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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 105 111
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +39
Contract jobs citing Product Roadmap 34 18 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.48% 1.00% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 1.06% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 12 12
10th Percentile £450 £318 £412
25th Percentile £525 £374 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £728 £633 £698
90th Percentile £785 £771 £737
Central London median daily rate £600 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +33.33% -21.74% -8.00%

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 2,018 1,697 1,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.08% 94.28% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,388 1,122 1,245
10th Percentile £381 £325 £375
25th Percentile £463 £419 £475
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 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -13.60%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 (2.94%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.82%) Azure
2 2 (5.88%) AWS
2 2 (5.88%) SaaS
3 1 (2.94%) Azure AI
3 1 (2.94%) GitHub
3 1 (2.94%) Google Gemini
3 1 (2.94%) Kong
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (2.94%) OCI
3 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.94%) Metadata
1 1 (2.94%) Power BI
1 1 (2.94%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Git
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
1 1 (2.94%) Subversion
General
1 14 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Finance
3 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (14.71%) Banking
5 4 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (11.76%) Retail
6 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.88%) Marketing
6 2 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.94%) Back Office
7 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.94%) Front Office
7 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.94%) Legal
7 1 (2.94%) Legal Technology
7 1 (2.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Product Manager
2 8 (23.53%) Product Owner
3 7 (20.59%) Analyst
3 7 (20.59%) Business Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Architect
4 4 (11.76%) Reinsurance Business Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Senior
6 2 (5.88%) Data Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Principal Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 1 (2.94%) Insurance Business Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Integration Manager
7 1 (2.94%) Integration Project Manager
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Product Manager
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) Terraform
2 1 (2.94%) Keycloak
2 1 (2.94%) REST
2 1 (2.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (70.59%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (11.76%) Reinsurance
3 2 (5.88%) Credit Risk
3 2 (5.88%) Life Science
4 1 (2.94%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 18 (52.94%) Agile
3 14 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (35.29%) Product Backlog
4 12 (35.29%) User Stories
5 11 (32.35%) Product Management
6 10 (29.41%) Business Analysis
6 10 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (26.47%) Acceptance Criteria
7 9 (26.47%) Scrum
8 8 (23.53%) Decision-Making
9 7 (20.59%) Prototyping
9 7 (20.59%) Sprint Planning
10 6 (17.65%) AI
10 6 (17.65%) Product Strategy
10 6 (17.65%) Product Vision
10 6 (17.65%) Strategic Roadmap
10 6 (17.65%) Workshop Facilitation
11 5 (14.71%) Analytics
11 5 (14.71%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.82%) Python
2 2 (5.88%) Java
2 2 (5.88%) SQL
3 1 (2.94%) Bash
3 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) CSPO
3 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.94%) PMP
4 1 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) QA
2 3 (8.82%) GRC
3 2 (5.88%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.88%) GxP
4 1 (2.94%) Basel III
4 1 (2.94%) IFRS
4 1 (2.94%) IFRS 9
4 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Ansible
2 1 (2.94%) Argo
2 1 (2.94%) Puppet
2 1 (2.94%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) JDA
3 2 (5.88%) RedPrairie
4 1 (2.94%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) VMware