Roadmaps Contracts

Roadmaps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Roadmaps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Roadmaps over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 33 42
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 +9
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 1,626 3,076 4,806
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.80% 5.47% 5.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 6.09% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,051 2,204 3,366
10th Percentile £400 £425 £416
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £599
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +0.13% +8.95%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £568 £550
% change year-on-year +0.35% +3.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 39 43
10th Percentile £33.00 £36.23 £27.05
25th Percentile £41.09 £45.00 £34.99
Median hourly rate £60.60 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% +44.44% -
75th Percentile £84.67 £80.63 £70.38
90th Percentile £91.20 £90.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.55 £65.50 £60.93
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.50% +58.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Roadmaps 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 36,703 50,479 79,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,654 34,954 56,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,498 1,668 1,904
10th Percentile £12.74 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Roadmaps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Roadmaps over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Roadmaps over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Roadmaps within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 -15 1,373 £600 -2.04% 1,331
London -16 733 £600 -4.00% 616
UK excluding London -16 723 £570 +0.35% 745
Work from Home -12 566 £563 -6.25% 654
South East -18 193 £525 -14.29% 182
North of England -15 168 £570 +3.64% 192
Scotland -6 129 £494 -1.20% 55
North West 0 111 £580 +5.45% 124
Midlands -8 103 £675 +3.85% 143
West Midlands -6 88 £675 - 96
South West -4 86 £588 -6.00% 87
Yorkshire -23 50 £445 -22.61% 50
East of England -40 40 £635 -2.31% 82
East Midlands -23 13 £445 -31.54% 46
North East -2 7 £850 +61.90% 19
Northern Ireland +8 5 £640 +16.36% 10
Wales -13 3 £625 +10.62% 12

Roadmaps
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 47 (2.89%) Confluence
2 36 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.29%) CMS
4 20 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.62%) SAS
6 7 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.25%) Drupal
9 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.18%) Apache
9 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.12%) IIS
10 2 (0.12%) LiveLink
10 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.12%) WordPress
11 1 (0.062%) Camunda
Applications
1 36 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.43%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.12%) Trello
9 1 (0.062%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 47 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.86%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.62%) Workday HCM
5 8 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
5 8 (0.49%) SAP FI
5 8 (0.49%) SAP SD
6 7 (0.43%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
7 6 (0.37%) Shopify
8 5 (0.31%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
9 4 (0.25%) SAP BPC
9 4 (0.25%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.25%) Workfront
10 3 (0.18%) Fidessa
10 3 (0.18%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 3 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
10 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 254 (15.62%) Azure
2 194 (11.93%) AWS
3 75 (4.61%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (4.18%) Power Platform
5 67 (4.12%) SaaS
6 60 (3.69%) GCP
7 51 (3.14%) PaaS
8 31 (1.91%) IaaS
9 30 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
10 29 (1.78%) SuccessFactors
11 25 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
11 25 (1.54%) Serverless
