Product Backlog Contracts in the North of England

Product Backlogs
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 155 166 182
Rank change year-on-year +11 +16 +26
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 7 26 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.18% 0.53% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.60% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 21 28
10th Percentile £348 £461 £378
25th Percentile £379 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £535 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% +7.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £528 £561 £575
90th Percentile £584 £595 £643
England median daily rate £581 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +5.55% +4.76% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,355 4,341 6,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.49% 88.25% 90.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 2,925 4,672
10th Percentile £294 £275 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £590
90th Percentile £656 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 213 212
10th Percentile £14.56 £15.75 £10.20
25th Percentile £17.81 £18.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.75 £30.00 £21.38
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% +40.35% +22.14%
75th Percentile £49.69 £46.18 £45.05
90th Percentile £69.93 £62.00 £70.68
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 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 October 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 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
North West +14 3 £351 -34.65% 5
Yorkshire +10 3 £549 +4.49% 4
North East -6 1 £420 -11.11% 1
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 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Figma
1 1 (14.29%) Firebase
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Balsamiq
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Product Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Product Owner
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) JWT
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile Payment
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Roadmaps
3 4 (57.14%) User Stories
4 3 (42.86%) Backlog Management
4 3 (42.86%) Product Roadmap
4 3 (42.86%) Product Strategy
4 3 (42.86%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
5 2 (28.57%) Kanban
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Product Management
5 2 (28.57%) Product Vision
5 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
6 1 (14.29%) Analytics
6 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
6 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 1 (14.29%) Market Research
6 1 (14.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) RPG
1 1 (14.29%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Remedy