Product Backlog Contracts in London

Product Backlogs
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Product Backlog skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Backlog 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 300 339 321
Rank change year-on-year +39 -18 +11
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 90 139 311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.51% 0.55% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.60% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 100 205
10th Percentile £340 £456 £456
25th Percentile £444 £517 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £598 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.08% +4.06% +10.58%
75th Percentile £628 £671 £656
90th Percentile £746 £775 £733
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - -0.05% +10.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £31.71 - £52.50
75th Percentile £32.36 - £53.75
90th Percentile £32.74 - -
England median hourly rate £65.50 - £28.00
% change year-on-year - - -51.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Product Backlog 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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,450 23,106 35,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 90.87% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,083 16,714 26,163
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 262 405
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +11.79% +7.35%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in London

Product Backlog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Product Backlog in London

Product Backlog
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Product Backlog in London

Product Backlog
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Backlog in London

Product Backlog
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 Product Backlog within the London 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
Central London +44 18 £625 -28.57% 3
East London -4 2 £549 -2.44% 2
Product Backlog
England

Product Backlog
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 17 (18.89%) Confluence
2 5 (5.56%) CMS
3 3 (3.33%) Drupal
4 2 (2.22%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.11%) Joomla!
5 1 (1.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Endur
2 1 (1.11%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.11%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.11%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 31 (34.44%) Azure
2 14 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (12.22%) AWS
4 6 (6.67%) Serverless
5 4 (4.44%) SaaS
6 3 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.33%) GCP
6 3 (3.33%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.22%) Datadog
7 2 (2.22%) PaaS
7 2 (2.22%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.11%) BigCommerce
8 1 (1.11%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.11%) GitHub
8 1 (1.11%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.11%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.33%) Firewall
2 2 (2.22%) DHCP
2 2 (2.22%) DNS
2 2 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.11%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.78%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.44%) Big Data
3 3 (3.33%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.33%) GIS
3 3 (3.33%) Power BI
4 2 (2.22%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.11%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.11%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.11%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (16.67%) JIRA
2 3 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.11%) GitLab
3 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.11%) Selenium
3 1 (1.11%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.11%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.11%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 22 (24.44%) Finance
2 19 (21.11%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.00%) Back Office
4 9 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.56%) Banking
5 5 (5.56%) Marketing
5 5 (5.56%) Retail
6 2 (2.22%) Automotive
6 2 (2.22%) Games
6 2 (2.22%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.22%) Local Government
6 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.11%) Billing
7 1 (1.11%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.11%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.11%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.11%) Law
7 1 (1.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (41.11%) Product Owner
2 18 (20.00%) Product Manager
3 17 (18.89%) Senior
4 14 (15.56%) Analyst
5 13 (14.44%) Business Analyst
6 8 (8.89%) Senior Product Owner
7 6 (6.67%) Developer
7 6 (6.67%) Lead
8 5 (5.56%) Scrum Master
9 4 (4.44%) Digital Product Owner
10 3 (3.33%) Project Manager
10 3 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (3.33%) Senior Business Analyst
10 3 (3.33%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.33%) Senior Manager
10 3 (3.33%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (3.33%) Technical Product Owner
10 3 (3.33%) Web Producer
11 2 (2.22%) Customer Analyst
11 2 (2.22%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.56%) .NET
2 3 (3.33%) CSS
2 3 (3.33%) HTML
2 3 (3.33%) Node.js
3 2 (2.22%) LDAP
3 2 (2.22%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (2.22%) React
3 2 (2.22%) REST
3 2 (2.22%) Visualforce
4 1 (1.11%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.11%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.11%) ebXML
4 1 (1.11%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.11%) Kafka
4 1 (1.11%) SAP PI
4 1 (1.11%) SOAP
4 1 (1.11%) VML
4 1 (1.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (64.44%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.44%) Freedom of Information
2 4 (4.44%) Freedom of Information Act
2 4 (4.44%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.22%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.22%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.22%) Clustering
4 2 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.22%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.22%) Digital Signage
4 2 (2.22%) IPTV
4 2 (2.22%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.11%) Infotainment
5 1 (1.11%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.11%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.22%) Linux
1 2 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (77.78%) Agile
2 45 (50.00%) User Stories
3 37 (41.11%) Scrum
4 31 (34.44%) Acceptance Criteria
5 30 (33.33%) Backlog Management
5 30 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 27 (30.00%) Roadmaps
7 23 (25.56%) Translating Business Requirements
8 21 (23.33%) DevOps
9 20 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
10 18 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
11 15 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
12 14 (15.56%) Product Requirements
13 13 (14.44%) Business Case
13 13 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (14.44%) Sprint Planning
13 13 (14.44%) User Acceptance Testing
14 12 (13.33%) Analytics
14 12 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.78%) SQL
2 3 (3.33%) C#
2 3 (3.33%) Java
2 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.22%) Apex Code
3 2 (2.22%) C
3 2 (2.22%) Go
3 2 (2.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (8.89%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.78%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.67%) Degree
4 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.22%) MBA
4 2 (2.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.33%) PCI DSS
1 3 (3.33%) QA
2 1 (1.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.22%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.22%) Ansible
2 2 (2.22%) Rundeck
3 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (5.56%) SAP
2 3 (3.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.33%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.22%) BigPanda
3 2 (2.22%) Logitech
3 2 (2.22%) OpenLink
3 2 (2.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.11%) Adobe
4 1 (1.11%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.11%) Dell
4 1 (1.11%) Google
4 1 (1.11%) Intel
4 1 (1.11%) Murex
4 1 (1.11%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle
4 1 (1.11%) Pega
4 1 (1.11%) Sitecore