Backlog Management Contracts in England

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 420 435 384
Rank change year-on-year +15 -51 -30
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 94 155 444
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.39% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.44% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 119 270
10th Percentile £308 £405 £425
25th Percentile £373 £475 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +6.48% +8.00%
75th Percentile £656 £669 £613
90th Percentile £738 £720 £688
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £58.20 -
25th Percentile - £64.50 -
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.79
Median % change year-on-year - +14.00% -1.44%
75th Percentile - - £69.66
90th Percentile - - £76.61
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.79
% change year-on-year - +14.00% -1.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,975 35,624 61,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 88.74% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,463 24,518 43,144
10th Percentile £313 £313 £339
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 984 1,490 1,588
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.00 £19.06 £17.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.48 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

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 October 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 October 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 +6 60 £600 - 17
South East +32 14 £463 -11.90% 7
Midlands +6 7 £550 +7.32% 4
West Midlands +6 5 £413 -9.59% 4
North of England +28 3 £365 -27.00% 13
South West +19 3 - - 3
North West +26 2 £351 -21.94% 5
East of England +17 2 £625 +13.64%
East Midlands +3 2 £550 -
Yorkshire +15 1 £460 -8.00% 7
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 15 (15.96%) Confluence
2 3 (3.19%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.06%) CMS
3 1 (1.06%) Moodle
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.06%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.06%) SAP EWM
1 1 (1.06%) SAP LE
1 1 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.06%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.02%) Azure
2 7 (7.45%) AWS
3 6 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.32%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (5.32%) SaaS
5 4 (4.26%) GitHub
5 4 (4.26%) Serverless
6 3 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.13%) Figma
7 2 (2.13%) Firebase
7 2 (2.13%) Google Analytics
7 2 (2.13%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.06%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.06%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.06%) Heroku
8 1 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.06%) ShareGate
8 1 (1.06%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.19%) GIS
3 2 (2.13%) Big Data
3 2 (2.13%) Tableau
4 1 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.06%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.06%) MySQL
4 1 (1.06%) MySQL Workbench
4 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (29.79%) JIRA
2 5 (5.32%) Selenium
3 4 (4.26%) Cypress.io
3 4 (4.26%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.19%) Git
5 2 (2.13%) Balsamiq
6 1 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.06%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.06%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.06%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.40%) Finance
3 16 (17.02%) Public Sector
4 14 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.51%) Back Office
6 6 (6.38%) Banking
7 4 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.26%) Retail
8 3 (3.19%) Billing
9 2 (2.13%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.13%) Legal
9 2 (2.13%) Marketing
9 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.13%) Wearables
10 1 (1.06%) Advertising
10 1 (1.06%) Danish Language
10 1 (1.06%) French Language
10 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 33 (35.11%) Product Owner
2 22 (23.40%) Product Manager
3 19 (20.21%) Senior
4 17 (18.09%) Analyst
5 15 (15.96%) Business Analyst
6 11 (11.70%) Senior Product Owner
7 6 (6.38%) Lead
8 5 (5.32%) Scrum Master
9 4 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Developer
9 4 (4.26%) Senior Manager
9 4 (4.26%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (3.19%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 3 (3.19%) Digital Product Owner
10 3 (3.19%) Product Lead
10 3 (3.19%) Project Manager
10 3 (3.19%) Senior Product Manager
10 3 (3.19%) Technical Business Analyst
10 3 (3.19%) Technical Leader
10 3 (3.19%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.45%) React
2 6 (6.38%) React Native
2 6 (6.38%) REST
3 5 (5.32%) Jest
4 4 (4.26%) CSS
4 4 (4.26%) CSS3
4 4 (4.26%) HTML
4 4 (4.26%) HTML5
4 4 (4.26%) Node.js
4 4 (4.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 2 (2.13%) .NET
5 2 (2.13%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.13%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.06%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.06%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.06%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.06%) Mustache
6 1 (1.06%) Sass
6 1 (1.06%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 50 (53.19%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.26%) Clustering
2 4 (4.26%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.26%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.26%) Virtual Team
3 3 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.19%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.13%) Derivative
4 2 (2.13%) Housing Association
4 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.13%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.06%) CMDB
5 1 (1.06%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.06%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.06%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (1.06%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.06%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.38%) Android
1 6 (6.38%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (77.66%) Agile
2 52 (55.32%) Product Backlog
3 38 (40.43%) Scrum
4 37 (39.36%) Roadmaps
5 30 (31.91%) User Stories
6 28 (29.79%) Product Roadmap
7 26 (27.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (25.53%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 20 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (21.28%) Product Strategy
9 20 (21.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (17.02%) Product Management
11 15 (15.96%) Analytics
12 13 (13.83%) Acceptance Criteria
12 13 (13.83%) Decision-Making
12 13 (13.83%) Product Vision
12 13 (13.83%) Requirements Gathering
13 12 (12.77%) Project Management
13 12 (12.77%) Sprint Planning
14 11 (11.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.32%) Java
1 5 (5.32%) TypeScript
2 4 (4.26%) JavaScript
2 4 (4.26%) Kotlin
2 4 (4.26%) Objective-C
2 4 (4.26%) Python
2 4 (4.26%) Swift
3 3 (3.19%) SQL
4 2 (2.13%) C#
5 1 (1.06%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.06%) PHP
5 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (13.83%) Degree
2 12 (12.77%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.57%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.19%) CSPO
6 2 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.06%) CITP
7 1 (1.06%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.51%) QA
2 4 (4.26%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.26%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.13%) EMIR
4 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.06%) GDPR
4 1 (1.06%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (4.26%) Terraform
2 1 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (7.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.26%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.19%) Google
4 2 (2.13%) Oracle
4 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.06%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.06%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.06%) Citrix
5 1 (1.06%) SAP
5 1 (1.06%) UiPath