Roadmaps Contracts in South Wales

Roadmaps
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring Roadmaps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Roadmaps over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 37 28
Rank change year-on-year +27 -9 +17
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 24 5 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 10.00% 1.50% 6.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.11% 1.87% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 21
10th Percentile £276 £543 £490
25th Percentile £446 £613 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £650 £565
Median % change year-on-year -26.54% +15.04% +3.67%
75th Percentile £606 - £638
90th Percentile £625 - £650
Wales median daily rate £475 £650 £558
% change year-on-year -26.92% +16.59% +1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
Wales median hourly rate £45.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 216 267 460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 90.00% 79.94% 88.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 188 351
10th Percentile £185 £160 £190
25th Percentile £285 £357 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -3.46%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £669 £650
Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 23
10th Percentile £15.30 £11.21 £16.37
25th Percentile £19.09 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.31 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.62 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
% change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%

Roadmaps
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Roadmaps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Roadmaps in South Wales

Roadmaps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Roadmaps in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Roadmaps in South Wales

Roadmaps
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Roadmaps in South Wales over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Roadmaps in South Wales

Roadmaps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Roadmaps in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Roadmaps in South Wales

Roadmaps
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 4 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
Cardiff +17 12 £463 -28.85% 16
Newport +15 10 - - 6
Glamorgan - 2 £613 - 18
Roadmaps
Wales

Roadmaps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (4.17%) Apache
1 1 (4.17%) JBoss
1 1 (4.17%) nginx
1 1 (4.17%) Tomcat
1 1 (4.17%) WebLogic
1 1 (4.17%) WebLogic Portal
1 1 (4.17%) WebSphere
1 1 (4.17%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) AWS
3 7 (29.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) OCI
4 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) DNS
3 1 (4.17%) DHCP
3 1 (4.17%) Network Security
3 1 (4.17%) SSL
3 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Metadata
2 1 (4.17%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 2 (8.33%) Digital Health
5 2 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Architect
2 7 (29.17%) Research Scientist
3 6 (25.00%) Senior
4 5 (20.83%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Migration Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Principal Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Principal Solutions Architect
6 2 (8.33%) Security Researcher
6 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Administrator
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Data Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Designer
7 1 (4.17%) GCP Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Junior
7 1 (4.17%) Junior Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) JSON
1 1 (4.17%) JWT
1 1 (4.17%) Middleware
1 1 (4.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Algorithms
2 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
3 3 (12.50%) Cyberattack
3 3 (12.50%) NHS
4 2 (8.33%) Blog
4 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 8 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 8 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 8 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 7 (29.17%) Agile
4 6 (25.00%) IT Strategy
4 6 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 5 (20.83%) Data Privacy
5 5 (20.83%) DevSecOps
5 5 (20.83%) Strategic Roadmap
6 4 (16.67%) Analytics
6 4 (16.67%) Data Analytics
6 4 (16.67%) ITIL
6 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
6 4 (16.67%) TOGAF
7 3 (12.50%) Migration
7 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) Rust
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (62.50%) Degree
2 11 (45.83%) Master's Degree
3 7 (29.17%) Azure Certification
3 7 (29.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 6 (25.00%) PhD
5 4 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (16.67%) CITP
5 4 (16.67%) Postgraduate
6 3 (12.50%) CCNA
6 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
1 1 (4.17%) LXC
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Ansible
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (29.17%) Google
3 3 (12.50%) Cisco
4 2 (8.33%) Databricks
5 1 (4.17%) Cloudera
5 1 (4.17%) IBM
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle
5 1 (4.17%) Red Hat