Backlog Management Contracts in London

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 321 327 320
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 -6
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 60 104 275
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.38% 0.51% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.57% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 81 164
10th Percentile £361 £431 £451
25th Percentile £457 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +11.63% +6.44%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £603
90th Percentile £750 £744 £688
England median daily rate £543 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -5.65% +6.48% +8.00%
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% +3.20%
75th Percentile - - £69.66
90th Percentile - - £76.61
England median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.79
% change year-on-year - +14.00% -1.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,962 18,344 33,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 89.71% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,995 13,225 24,324
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +6.82%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £798
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 234 277
10th Percentile £17.43 £18.21 £16.53
25th Percentile £25.17 £21.25 £23.25
Median hourly rate £38.75 £39.09 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +4.23% +8.70%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.25 £59.38
90th Percentile £80.23 £77.50 £75.39
England median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in London

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in London

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in London

Backlog Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Backlog Management in London

Backlog Management
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +12 11 £640 +4.70% 5
West London +11 1 £465 -15.45%
East London +9 1 £535 -26.21%
Backlog Management
England

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.67%) CMS
3 1 (1.67%) Moodle
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.67%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.33%) Azure
2 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 5 (8.33%) SaaS
3 2 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.67%) AWS
4 1 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.67%) Azure WebJobs
4 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.67%) Figma
4 1 (1.67%) Firebase
4 1 (1.67%) Google Analytics
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (1.67%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.67%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.00%) GIS
3 2 (3.33%) Tableau
4 1 (1.67%) Big Data
4 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 14 (23.33%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) Git
3 1 (1.67%) Balsamiq
3 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.67%) Selenium
3 1 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 19 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.33%) Public Sector
3 13 (21.67%) Finance
4 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.33%) Back Office
5 4 (6.67%) Banking
5 4 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.67%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.67%) Legal
7 1 (1.67%) Local Government
7 1 (1.67%) Marketing
7 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) Product Manager
2 19 (31.67%) Product Owner
2 19 (31.67%) Senior
3 11 (18.33%) Senior Product Owner
4 9 (15.00%) Analyst
4 9 (15.00%) Business Analyst
5 5 (8.33%) Lead
6 4 (6.67%) Senior Manager
7 3 (5.00%) Senior Product Manager
7 3 (5.00%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Technical Business Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Technical Leader
8 2 (3.33%) Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Product Lead
8 2 (3.33%) Regulatory Business Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Scrum Master
8 2 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Senior Scrum Master
8 2 (3.33%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.00%) React
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.67%) .NET
3 1 (1.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.67%) Jest
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.67%) Mustache
3 1 (1.67%) REST
3 1 (1.67%) Sass
3 1 (1.67%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 29 (48.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.67%) Virtual Team
3 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.33%) Derivative
4 2 (3.33%) Housing Association
4 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.67%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.67%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.67%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (1.67%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Android
1 2 (3.33%) Apple iOS
1 2 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (71.67%) Agile
2 34 (56.67%) Product Backlog
3 24 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 20 (33.33%) Scrum
5 18 (30.00%) Product Roadmap
6 17 (28.33%) Product Strategy
7 15 (25.00%) User Stories
8 14 (23.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 14 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (20.00%) Analytics
9 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (18.33%) Acceptance Criteria
10 11 (18.33%) Product Management
10 11 (18.33%) Requirements Gathering
11 8 (13.33%) Translating Business Requirements
12 7 (11.67%) Decision-Making
12 7 (11.67%) Kanban
12 7 (11.67%) Product Vision
12 7 (11.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.00%) SQL
2 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.67%) C#
3 1 (1.67%) Java
3 1 (1.67%) PHP
3 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.33%) Degree
2 8 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.33%) CSPO
5 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) QA
2 4 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.67%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.33%) EMIR
4 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.67%) GDPR
4 1 (1.67%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (1.67%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (3.33%) Google
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle
2 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (1.67%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (1.67%) Citrix