Backlog Management Contracts in Yorkshire

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Backlog Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Management over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 99 113
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 +11
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 8 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.67% 0.23% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.28% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 5
10th Percentile £365 £428 £565
25th Percentile £389 £442 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £450 £700
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -35.71% +33.33%
75th Percentile £512 £477 -
90th Percentile £583 £513 -
England median daily rate £514 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.14% -8.70% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Backlog Management 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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,122 1,450 1,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 93.42% 84.01% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 870 1,276
10th Percentile £263 £275 £275
25th Percentile £380 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 73 61
10th Percentile £16.13 £11.39 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.16 £12.15 -
Median hourly rate £21.69 £13.23 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +63.95% +24.46% -42.54%
75th Percentile £24.80 £21.50 £20.94
90th Percentile £30.68 £53.75 £44.50
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Backlog Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in Yorkshire

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in Yorkshire

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in Yorkshire

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Management within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 June 2025. 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 Yorkshire - 6 £484 - 6
West Yorkshire 0 2 - - 13
Backlog Management
England

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) JIRA
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Retail
4 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Incident Manager
2 2 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 2 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum Master
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Decision-Making
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 4 (50.00%) ITSM
3 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) Kanban
5 2 (25.00%) Business Transformation
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
5 2 (25.00%) Project Governance
5 2 (25.00%) Project Management
5 2 (25.00%) Project Planning
5 2 (25.00%) Quality Management
5 2 (25.00%) Resource Management
5 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
1 1 (12.50%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) GDPR
1 4 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (25.00%) PMO
3 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Veeam