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 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 47 37 44
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +7
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 1,725 3,279 4,662
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.98% 5.48% 5.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 6.10% 5.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,129 2,326 3,258
10th Percentile £408 £425 £414
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.13% +6.82%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £675
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £565 £550
% change year-on-year +0.80% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 52 41
10th Percentile £33.00 - £25.25
25th Percentile £35.41 £16.25 £33.00
Median hourly rate £64.75 £50.25 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.86% +15.52% +2.35%
75th Percentile £76.40 £70.00 £60.93
90th Percentile £88.68 £89.38 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.94 £48.75 £46.98
% change year-on-year +25.01% +3.78% +44.54%

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 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%

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 27 April 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 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Top 18 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 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 -12 1,436 £589 -1.81% 1,312
UK excluding London -9 774 £570 +0.80% 745
London -12 762 £600 -4.00% 593
Work from Home -7 613 £550 -8.33% 573
South East -21 185 £518 -10.00% 185
North of England -11 175 £570 +3.64% 201
Scotland -3 156 £506 -2.69% 58
North West -5 110 £575 +4.55% 119
South West +21 109 £506 -12.26% 79
Midlands -15 100 £675 +10.20% 130
West Midlands +5 89 £675 +3.85% 86
Yorkshire -13 60 £500 -9.09% 53
East of England -30 43 £625 -3.85% 87
North East +12 12 £720 +20.00% 30
East Midlands -31 8 £550 -15.38% 44
Wales -12 6 £650 +15.04% 15
Northern Ireland +7 3 £640 +16.36% 8
Isle of Man - 1 £475 - 3

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 53 (3.07%) Confluence
2 32 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.28%) CMS
5 10 (0.58%) SAS
6 7 (0.41%) IIS
7 6 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.29%) Apache
8 5 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.23%) Drupal
9 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.17%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.12%) WordPress
12 1 (0.058%) Exchange Server 2013
12 1 (0.058%) GeoServer
Applications
1 44 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.87%) Chatbot
5 14 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.058%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.058%) Blender
9 1 (0.058%) Houdini
9 1 (0.058%) Maya
9 1 (0.058%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.058%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.75%) Aladdin
4 12 (0.70%) SAP FI
5 11 (0.64%) SAP CO
5 11 (0.64%) SAP FI/CO
6 9 (0.52%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.46%) SAP SD
8 7 (0.41%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.35%) Shopify
10 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 4 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
11 4 (0.23%) SAP BPC
11 4 (0.23%) SAP MM
12 3 (0.17%) Fidessa
12 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
12 3 (0.17%) OpenText VIM for SAP
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
12 3 (0.17%) SAP HCM
12 3 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 251 (14.55%) Azure
2 201 (11.65%) AWS
3 72 (4.17%) SaaS
4 70 (4.06%) GCP
5 65 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
5 65 (3.77%) Power Platform
6 53 (3.07%) PaaS
7 38 (2.20%) IaaS
8 31 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
9 28 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (1.51%) Serverless
11 25 (1.45%) Entra ID
12 23 (1.33%) GitHub
13 22 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
15 19 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
16 18 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (1.04%) OpenShift
17 17 (0.99%) Amazon S3
18 15 (0.87%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 84 (4.87%) Firewall
