Product Roadmap Contracts in the South East

Product Roadmaps
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Product Roadmap skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Roadmap over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 151 174
Rank change year-on-year +4 +23 -5
Contract jobs citing Product Roadmap 22 41 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.63% 0.83% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 1.01% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 24 32
10th Percentile £350 £433 £427
25th Percentile £465 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £700
90th Percentile £635 £691 -
England median daily rate £500 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £70.16 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.64% - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £40.59
% change year-on-year +33.33% +29.34% -6.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,156 4,077 5,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.89% 82.68% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,973 2,486 3,397
10th Percentile £250 £255 £259
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -0.58% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 323 237
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.40
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £21.39 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.70% +14.70% +100.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.09 £63.75
90th Percentile £71.03 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

Product Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Product Roadmap as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Product Roadmap in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Roadmap in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Product Roadmap in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Roadmap in the South East over the 6 months to 13 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Roadmap in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Roadmap in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Product Roadmap in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Thames Valley -5 13 £494 -13.71% 19
Berkshire -2 12 £494 -13.71% 4
West Sussex +1 4 £550 +15.79% 1
Hampshire +23 3 £325 -7.14% 6
Surrey +7 2 - - 5
Oxfordshire - 1 £588 - 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (4.55%) Nutanix
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle CX
3 1 (4.55%) PaaS
3 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Broadband
1 3 (13.64%) DHCP
1 3 (13.64%) DNS
1 3 (13.64%) Firewall
1 3 (13.64%) SD-WAN
2 2 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
1 2 (9.09%) Subversion
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Telecoms
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Retail
5 1 (4.55%) Back Office
5 1 (4.55%) Front Office
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Architect
2 5 (22.73%) Product Owner
3 3 (13.64%) Scrum Master
4 2 (9.09%) Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) Agile Scrum Master
4 2 (9.09%) Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Head of Digital
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Agile Delivery Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Head of Networks
5 1 (4.55%) Payments Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Payments Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Product Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Product Owner
5 1 (4.55%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (13.64%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (9.09%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.55%) Cyberattack
4 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
1 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Solaris
2 2 (9.09%) Unix
3 1 (4.55%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 17 (77.27%) Agile
3 11 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (40.91%) Product Backlog
5 7 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (31.82%) Scrum
6 6 (27.27%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 6 (27.27%) Product Management
7 5 (22.73%) Backlog Management
8 4 (18.18%) Project Delivery
8 4 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (18.18%) User Experience
8 4 (18.18%) User Stories
9 3 (13.64%) Business Analysis
9 3 (13.64%) Coaching
9 3 (13.64%) Data Protection
9 3 (13.64%) High Availability
9 3 (13.64%) Kanban
9 3 (13.64%) Statistics
9 3 (13.64%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) Bash
1 2 (9.09%) Perl
1 2 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.55%) MBA
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) GDPR
2 2 (9.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (9.09%) QA
3 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (9.09%) vSphere
4 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Ansible
1 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (9.09%) SELinux
2 1 (4.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) VMware
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle
3 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 2 (9.09%) SolarWinds
3 2 (9.09%) Symantec
3 2 (9.09%) Veritas
4 1 (4.55%) Citrix
4 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.55%) Workday