Product Roadmap Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Product Roadmaps
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Product Roadmap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 103 112
Rank change year-on-year -6 +9 +23
Contract jobs citing Product Roadmap 5 16 31
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.32% 0.93% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.05% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 28
10th Percentile £379 £449 £401
25th Percentile £384 £457 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £478 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% -2.05% -
75th Percentile £483 £493 £539
90th Percentile £521 £520 £575
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -6.82% +2.80% -6.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,386 1,521 2,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.22% 88.43% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 901 1,374
10th Percentile £238 £213 £250
25th Percentile £381 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 46 57
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.11 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.90 £18.77 £16.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £52.25 £31.44 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Product Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Product Roadmap job vacancy trend in Scotland

Product Roadmap
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Product Roadmap
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 8 December 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
Edinburgh 0 3 £498 +3.75% 8
Glasgow -3 2 £413 -2.25% 4
Product Roadmap
UK

Product Roadmap
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (20.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) Next.js
1 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Product Management
2 2 (40.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
2 2 (40.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Human-Centred Design
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Personalization
3 1 (20.00%) Product Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Optimizely