Backlog Prioritisation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Backlog Prioritisation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 286 387 455
Rank change year-on-year +101 +68 -15
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 58 87 165
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.38% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.38% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 65 111
10th Percentile £400 £406 £400
25th Percentile £481 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - +9.43%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £638
90th Percentile £738 £723 £700
UK median daily rate £595 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +13.33% -4.55% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,387 22,922 40,601
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.93% 89.77% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,971 16,192 29,477
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 528 542
10th Percentile £15.08 £18.68 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.81 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.13 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Backlog Prioritisation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Backlog Prioritisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Backlog Prioritisation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Backlog Prioritisation.

Backlog Prioritisation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Backlog Prioritisation over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Backlog Prioritisation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Backlog Prioritisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (15.52%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) CMS
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Shopify
2 1 (1.72%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.03%) Azure
2 10 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (13.79%) SaaS
4 5 (8.62%) Amazon S3
4 5 (8.62%) AWS
5 4 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (6.90%) Route 53
6 3 (5.17%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (5.17%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (5.17%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (3.45%) Asana
7 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.45%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.45%) Serverless
8 1 (1.72%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) Data Lake
2 3 (5.17%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.17%) Power BI
3 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.72%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) GitLab
1 4 (6.90%) JIRA
2 3 (5.17%) webpack
3 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.41%) Finance
3 6 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.34%) Banking
3 6 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (8.62%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.90%) Marketing
6 3 (5.17%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.45%) Billing
7 2 (3.45%) Retail
8 1 (1.72%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.72%) Games
8 1 (1.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (32.76%) Product Owner
2 7 (12.07%) Architect
2 7 (12.07%) Senior
3 6 (10.34%) Analyst
3 6 (10.34%) Business Analyst
4 5 (8.62%) Product Manager
5 4 (6.90%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (6.90%) Digital Product Owner
5 4 (6.90%) Lead
5 4 (6.90%) Senior Product Owner
5 4 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Data Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Data Business Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Debt Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Insurance Business Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Consultant
7 2 (3.45%) Scrum Master
7 2 (3.45%) Technical Leader
8 1 (1.72%) Senior Business Analyst
8 1 (1.72%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) React
2 3 (5.17%) Express.js
2 3 (5.17%) Node.js
2 3 (5.17%) Redux
3 2 (3.45%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.72%) CSS
4 1 (1.72%) HTML
4 1 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (37.93%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.45%) CMDB
3 1 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.72%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Linux
1 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.72%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (72.41%) Agile
2 20 (34.48%) Roadmaps
3 19 (32.76%) Backlog Management
4 18 (31.03%) Product Backlog
4 18 (31.03%) User Stories
5 17 (29.31%) DevOps
6 16 (27.59%) Product Strategy
6 16 (27.59%) Scrum
7 14 (24.14%) Analytics
7 14 (24.14%) Business Case
8 13 (22.41%) Acceptance Criteria
8 13 (22.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (18.97%) Product Management
10 9 (15.52%) Change Management
10 9 (15.52%) Sprint Planning
11 8 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (13.79%) Product Roadmap
11 8 (13.79%) Release Management
11 8 (13.79%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.62%) SQL
2 3 (5.17%) C#
3 2 (3.45%) Python
4 1 (1.72%) Bash
4 1 (1.72%) Groovy
4 1 (1.72%) Java
4 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.72%) R
4 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.90%) Degree
4 1 (1.72%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) QA
2 7 (12.07%) PMO
3 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.72%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.45%) Docker
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.45%) Grafana
3 1 (1.72%) Ansible
3 1 (1.72%) Kibana
3 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.90%) Databricks
3 3 (5.17%) Google
4 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.72%) Ariba
5 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.72%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.72%) SAP
5 1 (1.72%) TSYS