Architecture Roadmap Contracts

Architecture Roadmaps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Architecture Roadmap skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Architecture Roadmap over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 457 575
Rank change year-on-year -61 +118 -157
Contract jobs citing Architecture Roadmap 80 274 284
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.46% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.51% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 178 178
10th Percentile £485 £456 £463
25th Percentile £511 £525 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £776 £738 £738
90th Percentile £950 £799 £804
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £633 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Median hourly rate £102.87 £86.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.58% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £102.87 £86.75 -
% change year-on-year +18.58% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Architecture Roadmap 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 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Architecture Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Architecture Roadmap in the UK

Architecture Roadmap
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Architecture Roadmap in the UK

Architecture Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architecture Roadmap over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Architecture Roadmap in the UK

Architecture Roadmap
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Architecture Roadmap in the UK

Architecture Roadmap
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architecture Roadmap within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -6 55 £700 +7.12% 42
Work from Home +38 42 £569 -12.46% 22
UK excluding London -46 36 £575 -9.09% 25
London +28 30 £600 -17.24% 20
Scotland -13 16 £506 -12.00% 3
South West +6 7 £700 +7.69% 2
Midlands +12 5 £850 +54.55% 5
North of England +22 4 £897 +63.08% 7
West Midlands +20 3 £850 +88.89% 3
North East +16 3 £897 +70.85%
South East +5 3 £763 +12.96% 4
East Midlands +18 2 £725 +11.54% 2
Yorkshire +18 1 - - 2
East of England +13 1 £575 -4.17% 6

Architecture Roadmap
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 3 (3.75%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) SAP BPC
1 4 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (2.50%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.75%) AWS
2 13 (16.25%) Azure
3 11 (13.75%) Amazon S3
3 11 (13.75%) AWS CloudFormation
3 11 (13.75%) Serverless
4 10 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (11.25%) OpenShift
6 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.75%) Cloudflare
6 3 (3.75%) GCP
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.50%) Route 53
7 2 (2.50%) Stripe
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (1.25%) IaaS
8 1 (1.25%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.50%) WAN
2 4 (5.00%) Kerberos
3 3 (3.75%) MPLS
3 3 (3.75%) VPN
4 2 (2.50%) HTTP
4 2 (2.50%) LAN
4 2 (2.50%) Network Security
4 2 (2.50%) SCCP
4 2 (2.50%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.50%) WLAN
5 1 (1.25%) 4G
5 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.75%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (7.50%) NoSQL
4 5 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.75%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.25%) GIS
8 1 (1.25%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.25%) MySQL
8 1 (1.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.25%) Cypress.io
3 3 (3.75%) JIRA
4 1 (1.25%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.25%) Git
4 1 (1.25%) GitLab
4 1 (1.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 30 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.50%) Finance
3 17 (21.25%) Public Sector
4 12 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (13.75%) Banking
6 10 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.75%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (2.50%) Retail
10 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.25%) Automotive
10 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.25%) Legal
10 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 49 (61.25%) Architect
2 13 (16.25%) Enterprise Architect
2 13 (16.25%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (11.25%) Developer
4 8 (10.00%) Lead
4 8 (10.00%) Security Architect
5 6 (7.50%) Senior
6 5 (6.25%) Business Architect
6 5 (6.25%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Digital Architect
7 4 (5.00%) SAP Architect
7 4 (5.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.00%) Technical Architect
7 4 (5.00%) Technical Leader
8 3 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Network Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Principal Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.25%) React
2 12 (15.00%) AWS CDK
3 10 (12.50%) CSS
3 10 (12.50%) HTML
3 10 (12.50%) OAuth
3 10 (12.50%) REST
4 6 (7.50%) Node.js
4 6 (7.50%) OpenID
4 6 (7.50%) SAML
4 6 (7.50%) Spring
5 5 (6.25%) Spring Boot
5 5 (6.25%) Spring Security
6 4 (5.00%) OAuth2
7 3 (3.75%) DAO
7 3 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (3.75%) SOAP
7 3 (3.75%) Spring MVC
7 3 (3.75%) Spring Web Flow
7 3 (3.75%) Thymeleaf
8 2 (2.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (11.25%) Management Information System
3 7 (8.75%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 4 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.50%) Contactless
6 2 (2.50%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.25%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.25%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 36 (45.00%) Agile
3 18 (22.50%) Microservices
4 16 (20.00%) Business Strategy
5 15 (18.75%) DevOps
5 15 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
6 14 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (17.50%) IT Strategy
7 13 (16.25%) User Experience
8 12 (15.00%) Product Roadmap
8 12 (15.00%) Technology Strategy
8 12 (15.00%) TOGAF
9 11 (13.75%) Analytics
9 11 (13.75%) CI/CD
9 11 (13.75%) Coaching
9 11 (13.75%) Community of Practice
9 11 (13.75%) Identity Access Management
10 10 (12.50%) Architectural Design
10 10 (12.50%) Mentoring
10 10 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.75%) JavaScript
2 10 (12.50%) Java
2 10 (12.50%) Python
2 10 (12.50%) TypeScript
3 7 (8.75%) SQL
4 4 (5.00%) Bash
5 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.25%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.75%) CCIE
4 3 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.75%) Degree
5 2 (2.50%) CISSP
5 2 (2.50%) PMP
5 2 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.25%) CEH
6 1 (1.25%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (1.25%) CISM
6 1 (1.25%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.50%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.75%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.50%) GDPR
3 2 (2.50%) NIST
3 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.50%) PSD2
4 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.25%) NCSC
4 1 (1.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (11.25%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.75%) Docker
3 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (11.25%) Grafana
2 5 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.00%) PingFederate
4 3 (3.75%) Ansible
4 3 (3.75%) Kibana
5 2 (2.50%) Terraform
6 1 (1.25%) Argo
6 1 (1.25%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.25%) Istio
6 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.50%) Ping Identity
3 4 (5.00%) Oracle
3 4 (5.00%) SAP
3 4 (5.00%) Sparx
4 3 (3.75%) CheckPoint
4 3 (3.75%) Cisco
4 3 (3.75%) Fortinet
4 3 (3.75%) Zscaler
5 2 (2.50%) Citrix
5 2 (2.50%) F5
5 2 (2.50%) Google
5 2 (2.50%) PayPal
5 2 (2.50%) VMware
6 1 (1.25%) Apple
6 1 (1.25%) Ariba
6 1 (1.25%) Aruba
6 1 (1.25%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.25%) Splunk