Roadmaps Contracts in the UK excluding London

Roadmaps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Roadmaps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Roadmaps over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 49 36
Rank change year-on-year +6 -13 +7
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 590 778 1,259
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.61% 3.75% 5.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 4.42% 5.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 517 921
10th Percentile £406 £409 £413
25th Percentile £451 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £566
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +0.53% +2.91%
75th Percentile £632 £688 £675
90th Percentile £725 £798 £745
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 44
10th Percentile £32.22 £27.08 -
25th Percentile £45.59 £39.59 £16.25
Median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +33.33% +3.78%
75th Percentile £75.48 £84.67 £72.50
90th Percentile £87.95 £89.60 £88.13
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -16.92% +29.35% +14.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Roadmaps 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 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
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 £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Roadmaps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Roadmaps in the UK excluding London

Roadmaps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Roadmaps in the UK excluding London

Roadmaps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Roadmaps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Roadmaps in the UK excluding London

Roadmaps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Roadmaps in the UK excluding London

Roadmaps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Roadmaps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Roadmaps in the UK excluding London

Roadmaps
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 Roadmaps within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 +10 174 £550 -3.51% 433
South East +17 149 £575 +12.75% 605
North West +7 111 £545 -5.22% 257
South West +15 78 £536 +5.93% 161
Scotland -29 65 £480 -5.24% 99
Midlands -12 63 £500 -25.93% 212
West Midlands -14 50 £550 -18.52% 128
Yorkshire -4 47 £550 +10.00% 146
East of England +26 40 £600 -4.00% 140
Wales +24 26 £478 -26.54% 35
North East +2 16 £625 -13.19% 31
East Midlands +17 13 £475 -13.64% 76
Northern Ireland -8 3 £525 -17.97% 32
Roadmaps
UK

