Strategic Roadmap Contracts

Strategic Roadmaps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Strategic Roadmap skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Strategic Roadmap over the 6 months to 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 341 457
Rank change year-on-year +27 +116 -46
Contract jobs citing Strategic Roadmap 277 394 442
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.70% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.78% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 281 307
10th Percentile £410 £413 £463
25th Percentile £525 £484 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -4.00% +13.38%
75th Percentile £738 £735 £725
90th Percentile £865 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £544 £608
% change year-on-year +19.54% -10.49% +13.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile £49.47 - £34.40
25th Percentile £60.60 - £34.62
Median hourly rate £67.50 £90.00 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +152.74% -
75th Percentile £80.59 - £36.49
90th Percentile £84.00 - £36.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.06 £90.00 £35.72
% change year-on-year -32.16% +151.96% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Strategic 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 36,713 50,320 79,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.58% 89.67% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,845 55,748
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 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,670 1,881
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.77 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% +43.19% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

Strategic Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Roadmap in the UK

Strategic Roadmap
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Strategic Roadmap in the UK

Strategic Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Roadmap over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Roadmap in the UK

Strategic Roadmap
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Roadmap in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Strategic Roadmap over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Strategic Roadmap in the UK

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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 Strategic Roadmap within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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 +29 247 £625 +4.17% 162
London +12 122 £600 -5.88% 81
UK excluding London +10 120 £650 +19.54% 84
Work from Home +61 104 £629 +4.75% 86
North of England +32 41 £663 +20.45% 23
North West +49 38 £650 +40.54% 20
South East -2 33 £650 +30.00% 22
South West +10 21 £650 +27.45% 9
Midlands +2 12 £550 -5.38% 13
Scotland +18 8 £575 +19.79% 4
West Midlands +4 7 £550 +2.33% 9
East Midlands +12 5 £445 -27.35% 4
East of England +11 4 £675 +22.73% 11
Yorkshire -3 3 £700 +27.27% 2
Northern Ireland +5 1 - - 2

