Architecture Roadmap Contracts in the UK excluding London

Architecture Roadmaps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Architecture Roadmap skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architecture 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 298 364 316
Rank change year-on-year +66 -48 +93
Contract jobs citing Architecture Roadmap 38 35 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.17% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.20% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 30 108
10th Percentile £444 £456 £454
25th Percentile £516 £506 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £608 £633
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -3.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £760 £676
90th Percentile £641 £928 £729
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £650
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £84.25 - £78.63
25th Percentile £84.35 - £80.63
Median hourly rate £91.05 £102.87 £86.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.49% +18.58% -
75th Percentile £98.08 - £101.25
90th Percentile £98.36 - £101.88
UK median hourly rate £91.69 £102.87 £86.75
% change year-on-year -10.87% +18.58% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Architecture 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Architecture Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Architecture Roadmap as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Architecture Roadmap in the UK excluding London

Architecture Roadmap
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architecture Roadmap in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Architecture Roadmap in the UK excluding London

Architecture Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architecture Roadmap in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architecture Roadmap in the UK excluding London

Architecture Roadmap
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architecture Roadmap in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Architecture Roadmap in the UK excluding London

Architecture Roadmap
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architecture Roadmap within the UK excluding London 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
South East +57 14 £600 -21.31% 16
North of England +27 12 £620 -30.88% 12
North West - 7 £620 - 5
Scotland +3 6 £494 -2.37% 10
Yorkshire +12 5 £507 - 4
Midlands +21 4 £442 -47.97% 6
West Midlands +14 3 £438 -48.53% 6
East of England +31 2 - - 4
East Midlands +9 1 £447 -38.34%
Architecture Roadmap
UK

Architecture Roadmap
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (23.68%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.63%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (5.26%) Teamcenter
3 1 (2.63%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (2.63%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) AWS
1 7 (18.42%) Azure
2 5 (13.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 4 (10.53%) Cloudflare
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
4 3 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (7.89%) IaaS
4 3 (7.89%) PaaS
4 3 (7.89%) SaaS
4 3 (7.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 3 (7.89%) Serverless
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.42%) WAN
2 5 (13.16%) MPLS
2 5 (13.16%) VPN
3 3 (7.89%) Firewall
3 3 (7.89%) Network Security
3 3 (7.89%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (5.26%) LAN
4 2 (5.26%) SD-WAN
4 2 (5.26%) Unified Communications
4 2 (5.26%) VoIP
5 1 (2.63%) BGP
5 1 (2.63%) DMZ
5 1 (2.63%) DNS
5 1 (2.63%) Internet
5 1 (2.63%) IPsec
5 1 (2.63%) L2TP
5 1 (2.63%) Multicast
5 1 (2.63%) OSPF
5 1 (2.63%) SSL
5 1 (2.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.63%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) ERwin
1 7 (18.42%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (68.42%) Social Skills
2 12 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Finance
5 3 (7.89%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Aerospace
6 2 (5.26%) Retail
7 1 (2.63%) Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (47.37%) Architect
2 6 (15.79%) Data Modeller
2 6 (15.79%) Network Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (13.16%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Data Architect
3 5 (13.16%) Enterprise Architect
4 4 (10.53%) Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Salesforce Architect
5 3 (7.89%) IT Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) IT Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Lead
6 2 (5.26%) Network Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Senior
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Strategy Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (7.89%) AWS CDK
3 2 (5.26%) React
3 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.63%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.63%) Middleware
4 1 (2.63%) Next.js
4 1 (2.63%) Node.js
4 1 (2.63%) PostGIS
4 1 (2.63%) REST
4 1 (2.63%) SOAP
4 1 (2.63%) Spring
4 1 (2.63%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (18.42%) Data Structures
3 5 (13.16%) Cloud Native
3 5 (13.16%) Public Cloud
4 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
4 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
5 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (5.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 13 (34.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (28.95%) Data Management
3 11 (28.95%) Data Modelling
4 8 (21.05%) Agile
4 8 (21.05%) Analytics
4 8 (21.05%) Data Architecture
4 8 (21.05%) Network Design
5 7 (18.42%) Analytical Thinking
5 7 (18.42%) BPMN
5 7 (18.42%) Mentoring
6 6 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (15.79%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (15.79%) Technology Roadmap
7 5 (13.16%) Scrum
7 5 (13.16%) Service Design
8 4 (10.53%) Network Architecture
8 4 (10.53%) User Experience
8 4 (10.53%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) Python
2 5 (13.16%) Apex Code
3 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
3 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.26%) Java
4 2 (5.26%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.63%) Perl
5 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) CCIE
1 5 (13.16%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) Degree
3 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.63%) CCNP
4 1 (2.63%) CISM
4 1 (2.63%) CISSP
4 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.63%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.63%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.63%) PMO
3 1 (2.63%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Ansible
2 2 (5.26%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.63%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Cisco
1 7 (18.42%) Sparx
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.16%) Fortinet
3 5 (13.16%) Salesforce
4 4 (10.53%) CheckPoint
4 4 (10.53%) Citrix
4 4 (10.53%) F5
4 4 (10.53%) Zscaler
5 2 (5.26%) Aruba
5 2 (5.26%) Mitel
5 2 (5.26%) Virgin Media
6 1 (2.63%) Arista
6 1 (2.63%) McAfee
6 1 (2.63%) Splunk