Technology Roadmap Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Technology Roadmaps
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Technology Roadmap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 107 125
Rank change year-on-year -5 +18 +22
Contract jobs citing Technology Roadmap 23 10 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.00% 0.57% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.61% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 4
10th Percentile £516 £487 £603
25th Percentile £532 £511 £681
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £638 £788
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% -19.05% +26.00%
75th Percentile £675 £741 £850
90th Percentile £880 £746 £873
Central London median daily rate £575 £725 £800
% change year-on-year -20.69% -9.38% +28.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Technology 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 1,947 1,642 1,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.73% 93.45% 90.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 1,039 1,394
10th Percentile £363 £350 £352
25th Percentile £450 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £566
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.55% -5.63%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 11
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £49.78 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -20.54%

Technology Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Technology Roadmap job vacancy trend in the City of London

Technology Roadmap
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Technology Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Roadmap in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Roadmap in the City of London

Technology Roadmap
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Technology 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 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (4.35%) nginx
1 1 (4.35%) WebSphere
1 1 (4.35%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 6 (26.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (8.70%) Exchequer
3 1 (4.35%) Actimize
3 1 (4.35%) Aladdin
3 1 (4.35%) Magento
3 1 (4.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) AWS
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (8.70%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (4.35%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.35%) MySQL
1 1 (4.35%) Redis
1 1 (4.35%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
2 1 (4.35%) Introscope
2 1 (4.35%) PHPUnit
General
1 12 (52.17%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Financial Institution
4 2 (8.70%) Military
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Architect
2 6 (26.09%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) HR Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) HR Business Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365 Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Product Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Salesforce Developer
4 2 (8.70%) SAP Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) SAP Business Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) SAP HR Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) SAP HR Business Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.35%) Monitoring Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) SOC Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Middleware
1 3 (13.04%) REST
1 3 (13.04%) SOAP
2 2 (8.70%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (4.35%) CSS
3 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) Jinja
3 1 (4.35%) jQuery
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (4.35%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.35%) Clustering
1 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
1 1 (4.35%) PMI
1 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
1 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) AIX
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
4 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (17.39%) DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) Agile
5 3 (13.04%) Code Quality
5 3 (13.04%) Data Analysis
5 3 (13.04%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (13.04%) User Experience
6 2 (8.70%) Containerisation
6 2 (8.70%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 2 (8.70%) Observability
6 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.70%) Project Delivery
6 2 (8.70%) Regulatory Compliance
6 2 (8.70%) Service Design
6 2 (8.70%) SOAR
6 2 (8.70%) Technical Debt
6 2 (8.70%) UEBA
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) Java
2 2 (8.70%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (8.70%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) Jython
3 1 (4.35%) PHP
3 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
1 1 (4.35%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) CA Wily
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) SAP
2 6 (26.09%) Ariba
3 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.70%) CyberArk
4 2 (8.70%) LogRhythm
4 2 (8.70%) McAfee
4 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
4 2 (8.70%) Trend Micro
5 1 (4.35%) Adobe
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle