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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 119 132
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 +20
Contract jobs citing Technology Roadmap 19 9 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.79% 0.48% 0.094%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.51% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 2
10th Percentile £510 £643 £818
25th Percentile £532 £669 £825
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £725 £850
Median % change year-on-year -26.28% -14.71% +6.25%
75th Percentile £752 £994 £875
90th Percentile £880 £1,148 £883
Central London median daily rate £600 £725 £825
% change year-on-year -17.24% -12.12% +4.76%

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 2,090 1,750 1,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.69% 94.04% 91.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 1,126 1,324
10th Percentile £368 £335 £363
25th Percentile £456 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £677 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% -22.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £42.56 £56.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £30.41
% change year-on-year -28.74% +6.89% -13.13%

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 22 July 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 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (5.26%) nginx
1 1 (5.26%) WebSphere
1 1 (5.26%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 6 (31.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.26%) Actimize
2 1 (5.26%) Aladdin
2 1 (5.26%) Exchequer
2 1 (5.26%) Magento
2 1 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) dbt
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.26%) MySQL
1 1 (5.26%) Redis
1 1 (5.26%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Artifactory
2 1 (5.26%) Introscope
2 1 (5.26%) PHPUnit
General
1 9 (47.37%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Military
4 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Architect
2 7 (36.84%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Salesforce Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Magento Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Monitoring Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Middleware
1 3 (15.79%) REST
1 3 (15.79%) SOAP
2 2 (10.53%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (5.26%) CSS
3 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.26%) HTML
3 1 (5.26%) Jinja
3 1 (5.26%) jQuery
3 1 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (5.26%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.26%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.26%) Clustering
1 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.26%) PMI
1 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) AIX
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
2 4 (21.05%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (15.79%) Code Quality
3 3 (15.79%) DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (10.53%) Agile
4 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (10.53%) Data Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
4 2 (10.53%) ERP
4 2 (10.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (10.53%) Investment Management
4 2 (10.53%) IT Strategy
4 2 (10.53%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (10.53%) Portfolio Management
4 2 (10.53%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (10.53%) Service Design
4 2 (10.53%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) Jython
3 1 (5.26%) PHP
3 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) COBIT
1 1 (5.26%) QA
1 1 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
1 1 (5.26%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) CA Wily
1 1 (5.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Ariba
1 6 (31.58%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) Adobe
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle