewall
1 2 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.76%) Network Security
2 1 (0.76%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.87%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.82%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.29%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.29%) GIS
6 2 (1.53%) Big Data
6 2 (1.53%) Power BI
6 2 (1.53%) Tableau
7 1 (0.76%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (11.45%) JIRA
2 10 (7.63%) GitLab
3 9 (6.87%) webpack
4 4 (3.05%) Git
4 4 (3.05%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.53%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.53%) Selenium
5 2 (1.53%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.76%) Postman
6 1 (0.76%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.76%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 40 (30.53%) Finance
2 30 (22.90%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.92%) Banking
5 10 (7.63%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.87%) Investment Banking
6 9 (6.87%) Retail
7 7 (5.34%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (4.58%) Marketing
9 5 (3.82%) Corporate Banking
9 5 (3.82%) Retail Banking
9 5 (3.82%) Telecoms
10 4 (3.05%) Billing
10 4 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.29%) Back Office
11 3 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.53%) Local Government
13 1 (0.76%) Automotive
13 1 (0.76%) Games
13 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (34.35%) Product Owner
2 19 (14.50%) Senior
3 15 (11.45%) Architect
4 13 (9.92%) Lead
4 13 (9.92%) Product Manager
5 10 (7.63%) Analyst
5 10 (7.63%) Senior Product Owner
5 10 (7.63%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (6.87%) Business Analyst
7 8 (6.11%) Digital Product Owner
8 6 (4.58%) Scrum Master
8 6 (4.58%) Technical Leader
9 5 (3.82%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.05%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.05%) Senior Business Analyst
11 3 (2.29%) Data Analyst
11 3 (2.29%) Debt Manager
11 3 (2.29%) Technical Product Owner
11 3 (2.29%) Web Producer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.92%) Node.js
2 11 (8.40%) React
3 9 (6.87%) Express.js
3 9 (6.87%) Redux
4 4 (3.05%) PySpark
5 2 (1.53%) CSS
5 2 (1.53%) CSS3
5 2 (1.53%) HTML
5 2 (1.53%) HTML5
5 2 (1.53%) Jest
5 2 (1.53%) LDAP
5 2 (1.53%) Middleware
5 2 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.53%) React Native
5 2 (1.53%) REST
6 1 (0.76%) .NET
6 1 (0.76%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.76%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (42.75%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (2.29%) Data Structures
2 3 (2.29%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.29%) Taxonomies
3 2 (1.53%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.53%) Client/Server
3 2 (1.53%) Clustering
3 2 (1.53%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.53%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (1.53%) Freedom of Information Act
3 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.76%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.76%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.29%) Linux
2 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (75.57%) Agile
2 54 (41.22%) Product Backlog
3 48 (36.64%) User Stories
4 47 (35.88%) Roadmaps
5 46 (35.11%) Scrum
6 37 (28.24%) Backlog Management
7 32 (24.43%) DevOps
8 31 (23.66%) Acceptance Criteria
9 27 (20.61%) Product Roadmap
10 26 (19.85%) Product Strategy
11 24 (18.32%) Analytics
11 24 (18.32%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (16.03%) Business Case
13 20 (15.27%) Product Management
14 19 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (13.74%) Translating Business Requirements
16 17 (12.98%) Product Requirements
17 16 (12.21%) Backlog Refinement
17 16 (12.21%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.40%) SQL
2 10 (7.63%) Python
3 4 (3.05%) Scala
4 3 (2.29%) C#
4 3 (2.29%) Java
5 2 (1.53%) C
5 2 (1.53%) Go
5 2 (1.53%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.53%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.76%) Bash
6 1 (0.76%) Groovy
6 1 (0.76%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (14.50%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.74%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.16%) Degree
4 2 (1.53%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.53%) MBA
5 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.76%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.21%) QA
2 11 (8.40%) PMO
3 2 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.76%) GDPR
4 1 (0.76%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (4.58%) Docker
2 4 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (9.16%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.29%) Terraform
3 1 (0.76%) Ansible
3 1 (0.76%) Grafana
3 1 (0.76%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (9.16%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.82%) Google
2 5 (3.82%) SAP
3 4 (3.05%) Ab Initio
4 3 (2.29%) Databricks
4 3 (2.29%) MuleSoft
4 3 (2.29%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.53%) Adobe
5 2 (1.53%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.53%) Oracle
5 2 (1.53%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.76%) Ariba
6 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.76%) Dell
6 1 (0.76%) Intel
6 1 (0.76%) TSYS