Backlog Prioritisation Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Backlog Prioritisation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 283 388
Rank change year-on-year +23 +105 +79
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 44 62 89
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.44% 0.40% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.46% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 41 65
10th Percentile £353 £400 £406
25th Percentile £414 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £575
90th Percentile £688 £738 £695
UK median daily rate £492 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -14.43% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £71.61 £32.36 -
% change year-on-year +121.33% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Backlog Prioritisation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Backlog Prioritisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Backlog Prioritisation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Backlog Prioritisation over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 12 (27.27%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Fusion 360
1 1 (2.27%) Siemens NX
1 1 (2.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.64%) Azure
1 6 (13.64%) SaaS
2 5 (11.36%) AWS
3 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.55%) GCP
4 1 (2.27%) Figma
4 1 (2.27%) OCI
4 1 (2.27%) Pendo
4 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.27%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (31.82%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) MLflow
2 1 (2.27%) Storybook
General
1 21 (47.73%) Social Skills
2 11 (25.00%) Finance
3 10 (22.73%) Public Sector
4 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.09%) Marketing
6 3 (6.82%) Banking
7 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.55%) Retail
8 1 (2.27%) Back Office
8 1 (2.27%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.27%) Front Office
8 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (31.82%) Analyst
2 11 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 11 (25.00%) Product Owner
3 8 (18.18%) Product Manager
4 5 (11.36%) Architect
5 4 (9.09%) Consultant
5 4 (9.09%) IFS Consultant
5 4 (9.09%) Lead
5 4 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
5 4 (9.09%) Technical Business Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Agile Business Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Scrum Master
7 2 (4.55%) Agile Product Owner
7 2 (4.55%) Digital Product Owner
7 2 (4.55%) Technical Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (4.55%) Technical Manager
7 2 (4.55%) Test Analyst
8 1 (2.27%) IT Analyst
8 1 (2.27%) Product Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 23 (52.27%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.27%) CMDB
3 1 (2.27%) Derivative
3 1 (2.27%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (75.00%) Agile
2 18 (40.91%) User Stories
3 17 (38.64%) Roadmaps
3 17 (38.64%) Scrum
3 17 (38.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (34.09%) Acceptance Criteria
4 15 (34.09%) Product Backlog
4 15 (34.09%) User Experience
5 14 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (29.55%) Backlog Management
7 11 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 11 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
7 11 (25.00%) UX Design
8 10 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (20.45%) Analytics
9 9 (20.45%) Product Vision
9 9 (20.45%) Requirements Gathering
10 8 (18.18%) Sprint Planning
11 7 (15.91%) User Research
12 6 (13.64%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.91%) SQL
2 4 (9.09%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.27%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) Degree
1 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
1 7 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.55%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 4 (9.09%) QA
3 1 (2.27%) WCAG
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) Oracle
2 4 (9.09%) IFS
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.55%) Siemens
4 1 (2.27%) Autodesk
4 1 (2.27%) Databricks
4 1 (2.27%) Google
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce