Technology Roadmap Contracts in Scotland

Technology Roadmaps
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Technology Roadmap skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technology Roadmap over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 120 158
Rank change year-on-year +8 +38 -4
Contract jobs citing Technology Roadmap 4 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.25% 0.41% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.46% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +2.13% +4.44%
75th Percentile £559 £654 £759
90th Percentile £584 £686 £859
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Technology 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 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Technology Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Technology Roadmap as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Technology Roadmap in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technology Roadmap in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Technology Roadmap in Scotland

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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 Technology Roadmap within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 - 3 £513 - 10
Glasgow +3 1 £600 -15.25% 6
Technology Roadmap
UK

Technology Roadmap
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SNA
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) FTP
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Mockito
2 1 (25.00%) Toad
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Camel
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (25.00%) JWT
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OpenID
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (50.00%) Change Management
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Network Management
3 2 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Batch Processing
4 1 (25.00%) Change Data Capture
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JCL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (25.00%) Okta
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Talend