Product Roadmap Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Product Roadmaps
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Product Roadmap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 111 117
Rank change year-on-year +16 +6 +26
Contract jobs citing Product Roadmap 36 18 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.51% 0.96% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 1.02% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 9
10th Percentile £471 £313 £392
25th Percentile £534 £373 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -24.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £731 £613 £730
90th Percentile £795 £730 £740
Central London median daily rate £600 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% +2.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Product Roadmap falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,080 1,763 1,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.28% 94.13% 91.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,414 1,157 1,281
10th Percentile £377 £331 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £768 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.46 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -13.60%
75th Percentile £41.69 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £61.31 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.08 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -23.16% +11.24% -22.86%

Product Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Roadmap relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Product Roadmap job vacancy trend in the City of London

Product Roadmap
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Product Roadmap.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Product Roadmap

Product Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Roadmap in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Roadmap in the City of London

Product Roadmap
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Product Roadmap.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Product Roadmap

Product Roadmap
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

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 City of London region over the 6 months to 4 August 2026. 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
London Bridge - 1 £550 -
Product Roadmap
Central London

Product Roadmap
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Exchequer
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) Azure
2 3 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.56%) SaaS
4 1 (2.78%) Azure AI
4 1 (2.78%) GCP
4 1 (2.78%) GitHub
4 1 (2.78%) Google Gemini
4 1 (2.78%) Kong
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (2.78%) OCI
4 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.78%) Metadata
1 1 (2.78%) Power BI
1 1 (2.78%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Git
1 1 (2.78%) JIRA
1 1 (2.78%) Subversion
General
1 16 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.00%) Finance
3 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (11.11%) Banking
5 4 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (11.11%) Retail
6 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
7 2 (5.56%) Marketing
7 2 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.78%) Aviation
8 1 (2.78%) Back Office
8 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.78%) Front Office
8 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.78%) Legal
8 1 (2.78%) Legal Technology
8 1 (2.78%) Military
8 1 (2.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) Product Manager
2 8 (22.22%) Product Owner
3 7 (19.44%) Analyst
3 7 (19.44%) Business Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Architect
4 4 (11.11%) Reinsurance Business Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Senior
6 2 (5.56%) Data Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Principal Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Technical Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Engineering Specialist
7 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Technical Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Head of Business Intelligence
7 1 (2.78%) Insurance Business Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Integration Project Manager
7 1 (2.78%) Principal Enterprise Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) Keycloak
1 1 (2.78%) REST
1 1 (2.78%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (11.11%) Reinsurance
3 2 (5.56%) Credit Risk
3 2 (5.56%) Life Science
4 1 (2.78%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 19 (52.78%) Agile
3 15 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (38.89%) Product Backlog
5 13 (36.11%) User Stories
6 11 (30.56%) Product Management
7 10 (27.78%) Business Analysis
7 10 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
8 9 (25.00%) Decision-Making
8 9 (25.00%) Scrum
9 8 (22.22%) AI
10 7 (19.44%) Product Strategy
10 7 (19.44%) Product Vision
10 7 (19.44%) Prototyping
10 7 (19.44%) Sprint Planning
11 6 (16.67%) Backlog Management
11 6 (16.67%) Business Case
11 6 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
11 6 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.33%) Python
2 2 (5.56%) Java
2 2 (5.56%) SQL
3 1 (2.78%) Bash
3 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) CSPO
3 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.78%) PMP
4 1 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) QA
2 3 (8.33%) GRC
3 2 (5.56%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.56%) GxP
4 1 (2.78%) Basel III
4 1 (2.78%) IFRS
4 1 (2.78%) IFRS 9
4 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.56%) Terraform
2 1 (2.78%) Ansible
2 1 (2.78%) Argo
2 1 (2.78%) Puppet
2 1 (2.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Salesforce
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) JDA
3 2 (5.56%) RedPrairie
4 1 (2.78%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) VMware