Backlog Management Contracts

Backlog Management (Backlog Maintenance)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Backlog Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Backlog Management over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 426 439 354
Rank change year-on-year +13 -85 +47
Contract jobs citing Backlog Management 159 271 639
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.49% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.54% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 180 424
10th Percentile £371 £412 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £569 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.79% +3.41% +12.82%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 2
10th Percentile - - £52.83
25th Percentile - £54.00 £55.19
Median hourly rate - £58.25 £59.75
Median % change year-on-year - -2.51% -5.91%
75th Percentile - £72.19 £63.69
90th Percentile - £75.75 £65.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Backlog Management 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 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 12 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
England -1 135 £525 -8.70% 73
London +19 75 £550 -8.33% 26
UK excluding London -14 70 £490 -10.91% 53
Work from Home +46 55 £525 -8.70% 48
South East -18 18 £500 -16.67% 17
Midlands +14 17 £575 +27.78% 10
Scotland +52 14 £500 -4.76% 6
South West +11 13 £475 -24.00% 5
East Midlands +18 12 £595 +48.75% 2
North of England +12 8 £450 -35.71% 11
Yorkshire +12 5 £450 -35.71% 5
West Midlands +4 5 £215 -52.22% 8
North West +11 3 £450 -34.55% 4

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 34 (21.38%) Confluence
2 15 (9.43%) SharePoint
3 11 (6.92%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (1.89%) CMS
5 2 (1.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.40%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.26%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.63%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (0.63%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 31 (19.50%) Azure
2 10 (6.29%) Azure Stack
3 9 (5.66%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (4.40%) AWS
6 6 (3.77%) SaaS
7 5 (3.14%) Serverless
8 4 (2.52%) GitHub
8 4 (2.52%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 3 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.89%) Figma
10 2 (1.26%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (1.26%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.26%) Asana
10 2 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.26%) Miro
10 2 (1.26%) Oracle CX
10 2 (1.26%) Oracle Service Cloud
10 2 (1.26%) PaaS
10 2 (1.26%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.18%) Firewall
2 11 (6.92%) BGP
3 3 (1.89%) DNS
4 2 (1.26%) Broadband
4 2 (1.26%) DHCP
4 2 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.63%) 3G
5 1 (0.63%) 4G
5 1 (0.63%) 5G
5 1 (0.63%) DSL
5 1 (0.63%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (3.14%) Power BI
2 3 (1.89%) Big Data
2 3 (1.89%) GIS
3 2 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.26%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 58 (36.48%) JIRA
2 4 (2.52%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.89%) Selenium
3 3 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.26%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.63%) Git
General
1 54 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.61%) Finance
3 26 (16.35%) Public Sector
4 16 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.18%) Banking
6 11 (6.92%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (6.29%) Telecoms
8 9 (5.66%) Manufacturing
9 8 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (3.77%) Billing
10 6 (3.77%) Marketing
10 6 (3.77%) Retail
11 5 (3.14%) Back Office
12 4 (2.52%) Electronics
12 4 (2.52%) General Ledger
12 4 (2.52%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.89%) Legal
13 3 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (1.26%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (31.45%) Analyst
2 33 (20.75%) Business Analyst
2 33 (20.75%) Product Owner
3 23 (14.47%) Product Manager
4 20 (12.58%) Senior
5 11 (6.92%) Scrum Master
6 9 (5.66%) Senior Analyst
6 9 (5.66%) Senior Business Analyst
7 7 (4.40%) Lead
8 6 (3.77%) Senior Product Owner
8 6 (3.77%) Technical Analyst
9 5 (3.14%) Data Business Analyst
9 5 (3.14%) Project Manager
9 5 (3.14%) Service Analyst
9 5 (3.14%) Service Management Analyst
10 4 (2.52%) Architect
10 4 (2.52%) Product Analyst
10 4 (2.52%) Senior Manager
11 3 (1.89%) Customer Analyst
11 3 (1.89%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.14%) HTML
1 5 (3.14%) React
2 4 (2.52%) .NET
2 4 (2.52%) ADO
2 4 (2.52%) Node.js
3 3 (1.89%) CSS
3 3 (1.89%) Jest
3 3 (1.89%) REST
4 2 (1.26%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.26%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.26%) CSS3
4 2 (1.26%) HTML5
4 2 (1.26%) JSON
4 2 (1.26%) LDAP
4 2 (1.26%) React Native
4 2 (1.26%) XML
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.63%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 55 (34.59%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.92%) Private Cloud
3 5 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.52%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.89%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.89%) Derivative
5 3 (1.89%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.26%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.26%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.26%) Clustering
6 2 (1.26%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.26%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.26%) Equities
6 2 (1.26%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.26%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.26%) Freedom of Information Act
6 2 (1.26%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.81%) Windows
2 3 (1.89%) Linux
3 2 (1.26%) Android
3 2 (1.26%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (62.26%) Agile
2 57 (35.85%) Product Backlog
3 54 (33.96%) Roadmaps
4 49 (30.82%) User Stories
5 46 (28.93%) Scrum
6 36 (22.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (22.01%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 34 (21.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (18.24%) Product Roadmap
10 27 (16.98%) DevOps
11 24 (15.09%) Requirements Gathering
12 21 (13.21%) Epics
12 21 (13.21%) Product Strategy
13 20 (12.58%) Acceptance Criteria
13 20 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (11.95%) Business Intelligence
14 19 (11.95%) Product Management
15 18 (11.32%) Business Analysis
15 18 (11.32%) Project Management
16 16 (10.06%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.66%) SQL
2 7 (4.40%) Python
3 4 (2.52%) Java
4 3 (1.89%) C#
4 3 (1.89%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.89%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.89%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.26%) C
5 2 (1.26%) Go
5 2 (1.26%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.26%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.63%) C++
Qualifications
1 34 (21.38%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.18%) DV Cleared
4 12 (7.55%) Degree
5 2 (1.26%) CSPO
5 2 (1.26%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.26%) PMP
6 1 (0.63%) CBAP
6 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.63%) IIBA
6 1 (0.63%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.18%) PMO
2 12 (7.55%) QA
3 11 (6.92%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (3.14%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.89%) EMIR
5 3 (1.89%) GAAP
6 2 (1.26%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.26%) MiFID
6 2 (1.26%) SLA
6 2 (1.26%) WCAG
7 1 (0.63%) GDPR
7 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.26%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (2.52%) Terraform
2 2 (1.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.63%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 27 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.92%) Atlassian
2 11 (6.92%) SAP
3 5 (3.14%) Oracle
4 4 (2.52%) Genesys
4 4 (2.52%) Pega
5 3 (1.89%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.26%) Adobe
6 2 (1.26%) Ariba
6 2 (1.26%) Civica
6 2 (1.26%) Databricks
7 1 (0.63%) Avaya
7 1 (0.63%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.63%) CA
7 1 (0.63%) Cadence
7 1 (0.63%) Charles River
7 1 (0.63%) Citrix
7 1 (0.63%) HP
7 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.63%) VMware