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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 103 104
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 +34
Contract jobs citing Product Roadmap 29 19 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.31% 1.10% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.16% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 12 13
10th Percentile £431 £318 £419
25th Percentile £513 £374 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £433 £575
Median % change year-on-year +34.39% -24.78% -11.54%
75th Percentile £678 £633 £688
90th Percentile £741 £771 £736
Central London median daily rate £581 £433 £575
% change year-on-year +34.39% -24.78% -11.54%

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 1,984 1,631 1,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.73% 94.39% 91.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,370 1,097 1,201
10th Percentile £367 £325 £375
25th Percentile £455 £421 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £774 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 19
10th Percentile £16.98 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -26.88% +40.00%
75th Percentile £36.13 £50.25 £102.25
90th Percentile £59.70 £68.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.28% -18.57% +30.84%

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 30 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
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 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.79%) Azure
2 2 (6.90%) SaaS
3 1 (3.45%) AWS
3 1 (3.45%) Azure AI
3 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.45%) GitHub
3 1 (3.45%) Google Gemini
3 1 (3.45%) Kong
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (3.45%) OCI
3 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
3 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.45%) Metadata
1 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Subversion
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Finance
3 6 (20.69%) Banking
4 4 (13.79%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.90%) Front Office
6 2 (6.90%) Legal
6 2 (6.90%) Legal Technology
6 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.90%) Marketing
6 2 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (6.90%) Retail
7 1 (3.45%) Back Office
7 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.45%) Games
7 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Local Government
7 1 (3.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Product Manager
2 7 (24.14%) Product Owner
3 3 (10.34%) Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Architect
3 3 (10.34%) Business Analyst
3 3 (10.34%) Senior
3 3 (10.34%) Senior Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Lead
4 2 (6.90%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Product Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Data Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Technical Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (3.45%) Integration Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Integration Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Principal Enterprise Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) Keycloak
2 1 (3.45%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (55.17%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (6.90%) Credit Risk
2 2 (6.90%) Life Science
2 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.90%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.45%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 15 (51.72%) Agile
3 14 (48.28%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (44.83%) Product Management
5 12 (41.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (34.48%) Product Backlog
7 9 (31.03%) Decision-Making
7 9 (31.03%) Scrum
8 8 (27.59%) Product Strategy
8 8 (27.59%) Strategic Roadmap
9 7 (24.14%) AI
9 7 (24.14%) Sprint Planning
10 6 (20.69%) Backlog Management
10 6 (20.69%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 6 (20.69%) Commercial Awareness
10 6 (20.69%) Product Vision
11 5 (17.24%) Data Governance
11 5 (17.24%) Product Requirements
11 5 (17.24%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 5 (17.24%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) Python
2 2 (6.90%) Java
2 2 (6.90%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) Bash
3 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) CSPO
3 2 (6.90%) PMI Certification
3 2 (6.90%) PMP
3 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) QA
2 3 (10.34%) GRC
3 2 (6.90%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.90%) GxP
4 1 (3.45%) Basel III
4 1 (3.45%) IFRS
4 1 (3.45%) IFRS 9
4 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Ansible
2 1 (3.45%) Argo
2 1 (3.45%) Puppet
2 1 (3.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) JDA
2 2 (6.90%) RedPrairie
2 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.45%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) VMware