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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 114 127
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 +6
Contract jobs citing Technology Roadmap 20 11 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.92% 0.64% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.68% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 1
10th Percentile £470 £560 -
25th Percentile £500 £602 £813
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £825 £825
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +13.79%
75th Percentile £771 £1,138 £838
90th Percentile £1,045 £1,205 -
Central London median daily rate £625 £825 £450
% change year-on-year -24.24% +83.33% -37.72%

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 1,967 1,629 1,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.81% 94.27% 92.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,367 1,111 1,208
10th Percentile £367 £325 £366
25th Percentile £456 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £685 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 18
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.90 £17.15
25th Percentile £17.60 £20.63 £24.09
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.04 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.10% -33.25% +29.60%
75th Percentile £27.35 £35.88 £107.13
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.04 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.53% -22.76% +27.27%

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 14 October 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 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Control Tower
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.00%) Apigee
3 1 (5.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Databricks
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub
3 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) DNS
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (5.00%) Metadata
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Billing
4 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Games
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Lead
2 4 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Lead Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Salesforce Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Enterprise Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Head of AI
5 1 (5.00%) Head of Technical Architecture
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) REST
1 4 (20.00%) SOAP
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (10.00%) Middleware
4 1 (5.00%) .NET
4 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.00%) Kafka
4 1 (5.00%) LangChain
4 1 (5.00%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (5.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) Spring
4 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 8 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 8 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (30.00%) Integration Patterns
5 5 (25.00%) AI
5 5 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (20.00%) Architectural Design
6 4 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
6 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (20.00%) DevOps
6 4 (20.00%) Event-Driven
6 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (20.00%) IT Strategy
6 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 4 (20.00%) Risk Management
6 4 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (15.00%) Network Segmentation
7 3 (15.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Bicep
1 1 (5.00%) Java
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.00%) PMP
4 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) COBIT
1 1 (5.00%) PSD2
1 1 (5.00%) QA
1 1 (5.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Databricks
3 2 (10.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.00%) Calypso
4 1 (5.00%) FIS
4 1 (5.00%) Foundry
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Murex
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) Temenos