Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in England

Backlog Prioritisation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Backlog Prioritisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Prioritisation 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 424 474 537
Rank change year-on-year +50 +63 -25
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 119 165 249
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.35% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.39% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 120 167
10th Percentile £380 £361 £413
25th Percentile £513 £450 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £702 £710
UK median daily rate £595 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +13.33% - +5.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £31.71 - £65.76
75th Percentile £32.36 - -
90th Percentile £32.74 - -
UK median hourly rate £32.36 - £65.76

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Backlog Prioritisation 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 Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in England

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in England

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in England

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in England

Backlog Prioritisation
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 Prioritisation 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 +67 65 £575 - 25
North of England +40 22 £663 +47.22% 8
North West +31 18 £663 +47.22% 5
Midlands +30 18 £575 +9.52% 6
East Midlands +24 12 £595 +213.16% 3
South East -23 9 £600 +41.18% 7
West Midlands +14 6 £550 +2.33% 3
Yorkshire +17 3 £600 - 2
South West +7 3 £600 +9.09% 2
East of England -4 1 - - 1
North East - 1 - - 1
Backlog Prioritisation
UK

Backlog Prioritisation
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 16 (13.45%) Confluence
2 3 (2.52%) CMS
2 3 (2.52%) Drupal
3 2 (1.68%) Apache
3 2 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.68%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.84%) Joomla!
4 1 (0.84%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.84%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Shopify
2 1 (0.84%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.84%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 27 (22.69%) Azure
2 19 (15.97%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (14.29%) AWS
4 13 (10.92%) SaaS
5 11 (9.24%) Amazon S3
6 9 (7.56%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (7.56%) Amazon ECR
6 9 (7.56%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (7.56%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (7.56%) Route 53
6 9 (7.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (5.04%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.36%) Serverless
8 4 (3.36%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (2.52%) GitHub
9 3 (2.52%) Google Analytics
9 3 (2.52%) Miro
9 3 (2.52%) PaaS
10 2 (1.68%) dbt
10 2 (1.68%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.68%) DHCP
1 2 (1.68%) DNS
1 2 (1.68%) Firewall
1 2 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.84%) Network Security
2 1 (0.84%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.72%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (4.20%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.52%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.52%) GIS
4 2 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.68%) Big Data
4 2 (1.68%) Power BI
4 2 (1.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (11.76%) JIRA
2 9 (7.56%) GitLab
2 9 (7.56%) webpack
3 3 (2.52%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.68%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.68%) Git
4 2 (1.68%) Selenium
4 2 (1.68%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.84%) Postman
5 1 (0.84%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.84%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 40 (33.61%) Finance
2 27 (22.69%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.92%) Banking
5 9 (7.56%) Investment Banking
5 9 (7.56%) Retail
6 8 (6.72%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (5.04%) Marketing
9 5 (4.20%) Corporate Banking
9 5 (4.20%) Retail Banking
9 5 (4.20%) Telecoms
10 4 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.52%) Back Office
11 3 (2.52%) Billing
12 2 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.68%) Local Government
13 1 (0.84%) Automotive
13 1 (0.84%) Games
13 1 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (36.13%) Product Owner
2 17 (14.29%) Senior
3 14 (11.76%) Architect
4 13 (10.92%) Lead
5 11 (9.24%) Product Manager
6 10 (8.40%) Senior Product Owner
6 10 (8.40%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.72%) Analyst
7 8 (6.72%) Digital Product Owner
8 7 (5.88%) Business Analyst
9 6 (5.04%) Technical Leader
10 5 (4.20%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.36%) Project Manager
12 3 (2.52%) Data Analyst
12 3 (2.52%) Debt Manager
12 3 (2.52%) Scrum Master
12 3 (2.52%) Technical Product Owner
12 3 (2.52%) Web Producer
13 2 (1.68%) Finance Business Analyst
13 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.92%) Node.js
2 11 (9.24%) React
3 9 (7.56%) Express.js
3 9 (7.56%) Redux
4 2 (1.68%) CSS
4 2 (1.68%) CSS3
4 2 (1.68%) HTML
4 2 (1.68%) HTML5
4 2 (1.68%) Jest
4 2 (1.68%) LDAP
4 2 (1.68%) Middleware
4 2 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.68%) PySpark
4 2 (1.68%) React Native
4 2 (1.68%) REST
5 1 (0.84%) .NET
5 1 (0.84%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (45.38%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (2.52%) Data Structures
2 3 (2.52%) Taxonomies
3 2 (1.68%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.68%) Client/Server
3 2 (1.68%) Clustering
3 2 (1.68%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.68%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (1.68%) Freedom of Information Act
3 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.68%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (0.84%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.84%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.84%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (73.11%) Agile
2 47 (39.50%) Product Backlog
3 42 (35.29%) User Stories
4 41 (34.45%) Roadmaps
5 39 (32.77%) Scrum
6 34 (28.57%) Backlog Management
7 31 (26.05%) DevOps
8 27 (22.69%) Acceptance Criteria
9 24 (20.17%) Product Roadmap
10 23 (19.33%) Product Strategy
11 21 (17.65%) Analytics
11 21 (17.65%) Business Case
11 21 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (15.13%) Product Management
12 18 (15.13%) Translating Business Requirements
13 17 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (13.45%) Backlog Refinement
15 15 (12.61%) CI/CD
15 15 (12.61%) Product Requirements
16 14 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (7.56%) SQL
2 7 (5.88%) Python
3 3 (2.52%) C#
3 3 (2.52%) Java
4 2 (1.68%) C
4 2 (1.68%) Go
4 2 (1.68%) Kotlin
4 2 (1.68%) Scala
4 2 (1.68%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.84%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.56%) Degree
4 2 (1.68%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.68%) MBA
5 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.92%) QA
2 11 (9.24%) PMO
3 2 (1.68%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.84%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.84%) GDPR
4 1 (0.84%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (5.04%) Docker
2 4 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (9.24%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (10.08%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.36%) Google
2 4 (3.36%) SAP
3 3 (2.52%) Databricks
3 3 (2.52%) MuleSoft
4 2 (1.68%) Ab Initio
4 2 (1.68%) Adobe
4 2 (1.68%) Optimizely
4 2 (1.68%) Oracle
4 2 (1.68%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.68%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.84%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.84%) Dell
5 1 (0.84%) Intel
5 1 (0.84%) TSYS