Technology Roadmap Contracts

Technology Roadmaps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Technology Roadmap skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Technology 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 466 412 444
Rank change year-on-year -54 +32 -6
Contract jobs citing Technology Roadmap 132 330 487
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.55% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.61% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 250 305
10th Percentile £363 £484 £425
25th Percentile £525 £562 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £623
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.33% +17.83%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £713
90th Percentile £823 £813 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £650 £529
% change year-on-year -3.85% +22.93% +5.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £33.57 - -
25th Percentile £33.61 - £33.00
Median hourly rate £35.13 - £96.00
75th Percentile £52.72 - £96.23
90th Percentile £82.81 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £102.87 - £96.23
% change year-on-year - - +300.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Technology 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%

Technology Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Roadmap in the UK

Technology Roadmap
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technology Roadmap in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Technology Roadmap in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technology Roadmap in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Technology 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 Technology 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 -42 108 £600 -8.05% 149
Work from Home +59 61 £650 - 63
UK excluding London +12 61 £625 -3.85% 89
London -26 54 £600 -11.11% 63
East of England +8 15 £625 -10.71% 17
North of England +22 13 £550 -13.73% 26
South East +10 12 £650 +8.33% 16
North West +18 11 £550 -8.33% 17
Scotland +37 9 £600 +2.13% 9
South West +19 7 £588 -16.07% 10
Wales +17 3 £650 +23.81% 2
Yorkshire +8 2 £525 -19.23% 7
Midlands +3 2 £600 - 11
West Midlands +17 1 - - 5
East Midlands +11 1 £600 -1.03% 6

Technology 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 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.76%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (0.76%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.76%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 35 (26.52%) Azure
2 13 (9.85%) AWS
3 10 (7.58%) SaaS
4 7 (5.30%) PaaS
5 5 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.79%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.03%) GitHub
6 4 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.27%) GCP
7 3 (2.27%) IaaS
8 2 (1.52%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (1.52%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.52%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.52%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.52%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.82%) Firewall
2 8 (6.06%) VPN
3 5 (3.79%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (3.79%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (3.79%) OSPF
4 3 (2.27%) Spanning Tree
4 3 (2.27%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.27%) VLAN
5 2 (1.52%) BGP
5 2 (1.52%) LAN
5 2 (1.52%) SAN
5 2 (1.52%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.52%) WAN
5 2 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.76%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.76%) Skype
6 1 (0.76%) SNMP
6 1 (0.76%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.03%) Power BI
3 3 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.52%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (1.52%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.76%) Adabas
5 1 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.76%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (7.58%) JIRA
2 2 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (21.21%) Finance
2 26 (19.70%) Social Skills
3 23 (17.42%) Public Sector
4 18 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.06%) Banking
5 8 (6.06%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.55%) Legal
7 5 (3.79%) Local Government
7 5 (3.79%) Police
8 3 (2.27%) Billing
8 3 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.27%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.27%) Retail
9 2 (1.52%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.52%) Back Office
9 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.76%) Electronics
10 1 (0.76%) Marketing
10 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (37.12%) Architect
2 16 (12.12%) Technical Architect
3 12 (9.09%) Lead
4 9 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (6.82%) Product Manager
4 9 (6.82%) Senior
4 9 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (6.06%) Administrator
5 8 (6.06%) Enterprise Architect
5 8 (6.06%) Linux Administrator
5 8 (6.06%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 8 (6.06%) Systems Administrator
6 6 (4.55%) Development Manager
6 6 (4.55%) Lead Architect
6 6 (4.55%) Technical Leader
6 6 (4.55%) Technical Manager
6 6 (4.55%) Technical Product Manager
7 5 (3.79%) Applications Architect
7 5 (3.79%) Senior Architect
8 4 (3.03%) Chief Technology Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.79%) .NET
2 2 (1.52%) J2EE
3 1 (0.76%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.76%) Ajax
3 1 (0.76%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.76%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (0.76%) EntireX
3 1 (0.76%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.76%) HTML
3 1 (0.76%) HTML5
3 1 (0.76%) Node.js
3 1 (0.76%) OpenID
3 1 (0.76%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.76%) SAML
3 1 (0.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.82%) Management Information System
2 9 (6.82%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.55%) PKI
4 6 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.27%) CMDB
6 3 (2.27%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.76%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.76%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.76%) NHS
8 1 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.15%) Linux
2 11 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (6.82%) Windows
4 6 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (3.79%) Android
5 5 (3.79%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.27%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.76%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.76%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 42 (31.82%) Agile
3 20 (15.15%) Technical Leadership
4 19 (14.39%) Business Strategy
4 19 (14.39%) IT Strategy
5 18 (13.64%) DevOps
5 18 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (13.64%) Technology Strategy
6 17 (12.88%) Migration
7 15 (11.36%) Collaborative Working
7 15 (11.36%) Strategic Roadmap
8 14 (10.61%) Enterprise Architecture
8 14 (10.61%) Project Delivery
8 14 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 12 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
10 12 (9.09%) User Stories
11 11 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.58%) Python
2 6 (4.55%) Bash
2 6 (4.55%) Java
3 4 (3.03%) C#
4 3 (2.27%) PHP
4 3 (2.27%) SQL
5 2 (1.52%) C++
6 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.76%) Natural
6 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.76%) R
Qualifications
1 48 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.61%) Degree
4 11 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 9 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (6.82%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.79%) CTC Cleared
7 3 (2.27%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (2.27%) CITP
8 2 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.52%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.52%) PhD
9 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.55%) GDPR
1 6 (4.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 6 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.79%) QA
3 2 (1.52%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.76%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 11 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (3.79%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.76%) Docker
3 1 (0.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (6.06%) Red Hat Satellite
1 8 (6.06%) Terraform
2 3 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.76%) AirWatch
3 1 (0.76%) Matomo
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.61%) Red Hat
3 11 (8.33%) VMware
4 8 (6.06%) Atlassian
4 8 (6.06%) Cisco
5 7 (5.30%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.79%) F5
6 5 (3.79%) Palo Alto
6 5 (3.79%) Splunk
7 4 (3.03%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.27%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.27%) Google
8 3 (2.27%) Oracle
8 3 (2.27%) SAP
9 2 (1.52%) Sparx
9 2 (1.52%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.76%) Adaptive Insights
10 1 (0.76%) Databricks
10 1 (0.76%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.76%) Ping Identity