Product Backlog Contracts in the North West

Product Backlogs
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 30 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 145 171
Rank change year-on-year +13 +26 -33
Contract jobs citing Product Backlog 5 6 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% 0.20% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.22% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 15
10th Percentile - £416 £420
25th Percentile - £420 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £463 £588
Median % change year-on-year -21.08% -21.28% +18.69%
75th Percentile - £650 £606
90th Percentile - £677 £629
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North 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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,330 2,738 3,646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 84.24% 89.89% 88.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,425 1,901 2,642
10th Percentile £306 £313 £250
25th Percentile £400 £410 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +2.30% +11.71%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 150 150
10th Percentile £11.00 £15.98 £10.20
25th Percentile £14.18 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.55
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +29.71% +29.17%
75th Percentile £46.18 £45.90 £52.67
90th Percentile £66.61 £62.09 £75.01
England median hourly rate £38.12 £37.50 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.65% +46.03% +14.13%

Product Backlog
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Backlog in the North West

Product Backlog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Product Backlog in the North West

Product Backlog
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Manchester +18 4 - - 4
Cheshire 0 1 £365 -14.12% 1
Product Backlog
England

Product Backlog
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Mocha
2 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Jest
1 3 (60.00%) React
1 3 (60.00%) Redux
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (60.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Minimum Viable Product
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Product Management
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes