Roadmaps Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Roadmaps
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Roadmaps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 44 36
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +26
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 141 101 142
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 5.19% 3.75% 4.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.86% 4.51% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 65 105
10th Percentile £352 £396 £438
25th Percentile £403 £475 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -11.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile £540 £627 £745
90th Percentile £683 £688 £750
England median daily rate £550 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -8.33% -3.19% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £17.43
25th Percentile £54.75 - £18.59
Median hourly rate £56.50 - £20.51
75th Percentile £58.25 - £25.26
90th Percentile - - £28.10
England median hourly rate £56.50 £58.34 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.15% +26.33% +2.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Roadmaps 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 2,405 2,241 2,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.55% 83.15% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,547 1,412 1,744
10th Percentile £249 £251 £250
25th Percentile £363 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £698 £700
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 69 104
10th Percentile £13.82 £14.57 £13.79
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.30 £23.60 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% -14.18% +56.61%
75th Percentile £26.51 £42.25 £52.06
90th Percentile £42.13 £55.05 £68.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

Roadmaps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Roadmaps job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Roadmaps

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Roadmaps in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Roadmaps in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Roadmaps

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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 Roadmaps within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 October 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 +13 82 £523 -9.13% 57
East Midlands +6 58 £449 -22.00% 48
Roadmaps
England

Roadmaps
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 3 (2.13%) PowerFactory
2 2 (1.42%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.42%) Confluence
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.71%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.71%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (6.38%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (2.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.42%) ResourceLink
3 2 (1.42%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.42%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.42%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.71%) Maximo
4 1 (0.71%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.71%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 28 (19.86%) Azure
2 17 (12.06%) AWS
3 10 (7.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 10 (7.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 8 (5.67%) Entra ID
4 8 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.96%) GCP
5 7 (4.96%) SaaS
6 5 (3.55%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.13%) Serverless
9 2 (1.42%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.42%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.42%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.71%) CloudFront
10 1 (0.71%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.26%) Firewall
2 4 (2.84%) Network Security
2 4 (2.84%) SD-WAN
2 4 (2.84%) WAN
3 2 (1.42%) NGFW
3 2 (1.42%) SSH
4 1 (0.71%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.71%) LAN
4 1 (0.71%) MPLS
4 1 (0.71%) VoIP
4 1 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (3.55%) Power BI
3 4 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.42%) Big Data
4 2 (1.42%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.42%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.71%) Dremio
5 1 (0.71%) GIS
5 1 (0.71%) Metadata
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.71%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (2.84%) JIRA
2 1 (0.71%) MLflow
2 1 (0.71%) TestDirector
General
1 53 (37.59%) Social Skills
2 46 (32.62%) Finance
3 22 (15.60%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (12.77%) Banking
5 14 (9.93%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (8.51%) Marketing
7 9 (6.38%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (4.26%) Legal
9 5 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.84%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.13%) Automotive
12 2 (1.42%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.71%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.71%) Local Government
13 1 (0.71%) Retail
13 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (24.11%) Architect
2 21 (14.89%) Product Manager
3 12 (8.51%) Product Owner
4 11 (7.80%) Analyst
5 9 (6.38%) Salesforce Architect
6 8 (5.67%) Consultant
6 8 (5.67%) Senior
6 8 (5.67%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (4.96%) Business Analyst
7 7 (4.96%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (3.55%) Data Engineer
8 5 (3.55%) Lead
8 5 (3.55%) Programme Manager
9 4 (2.84%) Data Analyst
9 4 (2.84%) Data Architect
9 4 (2.84%) Project Manager
9 4 (2.84%) Senior Manager
10 3 (2.13%) IT Manager
10 3 (2.13%) Procurement Manager
10 3 (2.13%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.38%) Lightning Web Components
1 9 (6.38%) SOAP
1 9 (6.38%) Visualforce
2 8 (5.67%) Middleware
2 8 (5.67%) REST
3 4 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (2.84%) Flash
4 3 (2.13%) LDAP
5 2 (1.42%) OAuth
5 2 (1.42%) SAML
5 2 (1.42%) Web Services
6 1 (0.71%) CSS
6 1 (0.71%) Express.js
6 1 (0.71%) Lucene
6 1 (0.71%) MERN Stack
6 1 (0.71%) Node.js
6 1 (0.71%) OLE
6 1 (0.71%) PySpark
6 1 (0.71%) RAML
6 1 (0.71%) React
Miscellaneous
1 26 (18.44%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.38%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.26%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.84%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.84%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.84%) Operational Technology
5 4 (2.84%) PKI
6 3 (2.13%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.42%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.71%) CMDB
8 1 (0.71%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.71%) MISP
8 1 (0.71%) Replication
8 1 (0.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.51%) Windows
2 6 (4.26%) Mac OS
3 3 (2.13%) Linux
4 2 (1.42%) AIX
4 2 (1.42%) Solaris
4 2 (1.42%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.71%) Android
5 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (34.04%) Agile
2 43 (30.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 30 (21.28%) Product Management
4 28 (19.86%) Strategic Roadmap
5 27 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (16.31%) Product Roadmap
7 22 (15.60%) Data Modelling
8 21 (14.89%) Project Delivery
9 20 (14.18%) Analytics
10 19 (13.48%) Migration
10 19 (13.48%) Product Strategy
11 18 (12.77%) Architecture Roadmap
11 18 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (12.77%) Decision-Making
12 17 (12.06%) Business Strategy
12 17 (12.06%) Data Governance
12 17 (12.06%) Product Vision
13 16 (11.35%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (11.35%) User Experience
14 14 (9.93%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.09%) Bash
1 10 (7.09%) Python
1 10 (7.09%) SQL
2 9 (6.38%) Apex Code
3 8 (5.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.13%) Bicep
4 3 (2.13%) Java
5 2 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.71%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 22 (15.60%) Degree
2 19 (13.48%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.22%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.96%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.84%) CISSP
5 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.42%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.42%) CEH
7 2 (1.42%) CISM
7 2 (1.42%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.42%) PMP
7 2 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.71%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.71%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.71%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.71%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.02%) GDPR
2 14 (9.93%) Data Quality
3 10 (7.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 10 (7.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.26%) QA
5 5 (3.55%) NIST
5 5 (3.55%) PCI DSS
6 4 (2.84%) FIPS 140-2
6 4 (2.84%) PMO
6 4 (2.84%) SLA
7 3 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.42%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.71%) Automotive SPICE
9 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.71%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.71%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.71%) ISO 26262
9 1 (0.71%) P3O
9 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (7.09%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.71%) Docker
3 1 (0.71%) Firmware
3 1 (0.71%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (5.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.26%) SCCM
3 4 (2.84%) Kibana
3 4 (2.84%) logstash
3 4 (2.84%) Terraform
4 3 (2.13%) Ansible
4 3 (2.13%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.71%) Fluentd
5 1 (0.71%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.71%) Rsyslog
5 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (22.70%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.51%) Salesforce
3 10 (7.09%) SAP
4 6 (4.26%) Citrix
4 6 (4.26%) VMware
5 4 (2.84%) Workday
6 3 (2.13%) Apple
6 3 (2.13%) Databricks
6 3 (2.13%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.13%) Splunk
7 2 (1.42%) Autodesk
7 2 (1.42%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (1.42%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.42%) DIgSILENT
7 2 (1.42%) IBM
8 1 (0.71%) Cribl.io
8 1 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.71%) Darktrace
8 1 (0.71%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.71%) Palo Alto