Backlog Prioritisation Contracts in Scotland

Backlog Prioritisation
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Backlog Prioritisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Prioritisation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 151 137
Rank change year-on-year +31 -14 +15
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 6 12 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.28% 0.45% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.49% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 30
10th Percentile £200 £496 £406
25th Percentile £409 £510 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +0.96% +9.47%
75th Percentile £533 £538 £539
90th Percentile £558 £574 £551
UK median daily rate £595 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +13.33% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £32.36 - £65.76

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Backlog Prioritisation 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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,869 2,473 3,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.21% 92.38% 93.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,156 1,727 2,243
10th Percentile £219 £250 £250
25th Percentile £363 £401 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 52
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.09
25th Percentile £15.24 £11.25 £17.67
Median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £35.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.98
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Backlog Prioritisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in Scotland

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in Scotland

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in Scotland

Backlog Prioritisation
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Glasgow +17 2 £470 -10.10% 2
West Lothian - 2 £318 -
Edinburgh +18 1 £435 -17.14%
Backlog Prioritisation
UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
1 1 (16.67%) Route 53
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (16.67%) InfluxDB
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Scrum Master
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
1 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (66.67%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) Product Backlog
4 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (50.00%) Sprint Backlog
4 3 (50.00%) Storytelling
5 2 (33.33%) Backlog Management
5 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
5 2 (33.33%) Coaching
5 2 (33.33%) Epics
5 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (33.33%) Product Management
5 2 (33.33%) Product Requirements
5 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (33.33%) Product Strategy
5 2 (33.33%) Service Design
5 2 (33.33%) User Stories
6 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (16.67%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Groovy
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google