Product Backlog Contracts in London

Product Backlogs
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Product Backlog skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Backlog 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 291 335 328
Rank change year-on-year +44 -7 +27
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 91 96 266
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.58% 0.47% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.52% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 60 169
10th Percentile £378 £429 £418
25th Percentile £490 £479 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £594 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% +13.09% -4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £638
90th Percentile £750 £739 £700
England median daily rate £581 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +5.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £33.07 - -
England median hourly rate £33.07 £57.25 -
% change year-on-year -42.24% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Product Backlog 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%

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 October 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

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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 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 +21 17 £640 -1.54% 1
East London +12 3 £535 -28.90% 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 14 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (1.10%) CMS
2 1 (1.10%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.10%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Endur
2 2 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.10%) Loan IQ
3 1 (1.10%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.10%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.10%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 29 (31.87%) Azure
2 8 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (8.79%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (5.49%) AWS
4 4 (4.40%) Serverless
4 4 (4.40%) SuccessFactors
5 3 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.30%) GCP
6 2 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.20%) Figma
7 1 (1.10%) Asana
7 1 (1.10%) Firebase
7 1 (1.10%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.10%) Miro
7 1 (1.10%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.10%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) Ethernet
1 1 (1.10%) FTP
1 1 (1.10%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.49%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.30%) BigQuery
3 3 (3.30%) GIS
4 2 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.20%) Big Data
5 1 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.10%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.10%) Power BI
5 1 (1.10%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (19.78%) JIRA
2 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.20%) Selenium
2 2 (2.20%) SoapUI
2 2 (2.20%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.10%) Balsamiq
3 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.10%) GitLab
3 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (25.27%) Social Skills
2 22 (24.18%) Finance
3 17 (18.68%) Public Sector
4 13 (14.29%) Back Office
5 9 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.49%) Banking
7 4 (4.40%) Marketing
7 4 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.30%) Games
9 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.20%) Local Government
9 2 (2.20%) Retail
9 2 (2.20%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.10%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.10%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.10%) Military
10 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (41.76%) Product Owner
2 26 (28.57%) Senior
3 21 (23.08%) Product Manager
4 17 (18.68%) Senior Product Owner
5 11 (12.09%) Analyst
5 11 (12.09%) Business Analyst
6 8 (8.79%) Lead
7 5 (5.49%) Scrum Master
8 4 (4.40%) Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Endur Business Analyst
9 3 (3.30%) OpenLink Business Analyst
9 3 (3.30%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.30%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (3.30%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Senior Manager
9 3 (3.30%) Senior Product Manager
9 3 (3.30%) Technical Product Owner
9 3 (3.30%) Test Analyst
10 2 (2.20%) Product Lead
10 2 (2.20%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.49%) .NET
2 3 (3.30%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (2.20%) Kafka
3 2 (2.20%) SOAP
4 1 (1.10%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.10%) ebXML
4 1 (1.10%) React
4 1 (1.10%) SAP PI
4 1 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (61.54%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.59%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.20%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (2.20%) Freedom of Information Act
3 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.10%) FMCG
4 1 (1.10%) Handset
4 1 (1.10%) Infotainment
4 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.10%) Mobile Payment
4 1 (1.10%) PDA
4 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.10%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.10%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.40%) Windows
2 1 (1.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (81.32%) Agile
2 40 (43.96%) User Stories
3 39 (42.86%) Scrum
4 34 (37.36%) Backlog Management
5 27 (29.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (29.67%) Roadmaps
6 26 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
6 26 (28.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 20 (21.98%) Product Roadmap
7 20 (21.98%) Product Strategy
8 19 (20.88%) Requirements Gathering
9 18 (19.78%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (17.58%) Analytics
11 15 (16.48%) DevOps
12 14 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
12 14 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
13 12 (13.19%) Kanban
14 11 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (12.09%) Product Management
14 11 (12.09%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.40%) C#
2 3 (3.30%) Java
2 3 (3.30%) SQL
3 1 (1.10%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.10%) Python
3 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.19%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.99%) Degree
4 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.20%) CSPO
5 2 (2.20%) ISEB
6 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.59%) PCI DSS
2 5 (5.49%) QA
3 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.20%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.10%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.10%) Ansible
1 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.10%) Packer
1 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (8.79%) Microsoft
1 8 (8.79%) SAP
2 3 (3.30%) OpenLink
3 2 (2.20%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.20%) Google
3 2 (2.20%) Oracle
3 2 (2.20%) Siemens
4 1 (1.10%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.10%) Citrix
4 1 (1.10%) Progress
4 1 (1.10%) Sage
4 1 (1.10%) Salesforce