Product Roadmap Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Product Roadmaps
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Product Roadmap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 126 134
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 +57
Contract jobs citing Product Roadmap 24 10 8
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.79% 0.38% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.45% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 8 5
10th Percentile £357 £393 £250
25th Percentile £402 £405 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -18.75% +20.00%
75th Percentile £687 £693 -
90th Percentile £789 £823 £690
England median daily rate £513 £574 £550
% change year-on-year -10.68% +4.32% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,695 2,229 2,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.86% 83.73% 84.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,729 1,391 1,614
10th Percentile £250 £255 £252
25th Percentile £365 £375 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.25% -1.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
England median daily rate £507 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 75 106
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.34
25th Percentile £17.14 £17.00 £17.55
Median hourly rate £21.30 £24.18 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% -11.27% +61.41%
75th Percentile £26.51 £35.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £35.60 £51.50 £68.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

Product Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Roadmap relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Product Roadmap job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Product Roadmap
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Product Roadmap.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Product Roadmap

Product Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Roadmap in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Roadmap in the Midlands

Product Roadmap
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Product Roadmap.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Product Roadmap

Product Roadmap
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Roadmap within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
West Midlands -20 16 £655 +37.89% 10
East Midlands -5 8 £381 -23.80% 10
Product Roadmap
England

Product Roadmap
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (4.17%) Confluence
1 1 (4.17%) PowerFactory
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Maximo
1 1 (4.17%) SAP CO
1 1 (4.17%) SAP CRM
1 1 (4.17%) SAP FI
1 1 (4.17%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Power BI
1 1 (4.17%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) TestDirector
General
1 16 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (25.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.50%) Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Product Manager
2 5 (20.83%) Product Owner
3 1 (4.17%) Architect
3 1 (4.17%) Commercial Manager
3 1 (4.17%) Development Director
3 1 (4.17%) Digital Programme Manager
3 1 (4.17%) Innovation Manager
3 1 (4.17%) Operations Director
3 1 (4.17%) Portfolio Manager
3 1 (4.17%) Programme Manager
3 1 (4.17%) SAP Architect
3 1 (4.17%) SAP Financial Architect
3 1 (4.17%) SAP Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.17%) Senior
3 1 (4.17%) Senior Manager
3 1 (4.17%) Senior Programme Manager
3 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) Flash
2 1 (4.17%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 3 (12.50%) PKI
3 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 16 (66.67%) Product Management
3 11 (45.83%) Product Strategy
4 10 (41.67%) Agile
4 10 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (33.33%) Business Strategy
5 8 (33.33%) Product Vision
6 7 (29.17%) B2B
6 7 (29.17%) B2B Sales
6 7 (29.17%) Customer Insight
6 7 (29.17%) Development Roadmap
6 7 (29.17%) User Stories
7 5 (20.83%) Project Delivery
7 5 (20.83%) User Experience
8 4 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 4 (16.67%) BCP
8 4 (16.67%) Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (16.67%) Programme Management
8 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) CISM
2 2 (8.33%) CISSP
2 2 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) BC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) CEH
3 1 (4.17%) CRISC
3 1 (4.17%) CSSLP
3 1 (4.17%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) FIPS 140-2
1 4 (16.67%) GDPR
1 4 (16.67%) PCI DSS
2 2 (8.33%) NIST
2 2 (8.33%) PMO
3 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Apple
2 2 (8.33%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) Ariba
3 1 (4.17%) IBM
3 1 (4.17%) Workday