Product Backlog Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Product Backlogs
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Product Backlog skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 99 104
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 +31
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 7 2 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.45% 0.14% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.16% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 15
10th Percentile £378 £470 £485
25th Percentile £456 £493 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% -2.50% +4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £580 £595
90th Percentile £523 £603 £630
England median daily rate £500 £575 £528
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.00% +0.48%

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 1,396 1,243 1,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 90.24% 84.21% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 741 1,201
10th Percentile £240 £300 £306
25th Percentile £375 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £556 £580 £620
90th Percentile £638 £675 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 43 33
10th Percentile £15.68 £12.23 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.16 £12.55 £17.22
Median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% -14.63% +7.89%
75th Percentile £25.15 £31.25 £26.78
90th Percentile £72.63 £46.75 £44.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.06
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.39% +51.91%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Product Backlog
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Backlog in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Backlog in Yorkshire

Product Backlog
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Product Backlog.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Product Backlog

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 22 September 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 -1 4 £513 -4.43% 4
South Yorkshire - 3 £463 - 1
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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
2 2 (28.57%) CloudBees
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) BigQuery
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) SoapUI
3 1 (14.29%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Health
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Product Owner
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Product Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Scrum Master
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) FMCG
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Scrum
3 4 (57.14%) User Stories
4 3 (42.86%) Backlog Management
4 3 (42.86%) Product Roadmap
4 3 (42.86%) Product Vision
4 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
5 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (28.57%) Architectural Design
5 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) Change Management
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (28.57%) OO
5 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (28.57%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Kotlin
2 2 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
1 1 (14.29%) MBA
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle