Strategic Roadmap Contract Job Trends in Reading

Strategic Roadmaps
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Strategic Roadmap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 84 89
Rank change year-on-year +18 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing Strategic Roadmap 12 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.65% 0.69% 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 0.75% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 1
10th Percentile - £502 -
25th Percentile £504 £505 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £510 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -15.00% -5.51%
75th Percentile £538 £515 -
90th Percentile £735 £518 -
Berkshire median daily rate £508 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -9.38% -6.67% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Strategic 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 653 931 950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.70% 91.27% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 527 620
10th Percentile £350 £317 £213
25th Percentile £431 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £615 £650 £615
90th Percentile £650 £698 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 7 17
10th Percentile £14.75 £27.90 £41.24
25th Percentile £24.81 £35.75 £59.89
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -9.15% -2.63%
75th Percentile £94.06 £63.24 £65.25
90th Percentile £99.25 £68.78 £66.96
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £59.00 £61.45
% change year-on-year -31.47% -3.98% +29.36%

Strategic Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Strategic Roadmap job vacancy trend in Reading

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Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Roadmap in Reading over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Roadmap in Reading

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Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Strategic Roadmap.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Strategic Roadmap

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DWDM
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) Network Security
1 2 (16.67%) SDH
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Rational DOORS
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 4 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Architect
2 7 (58.33%) Security Architect
3 5 (41.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Telecoms Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) REST
1 2 (16.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (16.67%) CMDB
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 5 (41.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (33.33%) ITIL
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (25.00%) ArchiMate
5 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
6 2 (16.67%) Boundary Protection
6 2 (16.67%) BPMN
6 2 (16.67%) Data Privacy
6 2 (16.67%) IT Asset Management
6 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 2 (16.67%) SDLC
6 2 (16.67%) Security Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Security Testing
6 2 (16.67%) SIEM
6 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (16.67%) CCSP
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (16.67%) CISSP
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) GRC
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
1 2 (16.67%) PCI DSS
1 2 (16.67%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) F5
2 2 (16.67%) IBM
2 2 (16.67%) Juniper
2 2 (16.67%) Nokia
2 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) VMware