Product Backlog Contract Job Trends in Warwickshire

Product Backlogs
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Warwickshire requiring Product Backlog skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 37 40
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 3 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in Warwickshire 0.59% 1.76% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 2.04% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £625 £418 -
25th Percentile £663 £434 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +52.63% -17.39% +100.00%
75th Percentile £788 £538 £588
90th Percentile £825 £568 -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Warwickshire

Product Backlog 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 Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 431 294 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 85.01% 86.47% 90.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 168 200
10th Percentile £303 £413 £217
25th Percentile £400 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% +10.20% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £725 £670 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 9
10th Percentile £16.11 - £19.60
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.70 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £28.42
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -29.63% +97.91%
75th Percentile £35.60 £35.00 £34.50
90th Percentile - - £38.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £21.59 £28.25
% change year-on-year -6.21% -23.58% +63.13%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Backlog relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire.

Product Backlog job vacancy trend in Warwickshire

Product Backlog
Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing Product Backlog.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing Product Backlog

Product Backlog
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Backlog in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Backlog in Warwickshire

Product Backlog
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 9 January 2026. 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
Warwick -12 2 £850 +78.95% 2
Product Backlog
West Midlands

Product Backlog
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwickshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Product Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Programme Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Product Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
1 1 (33.33%) Programme Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Product Management
2 2 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Product Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Product Vision
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) User Research
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (33.33%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Product Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM