Product Backlog Contracts in the North of England

Product Backlogs
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 167 186 203
Rank change year-on-year +19 +17 -40
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 15 22 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.32% 0.40% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.44% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 32
10th Percentile £399 £417 £413
25th Percentile £427 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £556
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% -1.12% +17.11%
75th Percentile £549 £600 £614
90th Percentile £600 £650 £654
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - -0.05% +10.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £26.40
25th Percentile - - £26.63
Median hourly rate - - £28.00
75th Percentile - - £29.13
90th Percentile - - £29.20
England median hourly rate £65.50 - £28.00
% change year-on-year - - -51.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,005 4,989 6,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.74% 90.18% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,427 3,423 4,604
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 381 202 255
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.53 £15.73 £13.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £27.60 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.54% +45.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £33.83
90th Percentile £62.50 £63.75 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Product Backlog as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in the North of England

Product Backlog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Backlog in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Product Backlog in the North of England

Product Backlog
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Product Backlog in the North of England

Product Backlog
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Backlog in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Product Backlog in the North of England

Product Backlog
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of 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
Yorkshire +7 6 £450 -18.18% 3
North West +17 5 £365 -19.11% 4
North East - 4 £517 -
Product Backlog
England

Product Backlog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) Alfresco
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) SaaS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) JIRA
2 3 (20.00%) Mocha
3 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (20.00%) Retail
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Marketing
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Product Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Product Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Developer
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Manager
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Product Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Jest
1 3 (20.00%) React
1 3 (20.00%) Redux
2 2 (13.33%) CSS
2 2 (13.33%) HTML
2 2 (13.33%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) DevOps
2 5 (33.33%) Scrum
2 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (26.67%) Backlog Management
3 4 (26.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
4 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 3 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (20.00%) Kanban
4 3 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (20.00%) Objectives and Key Results
4 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (20.00%) Sprint Review
4 3 (20.00%) Technical Debt
4 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
1 3 (20.00%) SLA
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) MuleSoft
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) SAP