Roadmaps Contracts with Work from Home Options

Roadmaps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 34 45
Rank change year-on-year -12 +11 +10
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 596 1,452 2,350
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.95% 5.79% 5.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 6.45% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 1,036 1,695
10th Percentile £411 £438 £413
25th Percentile £475 £500 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £715 £688 £675
90th Percentile £838 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £585 £600 £590
% change year-on-year -2.50% +1.69% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 10
10th Percentile £30.99 £35.00 £25.56
25th Percentile £33.63 £37.50 £34.44
Median hourly rate £71.93 £66.00 £46.98
Median % change year-on-year +8.98% +40.50% +91.73%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.56 £60.93
90th Percentile £84.00 £85.75 £96.02
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.89 £41.50
% change year-on-year +14.27% +37.07% -2.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Roadmaps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Roadmaps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Roadmaps trend for jobs with a WFH option

Roadmaps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Roadmaps.

Roadmaps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Roadmaps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Roadmaps over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Roadmaps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Roadmaps
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Roadmaps.

Roadmaps hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Roadmaps
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Roadmaps over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Roadmaps hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Roadmaps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 29 (4.87%) Confluence
2 9 (1.51%) CMS
3 8 (1.34%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.01%) IIS
6 3 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.50%) Apache
6 3 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.50%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.50%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.34%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.17%) LiveLink
Applications
1 20 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (1.34%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.84%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.17%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.84%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.67%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.67%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.50%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.50%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.34%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.34%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.34%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.34%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.34%) Shopify
6 2 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.17%) SAP APO
7 1 (0.17%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.17%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.17%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 84 (14.09%) Azure
2 69 (11.58%) AWS
3 35 (5.87%) GCP
4 34 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (4.53%) SaaS
6 25 (4.19%) Power Platform
7 20 (3.36%) PaaS
8 14 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (2.18%) IaaS
9 13 (2.18%) Serverless
10 11 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (1.85%) GitHub
11 10 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (1.68%) Entra ID
12 9 (1.51%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.51%) OpenShift
13 8 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
15 5 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.86%) Firewall
2 15 (2.52%) Network Security
3 14 (2.35%) DNS
4 13 (2.18%) 5G
4 13 (2.18%) WAN
5 12 (2.01%) 4G
5 12 (2.01%) LAN
5 12 (2.01%) Radio Access Network
6 11 (1.85%) VPN
7 8 (1.34%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.34%) VoIP
8 6 (1.01%) 3G
8 6 (1.01%) CTI
8 6 (1.01%) DHCP
9 5 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (0.84%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.84%) VLAN
10 4 (0.67%) 5G NR
10 4 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.67%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.52%) Power BI
2 17 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (2.01%) MongoDB
4 11 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (1.68%) NoSQL
5 10 (1.68%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.17%) Oracle Database
7 7 (1.17%) Tableau
8 6 (1.01%) Metadata
9 5 (0.84%) Big Data
9 5 (0.84%) OLAP
9 5 (0.84%) OLTP
10 4 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.67%) DB2
10 4 (0.67%) GIS
10 4 (0.67%) Informix
11 3 (0.50%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 45 (7.55%) JIRA
2 20 (3.36%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.68%) Git
4 7 (1.17%) GitLab
5 6 (1.01%) Artifactory
5 6 (1.01%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.01%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.67%) Selenium
6 4 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.50%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.34%) JMeter
9 1 (0.17%) Appium
9 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.17%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.17%) Postman
9 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.17%) Subversion
9 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 176 (29.53%) Social Skills
2 132 (22.15%) Finance
3 102 (17.11%) Public Sector
4 64 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (7.05%) Banking
6 28 (4.70%) Telecoms
