Technology Roadmap Contracts in England

Technology Roadmaps
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Technology Roadmap skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technology Roadmap over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 433 378
Rank change year-on-year +75 -55 +42
Contract jobs citing Technology Roadmap 127 109 299
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.29% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.34% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 76 236
10th Percentile £473 £363 £486
25th Percentile £513 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -7.73% +4.04%
75th Percentile £688 £699 £743
90th Percentile £750 £825 £814
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £33.57 -
25th Percentile £84.83 £33.61 -
Median hourly rate £91.69 £35.13 -
Median % change year-on-year +161.04% - -
75th Percentile £98.56 £52.72 -
90th Percentile - £82.81 -
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £35.13 -
% change year-on-year +53.74% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Technology Roadmap as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Technology Roadmap in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technology Roadmap in England.

Daily rate trend for Technology Roadmap in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Roadmap in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Roadmap in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technology Roadmap in England.

Hourly rate trend for Technology Roadmap in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technology Roadmap within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +54 71 £600 - 188
North of England +28 22 £550 - 98
South East +50 16 £560 -13.85% 106
North West +18 12 £620 +12.73% 39
Yorkshire +16 10 £550 +4.76% 52
Midlands +27 7 £574 -4.42% 61
West Midlands +20 7 £574 - 34
South West +43 4 £390 -33.62% 40
East of England +17 2 - - 53
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Technology Roadmap
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.72%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (4.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (3.94%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.57%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.79%) CMS
4 1 (0.79%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.79%) nginx
4 1 (0.79%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.57%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.79%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.79%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.79%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (4.72%) FLEXCUBE
1 6 (4.72%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.57%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.79%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 25 (19.69%) Azure
2 21 (16.54%) AWS
3 16 (12.60%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (6.30%) GCP
5 4 (3.15%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.36%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.36%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (2.36%) PaaS
7 2 (1.57%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.57%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.79%) Akamai
8 1 (0.79%) Alation
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.79%) dbt
8 1 (0.79%) Fivetran
8 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.51%) DNS
2 6 (4.72%) Firewall
3 5 (3.94%) Network Security
4 4 (3.15%) WAN
5 3 (2.36%) MPLS
5 3 (2.36%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.57%) 3G
6 2 (1.57%) 3GPP
6 2 (1.57%) 4G
6 2 (1.57%) 5G
6 2 (1.57%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.57%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (1.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (1.57%) FCoE
6 2 (1.57%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (1.57%) LAN
6 2 (1.57%) SAN
6 2 (1.57%) SSL
6 2 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.66%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.30%) Oracle Database
3 5 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.36%) Metadata
4 3 (2.36%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.36%) Tableau
5 2 (1.57%) Power BI
5 2 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.79%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.79%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 7 (5.51%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.72%) JIRA
3 3 (2.36%) Git
4 1 (0.79%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.79%) webpack
General
1 53 (41.73%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.11%) Finance
3 21 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (13.39%) Banking
5 9 (7.09%) Military
5 9 (7.09%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.94%) Retail
6 5 (3.94%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.15%) Legal
7 4 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.36%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.57%) Back Office
9 2 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.79%) Automotive
10 1 (0.79%) Billing
10 1 (0.79%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.79%) Local Government
10 1 (0.79%) Marketing
10 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (39.37%) Architect
2 22 (17.32%) Lead
3 14 (11.02%) Senior
3 14 (11.02%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (10.24%) Enterprise Architect
5 10 (7.87%) Technical Architect
6 8 (6.30%) Developer
6 8 (6.30%) Senior Architect
7 6 (4.72%) Infrastructure Architect
7 6 (4.72%) Network Engineer
7 6 (4.72%) Technical Leader
8 5 (3.94%) Analyst
8 5 (3.94%) Consultant
8 5 (3.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.94%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
9 4 (3.15%) IT Manager
9 4 (3.15%) Lead Developer
10 3 (2.36%) Data Architect
10 3 (2.36%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 3 (2.36%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.51%) .NET
2 3 (2.36%) J2EE
2 3 (2.36%) Middleware
2 3 (2.36%) React
2 3 (2.36%) Spring
3 2 (1.57%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.57%) HTML
3 2 (1.57%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.79%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.79%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.79%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.79%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.79%) CSS
4 1 (0.79%) EDI
4 1 (0.79%) Node.js
4 1 (0.79%) Sass
4 1 (0.79%) Struts
4 1 (0.79%) Visualforce
4 1 (0.79%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.30%) Linux Command Line
1 8 (6.30%) Onboarding
2 5 (3.94%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.94%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.94%) Private Cloud
2 5 (3.94%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.36%) Cyber Defence
3 3 (2.36%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (2.36%) Insider Threat
4 2 (1.57%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.57%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.57%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.79%) BYOD
5 1 (0.79%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (0.79%) FMCG
5 1 (0.79%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.79%) NHS
5 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.75%) Windows
2 15 (11.81%) Linux
3 11 (8.66%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.36%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.57%) CentOS
5 2 (1.57%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.79%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 44 (34.65%) Agile
3 28 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (18.11%) Microservices
5 22 (17.32%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (15.75%) TOGAF
7 19 (14.96%) CI/CD
7 19 (14.96%) IT Strategy
7 19 (14.96%) Project Management
8 18 (14.17%) DevOps
8 18 (14.17%) Migration
9 17 (13.39%) Enterprise Architecture
9 17 (13.39%) ITIL
10 15 (11.81%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (11.02%) Strategic Roadmap
11 14 (11.02%) Technology Strategy
12 13 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (7.87%) Business Strategy
13 10 (7.87%) Coaching
14 9 (7.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.60%) Java
2 15 (11.81%) SQL
3 12 (9.45%) PL/SQL
4 8 (6.30%) Bash
4 8 (6.30%) Python
5 7 (5.51%) Perl
6 6 (4.72%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.15%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.15%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.57%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.57%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.79%) C#
9 1 (0.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (19.69%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.32%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.66%) Degree
4 8 (6.30%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (5.51%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.72%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (3.94%) AWS Certification
8 4 (3.15%) CISM
8 4 (3.15%) CISSP
9 3 (2.36%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.57%) ACCA
10 2 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.57%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.57%) CIMA
10 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.79%) Avaya Certification
11 1 (0.79%) CCDP
11 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.15%) GDPR
2 3 (2.36%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 3 (2.36%) HIPAA
2 3 (2.36%) QA
2 3 (2.36%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.57%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.79%) COBIT
4 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.79%) NCSC
4 1 (0.79%) NIST
4 1 (0.79%) PMO
4 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (12.60%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.51%) Docker
3 5 (3.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (7.09%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.94%) Ansible
3 3 (2.36%) CASB
4 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.79%) OPNET
5 1 (0.79%) Puppet
5 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (23.62%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.96%) Cisco
2 19 (14.96%) Oracle
3 7 (5.51%) F5
4 6 (4.72%) Google
4 6 (4.72%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.94%) Juniper
5 5 (3.94%) VMware
6 4 (3.15%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.36%) Dell
7 3 (2.36%) Hitachi
7 3 (2.36%) HP
7 3 (2.36%) Logitech
7 3 (2.36%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.36%) Virgin Media
7 3 (2.36%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.57%) Apple
8 2 (1.57%) Aruba
8 2 (1.57%) Citrix
8 2 (1.57%) Palo Alto