12 24 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
12 24 (1.48%) GitHub
13 22 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
13 22 (1.35%) Entra ID
14 16 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (0.92%) PowerApps
16 14 (0.86%) OpenShift
17 12 (0.74%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 82 (5.04%) Firewall
2 40 (2.46%) VPN
3 35 (2.15%) Network Security
4 30 (1.85%) DNS
5 29 (1.78%) VoIP
6 27 (1.66%) WAN
7 19 (1.17%) 5G
8 15 (0.92%) LAN
8 15 (0.92%) MPLS
9 14 (0.86%) 4G
10 13 (0.80%) BGP
10 13 (0.80%) Intranet
10 13 (0.80%) Radio Access Network
10 13 (0.80%) TCP/IP
11 11 (0.68%) DHCP
11 11 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
13 9 (0.55%) SDH
14 8 (0.49%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (3.57%) Power BI
2 33 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.35%) Tableau
5 21 (1.29%) Big Data
5 21 (1.29%) NoSQL
6 20 (1.23%) Data Lake
6 20 (1.23%) SQL Server
7 18 (1.11%) Metadata
8 17 (1.05%) MongoDB
9 12 (0.74%) Oracle Database
10 11 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (0.62%) OLAP
11 10 (0.62%) OLTP
12 9 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (0.49%) GIS
13 8 (0.49%) SAP BW
13 8 (0.49%) SAP HANA
14 7 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 115 (7.07%) JIRA
2 34 (2.09%) Jenkins
3 31 (1.91%) Git
4 18 (1.11%) Rational DOORS
5 13 (0.80%) Artifactory
6 10 (0.62%) GitLab
6 10 (0.62%) TeamCity
7 9 (0.55%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.43%) LoadRunner
8 7 (0.43%) Selenium
8 7 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (0.37%) NeoLoad
10 5 (0.31%) Subversion
11 4 (0.25%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.25%) webpack
12 3 (0.18%) JMeter
12 3 (0.18%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 3 (0.18%) XCUITest
13 2 (0.12%) ERwin
13 2 (0.12%) InstallShield
General
1 447 (27.49%) Social Skills
2 365 (22.45%) Finance
3 200 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
4 195 (11.99%) Public Sector
5 122 (7.50%) Banking
6 79 (4.86%) Telecoms
7 71 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
8 69 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
9 63 (3.87%) Legal
10 62 (3.81%) Marketing
11 56 (3.44%) Retail
12 49 (3.01%) Manufacturing
13 38 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 31 (1.91%) Front Office
15 27 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
16 23 (1.41%) Investment Banking
17 21 (1.29%) Military
18 19 (1.17%) Law
19 17 (1.05%) Back Office
20 16 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 475 (29.21%) Architect
2 172 (10.58%) Senior
3 169 (10.39%) Analyst
4 156 (9.59%) Lead
5 155 (9.53%) Solutions Architect
6 111 (6.83%) Consultant
7 108 (6.64%) Product Manager
8 93 (5.72%) Business Analyst
9 91 (5.60%) Product Owner
10 76 (4.67%) Enterprise Architect
11 75 (4.61%) Technical Architect
12 54 (3.32%) Developer
13 53 (3.26%) Project Manager
14 42 (2.58%) Data Architect
15 36 (2.21%) Delivery Manager
15 36 (2.21%) Network Engineer
15 36 (2.21%) Security Architect
16 33 (2.03%) Lead Architect
17 31 (1.91%) Senior Architect
18 30 (1.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.09%) Node.js
1 34 (2.09%) REST
2 31 (1.91%) .NET
3 26 (1.60%) React
4 23 (1.41%) HTML
4 23 (1.41%) Web Services
5 19 (1.17%) CSS
5 19 (1.17%) JSON
6 16 (0.98%) SOAP
6 16 (0.98%) XML
7 15 (0.92%) SAML
8 14 (0.86%) Spring Boot
9 13 (0.80%) AngularJS
9 13 (0.80%) Middleware
9 13 (0.80%) Spring
10 12 (0.74%) AWS CDK
11 11 (0.68%) Kafka
11 11 (0.68%) OAuth
12 10 (0.62%) J2EE
12 10 (0.62%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 226 (13.90%) Product Ownership
2 96 (5.90%) Management Information System
3 38 (2.34%) Data Centre
4 35 (2.15%) Public Cloud
5 31 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
6 28 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (1.66%) Fixed Income
8 26 (1.60%) Hedge funds
9 24 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 24 (1.48%) Mobile App
10 23 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
11 22 (1.35%) Derivative
12 21 (1.29%) Security Posture
13 20 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
14 19 (1.17%) Equities
15 17 (1.05%) CMDB
15 17 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