Strategic 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 12 (4.33%) Confluence
2 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.72%) Apache
3 2 (0.72%) CMS
3 2 (0.72%) IIS
3 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.72%) WebLogic
3 2 (0.72%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.72%) WordPress
4 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.08%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.08%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.36%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 14 (5.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.81%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (1.44%) SAP BPC
5 3 (1.08%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.36%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.36%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.36%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.36%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 58 (20.94%) Azure
2 33 (11.91%) AWS
3 19 (6.86%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (4.33%) SaaS
5 10 (3.61%) GCP
6 9 (3.25%) PaaS
7 8 (2.89%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.17%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.81%) Tricentis Tosca
10 4 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.44%) GitHub
10 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.08%) Alation
11 3 (1.08%) Boomi
11 3 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.08%) Serverless
11 3 (1.08%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (0.72%) Asana
12 2 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.94%) Firewall
2 21 (7.58%) VPN
3 7 (2.53%) PBX
3 7 (2.53%) VoIP
4 6 (2.17%) Network Security
4 6 (2.17%) SDH
4 6 (2.17%) WAN
5 4 (1.44%) DHCP
5 4 (1.44%) DNS
5 4 (1.44%) Junos
5 4 (1.44%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.44%) VLAN
6 2 (0.72%) Intranet
7 1 (0.36%) Broadband
7 1 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.36%) SNMP
7 1 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.81%) Big Data
2 5 (1.81%) Metadata
2 5 (1.81%) NoSQL
2 5 (1.81%) Power BI
2 5 (1.81%) Tableau
3 4 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.08%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.08%) DB2
5 2 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.72%) Couchbase
5 2 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.72%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.36%) DTS
6 1 (0.36%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.36%) OLAP
6 1 (0.36%) OLTP
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (0.36%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 19 (6.86%) JIRA
2 15 (5.42%) Rational DOORS
3 5 (1.81%) LoadRunner
3 5 (1.81%) NeoLoad
4 4 (1.44%) Git
5 2 (0.72%) GitLab
5 2 (0.72%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 80 (28.88%) Social Skills
2 63 (22.74%) Finance
3 35 (12.64%) Public Sector
4 31 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (9.03%) Legal
6 23 (8.30%) Telecoms
7 16 (5.78%) Marketing
8 15 (5.42%) Banking
9 14 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (3.61%) Manufacturing
10 10 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (3.25%) Retail
12 8 (2.89%) Aerospace
13 7 (2.53%) Digital Economy
14 6 (2.17%) Law
15 5 (1.81%) German Language
16 4 (1.44%) Aeronautics
16 4 (1.44%) Electronics
17 3 (1.08%) Agriculture
17 3 (1.08%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 118 (42.60%) Architect
2 44 (15.88%) Solutions Architect
3 36 (13.00%) Analyst
4 32 (11.55%) Technical Architect
5 29 (10.47%) Senior
6 28 (10.11%) Lead
7 20 (7.22%) Consultant
8 18 (6.50%) Lead Architect
8 18 (6.50%) Product Manager
8 18 (6.50%) Technical Leader
9 13 (4.69%) Enterprise Architect
10 12 (4.33%) Business Analyst
10 12 (4.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 12 (4.33%) Developer
11 11 (3.97%) Microsoft Developer
11 11 (3.97%) Product Owner
12 10 (3.61%) SAP Architect
12 10 (3.61%) SAP Solutions Architect
12 10 (3.61%) Technical Analyst
13 9 (3.25%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.86%) Node.js
2 10 (3.61%) REST
3 4 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.44%) Lucene
3 4 (1.44%) React
3 4 (1.44%) SOAP
4 3 (1.08%) GraphQL
4 3 (1.08%) RAML
5 2 (0.72%) .NET
5 2 (0.72%) DOM
5 2 (0.72%) Express.js
5 2 (0.72%) HTML
5 2 (0.72%) J2EE
5 2 (0.72%) LDAP
5 2 (0.72%) Middleware
5 2 (0.72%) React Native
5 2 (0.72%) Redux
5 2 (0.72%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.72%) Web Services
5 2 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.80%) Product Ownership
2 16 (5.78%) Public Cloud
3 11 (3.97%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.89%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (2.89%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.53%) Blackberry
5 7 (2.53%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (2.17%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.81%) Digital Media
8 4 (1.44%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.08%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.72%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.72%) CMDB
10 2 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.72%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.72%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.36%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.22%) Windows
2 18 (6.50%) Android
2 18 (6.50%) Apple iOS
3 17 (6.14%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 77 (27.80%) Agile
3 63 (22.74%) IT Strategy
4 55 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
5 52 (18.77%) Business Strategy
6 45 (16.25%) Stakeholder Management
7 43 (15.52%) Enterprise Architecture
8 42 (15.16%) DevOps
9 40 (14.44%) Use Case
10 35 (12.64%) Product Strategy
11 33 (11.91%) Cybersecurity
12 32 (11.55%) Risk Management
13 31 (11.19%) Analytics
13 31 (11.19%) Decision-Making
13 31 (11.19%) TOGAF
14 30 (10.83%) Computer Science
14 30 (10.83%) Product Management
15 28 (10.11%) Digital Strategy
15 28 (10.11%) Project Management
16 26 (9.39%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 10 (3.61%) Java
2 9 (3.25%) SQL
3 5 (1.81%) Python
4 4 (1.44%) Go
4 4 (1.44%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.08%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.72%) Bash
6 2 (0.72%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 76 (27.44%) Security Cleared
2 52 (18.77%) SC Cleared
3 47 (16.97%) Degree
4 25 (9.03%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.05%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.97%) HND
7 11 (3.97%) TOGAF Certification
8 9 (3.25%) CISSP
8 9 (3.25%) Master's Degree
9 7 (2.53%) CCNP
9 7 (2.53%) CISM
10 5 (1.81%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.81%) CCNA
10 5 (1.81%) PMP
11 4 (1.44%) APMP
11 4 (1.44%) CEH
11 4 (1.44%) JNCIA
11 4 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (1.08%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.94%) NIST
2 13 (4.69%) QA
3 6 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.44%) GRC
4 4 (1.44%) PMO
5 3 (1.08%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.36%) COBIT
6 1 (0.36%) GDPR
6 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (2.17%) Active Directory
1 6 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.08%) Docker
3 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (2.53%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.44%) Terraform
3 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.72%) Ansible
4 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (0.36%) Nagios
5 1 (0.36%) OpenView
Vendors
1 42 (15.16%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.86%) IBM
3 18 (6.50%) Cisco
3 18 (6.50%) SAP
4 17 (6.14%) Juniper
4 17 (6.14%) Nokia
5 16 (5.78%) Google
6 10 (3.61%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.53%) Avaya
7 7 (2.53%) CA Agile Central
7 7 (2.53%) Ericsson
7 7 (2.53%) Ribbon
7 7 (2.53%) VMware
8 5 (1.81%) Apple
8 5 (1.81%) iManage
8 5 (1.81%) Intapp
8 5 (1.81%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.44%) Informatica
9 4 (1.44%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.44%) Talend