Roadmaps Contract Job Trends in the South East

Roadmaps
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Roadmaps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 41 44
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 241 175 223
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.52% 4.74% 4.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.49% 5.37% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 93 157
10th Percentile £413 £450 £408
25th Percentile £488 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £662 £656 £684
90th Percentile £750 £745 £745
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 11
10th Percentile £43.95 £41.75 £50.53
25th Percentile £65.00 £51.25 £51.72
Median hourly rate £83.00 £56.75 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.27% +1.33% +24.44%
75th Percentile £95.00 £57.62 £67.50
90th Percentile £102.20 £58.60 £70.50
England median hourly rate £56.50 £52.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +7.62% +13.69% +23.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Roadmaps 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 3,713 3,258 4,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.10% 88.29% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,428 2,030 2,900
10th Percentile £221 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -1.88% +1.46%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £614
90th Percentile £675 £682 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 124 223
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.55 £18.59
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.00 £26.13
Median hourly rate £22.38 £47.51 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -52.89% -12.92% +45.49%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.11 £66.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.53 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

Roadmaps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Roadmaps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Roadmaps job vacancy trend in the South East

Roadmaps
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Roadmaps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Roadmaps

Roadmaps
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Roadmaps in the South East over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Roadmaps in the South East

Roadmaps
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Roadmaps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Roadmaps

Roadmaps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Roadmaps in the South East over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Roadmaps in the South East

Roadmaps
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 Roadmaps within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 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
Thames Valley +6 144 £508 -11.74% 39
Berkshire +12 121 £500 -12.51% 17
Hampshire +12 54 £531 -3.45% 36
West Sussex +2 16 £685 -14.38% 2
Buckinghamshire -13 15 £583 -1.27% 14
Surrey +5 13 £500 -11.11% 13
Oxfordshire -11 8 £550 -21.43% 8
Kent - 6 £625 - 13
East Sussex +7 5 £600 -14.29% 6
Roadmaps
England