16 16 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
16 16 (0.98%) IoT
16 16 (0.98%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 72 (4.43%) Linux
2 68 (4.18%) Windows
3 42 (2.58%) Apple iOS
4 32 (1.97%) Android
5 28 (1.72%) Unix
6 22 (1.35%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.37%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.25%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.18%) Solaris
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.062%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (33.33%) Agile
2 275 (16.91%) Strategic Roadmap
3 241 (14.82%) Product Roadmap
4 224 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
5 211 (12.98%) Stakeholder Management
6 206 (12.67%) DevOps
7 176 (10.82%) Project Management
8 172 (10.58%) Analytics
9 160 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 157 (9.66%) Scrum
11 151 (9.29%) Business Strategy
12 145 (8.92%) Migration
13 135 (8.30%) IT Strategy
14 124 (7.63%) Decision-Making
15 122 (7.50%) Enterprise Architecture
16 120 (7.38%) Technology Roadmap
17 118 (7.26%) Product Management
18 106 (6.52%) Cybersecurity
18 106 (6.52%) User Experience
19 104 (6.40%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 128 (7.87%) Python
2 109 (6.70%) SQL
3 81 (4.98%) Java
4 46 (2.83%) JavaScript
5 40 (2.46%) PowerShell
6 30 (1.85%) TypeScript
7 26 (1.60%) C++
8 23 (1.41%) C#
9 21 (1.29%) Bash
10 11 (0.68%) Perl
11 10 (0.62%) C
11 10 (0.62%) VB.NET
12 9 (0.55%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.49%) VBA
14 7 (0.43%) Go
15 5 (0.31%) Scala
15 5 (0.31%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.31%) VBScript
16 4 (0.25%) PHP
16 4 (0.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 255 (15.68%) Security Cleared
2 219 (13.47%) Degree
3 175 (10.76%) SC Cleared
4 83 (5.10%) DV Cleared
5 60 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (2.83%) Master's Degree
7 34 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
8 24 (1.48%) CISSP
9 21 (1.29%) PMP
10 20 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
11 18 (1.11%) CCNP
12 16 (0.98%) CISM
12 16 (0.98%) PMI Certification
13 15 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (0.80%) Azure Certification
15 11 (0.68%) HND
16 8 (0.49%) CCIE
16 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
17 7 (0.43%) CIMA
17 7 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (3.57%) QA
2 53 (3.26%) NIST
3 40 (2.46%) Data Quality
3 40 (2.46%) PMO
4 33 (2.03%) GDPR
5 32 (1.97%) Accessibility
6 24 (1.48%) SLA
7 17 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
8 13 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.74%) GRC
9 12 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 10 (0.62%) COBIT
11 5 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.25%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.18%) ITGC
14 2 (0.12%) GxP
System Software
1 46 (2.83%) Active Directory
2 32 (1.97%) Docker
3 26 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.37%) vSphere
7 5 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.18%) XenApp
9 2 (0.12%) Ceph
9 2 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.062%) Firmware
10 1 (0.062%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.062%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 63 (3.87%) Terraform
2 51 (3.14%) Kubernetes
3 48 (2.95%) Ansible
4 11 (0.68%) FortiGate
5 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.49%) Grafana
7 7 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (0.25%) Kibana
8 4 (0.25%) Opsgenie
8 4 (0.25%) PingFederate
8 4 (0.25%) Puppet
8 4 (0.25%) SCCM
8 4 (0.25%) WSUS
9 3 (0.18%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.12%) Argo
10 2 (0.12%) Nagios
10 2 (0.12%) OpenView
10 2 (0.12%) Pacemaker
Vendors
1 228 (14.02%) Microsoft
2 114 (7.01%) SAP
3 60 (3.69%) Google
4 54 (3.32%) Cisco
5 53 (3.26%) ServiceNow
6 39 (2.40%) Oracle
7 34 (2.09%) VMware
8 33 (2.03%) Salesforce
9 32 (1.97%) Nokia
10 26 (1.60%) IBM
11 25 (1.54%) Juniper
12 19 (1.17%) Bloomberg
12 19 (1.17%) Palo Alto
13 17 (1.05%) Workday
14 16 (0.98%) Atlassian
14 16 (0.98%) Red Hat
15 14 (0.86%) Adobe
15 14 (0.86%) Databricks
15 14 (0.86%) F5
16 13 (0.80%) Informatica