Product Roadmap Contracts

Product Roadmaps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Product Roadmap skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product 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 367 345 362
Rank change year-on-year -22 +17 +24
Contract jobs citing Product Roadmap 239 431 655
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.72% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.80% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 317 481
10th Percentile £393 £439 £404
25th Percentile £478 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.58%
75th Percentile £666 £638 £638
90th Percentile £751 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +18.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £47.75 £46.58 -
25th Percentile £57.71 £61.64 £36.25
Median hourly rate £66.00 £82.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +103.70% -12.43%
75th Percentile £68.75 £90.00 £50.91
90th Percentile - - £62.01
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £90.00 £69.40
% change year-on-year - +29.68% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product 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%

Product Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Roadmap in the UK

Product Roadmap
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Product Roadmap in the UK

Product Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Product Roadmap in the UK

Product Roadmap
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Roadmap in the UK

Product Roadmap
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Roadmap over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Roadmap in the UK

Product Roadmap
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 Product 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 +15 207 £586 +6.59% 270
London +37 120 £600 - 115
UK excluding London -21 102 £525 - 160
Work from Home +25 79 £509 -3.92% 126
South East +8 44 £538 +7.50% 44
North of England +6 22 £763 +42.86% 43
Scotland -7 21 £484 -1.02% 19
North West +15 17 £850 +51.11% 21
Midlands +19 11 £550 - 16
West Midlands +28 9 £550 - 14
South West +23 4 £409 -9.11% 21
Yorkshire -6 4 £525 - 15
East Midlands +16 2 £388 -26.19% 2
North East +20 1 £525 -19.23% 7
Wales +13 1 - - 2

