Product Roadmap Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Product Roadmaps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Product Roadmap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 211 305
Rank change year-on-year -93 +94 -33
Contract jobs citing Product Roadmap 90 129 98
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.93% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 1.06% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 66 73
10th Percentile £385 £418 £401
25th Percentile £447 £464 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +3.75% -13.04%
75th Percentile £611 £648 £600
90th Percentile £737 £763 £685
UK median daily rate £513 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -9.29% +2.73% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £70.16 £46.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +51.93% - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £46.18 £57.50
% change year-on-year +19.10% -19.69% -33.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,617 12,154 16,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.23% 88.03% 87.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,576 7,108 10,751
10th Percentile £223 £235 £250
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,689 687 1,278
10th Percentile £14.37 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.23 £20.00 £16.94
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £43.83
Median % change year-on-year -21.76% -30.52% +51.12%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.02 £73.85 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%

Product Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Roadmap relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Product Roadmap job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Product Roadmap
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Product Roadmap.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Product Roadmap

Product Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Roadmap in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Roadmap in the UK excluding London

Product Roadmap
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Product Roadmap.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Product Roadmap

Product 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 Product Roadmap within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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 -61 34 £500 -25.09% 34
South East -43 26 £588 +2.98% 85
Midlands -35 16 £550 +10.00% 24
Yorkshire -40 13 £500 -16.67% 15
North West -42 13 £538 -23.21% 15
West Midlands -32 12 £700 +43.59% 16
North East -13 8 £450 -44.79% 4
South West -29 7 £495 +1.54% 17
East Midlands -20 4 £420 -16.00% 8
Scotland -12 3 £425 -10.99% 10
East of England -18 3 £525 -6.67% 19
Wales - 1 - - 7
Product Roadmap
UK

Product Roadmap
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (11.11%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.11%) CMS
3 1 (1.11%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Chatbot
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.11%) Trello
2 1 (1.11%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.11%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.11%) Maximo
2 1 (1.11%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.11%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.11%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.11%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.00%) Azure
2 7 (7.78%) AWS
3 5 (5.56%) SaaS
4 4 (4.44%) GCP
4 4 (4.44%) OpenShift
5 3 (3.33%) Miro
6 2 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.22%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.11%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.11%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.11%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.11%) PaaS
7 1 (1.11%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.78%) Firewall
2 3 (3.33%) DHCP
2 3 (3.33%) DNS
3 2 (2.22%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.11%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.11%) Network Security
4 1 (1.11%) PBX
4 1 (1.11%) VoIP
4 1 (1.11%) WAN
4 1 (1.11%) WebEx
4 1 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.11%) DTS
2 1 (1.11%) Power BI
2 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.11%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 14 (15.56%) JIRA
2 1 (1.11%) Git
2 1 (1.11%) Subversion
2 1 (1.11%) TestDirector
General
1 39 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 27 (30.00%) Finance
3 18 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.44%) Digital Health
6 4 (4.44%) Retail
7 3 (3.33%) Legal
8 2 (2.22%) Back Office
8 2 (2.22%) Banking
8 2 (2.22%) Front Office
8 2 (2.22%) Law
8 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.11%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 26 (28.89%) Product Manager
2 20 (22.22%) Product Owner
3 6 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 5 (5.56%) Analyst
4 5 (5.56%) Lead
4 5 (5.56%) Senior
5 4 (4.44%) Architect
5 4 (4.44%) Business Analyst
6 3 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 3 (3.33%) Lead Product Manager
6 3 (3.33%) Programme Manager
6 3 (3.33%) Security Manager
6 3 (3.33%) Security Product Manager
6 3 (3.33%) Senior Manager
7 2 (2.22%) Consultant
7 2 (2.22%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (2.22%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (2.22%) Senior Product Manager
7 2 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.22%) Technical Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.33%) Middleware
1 3 (3.33%) XML
2 2 (2.22%) Flash
2 2 (2.22%) REST
3 1 (1.11%) FHIR
3 1 (1.11%) Flutter
3 1 (1.11%) JSON
3 1 (1.11%) React
3 1 (1.11%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.11%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.11%) SOAP
3 1 (1.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (38.89%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.44%) NHS
3 3 (3.33%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.33%) PKI
4 2 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.11%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.11%) CMDB
5 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.11%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.11%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.56%) Windows
2 4 (4.44%) Linux
3 3 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.11%) Solaris
5 1 (1.11%) Unix
5 1 (1.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 60 (66.67%) Agile
3 33 (36.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 29 (32.22%) User Stories
5 28 (31.11%) Product Vision
6 20 (22.22%) Product Backlog
6 20 (22.22%) Product Strategy
7 19 (21.11%) Product Management
8 17 (18.89%) Acceptance Criteria
9 16 (17.78%) Scrum
9 16 (17.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 15 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 15 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (15.56%) Backlog Management
11 14 (15.56%) User Experience
12 12 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
13 11 (12.22%) Decision-Making
13 11 (12.22%) DevOps
14 10 (11.11%) Project Management
15 9 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.33%) Java
2 2 (2.22%) Python
3 1 (1.11%) Bash
3 1 (1.11%) C#
3 1 (1.11%) Kotlin
3 1 (1.11%) Perl
3 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.11%) SQL
3 1 (1.11%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 15 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.78%) Degree
4 3 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.22%) CISM
5 2 (2.22%) CISSP
5 2 (2.22%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.22%) PMP
6 1 (1.11%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.11%) CCNP
6 1 (1.11%) CEH
6 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.11%) CRISC
6 1 (1.11%) CSSLP
6 1 (1.11%) GCIH
6 1 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.78%) GDPR
2 6 (6.67%) QA
3 4 (4.44%) FIPS 140-2
3 4 (4.44%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.22%) NIST
4 2 (2.22%) PMO
4 2 (2.22%) SLA
5 1 (1.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.11%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.11%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.11%) HL7
5 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.11%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (1.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.22%) vSphere
4 1 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.22%) SCCM
3 1 (1.11%) Ansible
3 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (1.11%) SELinux
3 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (7.78%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.56%) Fortinet
2 5 (5.56%) VMware
3 4 (4.44%) Palo Alto
4 3 (3.33%) SAP
5 2 (2.22%) Cisco
5 2 (2.22%) Citrix
5 2 (2.22%) Google
5 2 (2.22%) Juniper
5 2 (2.22%) Oracle
5 2 (2.22%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.22%) Workday
6 1 (1.11%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.11%) Ariba
6 1 (1.11%) Brio
6 1 (1.11%) Databricks
6 1 (1.11%) Ekahau
6 1 (1.11%) Ericsson
6 1 (1.11%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.11%) Symantec