Product Backlog Contracts in Berkshire

Product Backlogs
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Product Backlog skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Backlog over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 80 117
Rank change year-on-year -6 +37 -17
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 35 35 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.81% 1.98% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 2.20% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 19 6
10th Percentile £445 £340 £420
25th Percentile £572 £345 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £475 £457
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +3.96% +1.53%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £522
90th Percentile £688 £700 £536
South East median daily rate £600 £538 £529
% change year-on-year +11.63% +1.70% +8.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Product Backlog 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 advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,694 1,590 2,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.77% 89.73% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 993 1,350
10th Percentile £235 £349 £267
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +7.41%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 53 38
10th Percentile £17.15 £18.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £26.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.80 £63.00 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +199.64% -0.12%
75th Percentile £71.89 £74.79 £34.97
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £67.72
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in Berkshire

Product Backlog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Product Backlog in Berkshire

Product Backlog
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Backlog in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Backlog in Berkshire

Product Backlog
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Reading +4 30 £638 -8.93% 1
Newbury +1 2 £538 +53.57%
Wokingham - 1 £575 -
Product Backlog
South East

Product Backlog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (2.86%) Confluence
1 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (54.29%) Azure
2 16 (45.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 16 (45.71%) Azure Monitor
3 15 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (34.29%) Entra ID
5 11 (31.43%) Azure Functions
5 11 (31.43%) Serverless
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.86%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Broadband
1 1 (2.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (42.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (45.71%) Git
2 5 (14.29%) Selenium
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 15 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (28.57%) Finance
3 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Billing
4 4 (11.43%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.86%) General Ledger
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Azure Developer
1 15 (42.86%) Developer
1 15 (42.86%) Full Stack Developer
2 10 (28.57%) Analyst
3 8 (22.86%) Product Analyst
4 7 (20.00%) Full Stack Python Developer
4 7 (20.00%) Python Developer
5 5 (14.29%) Product Owner
6 4 (11.43%) Consultant
7 3 (8.57%) Functional Analyst
7 3 (8.57%) Functional Consultant
8 2 (5.71%) Business Analyst
8 2 (5.71%) IT Analyst
8 2 (5.71%) Oracle Consultant
8 2 (5.71%) Oracle P2P Consultant
9 1 (2.86%) Designer
9 1 (2.86%) Disaster Recovery Project Manager
9 1 (2.86%) Oracle Specialist
9 1 (2.86%) Project Manager
9 1 (2.86%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (42.86%) React
2 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.86%) CSS
2 1 (2.86%) HTML
2 1 (2.86%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 23 (65.71%) Product Ownership
2 5 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.86%) IoT
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) Agile
1 21 (60.00%) SDLC
2 17 (48.57%) DevOps
3 16 (45.71%) CI/CD
4 15 (42.86%) Full Stack Development
4 15 (42.86%) Microservices
5 13 (37.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (37.14%) Roadmaps
6 12 (34.29%) Unit Testing
7 11 (31.43%) Change Management
8 9 (25.71%) Backlog Management
9 8 (22.86%) User Stories
10 7 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
11 6 (17.14%) Backlog Refinement
11 6 (17.14%) Epics
11 6 (17.14%) Test Automation
12 5 (14.29%) Business Strategy
12 5 (14.29%) CRM
12 5 (14.29%) Customer Service
12 5 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) Python
2 5 (14.29%) Java
3 4 (11.43%) C
4 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) Degree
1 1 (2.86%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) GDPR
1 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (42.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Oracle
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Ariba
3 1 (2.86%) Concur
3 1 (2.86%) HP
3 1 (2.86%) SAP