Roadmaps
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 26 (4.41%) Confluence
2 14 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.36%) WebSphere
5 6 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.85%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.34%) Appian
7 2 (0.34%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.17%) Camunda
8 1 (0.17%) CMS
8 1 (0.17%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.17%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.17%) Smallworld
8 1 (0.17%) TPMS
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic Portal
8 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 8 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.19%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.34%) Trello
5 1 (0.17%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.17%) Revit
Business Applications
1 17 (2.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (1.19%) Workday HCM
3 5 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.51%) Magento
4 3 (0.51%) Primavera
4 3 (0.51%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.34%) Avolution ABACUS
5 2 (0.34%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.17%) iTrent
6 1 (0.17%) Maximo
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.17%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 100 (16.95%) Azure
2 62 (10.51%) AWS
3 31 (5.25%) SaaS
4 23 (3.90%) GCP
4 23 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (3.39%) PaaS
6 17 (2.88%) Entra ID
6 17 (2.88%) IaaS
7 16 (2.71%) SuccessFactors
8 11 (1.86%) Power Platform
9 8 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (1.36%) Serverless
10 7 (1.19%) Snowflake
11 5 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (0.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 4 (0.68%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (0.68%) Cloudflare
12 4 (0.68%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.22%) DNS
1 19 (3.22%) Firewall
1 19 (3.22%) Network Security
2 14 (2.37%) VPN
3 11 (1.86%) SD-WAN
3 11 (1.86%) WAN
4 10 (1.69%) DHCP
4 10 (1.69%) MPLS
4 10 (1.69%) VoIP
5 8 (1.36%) LAN
5 8 (1.36%) PBX
6 6 (1.02%) BGP
6 6 (1.02%) OSPF
6 6 (1.02%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.85%) SSL
8 4 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
8 4 (0.68%) VLAN
8 4 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.51%) 4G
9 3 (0.51%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.69%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (1.53%) Oracle Database
3 6 (1.02%) DB2
4 5 (0.85%) Big Data
4 5 (0.85%) Metadata
4 5 (0.85%) MongoDB
4 5 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.68%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (0.68%) Power BI
6 3 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.51%) GIS
6 3 (0.51%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.51%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.34%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.17%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.17%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 37 (6.27%) JIRA
2 8 (1.36%) ERwin
3 7 (1.19%) PowerDesigner
4 4 (0.68%) Git
4 4 (0.68%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (0.34%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.34%) Subversion
6 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.17%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.17%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.17%) Mockito
6 1 (0.17%) NetBeans
6 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.17%) Toad
General
1 210 (35.59%) Social Skills
2 102 (17.29%) Finance
3 80 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 34 (5.76%) Telecoms
6 32 (5.42%) Banking
7 29 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
8 23 (3.90%) Retail
9 17 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (2.71%) Marketing
11 15 (2.54%) Legal
11 15 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (2.20%) Manufacturing
13 12 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.86%) Automotive
15 10 (1.69%) Military
16 9 (1.53%) Aviation
17 6 (1.02%) Financial Institution
18 5 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (0.85%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 183 (31.02%) Architect
2 82 (13.90%) Solutions Architect
3 71 (12.03%) Lead
4 59 (10.00%) Analyst
5 43 (7.29%) Consultant
6 39 (6.61%) Senior
7 31 (5.25%) Business Analyst
8 27 (4.58%) Product Manager
8 27 (4.58%) Product Owner
9 24 (4.07%) Enterprise Architect
9 24 (4.07%) Project Manager
10 20 (3.39%) Technical Architect
11 17 (2.88%) Security Architect
12 15 (2.54%) Data Architect
13 12 (2.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (1.86%) Cloud Architect
14 11 (1.86%) Network Engineer
14 11 (1.86%) Technical Manager
15 10 (1.69%) SAP Architect
15 10 (1.69%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.53%) .NET
2 8 (1.36%) Kafka
3 7 (1.19%) Middleware
4 5 (0.85%) .NET Framework
4 5 (0.85%) HTML
4 5 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (0.68%) AWS CDK
5 4 (0.68%) CSS
5 4 (0.68%) JSON
5 4 (0.68%) Node.js
5 4 (0.68%) OAuth
5 4 (0.68%) SAML
5 4 (0.68%) XML
6 3 (0.51%) OpenID
6 3 (0.51%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.51%) React
6 3 (0.51%) SOAP
6 3 (0.51%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.34%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.34%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 80 (13.56%) Product Ownership
2 27 (4.58%) Management Information System
3 20 (3.39%) Data Centre
3 20 (3.39%) Onboarding
4 19 (3.22%) Cloud Native
4 19 (3.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (2.54%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (1.69%) PMI
8 10 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.53%) Algorithms
9 9 (1.53%) CMDB
9 9 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
10 8 (1.36%) Blackberry
10 8 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.36%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 39 (6.61%) Windows
2 35 (5.93%) Linux
3 22 (3.73%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.69%) Unix
5 7 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.68%) Solaris
6 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.68%) zOS
7 3 (0.51%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.34%) HPUX
8 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (35.93%) Agile
2 115 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
3 108 (18.31%) Stakeholder Management
4 96 (16.27%) Product Roadmap
5 90 (15.25%) Strategic Roadmap
6 74 (12.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 68 (11.53%) Analytics
7 68 (11.53%) Migration
8 67 (11.36%) Project Management
9 63 (10.68%) DevOps
10 62 (10.51%) Technology Roadmap
11 58 (9.83%) Cybersecurity
11 58 (9.83%) Scrum
12 57 (9.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 56 (9.49%) Decision-Making
14 50 (8.47%) Enterprise Architecture
15 48 (8.14%) ITIL
16 43 (7.29%) Project Delivery
17 42 (7.12%) Technical Leadership
18 41 (6.95%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (5.08%) Python
2 25 (4.24%) SQL
3 16 (2.71%) PowerShell
4 15 (2.54%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.03%) Bash
6 11 (1.86%) Java
7 10 (1.69%) Perl
8 7 (1.19%) PL/SQL
9 6 (1.02%) C#
9 6 (1.02%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.85%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.68%) PHP
11 4 (0.68%) Rust
12 3 (0.51%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.34%) C++
13 2 (0.34%) JCL
13 2 (0.34%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.17%) C
14 1 (0.17%) Magik
14 1 (0.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 101 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 86 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 71 (12.03%) Degree
4 33 (5.59%) DV Cleared
5 28 (4.75%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (4.58%) Master's Degree
7 22 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (3.05%) CISSP
9 15 (2.54%) Azure Certification
9 15 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (2.54%) PMI Certification
10 14 (2.37%) AWS Certification
11 13 (2.20%) CCNP
11 13 (2.20%) CISM
12 11 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.53%) CCIE
14 8 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 6 (1.02%) CIMA
15 6 (1.02%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.25%) QA
2 24 (4.07%) GDPR
3 19 (3.22%) NIST
4 16 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.03%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.19%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.19%) PMO
8 6 (1.02%) COBIT
8 6 (1.02%) GRC
9 5 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.51%) SLA
12 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.34%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.34%) NCSC
12 2 (0.34%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 32 (5.42%) Active Directory
2 26 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.68%) RACF
6 3 (0.51%) Docker
7 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.34%) vSphere
8 1 (0.17%) LXC
8 1 (0.17%) XenApp
8 1 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (2.03%) Ansible
2 9 (1.53%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.02%) MOM
3 6 (1.02%) Terraform
4 3 (0.51%) Backup Exec
4 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.51%) Packer
4 3 (0.51%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.34%) Control-M
5 2 (0.34%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (0.34%) SCCM
5 2 (0.34%) SELinux
5 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.34%) Tivoli NetView
6 1 (0.17%) CASB
6 1 (0.17%) OPNET
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.17%) Puppet
6 1 (0.17%) SCOM
Vendors
1 70 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 47 (7.97%) SAP
3 40 (6.78%) Cisco
4 38 (6.44%) VMware
5 28 (4.75%) Oracle
6 24 (4.07%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.88%) F5
8 14 (2.37%) Google
8 14 (2.37%) IBM
8 14 (2.37%) Salesforce
9 12 (2.03%) Juniper
9 12 (2.03%) Palo Alto
10 10 (1.69%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.69%) Nokia
11 9 (1.53%) Workday
12 8 (1.36%) Avaya
12 8 (1.36%) Citrix
12 8 (1.36%) Ericsson
12 8 (1.36%) Ribbon
12 8 (1.36%) Sparx