2 42 (2.43%) VPN
3 36 (2.09%) Network Security
4 32 (1.86%) DNS
4 32 (1.86%) WAN
5 22 (1.28%) VoIP
6 21 (1.22%) 5G
6 21 (1.22%) LAN
7 19 (1.10%) BGP
7 19 (1.10%) MPLS
8 16 (0.93%) 4G
8 16 (0.93%) Intranet
9 15 (0.87%) Radio Access Network
9 15 (0.87%) TCP/IP
10 13 (0.75%) Cisco IOS
11 12 (0.70%) DHCP
12 11 (0.64%) Cisco ASA
12 11 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
12 11 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (2.90%) Power BI
2 32 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.22%) Metadata
4 21 (1.22%) NoSQL
4 21 (1.22%) Tableau
5 19 (1.10%) Big Data
6 17 (0.99%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.87%) SQL Server
8 14 (0.81%) Data Lake
8 14 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (0.64%) Oracle Database
12 8 (0.46%) GIS
12 8 (0.46%) OLAP
12 8 (0.46%) OLTP
12 8 (0.46%) SAP BW
13 6 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.35%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 116 (6.72%) JIRA
2 38 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 35 (2.03%) Git
4 18 (1.04%) Rational DOORS
5 9 (0.52%) Artifactory
6 8 (0.46%) GitLab
7 7 (0.41%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.41%) Selenium
7 7 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (0.35%) TeamCity
8 6 (0.35%) XCUITest
9 5 (0.29%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.29%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.29%) NeoLoad
9 5 (0.29%) Subversion
9 5 (0.29%) webpack
10 3 (0.17%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 2 (0.12%) git-flow
11 2 (0.12%) JMeter
11 2 (0.12%) kappa
General
1 448 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 365 (21.16%) Finance
3 245 (14.20%) Public Sector
4 200 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
5 107 (6.20%) Banking
6 96 (5.57%) Telecoms
7 77 (4.46%) Marketing
8 73 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
9 65 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
10 63 (3.65%) Retail
11 60 (3.48%) Legal
12 59 (3.42%) Manufacturing
13 32 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 29 (1.68%) Front Office
15 22 (1.28%) Law
15 22 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
16 20 (1.16%) Electronics
16 20 (1.16%) Investment Banking
17 18 (1.04%) Military
18 17 (0.99%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 475 (27.54%) Architect
2 185 (10.72%) Lead
3 180 (10.43%) Senior
4 163 (9.45%) Analyst
5 131 (7.59%) Solutions Architect
6 116 (6.72%) Consultant
7 113 (6.55%) Product Manager
8 92 (5.33%) Business Analyst
9 91 (5.28%) Product Owner
10 86 (4.99%) Enterprise Architect
11 79 (4.58%) Technical Architect
12 74 (4.29%) Developer
13 54 (3.13%) Project Manager
14 45 (2.61%) Data Architect
15 43 (2.49%) Lead Architect
16 41 (2.38%) Network Engineer
17 35 (2.03%) Delivery Manager
18 34 (1.97%) Technical Leader
19 33 (1.91%) Security Architect
19 33 (1.91%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.20%) REST
2 36 (2.09%) Node.js
3 33 (1.91%) HTML
4 31 (1.80%) .NET
4 31 (1.80%) React
5 27 (1.57%) CSS
6 23 (1.33%) JSON
7 22 (1.28%) Web Services
7 22 (1.28%) XML
8 19 (1.10%) SAML
9 17 (0.99%) RESTful
10 16 (0.93%) AWS CDK
11 15 (0.87%) AngularJS
11 15 (0.87%) OAuth
12 13 (0.75%) SOAP
12 13 (0.75%) Spring
13 12 (0.70%) NETCONF
13 12 (0.70%) YANG
14 11 (0.64%) LDAP
14 11 (0.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 220 (12.75%) Product Ownership
2 99 (5.74%) Management Information System
3 39 (2.26%) Public Cloud
4 36 (2.09%) Data Centre
5 34 (1.97%) Security Posture
5 34 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 28 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
7 28 (1.62%) Mobile App
8 26 (1.51%) CMDB
9 25 (1.45%) Fixed Income
9 25 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 22 (1.28%) Hedge funds
11 20 (1.16%) Derivative
12 19 (1.10%) Equities
12 19 (1.10%) Virtual Team
13 18 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
13 18 (1.04%) Onboarding
13 18 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
14 16 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 77 (4.46%) Linux
2 69 (4.00%) Windows
3 41 (2.38%) Apple iOS
4 30 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.68%) Android
6 24 (1.39%) Unix