Product 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 5 (2.09%) Confluence
2 3 (1.26%) ArcGIS
2 3 (1.26%) CMS
2 3 (1.26%) SAS
3 2 (0.84%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.42%) Drupal
4 1 (0.42%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.42%) Kentico
Applications
1 6 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.42%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.42%) Blender
3 1 (0.42%) Houdini
3 1 (0.42%) Maya
3 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.42%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Aladdin
1 2 (0.84%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.42%) SAP APO
2 1 (0.42%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.42%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.42%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (11.30%) AWS
2 26 (10.88%) Azure
3 13 (5.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (5.02%) OpenShift
5 9 (3.77%) Amazon S3
5 9 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (3.77%) Serverless
6 6 (2.51%) GitHub
6 6 (2.51%) SaaS
7 5 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.09%) GCP
7 5 (2.09%) PaaS
7 5 (2.09%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.67%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.84%) Google App Engine
9 2 (0.84%) IaaS
10 1 (0.42%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.11%) Firewall
2 10 (4.18%) VPN
3 4 (1.67%) DHCP
3 4 (1.67%) DNS
4 2 (0.84%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.84%) WAN
4 2 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.42%) 3G
5 1 (0.42%) 4G
5 1 (0.42%) 5G
5 1 (0.42%) Broadband
5 1 (0.42%) DSL
5 1 (0.42%) Intranet
5 1 (0.42%) LAN
5 1 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.42%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.18%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (2.93%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.51%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.09%) Big Data
5 5 (2.09%) Power BI
6 4 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.67%) GIS
6 4 (1.67%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.26%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.26%) Spatial Data
8 2 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.84%) OLAP
8 2 (0.84%) OLTP
8 2 (0.84%) Parquet
9 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.42%) QGIS
9 1 (0.42%) Redis
9 1 (0.42%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (7.53%) JIRA
2 9 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.42%) Git
4 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 64 (26.78%) Social Skills
2 50 (20.92%) Finance
3 36 (15.06%) Public Sector
4 31 (12.97%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (10.88%) Marketing
6 20 (8.37%) Legal
7 16 (6.69%) Retail
8 12 (5.02%) Telecoms
9 11 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (4.18%) Billing
11 9 (3.77%) Military
12 7 (2.93%) Banking
13 5 (2.09%) Health Technology
13 5 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (2.09%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.67%) Advertising
14 4 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (23.85%) Product Manager
2 41 (17.15%) Product Owner
3 34 (14.23%) Senior
4 31 (12.97%) Architect
5 23 (9.62%) Lead
6 16 (6.69%) Analyst
7 13 (5.44%) Delivery Manager
7 13 (5.44%) Technical Leader
8 12 (5.02%) Technical Architect
9 11 (4.60%) Business Analyst
9 11 (4.60%) Developer
10 10 (4.18%) Lead Architect
11 9 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.35%) Consultant
12 8 (3.35%) Senior Manager
13 6 (2.51%) Data Architect
13 6 (2.51%) Data Manager
13 6 (2.51%) Project Manager
13 6 (2.51%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (2.51%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.11%) Node.js
2 11 (4.60%) CSS
2 11 (4.60%) React
3 10 (4.18%) AWS CDK
3 10 (4.18%) HTML
4 9 (3.77%) Spring
4 9 (3.77%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.09%) OAuth
5 5 (2.09%) REST
6 4 (1.67%) JSON
6 4 (1.67%) JSON Schema
6 4 (1.67%) OAuth2
6 4 (1.67%) Spring Security
6 4 (1.67%) YAML
7 3 (1.26%) LDAP
7 3 (1.26%) Spring MVC
7 3 (1.26%) Spring Web Flow
7 3 (1.26%) Thymeleaf
8 2 (0.84%) Apache Avro
8 2 (0.84%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 89 (37.24%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.86%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.18%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.35%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.35%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.51%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.67%) Blockchain
8 4 (1.67%) CMDB
8 4 (1.67%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.67%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.26%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.26%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.26%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.26%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.26%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (0.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.44%) Windows
2 11 (4.60%) Android
2 11 (4.60%) Apple iOS
2 11 (4.60%) Windows Server
3 10 (4.18%) Linux
4 3 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.26%) Solaris
5 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.84%) Unix
5 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 120 (50.21%) Agile
3 55 (23.01%) Product Management
4 46 (19.25%) Product Backlog
5 43 (17.99%) Scrum
6 42 (17.57%) Product Strategy
6 42 (17.57%) User Stories
7 38 (15.90%) Backlog Management
7 38 (15.90%) User Experience
8 37 (15.48%) Project Management
9 36 (15.06%) Analytics
9 36 (15.06%) DevOps
10 34 (14.23%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 33 (13.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (12.13%) Product Vision
13 28 (11.72%) Decision-Making
13 28 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
14 25 (10.46%) Product Requirements
15 24 (10.04%) Microservices
15 24 (10.04%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 16 (6.69%) JavaScript
1 16 (6.69%) Python
2 14 (5.86%) Java
2 14 (5.86%) TypeScript
3 12 (5.02%) SQL
4 6 (2.51%) Bash
5 3 (1.26%) C++
5 3 (1.26%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.84%) C
6 2 (0.84%) Go
6 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.84%) VBScript
7 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.42%) Perl
7 1 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (20.92%) Security Cleared
2 43 (17.99%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.88%) Degree
4 16 (6.69%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.60%) PMP
6 9 (3.77%) PMI Certification
7 8 (3.35%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.51%) MBA
9 3 (1.26%) CSPO
10 2 (0.84%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.84%) CBAP
11 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.42%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.42%) IIBA
11 1 (0.42%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.11%) Accessibility
2 11 (4.60%) QA
3 8 (3.35%) PMO
4 5 (2.09%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.09%) SLA
5 4 (1.67%) GDPR
6 1 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.42%) GRC
6 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (5.02%) Docker
2 3 (1.26%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.26%) VMware NSX
2 3 (1.26%) vSphere
3 2 (0.84%) Ceph
3 2 (0.84%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.84%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (3.35%) Grafana
1 8 (3.35%) Kubernetes
1 8 (3.35%) Terraform
2 6 (2.51%) Ansible
3 3 (1.26%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (0.84%) Kibana
4 2 (0.84%) Pacemaker
4 2 (0.84%) Podman
4 2 (0.84%) SCCM
5 1 (0.42%) Argo
5 1 (0.42%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.42%) Puppet
5 1 (0.42%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.42%) SELinux
5 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.42%) vRealize
5 1 (0.42%) VxRail
Vendors
1 17 (7.11%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.28%) ServiceNow
3 8 (3.35%) SAP
4 7 (2.93%) Google
4 7 (2.93%) VMware
5 6 (2.51%) Oracle
5 6 (2.51%) SolarWinds
6 5 (2.09%) Apple
6 5 (2.09%) Citrix
6 5 (2.09%) Informatica
6 5 (2.09%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.09%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.09%) Workday
7 3 (1.26%) Databricks
7 3 (1.26%) ESRI
7 3 (1.26%) Splunk
8 2 (0.84%) Avaloq
8 2 (0.84%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.84%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.84%) Zoho