Roadmaps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (4.56%) Confluence
2 7 (2.90%) ArcGIS
3 6 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.49%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.49%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.41%) Appian
4 1 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.83%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (4.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (2.90%) Maximo
3 3 (1.24%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (20.33%) Azure
2 45 (18.67%) AWS
3 14 (5.81%) Entra ID
3 14 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (5.39%) GCP
5 9 (3.73%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.32%) SaaS
7 7 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (2.07%) OpenShift
9 5 (2.07%) PaaS
10 4 (1.66%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.66%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (1.66%) AWS Control Tower
10 4 (1.66%) AWS KMS
10 4 (1.66%) IaaS
10 4 (1.66%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.24%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.98%) Firewall
2 7 (2.90%) LAN
2 7 (2.90%) WAN
3 6 (2.49%) BGP
3 6 (2.49%) MPLS
3 6 (2.49%) Network Security
4 3 (1.24%) DHCP
4 3 (1.24%) DNS
5 2 (0.83%) DWDM
5 2 (0.83%) SDH
5 2 (0.83%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.41%) 2G
6 1 (0.41%) 5G
6 1 (0.41%) Internet
6 1 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.41%) NAS
6 1 (0.41%) SAN
6 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.07%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.66%) Metadata
3 3 (1.24%) GIS
3 3 (1.24%) Tableau
4 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.83%) Pinecone
4 2 (0.83%) Power BI
4 2 (0.83%) Weaviate
5 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.41%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.41%) DTS
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 24 (9.96%) JIRA
2 3 (1.24%) GitLab
3 2 (0.83%) Git
3 2 (0.83%) Maven
3 2 (0.83%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.41%) MLflow
4 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.41%) Selenium
4 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 92 (38.17%) Social Skills
2 47 (19.50%) Public Sector
3 35 (14.52%) Finance
4 18 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.39%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.15%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (4.15%) Retail
6 10 (4.15%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.32%) Legal
8 4 (1.66%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.66%) Automotive
8 4 (1.66%) Banking
8 4 (1.66%) Billing
8 4 (1.66%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.66%) Marketing
9 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.24%) Law
10 2 (0.83%) Front Office
10 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 92 (38.17%) Architect
2 36 (14.94%) Consultant
3 33 (13.69%) Solutions Architect
4 32 (13.28%) Network Consultant
5 17 (7.05%) Lead
6 14 (5.81%) Product Owner
7 13 (5.39%) Project Manager
8 12 (4.98%) Enterprise Architect
8 12 (4.98%) Product Manager
8 12 (4.98%) Senior
9 10 (4.15%) Security Architect
10 9 (3.73%) Delivery Manager
11 8 (3.32%) Technical Architect
12 6 (2.49%) Cloud Architect
12 6 (2.49%) IP Architect
12 6 (2.49%) IP Specialist
12 6 (2.49%) Senior Manager
12 6 (2.49%) ServiceNow Architect
13 5 (2.07%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
13 5 (2.07%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.64%) REST
2 9 (3.73%) SOAP
3 7 (2.90%) NETCONF
3 7 (2.90%) YANG
4 3 (1.24%) Middleware
4 3 (1.24%) Node.js
4 3 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.24%) XML
5 2 (0.83%) .NET
5 2 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.83%) Faiss
5 2 (0.83%) JSON
5 2 (0.83%) Kafka
5 2 (0.83%) PySpark
5 2 (0.83%) React
5 2 (0.83%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.41%) Flutter
6 1 (0.41%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.41%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.41%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.96%) Product Ownership
2 19 (7.88%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.81%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.15%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.32%) CMDB
6 8 (3.32%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.90%) Smart Meter
8 6 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.49%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.66%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.66%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.66%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.24%) IoT
10 3 (1.24%) PKI
10 3 (1.24%) PMI
10 3 (1.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.56%) Windows
2 6 (2.49%) Windows 10
3 5 (2.07%) Linux
3 5 (2.07%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.24%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.41%) Solaris
6 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (36.10%) Agile
2 69 (28.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 54 (22.41%) Migration
4 47 (19.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 42 (17.43%) TOGAF
6 41 (17.01%) Enterprise Architecture
7 39 (16.18%) Strategic Roadmap
8 34 (14.11%) ITIL
9 32 (13.28%) Collaborative Working
9 32 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (12.86%) Technology Roadmap
11 26 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (10.79%) Product Roadmap
12 25 (10.37%) Decision-Making
13 23 (9.54%) Scrum
14 22 (9.13%) DevOps
14 22 (9.13%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 21 (8.71%) Cybersecurity
15 21 (8.71%) Strategic Thinking
16 19 (7.88%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.81%) Python
2 10 (4.15%) JavaScript
2 10 (4.15%) SQL
3 6 (2.49%) Java
3 6 (2.49%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.07%) Bash
5 3 (1.24%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.83%) C#
7 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.41%) Perl
7 1 (0.41%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 84 (34.85%) Security Cleared
2 68 (28.22%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.64%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.98%) Degree
5 11 (4.56%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.56%) PMI Certification
6 10 (4.15%) Azure Certification
6 10 (4.15%) TOGAF Certification
7 9 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.73%) PMP
8 7 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.49%) CCIE
9 6 (2.49%) CISSP
9 6 (2.49%) JNCIE
10 5 (2.07%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (2.07%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.66%) ISEB
11 4 (1.66%) PgMP
12 3 (1.24%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.13%) GDPR
2 14 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.15%) QA
4 9 (3.73%) NCSC
5 8 (3.32%) GRC
5 8 (3.32%) NIST
6 6 (2.49%) COBIT
6 6 (2.49%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.66%) PSD2
8 3 (1.24%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.24%) Def Stans
8 3 (1.24%) SLA
9 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.83%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.83%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.83%) PMO
9 2 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (4.15%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.90%) Docker
4 4 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.83%) vCloud
6 2 (0.83%) vSphere
7 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (3.32%) Ansible
1 8 (3.32%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.90%) SCCM
3 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.07%) Terraform
4 4 (1.66%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.83%) Grafana
5 2 (0.83%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.41%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.41%) SELinux
Vendors
1 42 (17.43%) Cisco
2 33 (13.69%) Aruba
3 29 (12.03%) Microsoft
4 18 (7.47%) VMware
5 12 (4.98%) ServiceNow
6 11 (4.56%) Citrix
6 11 (4.56%) Sparx
7 10 (4.15%) IBM
8 9 (3.73%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.90%) ESRI
9 7 (2.90%) Oracle
10 5 (2.07%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.66%) CloudEndure
11 4 (1.66%) Fortinet
12 3 (1.24%) Google
12 3 (1.24%) Juniper
12 3 (1.24%) Remedy
12 3 (1.24%) Samsung
13 2 (0.83%) Blue Prism
13 2 (0.83%) Databricks