7 18 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.41%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.29%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.17%) Solaris
14 2 (0.12%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.058%) CentOS
15 1 (0.058%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.058%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (32.75%) Agile
2 276 (16.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 239 (13.86%) Product Roadmap
4 209 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
5 202 (11.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 195 (11.30%) DevOps
7 193 (11.19%) Project Management
8 172 (9.97%) Analytics
9 167 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 160 (9.28%) Scrum
11 149 (8.64%) Decision-Making
12 148 (8.58%) IT Strategy
13 145 (8.41%) Business Strategy
14 140 (8.12%) Migration
15 132 (7.65%) Technology Roadmap
16 126 (7.30%) Cybersecurity
17 122 (7.07%) Enterprise Architecture
18 121 (7.01%) Product Management
19 114 (6.61%) User Experience
20 113 (6.55%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 124 (7.19%) Python
2 95 (5.51%) SQL
3 79 (4.58%) Java
4 53 (3.07%) JavaScript
5 39 (2.26%) PowerShell
6 32 (1.86%) TypeScript
7 26 (1.51%) Bash
8 25 (1.45%) C#
9 19 (1.10%) C++
10 12 (0.70%) Perl
11 10 (0.58%) VB.NET
12 9 (0.52%) PHP
12 9 (0.52%) VBA
13 7 (0.41%) Go
13 7 (0.41%) Ruby
13 7 (0.41%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.35%) C
14 6 (0.35%) Scala
14 6 (0.35%) Swift
15 5 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 276 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 224 (12.99%) Degree
3 191 (11.07%) SC Cleared
4 75 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 47 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (1.86%) Master's Degree
8 30 (1.74%) CISSP
9 25 (1.45%) PMP
10 24 (1.39%) CCNP
11 22 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
12 20 (1.16%) CISM
13 18 (1.04%) PMI Certification
14 17 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
15 16 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (0.81%) Azure Certification
17 11 (0.64%) HND
18 10 (0.58%) AWS Certification
18 10 (0.58%) CCNA
19 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (4.00%) QA
2 53 (3.07%) NIST
3 43 (2.49%) PMO
4 36 (2.09%) GDPR
5 35 (2.03%) Data Quality
6 34 (1.97%) Accessibility
7 25 (1.45%) SLA
8 20 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
8 20 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.81%) GRC
10 13 (0.75%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.58%) COBIT
12 6 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (0.29%) ITGC
14 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.23%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 63 (3.65%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.80%) Docker
3 28 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.41%) vSphere
7 5 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.29%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.29%) XenApp
8 3 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.17%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.12%) Ceph
9 2 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.058%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (3.54%) Terraform
2 44 (2.55%) Ansible
3 41 (2.38%) Kubernetes
4 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.70%) Grafana
5 12 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.64%) FortiGate
6 11 (0.64%) Red Hat Satellite
7 10 (0.58%) SCCM
8 8 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.29%) Puppet
10 4 (0.23%) Kibana
10 4 (0.23%) Opsgenie
10 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.23%) WSUS
11 3 (0.17%) SolarWinds Orion
12 2 (0.12%) Argo
12 2 (0.12%) Pacemaker
12 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.12%) vRealize
Vendors
1 237 (13.74%) Microsoft
2 117 (6.78%) SAP
3 78 (4.52%) ServiceNow
4 64 (3.71%) Google
5 56 (3.25%) Cisco
6 44 (2.55%) VMware
7 36 (2.09%) Nokia
8 34 (1.97%) Oracle
9 30 (1.74%) Salesforce
10 26 (1.51%) IBM
11 23 (1.33%) Atlassian
11 23 (1.33%) Red Hat
12 22 (1.28%) Juniper
13 20 (1.16%) F5
13 20 (1.16%) Palo Alto
14 17 (0.99%) Adobe
14 17 (0.99%) Workday
15 16 (0.93%) Splunk
16 15 (0.87%) Databricks
17 14 (0.81%) Bloomberg