Backlog Management Contracts in England

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Backlog Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Management over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 403 411 344
Rank change year-on-year +8 -67 +26
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 140 236 543
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.50% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.55% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 160 354
10th Percentile £363 £406 £419
25th Percentile £457 £451 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £581 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +5.68% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £54.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £58.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +10.95% -18.92%
75th Percentile - £72.19 £53.75
90th Percentile - £75.75 -
UK median hourly rate - £58.25 £59.75
% change year-on-year - -2.51% -5.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Backlog Management 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,587 42,714 64,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.77% 89.96% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,623 29,972 45,670
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,317 1,513 1,726
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in England

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in England

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in England

Backlog Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Backlog Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Backlog Management in England

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
London +24 78 £550 -8.33% 29
South East -20 20 £525 -12.50% 15
Midlands +19 17 £575 +27.78% 11
South West +17 13 £475 -25.49% 3
East Midlands +25 12 £595 +48.75% 2
North of England +21 8 £450 -35.71% 8
Yorkshire +14 5 £450 -35.71% 3
West Midlands +2 5 £215 -52.22% 9
North West +15 3 £450 -34.55% 4
Backlog Management
UK

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 25 (17.86%) Confluence
2 15 (10.71%) SharePoint
3 11 (7.86%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (2.14%) CMS
5 2 (1.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.43%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.29%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.43%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.71%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (0.71%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 32 (22.86%) Azure
2 10 (7.14%) Azure Stack
3 8 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (5.71%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.00%) AWS
5 6 (4.29%) SaaS
6 5 (3.57%) Serverless
7 4 (2.86%) GitHub
7 4 (2.86%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (1.43%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.43%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (1.43%) Asana
8 2 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.43%) Figma
8 2 (1.43%) Miro
8 2 (1.43%) PaaS
8 2 (1.43%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.71%) ShareGate
9 1 (0.71%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.29%) Firewall
2 11 (7.86%) BGP
3 3 (2.14%) DNS
4 2 (1.43%) Broadband
4 2 (1.43%) DHCP
4 2 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.71%) 3G
5 1 (0.71%) 4G
5 1 (0.71%) 5G
5 1 (0.71%) DSL
5 1 (0.71%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (3.57%) Power BI
2 3 (2.14%) Big Data
2 3 (2.14%) GIS
3 2 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.43%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.43%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (31.43%) JIRA
2 4 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.14%) Selenium
3 3 (2.14%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.43%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.71%) Git
General
1 52 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.14%) Finance
3 18 (12.86%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.57%) Banking
6 11 (7.86%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (4.29%) Retail
8 6 (4.29%) Telecoms
9 5 (3.57%) Back Office
9 5 (3.57%) Billing
9 5 (3.57%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.86%) General Ledger
11 3 (2.14%) Investment Banking
11 3 (2.14%) Legal
11 3 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.43%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.43%) Marketing
13 1 (0.71%) French Language
Job Titles
1 40 (28.57%) Analyst
2 34 (24.29%) Product Owner
3 29 (20.71%) Business Analyst
4 15 (10.71%) Senior
5 14 (10.00%) Product Manager
6 10 (7.14%) Scrum Master
7 7 (5.00%) Lead
8 6 (4.29%) Project Manager
8 6 (4.29%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (4.29%) Senior Business Analyst
8 6 (4.29%) Senior Product Owner
9 5 (3.57%) Data Business Analyst
9 5 (3.57%) Service Analyst
9 5 (3.57%) Service Management Analyst
10 4 (2.86%) Architect
11 3 (2.14%) Banking Analyst
11 3 (2.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 3 (2.14%) Consultant
11 3 (2.14%) Junior
11 3 (2.14%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.57%) React
2 4 (2.86%) .NET
2 4 (2.86%) HTML
2 4 (2.86%) Node.js
3 3 (2.14%) Jest
3 3 (2.14%) REST
4 2 (1.43%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.43%) CSS
4 2 (1.43%) CSS3
4 2 (1.43%) HTML5
4 2 (1.43%) JSON
4 2 (1.43%) LDAP
4 2 (1.43%) React Native
4 2 (1.43%) XML
5 1 (0.71%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.71%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 57 (40.71%) Product Ownership
2 11 (7.86%) Private Cloud
3 4 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.14%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.43%) Blockchain
5 2 (1.43%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.43%) Clustering
5 2 (1.43%) CMDB
5 2 (1.43%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.43%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.43%) Derivative
5 2 (1.43%) Equities
5 2 (1.43%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.43%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (1.43%) Freedom of Information Act
5 2 (1.43%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.71%) IVR
6 1 (0.71%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.29%) Windows
2 3 (2.14%) Linux
3 2 (1.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.71%) Android
4 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (55.00%) Agile
2 52 (37.14%) Product Backlog
3 50 (35.71%) Roadmaps
4 46 (32.86%) Scrum
5 41 (29.29%) User Stories
6 35 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (24.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 31 (22.14%) Product Roadmap
9 26 (18.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (16.43%) Requirements Gathering
11 21 (15.00%) DevOps
12 20 (14.29%) Product Strategy
13 19 (13.57%) Acceptance Criteria
14 17 (12.14%) ITIL
15 16 (11.43%) Service Management
15 16 (11.43%) Sprint Planning
16 15 (10.71%) Business Analysis
16 15 (10.71%) ITSM
16 15 (10.71%) Kanban
16 15 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.43%) SQL
2 7 (5.00%) Python
3 4 (2.86%) Java
4 3 (2.14%) C#
4 3 (2.14%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.14%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.14%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.43%) C
5 2 (1.43%) Go
5 2 (1.43%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.43%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.71%) C++
Qualifications
1 25 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.29%) Degree
2 13 (9.29%) DV Cleared
3 12 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.43%) CSPO
4 2 (1.43%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.43%) PMP
5 1 (0.71%) CBAP
5 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.71%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.29%) PMO
2 12 (8.57%) QA
3 11 (7.86%) Government Security Classifications
4 6 (4.29%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.14%) GAAP
6 2 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.43%) EMIR
6 2 (1.43%) MiFID
6 2 (1.43%) SLA
6 2 (1.43%) WCAG
7 1 (0.71%) GDPR
7 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (2.86%) Terraform
2 2 (1.43%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.71%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 21 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.86%) Atlassian
3 6 (4.29%) SAP
4 5 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.14%) Oracle
5 3 (2.14%) Pega
6 2 (1.43%) Adobe
6 2 (1.43%) Civica
6 2 (1.43%) Databricks
7 1 (0.71%) Ariba
7 1 (0.71%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.71%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.71%) Cadence
7 1 (0.71%) Charles River
7 1 (0.71%) Citrix
7 1 (0.71%) Concur
7 1 (0.71%) HP
7 1 (0.71%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.71%) UiPath
7 1 (0.71%) VMware