7 25 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
8 24 (4.03%) Retail
9 23 (3.86%) Marketing
10 20 (3.36%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (2.35%) Legal
14 8 (1.34%) Police
15 7 (1.17%) Aerospace
16 6 (1.01%) Investment Banking
16 6 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.84%) Law
Job Titles
1 181 (30.37%) Architect
2 64 (10.74%) Senior
3 58 (9.73%) Analyst
4 53 (8.89%) Consultant
5 49 (8.22%) Lead
5 49 (8.22%) Solutions Architect
6 36 (6.04%) Business Analyst
7 30 (5.03%) Enterprise Architect
8 28 (4.70%) Product Manager
9 27 (4.53%) Product Owner
10 24 (4.03%) Developer
11 21 (3.52%) Technical Architect
12 18 (3.02%) Project Manager
12 18 (3.02%) Security Architect
13 16 (2.68%) Business Architect
13 16 (2.68%) Senior Architect
14 13 (2.18%) Lead Architect
14 13 (2.18%) Programme Manager
15 12 (2.01%) Data Architect
16 11 (1.85%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.19%) .NET
2 15 (2.52%) HTML
3 14 (2.35%) React
4 12 (2.01%) REST
5 11 (1.85%) AWS CDK
5 11 (1.85%) CSS
5 11 (1.85%) Web Services
6 9 (1.51%) Node.js
7 8 (1.34%) Spring
7 8 (1.34%) XML
8 7 (1.17%) JSON
8 7 (1.17%) OAuth
8 7 (1.17%) RESTful
8 7 (1.17%) SAML
9 5 (0.84%) OpenID
9 5 (0.84%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.67%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.67%) Kafka
10 4 (0.67%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 63 (10.57%) Product Ownership
2 23 (3.86%) Management Information System
3 14 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (1.85%) Public Cloud
6 10 (1.68%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.51%) IVR
7 9 (1.51%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.17%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.01%) Replication
9 6 (1.01%) Security Posture
10 5 (0.84%) CMDB
10 5 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (0.84%) Mainframe
10 5 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 32 (5.37%) Linux
2 19 (3.19%) Windows
3 12 (2.01%) Unix
4 9 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.17%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.84%) Android
6 5 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.34%) Solaris
9 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (31.21%) Agile
2 104 (17.45%) Strategic Roadmap
3 94 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (12.25%) Analytics
5 70 (11.74%) Product Roadmap
6 62 (10.40%) DevOps
6 62 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
7 59 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 58 (9.73%) Migration
9 52 (8.72%) Decision-Making
9 52 (8.72%) Technology Roadmap
10 49 (8.22%) Scrum
11 48 (8.05%) Business Analysis
12 47 (7.89%) Project Delivery
13 45 (7.55%) Enterprise Architecture
13 45 (7.55%) Project Management
14 44 (7.38%) Business Strategy
15 43 (7.21%) IT Strategy
16 40 (6.71%) Computer Science
17 38 (6.38%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (8.39%) Python
2 43 (7.21%) SQL
3 37 (6.21%) Java
4 24 (4.03%) JavaScript
5 23 (3.86%) PowerShell
6 19 (3.19%) Bash
7 16 (2.68%) TypeScript
8 15 (2.52%) C#
9 8 (1.34%) C++
10 6 (1.01%) VB.NET
10 6 (1.01%) VBA
11 5 (0.84%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.67%) Perl
12 4 (0.67%) PHP
13 3 (0.50%) Go
13 3 (0.50%) Ruby
13 3 (0.50%) VBScript
14 2 (0.34%) R
15 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 88 (14.77%) Security Cleared
2 74 (12.42%) Degree
3 65 (10.91%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (2.52%) CISSP
7 12 (2.01%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.34%) CCNA
8 8 (1.34%) CISM
8 8 (1.34%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (1.17%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.17%) CCNP
9 7 (1.17%) PMP
10 6 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.84%) CEH
11 5 (0.84%) CTC Cleared
12 4 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.67%) JNCIA
12 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.19%) QA
2 21 (3.52%) NIST
3 13 (2.18%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.01%) SLA
5 10 (1.68%) PMO
6 8 (1.34%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.17%) GDPR
8 6 (1.01%) GRC
8 6 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.84%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.34%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.34%) PSD2
13 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.17%) ITGC
13 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (4.87%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.85%) Docker
2 11 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.67%) vSphere
5 3 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.34%) Ceph
6 2 (0.34%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.34%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.17%) XenApp
7 1 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 22 (3.69%) Terraform
2 19 (3.19%) Ansible
3 17 (2.85%) Kubernetes
4 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.34%) Red Hat Satellite
6 7 (1.17%) Grafana
7 5 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.67%) Kibana
8 4 (0.67%) PingFederate
9 3 (0.50%) SCCM
9 3 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.50%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.34%) Argo
10 2 (0.34%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.34%) Pacemaker
10 2 (0.34%) Podman
10 2 (0.34%) WSUS
11 1 (0.17%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.17%) logstash
11 1 (0.17%) Matomo
Vendors
1 82 (13.76%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.88%) SAP
3 22 (3.69%) Google
3 22 (3.69%) Oracle
4 19 (3.19%) ServiceNow
5 16 (2.68%) VMware
6 15 (2.52%) Cisco
7 14 (2.35%) Atlassian
8 12 (2.01%) Red Hat
9 10 (1.68%) LogRhythm
10 9 (1.51%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.34%) Genesys
11 8 (1.34%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.01%) Adobe
12 6 (1.01%) Cadence
12 6 (1.01%) F5
12 6 (1.01%) Ping Identity
12 6 (1.01%) Splunk
13 5 (0.84%) IBM
14 4 (0.67%) Juniper