Product Backlog Contracts in Yorkshire

Product Backlogs
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Product Backlog skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Backlog 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 86 94 100
Rank change year-on-year +8 +6 +25
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 6 6 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.59% 0.36% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.41% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 12
10th Percentile £459 £431 £514
25th Percentile £464 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £505 £600 £600
90th Percentile £513 - £645
England median daily rate £575 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +4.55% -2.22% -2.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in Yorkshire

Product Backlog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Product Backlog in Yorkshire

Product Backlog
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 Product Backlog within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Yorkshire +16 4 £506 +12.50% 4
South Yorkshire +7 2 £464 -22.63% 4
Product Backlog
England

Product Backlog
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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
1 2 (33.33%) CloudBees
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Health Technology
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Lead Product Owner
1 2 (33.33%) Product Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 3 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) User Stories
3 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Contingency Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (33.33%) Objectives and Key Results
3 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) Kotlin
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (16.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Brio