Product Backlog Contracts in the UK excluding London

Product Backlogs
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 303 333 325
Rank change year-on-year +30 -8 -4
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 66 80 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.38% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.43% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 59 103
10th Percentile £386 £423 £357
25th Percentile £455 £478 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +2.88% +6.12%
75th Percentile £638 £573 £550
90th Percentile £651 £603 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £57.25 -
UK median hourly rate £33.07 £57.25 -
% change year-on-year -42.24% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,041 18,439 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.81% 88.33% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,020 12,105 18,694
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £686 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 1,303 1,340
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £12.66
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.72 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.33 £28.90
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +49.93% +60.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Product Backlog as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in the UK excluding London

Product Backlog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Backlog in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Product Backlog in the UK excluding London

Product Backlog
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Backlog in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Backlog in the UK excluding London

Product Backlog
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Backlog in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Product Backlog in the UK excluding London

Product Backlog
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
South East +56 31 £625 +19.05% 9
Midlands +2 11 £550 - 7
Scotland +18 10 £525 +2.44% 4
North of England +11 7 £440 -17.76% 10
West Midlands 0 7 £444 -19.32% 6
East of England +21 4 £600 +50.00%
East Midlands +5 4 £550 -8.33% 1
South West +22 3 £446 -17.02% 2
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
UK

Product Backlog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 6 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) Appian
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.06%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Relativity
1 1 (1.52%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 29 (43.94%) Azure
2 18 (27.27%) Azure Functions
2 18 (27.27%) Serverless
3 15 (22.73%) Azure Data Factory
4 14 (21.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 14 (21.21%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (15.15%) Entra ID
6 6 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 5 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (7.58%) OCI
7 5 (7.58%) SaaS
8 4 (6.06%) AWS
8 4 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (6.06%) PowerApps
9 2 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.52%) Figma
10 1 (1.52%) GCP
10 1 (1.52%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.52%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.52%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.70%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.06%) Power BI
3 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.03%) Big Data
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.52%) MySQL
5 1 (1.52%) MySQL Workbench
5 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (22.73%) Git
1 15 (22.73%) Selenium
2 13 (19.70%) JIRA
3 4 (6.06%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.52%) Balsamiq
4 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.52%) GitLab
4 1 (1.52%) Jasmine
4 1 (1.52%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.52%) SpecFlow
General
1 22 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 11 (16.67%) Finance
4 9 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.06%) Legal
6 3 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.03%) Banking
7 2 (3.03%) Billing
7 2 (3.03%) Retail
8 1 (1.52%) Advertising
8 1 (1.52%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.52%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.52%) Aviation
8 1 (1.52%) French Language
8 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.52%) Law
8 1 (1.52%) Local Government
8 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.52%) Marketing
8 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (27.27%) Product Owner
2 17 (25.76%) Developer
3 16 (24.24%) Azure Developer
3 16 (24.24%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (15.15%) Product Manager
5 9 (13.64%) Analyst
6 6 (9.09%) Business Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 4 (6.06%) Lead
7 4 (6.06%) Python Developer
7 4 (6.06%) Scrum Master
7 4 (6.06%) Service Owner
8 3 (4.55%) Agile Product Owner
9 2 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) React Developer
9 2 (3.03%) Senior
9 2 (3.03%) Senior Manager
9 2 (3.03%) Senior Product Manager
9 2 (3.03%) ServiceNow Manager
9 2 (3.03%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (24.24%) React
2 3 (4.55%) ADO
2 3 (4.55%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.03%) CSS
3 2 (3.03%) HTML
3 2 (3.03%) Node.js
3 2 (3.03%) REST
3 2 (3.03%) SOAP
4 1 (1.52%) .NET
4 1 (1.52%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.52%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.52%) JSON
4 1 (1.52%) JWT
4 1 (1.52%) Kafka
4 1 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.52%) RESTful
4 1 (1.52%) Visualforce
4 1 (1.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (68.18%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.55%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.52%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.52%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.52%) Linux
1 1 (1.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (77.27%) Agile
2 29 (43.94%) Scrum
3 26 (39.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 25 (37.88%) Roadmaps
5 22 (33.33%) DevOps
6 21 (31.82%) Backlog Management
7 20 (30.30%) User Stories
8 18 (27.27%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 18 (27.27%) Test Automation
9 17 (25.76%) CI/CD
9 17 (25.76%) Product Roadmap
9 17 (25.76%) SDLC
10 16 (24.24%) Change Management
10 16 (24.24%) Full-Stack Development
11 15 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (18.18%) Microservices
13 12 (18.18%) Sprint Planning
13 12 (18.18%) Unit Testing
14 11 (16.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (24.24%) Python
2 13 (19.70%) Java
3 4 (6.06%) C#
3 4 (6.06%) SQL
4 2 (3.03%) C
4 2 (3.03%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.03%) PHP
5 1 (1.52%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.52%) RPG
5 1 (1.52%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 6 (9.09%) Degree
2 4 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.52%) CITP
4 1 (1.52%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) QA
2 2 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.03%) GxP
2 2 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (22.73%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.52%) Ansible
2 1 (1.52%) Packer
2 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.15%) Oracle
3 4 (6.06%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.55%) Genesys
4 3 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.52%) Avaya
5 1 (1.52%) Google
5 1 (1.52%) IBM
5 1 (1.52%) OneTrust
5 1 (1.52%) OpenText
5 1 (1.52%) Pega
5 1 (1.52%) Remedy
5 1 (1.52%) Snow
5 1 (1.52%) Spotify