Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in England

Backlog Prioritisation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Backlog Prioritisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Prioritisation 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 422 488 529
Rank change year-on-year +66 +41 -57
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 92 101 240
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.25% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.28% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 70 166
10th Percentile £363 £358 £419
25th Percentile £421 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £590 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% +12.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £631 £668 £625
90th Percentile £694 £850 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £34.89 - -
25th Percentile £37.62 - -
Median hourly rate £42.79 - -
75th Percentile £48.58 - -
90th Percentile £51.68 - -
UK median hourly rate £42.79 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Backlog Prioritisation 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 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 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 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 +25 50 £525 -12.50% 13
South East +56 24 £575 +23.66% 4
North of England +30 6 £455 -9.00% 9
North West +27 5 £450 -10.00% 7
Midlands +7 5 £550 +83.33% 4
South West +26 3 £405 -28.88% 1
West Midlands +5 3 £575 +91.67% 4
East of England +18 2 - - 1
East Midlands +5 2 £550 -
Yorkshire +16 1 £460 -14.42% 2
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 8 (8.70%) Confluence
2 3 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.17%) Apache
3 2 (2.17%) Appian
4 1 (1.09%) CMS
4 1 (1.09%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Trello
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.09%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Shopify
2 2 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.09%) Magento
3 1 (1.09%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 18 (19.57%) Azure
2 13 (14.13%) Dynamics 365
3 12 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.43%) AWS
4 5 (5.43%) SaaS
5 4 (4.35%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (3.26%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.26%) Serverless
7 2 (2.17%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.17%) dbt
7 2 (2.17%) GitHub
7 2 (2.17%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.17%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.17%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.09%) BigCommerce
8 1 (1.09%) Bloomreach
8 1 (1.09%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.17%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.61%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.35%) Big Data
3 3 (3.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (3.26%) GIS
4 2 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.09%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (23.91%) JIRA
2 2 (2.17%) Git
2 2 (2.17%) GitLab
2 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.17%) Postman
2 2 (2.17%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 34 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (18.48%) Public Sector
4 13 (14.13%) Finance
5 7 (7.61%) Telecoms
6 5 (5.43%) Back Office
6 5 (5.43%) Marketing
6 5 (5.43%) Retail
7 4 (4.35%) Electronics
7 4 (4.35%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.26%) Billing
8 3 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.17%) Local Government
9 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Agriculture
10 1 (1.09%) Aviation
10 1 (1.09%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (36.96%) Product Owner
2 14 (15.22%) Scrum Master
3 13 (14.13%) Senior
4 12 (13.04%) Lead
5 11 (11.96%) Product Manager
6 7 (7.61%) Senior Product Owner
7 6 (6.52%) Analyst
8 4 (4.35%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.26%) Technical Product Owner
10 2 (2.17%) Agile Product Owner
10 2 (2.17%) E-Commerce Product Owner
10 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Engineer
10 2 (2.17%) Product Lead
10 2 (2.17%) QA Analyst
10 2 (2.17%) Senior Business Analyst
10 2 (2.17%) Senior Manager
10 2 (2.17%) Senior QA Analyst
10 2 (2.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.26%) PySpark
2 2 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.09%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (60.87%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.52%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.17%) Taxonomies
4 2 (2.17%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.09%) CMDB
5 1 (1.09%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.09%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (1.09%) Handset
5 1 (1.09%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (76.09%) Agile
2 44 (47.83%) Product Backlog
3 40 (43.48%) Roadmaps
4 38 (41.30%) Scrum
5 30 (32.61%) Product Roadmap
6 29 (31.52%) DevOps
7 26 (28.26%) Sprint Planning
8 24 (26.09%) Backlog Management
8 24 (26.09%) User Stories
9 22 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (20.65%) Sprint Retrospective
12 18 (19.57%) Sprint Review
13 16 (17.39%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 16 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (16.30%) Project Management
15 12 (13.04%) Acceptance Criteria
15 12 (13.04%) Product Management
16 11 (11.96%) Backlog Refinement
16 11 (11.96%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.70%) SQL
2 5 (5.43%) Python
3 2 (2.17%) Scala
4 1 (1.09%) C#
4 1 (1.09%) C++
4 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.78%) Degree
4 6 (6.52%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.17%) CSPO
7 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.52%) QA
2 4 (4.35%) GRC
3 3 (3.26%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.17%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (2.17%) Ansible
1 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.17%) Packer
1 2 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.78%) SAP
3 6 (6.52%) Salesforce
3 6 (6.52%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.26%) Oracle
5 2 (2.17%) Ab Initio
5 2 (2.17%) Adobe
5 2 (2.17%) Blue Prism
5 2 (2.17%) Cisco
5 2 (2.17%) Genesys
5 2 (2.17%) Google
5 2 (2.17%) Nokia
5 2 (2.17%) Rakuten
5 2 (2.17%) Siemens
6 1 (1.09%) Databricks
6 1 (1.09%) IFS
6 1 (1.09%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.09%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.09%) SnapLogic
6 1 (1.09%) Talend