Product Backlog Contracts in the South West

Product Backlogs
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 157 135
Rank change year-on-year +8 -22 -5
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 5 4 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.15% 0.12% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.13% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 28
10th Percentile £431 £553 £424
25th Percentile £465 £556 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% +4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £600
90th Percentile - £598 £632
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,687 3,009 3,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 81.95% 89.08% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,681 2,170 2,322
10th Percentile £238 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 313 205
10th Percentile £13.83 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.44 £15.25 £23.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.97% +8.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.31 £68.81
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +6.38% +37.27% +14.13%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Backlog in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Product Backlog in the South West

Product Backlog
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Backlog in the South West over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Backlog in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 11 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
Bristol +6 1 £483 - 3
Wiltshire - 1 - -
Product Backlog
England

Product Backlog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Local Government
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Management Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Process Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Vision Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Process Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) User Stories
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Burndown Charts
3 2 (40.00%) Epics
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (20.00%) Image Processing
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Product Management
4 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C
1 1 (20.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) PMO