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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 356 289
Rank change year-on-year +58 -67 +92
Contract jobs citing Architecture Roadmap 37 29 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.14% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.17% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 24 116
10th Percentile £439 £485 £456
25th Percentile £494 £510 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £628
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +11.55% +13.06%
75th Percentile £625 £925 £676
90th Percentile £649 £946 £713
UK median daily rate £600 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £78.63
25th Percentile £84.83 - £80.63
Median hourly rate £91.69 £102.87 £86.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +18.58% -
75th Percentile £98.56 - £101.25
90th Percentile - - £101.88
UK median hourly rate £95.85 £102.87 £86.75
% change year-on-year -6.83% +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 11,711 17,111 20,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.54% 84.30% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,219 14,183
10th Percentile £235 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 2,064 1,254
10th Percentile £14.02 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.08 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.40 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.74
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 19 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 19 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
North of England +26 13 £620 -30.88% 23
South East +44 11 £600 -15.04% 38
North West - 8 £620 - 10
Scotland +3 7 £494 -2.37% 10
Yorkshire +17 5 £507 - 11
Midlands +18 4 £442 -47.97% 21
West Midlands +5 3 £438 -48.53% 13
East of England +22 2 - - 18
East Midlands +12 1 £447 -50.33% 7
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 6 (16.22%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.70%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (5.41%) Teamcenter
3 1 (2.70%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (2.70%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) AWS
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon S3
3 4 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (10.81%) Cloudflare
3 4 (10.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 4 (10.81%) Serverless
4 3 (8.11%) IaaS
4 3 (8.11%) PaaS
4 3 (8.11%) SaaS
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.70%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (2.70%) dbt
6 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) WAN
2 5 (13.51%) MPLS
2 5 (13.51%) VPN
3 3 (8.11%) Firewall
3 3 (8.11%) Network Security
3 3 (8.11%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (5.41%) LAN
4 2 (5.41%) SD-WAN
4 2 (5.41%) Unified Communications
4 2 (5.41%) VoIP
5 1 (2.70%) BGP
5 1 (2.70%) DMZ
5 1 (2.70%) DNS
5 1 (2.70%) DWDM
5 1 (2.70%) Internet
5 1 (2.70%) IPsec
5 1 (2.70%) Multicast
5 1 (2.70%) OSPF
5 1 (2.70%) SSL
5 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.41%) GIS
3 1 (2.70%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.70%) Bigtable
3 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) ERwin
1 4 (10.81%) PowerDesigner
2 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.70%) Git
3 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 23 (62.16%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.81%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Finance
6 2 (5.41%) Aerospace
6 2 (5.41%) Retail
7 1 (2.70%) Banking
7 1 (2.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Architect
2 7 (18.92%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (16.22%) Network Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Enterprise Architect
5 4 (10.81%) Data Architect
5 4 (10.81%) Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Salesforce Architect
6 3 (8.11%) Data Modeller
6 3 (8.11%) IT Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) IT Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Network Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Network Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) Strategy Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) AWS CDK
1 4 (10.81%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (5.41%) .NET
2 2 (5.41%) PostGIS
2 2 (5.41%) React
2 2 (5.41%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.70%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.70%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.70%) Kafka
3 1 (2.70%) Middleware
3 1 (2.70%) Next.js
3 1 (2.70%) Node.js
3 1 (2.70%) REST
3 1 (2.70%) SOAP
3 1 (2.70%) Spring
3 1 (2.70%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.51%) Public Cloud
3 4 (10.81%) Data Structures
4 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
4 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
5 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 10 (27.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (21.62%) Agile
3 8 (21.62%) Data Management
3 8 (21.62%) Network Design
4 7 (18.92%) Data Modelling
4 7 (18.92%) Mentoring
5 6 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (16.22%) Enterprise Architecture
5 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (16.22%) Technology Roadmap
6 5 (13.51%) Analytics
6 5 (13.51%) Data Architecture
6 5 (13.51%) Service Design
7 4 (10.81%) Analytical Thinking
7 4 (10.81%) BPMN
7 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (10.81%) Network Architecture
7 4 (10.81%) Product Roadmap
7 4 (10.81%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) Python
2 4 (10.81%) Apex Code
2 4 (10.81%) Java
3 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.41%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.70%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (2.70%) Perl
5 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.70%) Scala
5 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) CCIE
1 5 (13.51%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.70%) CCNP
4 1 (2.70%) CISM
4 1 (2.70%) CISSP
4 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.70%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.41%) GDPR
3 1 (2.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.70%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.70%) PMO
3 1 (2.70%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Ansible
2 2 (5.41%) FortiGate
2 2 (5.41%) Grafana
3 1 (2.70%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Cisco
2 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.51%) Fortinet
4 4 (10.81%) CheckPoint
4 4 (10.81%) Citrix
4 4 (10.81%) F5
4 4 (10.81%) Salesforce
4 4 (10.81%) Sparx
4 4 (10.81%) Zscaler
5 2 (5.41%) Aruba
5 2 (5.41%) Mitel
5 2 (5.41%) Virgin Media
6 1 (2.70%) Arista
6 1 (2.70%) McAfee
6 1 (2.70%) Splunk