Backlog Prioritisation Contracts

Backlog Prioritisation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 439 511 537
Rank change year-on-year +72 +26 -3
Contract jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation 140 192 321
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.38% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 137 210
10th Percentile £400 £404 £406
25th Percentile £505 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% - +6.06%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £613
90th Percentile £698 £738 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £500 £521
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.03% +9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.71 - -
Median hourly rate £32.36 - £65.76
75th Percentile £41.75 - -
90th Percentile £57.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 - £65.76

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,704 51,058 79,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.15% 89.78% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,390 55,663
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
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 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,690 1,894
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%
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% -6.54%

Backlog Prioritisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Backlog Prioritisation over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Backlog Prioritisation in the UK

Backlog Prioritisation
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 17 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 +65 127 £600 +11.63% 58
London +64 68 £575 - 28
UK excluding London +30 63 £600 +20.00% 37
Work from Home +99 60 £575 +9.52% 39
North of England +40 23 £663 +24.41% 8
Midlands +38 19 £575 +9.52% 4
North West +29 19 £663 +24.41% 3
East Midlands +23 13 £595 +226.03% 1
South East -15 12 £588 +34.29% 10
Scotland +39 6 £435 -17.14% 3
West Midlands +23 6 £550 +2.33% 3
Yorkshire +13 3 £600 - 3
South West 0 3 £600 +9.09% 6
East of England -2 1 - - 1
North East - 1 - - 2

Backlog Prioritisation
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 17 (12.14%) Confluence
2 4 (2.86%) Apache
2 4 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.14%) CMS
3 3 (2.14%) Drupal
4 2 (1.43%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.71%) Joomla!
5 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.71%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Shopify
2 2 (1.43%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.71%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (20.00%) Azure
2 20 (14.29%) AWS
3 19 (13.57%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 11 (7.86%) SaaS
6 10 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (7.14%) Route 53
7 9 (6.43%) Amazon ECR
7 9 (6.43%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (6.43%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (6.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (5.00%) Serverless
9 5 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.86%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (2.86%) dbt
10 4 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.86%) GCP
10 4 (2.86%) Google Analytics
10 4 (2.86%) Snowflake
10 4 (2.86%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.43%) DHCP
1 2 (1.43%) DNS
1 2 (1.43%) Firewall
1 2 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.71%) LAN
2 1 (0.71%) Network Security
2 1 (0.71%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.43%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (2.86%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.14%) GIS
5 3 (2.14%) Power BI
6 2 (1.43%) Big Data
6 2 (1.43%) Tableau
7 1 (0.71%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (10.00%) JIRA
2 10 (7.14%) GitLab
3 9 (6.43%) webpack
4 4 (2.86%) Git
4 4 (2.86%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.43%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.43%) Selenium
5 2 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.71%) Postman
6 1 (0.71%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.71%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 42 (30.00%) Finance
2 33 (23.57%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.00%) Banking
5 11 (7.86%) Retail
6 10 (7.14%) Investment Banking
7 9 (6.43%) Marketing
8 8 (5.71%) Public Sector
9 7 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (4.29%) Corporate Banking
10 6 (4.29%) Retail Banking
11 5 (3.57%) Telecoms
12 4 (2.86%) Billing
12 4 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (2.14%) Back Office
14 2 (1.43%) Local Government
15 1 (0.71%) Automotive
15 1 (0.71%) Games
15 1 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 50 (35.71%) Product Owner
2 19 (13.57%) Senior
3 16 (11.43%) Architect
4 12 (8.57%) Analyst
4 12 (8.57%) Lead
4 12 (8.57%) Product Manager
5 11 (7.86%) Business Analyst
6 10 (7.14%) Senior Product Owner
6 10 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (6.43%) Digital Product Owner
7 9 (6.43%) Scrum Master
8 6 (4.29%) Technical Leader
9 5 (3.57%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (2.86%) Data Analyst
10 4 (2.86%) Project Manager
10 4 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (2.86%) Senior Business Analyst
11 3 (2.14%) Debt Manager
11 3 (2.14%) Insurance Business Analyst
11 3 (2.14%) Web Producer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.29%) Node.js
2 11 (7.86%) React
3 9 (6.43%) Express.js
3 9 (6.43%) Redux
4 4 (2.86%) PySpark
5 2 (1.43%) CSS
5 2 (1.43%) CSS3
5 2 (1.43%) HTML
5 2 (1.43%) HTML5
5 2 (1.43%) Jest
5 2 (1.43%) LDAP
5 2 (1.43%) Middleware
5 2 (1.43%) React Native
5 2 (1.43%) REST
6 1 (0.71%) .NET
6 1 (0.71%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.71%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.71%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (46.43%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.14%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.14%) Taxonomies
4 2 (1.43%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.43%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.43%) Clustering
4 2 (1.43%) CMDB
4 2 (1.43%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.43%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (1.43%) Freedom of Information Act
4 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.71%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.71%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.14%) Linux
2 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (76.43%) Agile
2 61 (43.57%) Product Backlog
3 51 (36.43%) Roadmaps
3 51 (36.43%) User Stories
4 50 (35.71%) Scrum
5 39 (27.86%) Backlog Management
6 33 (23.57%) Acceptance Criteria
7 30 (21.43%) DevOps
7 30 (21.43%) Product Roadmap
8 27 (19.29%) Product Strategy
9 26 (18.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 25 (17.86%) Analytics
11 23 (16.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (15.71%) Backlog Refinement
13 21 (15.00%) Business Case
13 21 (15.00%) Product Management
14 19 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (13.57%) Sprint Planning
14 19 (13.57%) Translating Business Requirements
15 17 (12.14%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 12 (8.57%) SQL
2 10 (7.14%) Python
3 4 (2.86%) Scala
4 3 (2.14%) C#
4 3 (2.14%) Java
5 2 (1.43%) C
5 2 (1.43%) Go
5 2 (1.43%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.43%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.71%) Bash
6 1 (0.71%) Groovy
6 1 (0.71%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (12.14%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.71%) Degree
3 14 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.43%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.43%) MBA
5 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.71%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.43%) QA
2 11 (7.86%) PMO
3 2 (1.43%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.71%) GDPR
4 1 (0.71%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (4.29%) Docker
2 4 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.14%) Terraform
3 1 (0.71%) Ansible
3 1 (0.71%) Grafana
3 1 (0.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.00%) SAP
3 6 (4.29%) Google
4 5 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.86%) Ab Initio
5 4 (2.86%) Databricks
6 3 (2.14%) Adobe
6 3 (2.14%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.14%) Optimizely
6 3 (2.14%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.43%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.71%) Ariba
8 1 (0.71%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.71%) Dell
8 1 (0.71%) Intel
8 1 (0.71%) TSYS