Product Roadmap Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Product Roadmaps
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Product Roadmap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 97 128
Rank change year-on-year -8 +31 +23
Contract jobs citing Product Roadmap 9 34 10
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.53% 1.56% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 1.82% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 8
10th Percentile £495 £500 -
25th Percentile £563 £509 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £573 £588
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% -2.55% -6.75%
75th Percentile £625 £586 £704
90th Percentile £670 £700 £721
South East median daily rate £594 £535 £513
% change year-on-year +10.98% +4.39% -6.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,544 1,866 2,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.93% 85.52% 90.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 945 1,039 1,637
10th Percentile £257 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £677 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £523
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.49% +2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 81 84
10th Percentile £14.60 £18.70 £16.40
25th Percentile £15.59 £30.00 £24.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.49 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year -57.00% +14.57% +158.48%
75th Percentile £42.67 £67.00 £66.11
90th Percentile £79.25 £76.99 £74.94
South East median hourly rate £22.35 £58.38 £54.37
% change year-on-year -61.72% +7.37% +86.77%

Product Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Roadmap in the Thames Valley

Product Roadmap
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Product Roadmap.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Product Roadmap

Product Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Roadmap in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Roadmap in the Thames Valley

Product Roadmap
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Berkshire -13 8 £588 +2.62% 13
Oxfordshire - 1 £588 - 6
Product Roadmap
South East

Product Roadmap
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle CX
2 1 (11.11%) PaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (33.33%) Retail
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Lead
3 2 (22.22%) Product Owner
4 1 (11.11%) Agile Delivery Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Product Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Product Owner
4 1 (11.11%) Workstream Lead
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 7 (77.78%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
4 2 (22.22%) Product Management
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (11.11%) Architecture Roadmap
5 1 (11.11%) Backlog Management
5 1 (11.11%) Batch Processing
5 1 (11.11%) Data Design
5 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) Product Vision
5 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
5 1 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (11.11%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Workday