Backlog Management Contracts

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Backlog Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Backlog Management over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 414 391 353
Rank change year-on-year -23 -38 +37
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 169 314 663
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.55% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.61% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 204 441
10th Percentile £399 £408 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £553 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +0.45% +12.82%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £696 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +17.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 3
10th Percentile - - £54.40
25th Percentile £51.25 £54.00 £59.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £58.25 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.87% -13.06% +15.52%
75th Percentile £53.75 £66.56 £69.18
90th Percentile - £77.25 £70.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Backlog Management 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

Backlog Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Backlog Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Management in the UK

Backlog Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Management in the UK

Backlog Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Management over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Management in the UK

Backlog Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Backlog Management.

Hourly rate trend for Backlog Management in the UK

Backlog Management
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backlog Management within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +10 143 £525 -8.70% 81
London +30 82 £550 -5.98% 35
UK excluding London 0 74 £500 -9.09% 50
Work from Home +42 57 £550 -3.93% 43
South East -19 20 £538 -10.42% 16
Midlands +23 18 £563 +25.00% 8
Scotland +35 17 £500 -4.76% 5
East Midlands +23 13 £595 +25.26%
South West +15 13 £475 -25.49% 7
North of England +15 7 £450 -35.71% 11
West Midlands +12 5 £215 -52.22% 8
Yorkshire +9 5 £450 -35.71% 5
North West +12 2 £463 -28.85% 5

Backlog Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 33 (19.53%) Confluence
2 14 (8.28%) SharePoint
3 11 (6.51%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (1.78%) CMS
5 2 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.14%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.18%) Adobe XD
4 2 (1.18%) InVision
4 2 (1.18%) Sketch
4 2 (1.18%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.59%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 33 (19.53%) Azure
2 10 (5.92%) Azure Stack
2 10 (5.92%) Power Platform
3 8 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (4.14%) AWS
5 6 (3.55%) SaaS
6 5 (2.96%) Figma
6 5 (2.96%) Serverless
7 4 (2.37%) GitHub
7 4 (2.37%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 3 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.78%) OCI
9 2 (1.18%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (1.18%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (1.18%) Asana
9 2 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.18%) Miro
9 2 (1.18%) Oracle CX
9 2 (1.18%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 2 (1.18%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.69%) Firewall
2 11 (6.51%) BGP
3 3 (1.78%) DNS
4 2 (1.18%) Broadband
4 2 (1.18%) DHCP
4 2 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.59%) 3G
5 1 (0.59%) 4G
5 1 (0.59%) 5G
5 1 (0.59%) DSL
5 1 (0.59%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.59%) LAN
5 1 (0.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.55%) Power BI
2 5 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.78%) Big Data
3 3 (1.78%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.78%) GIS
4 2 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.18%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (33.14%) JIRA
2 4 (2.37%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.78%) Selenium
3 3 (1.78%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.18%) Axure RP
4 2 (1.18%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.59%) Git
General
1 59 (34.91%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.16%) Public Sector
3 27 (15.98%) Finance
4 15 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.51%) Banking
5 11 (6.51%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (5.92%) Telecoms
7 9 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (5.33%) Manufacturing
8 8 (4.73%) Marketing
9 7 (4.14%) Retail
10 6 (3.55%) Billing
11 5 (2.96%) Back Office
12 4 (2.37%) Electronics
12 4 (2.37%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.78%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (1.18%) Legal
Job Titles
1 53 (31.36%) Analyst
2 37 (21.89%) Product Owner
3 36 (21.30%) Business Analyst
4 21 (12.43%) Product Manager
5 18 (10.65%) Senior
6 12 (7.10%) Scrum Master
7 10 (5.92%) Lead
8 9 (5.33%) Senior Analyst
8 9 (5.33%) Senior Business Analyst
9 7 (4.14%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (3.55%) Data Business Analyst
11 5 (2.96%) Designer
11 5 (2.96%) Project Manager
11 5 (2.96%) Senior Product Owner
11 5 (2.96%) Service Analyst
11 5 (2.96%) Service Management Analyst
12 4 (2.37%) Consultant
12 4 (2.37%) Product Analyst
12 4 (2.37%) Service Designer
12 4 (2.37%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.96%) HTML
1 5 (2.96%) React
2 4 (2.37%) .NET
2 4 (2.37%) ADO
2 4 (2.37%) Node.js
3 3 (1.78%) CSS
3 3 (1.78%) Jest
3 3 (1.78%) REST
4 2 (1.18%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.18%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.18%) CSS3
4 2 (1.18%) HTML5
4 2 (1.18%) JSON
4 2 (1.18%) LDAP
4 2 (1.18%) React Native
4 2 (1.18%) XML
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.59%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 63 (37.28%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.51%) Private Cloud
3 6 (3.55%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.37%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.78%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.18%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.18%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.18%) Clustering
7 2 (1.18%) CMDB
7 2 (1.18%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.18%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.18%) Derivative
7 2 (1.18%) Equities
7 2 (1.18%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.18%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.18%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.59%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.69%) Windows
2 3 (1.78%) Linux
3 2 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.59%) Android
4 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (63.31%) Agile
2 68 (40.24%) Product Backlog
3 66 (39.05%) Roadmaps
4 61 (36.09%) User Stories
5 51 (30.18%) Scrum
6 40 (23.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 38 (22.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (20.71%) Product Roadmap
9 34 (20.12%) Stakeholder Management
10 26 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
10 26 (15.38%) DevOps
11 25 (14.79%) Epics
12 24 (14.20%) Requirements Gathering
13 23 (13.61%) Product Strategy
14 22 (13.02%) Business Analysis
14 22 (13.02%) Project Management
15 21 (12.43%) Sprint Planning
16 20 (11.83%) Business Intelligence
16 20 (11.83%) Product Management
17 19 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.92%) SQL
2 7 (4.14%) Python
3 4 (2.37%) Java
4 3 (1.78%) C#
4 3 (1.78%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.78%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.78%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.18%) C
5 2 (1.18%) Go
5 2 (1.18%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.18%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.59%) C++
Qualifications
1 30 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.65%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.06%) Degree
4 13 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.18%) CSPO
5 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.18%) MBA
5 2 (1.18%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.18%) PMP
6 1 (0.59%) CBAP
6 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.59%) IIBA
6 1 (0.59%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.69%) PMO
1 13 (7.69%) QA
2 11 (6.51%) Government Security Classifications
3 6 (3.55%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.37%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.37%) WCAG
5 3 (1.78%) GAAP
6 2 (1.18%) EMIR
6 2 (1.18%) MiFID
6 2 (1.18%) SLA
7 1 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.59%) GDPR
7 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.59%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (2.37%) Terraform
2 2 (1.18%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.59%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 26 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.51%) Atlassian
2 11 (6.51%) SAP
3 7 (4.14%) Oracle
4 5 (2.96%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.37%) Adobe
5 4 (2.37%) Genesys
5 4 (2.37%) Pega
6 3 (1.78%) Databricks
6 3 (1.78%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.18%) Ariba
7 2 (1.18%) Civica
8 1 (0.59%) Avaya
8 1 (0.59%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.59%) Cadence
8 1 (0.59%) Charles River
8 1 (0.59%) Citrix
8 1 (0.59%) Google
8 1 (0.59%) HP
8 1 (0.59%) VMware