Strategic Roadmap Contracts in the Thames Valley

Strategic Roadmaps
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Strategic Roadmap skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Strategic 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 82 140 112
Rank change year-on-year +58 -28 +36
Contract jobs citing Strategic Roadmap 20 5 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.32% 0.19% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 0.21% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 27
10th Percentile £399 £504 £340
25th Percentile £481 £566 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £460
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +41.30% -16.36%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £563
90th Percentile £648 - £671
South East median daily rate £575 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% -13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Strategic 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 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Strategic Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Roadmap in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Strategic Roadmap in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Strategic Roadmap in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Roadmap in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Strategic Roadmap in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Roadmap in the Thames Valley

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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 Strategic Roadmap within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +41 13 £550 -2.22% 31
Buckinghamshire +21 7 £575 -11.54% 12
Strategic Roadmap
South East

Strategic 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) Smallworld
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.00%) PaaS
3 2 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Network Security
1 4 (20.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (5.00%) GPON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) GIS
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Back Office
4 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (10.00%) General Ledger
5 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Head of Architecture
2 4 (20.00%) Head of Security
2 4 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Head of Strategy
4 2 (10.00%) Automation Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Product Owner
4 2 (10.00%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Service Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.00%) PKI
2 1 (5.00%) SCADA
2 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 7 (35.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) ITIL
3 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (25.00%) Scrum
3 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (20.00%) Information Security
4 4 (20.00%) IT Strategy
4 4 (20.00%) Kanban
4 4 (20.00%) OWASP
4 4 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (20.00%) TOGAF
5 3 (15.00%) Budgeting
5 3 (15.00%) Business Strategy
5 3 (15.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 3 (15.00%) Thought Leadership
6 2 (10.00%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Java
1 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.00%) Magik
1 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) CISA
2 1 (5.00%) CISM
2 1 (5.00%) CISSP
2 1 (5.00%) GCIA
2 1 (5.00%) GCIH
2 1 (5.00%) GIAC
2 1 (5.00%) ISACA
2 1 (5.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) NIST
2 5 (25.00%) GDPR
3 4 (20.00%) COBIT
4 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (5.00%) NIST 800
5 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
5 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) CSIRT
1 1 (5.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (10.00%) VMware
2 1 (5.00%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco
2 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.00%) IBM
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.00%) Sparx
2 1 (5.00%) Splunk