Product Roadmap Contract Job Trends in Reading

Product Roadmaps
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Product Roadmap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 65 91
Rank change year-on-year +3 +26 -1
Contract jobs citing Product Roadmap 4 27 2
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.67% 2.47% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 2.86% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 2
10th Percentile £475 £500 £633
25th Percentile £513 £509 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £573 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% -15.19% +12.50%
75th Percentile £663 £644 £694
90th Percentile £685 £700 £698
Berkshire median daily rate £588 £573 £450
% change year-on-year +2.62% +27.22% -28.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 550 944 978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.51% 86.53% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 507 657
10th Percentile £344 £350 £276
25th Percentile £450 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 26 17
10th Percentile - £14.50 £35.90
25th Percentile £14.75 £44.13 £57.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £60.83 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.15% -7.83% +24.53%
75th Percentile £58.00 £68.45 £74.00
90th Percentile £66.60 £87.46 £75.10
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £61.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -39.38% +2.49% +20.00%

Product Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Product Roadmap as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Product Roadmap in Reading

Product Roadmap
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Product Roadmap

Product Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Roadmap in Reading over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Roadmap in Reading

Product Roadmap
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle CX
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Delivery Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Workstream Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Service Design
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (25.00%) Workday