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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 50 39
Rank change year-on-year +2 -11 0
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Roadmaps 699 683 1,093
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.55% 3.75% 4.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 4.53% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 419 797
10th Percentile £370 £409 £419
25th Percentile £444 £481 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £579
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% -0.69% +5.27%
75th Percentile £630 £700 £688
90th Percentile £723 £826 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 20 34
10th Percentile £18.00 £20.67 £37.76
25th Percentile £29.63 £54.06 £46.18
Median hourly rate £59.50 £58.43 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% +16.87% +11.11%
75th Percentile £71.13 £84.11 £80.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £92.04 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £58.49 £47.50
% change year-on-year -7.68% +23.14% +5.56%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,714 15,073 19,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.21% 82.86% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,246 9,035 12,983
10th Percentile £239 £250 £260
25th Percentile £368 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,368 1,488 1,200
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.45 £17.41
Median hourly rate £23.30 £42.50 £36.13
Median % change year-on-year -45.18% +17.65% +65.86%
75th Percentile £45.89 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.87
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.00
% change year-on-year -38.57% -0.15% +54.72%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Roadmaps in the UK excluding London

Roadmaps
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 20 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Roadmaps in the UK excluding London

Roadmaps
DemandTrendContract 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 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -7 194 £513 -12.39% 497
South East -1 166 £555 +0.91% 795
Midlands +1 128 £475 -17.39% 167
North West 0 119 £513 -14.58% 278
South West +19 87 £513 -25.45% 139
West Midlands -2 77 £500 -16.67% 101
Yorkshire 0 66 £500 +5.26% 177
Scotland -17 64 £519 +3.70% 125
East of England +31 54 £555 -7.50% 146
East Midlands +7 51 £447 -22.26% 65
Wales +20 14 £478 -48.38% 56
North East -2 10 £525 -36.75% 47
Channel Islands - 1 £760 -
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 25 (3.58%) Confluence
2 13 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.29%) WebLogic
4 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.72%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.72%) CMS
6 4 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.43%) IIS
7 3 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.14%) Appian
9 1 (0.14%) Documentum
9 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.14%) nginx
9 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (1.29%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.43%) Trello
5 3 (0.43%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 17 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (1.00%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.72%) Magento
4 5 (0.72%) Maximo
5 4 (0.57%) Avolution ABACUS
5 4 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.57%) Dynamics GP
5 4 (0.57%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.43%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.43%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.43%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.29%) ResourceLink
7 2 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.29%) Shopify
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.14%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 137 (19.60%) Azure
2 104 (14.88%) AWS
3 42 (6.01%) GCP
4 33 (4.72%) SaaS
5 20 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (2.72%) PaaS
7 18 (2.58%) Entra ID
7 18 (2.58%) GitHub
8 17 (2.43%) Power Platform
9 16 (2.29%) Serverless
10 14 (2.00%) SuccessFactors
11 13 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (1.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 11 (1.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 10 (1.43%) Amazon S3
14 10 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
16 7 (1.00%) Datadog
16 7 (1.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.86%) Firewall
2 24 (3.43%) Network Security
3 15 (2.15%) WAN
4 14 (2.00%) VPN
5 13 (1.86%) VoIP
6 12 (1.72%) MPLS
7 11 (1.57%) LAN
8 10 (1.43%) BGP
8 10 (1.43%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.14%) PBX
10 7 (1.00%) DNS
10 7 (1.00%) OSPF
11 6 (0.86%) Internet
11 6 (0.86%) VLAN
12 5 (0.72%) NetScaler
12 5 (0.72%) SAN
13 4 (0.57%) VSAN
13 4 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
14 3 (0.43%) ATM
14 3 (0.43%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.15%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (1.43%) Oracle Database
4 10 (1.43%) Power BI
5 8 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (1.14%) BigQuery
5 8 (1.14%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.00%) Big Data
6 7 (1.00%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.86%) GIS
7 6 (0.86%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.72%) Metadata
8 5 (0.72%) MySQL
8 5 (0.72%) Redis
9 4 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.57%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.57%) DynamoDB
9 4 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (6.58%) JIRA
2 23 (3.29%) Git
3 16 (2.29%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.57%) Gradle
5 9 (1.29%) CircleCI
6 7 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (1.00%) Xcode
7 5 (0.72%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.72%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.57%) Maven
8 4 (0.57%) SonarLint
8 4 (0.57%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.29%) GitLab
9 2 (0.29%) MLflow
9 2 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.29%) Selenium
10 1 (0.14%) Appium
10 1 (0.14%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
General
1 252 (36.05%) Social Skills
2 150 (21.46%) Finance
3 83 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (10.59%) Public Sector
5 65 (9.30%) Banking
6 35 (5.01%) Presentation Skills
7 34 (4.86%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (3.72%) Marketing
8 26 (3.72%) Telecoms
9 21 (3.00%) Retail
10 20 (2.86%) Legal
11 19 (2.72%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.72%) Military
13 9 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.00%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.00%) Automotive
14 7 (1.00%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 228 (32.62%) Architect
2 79 (11.30%) Solutions Architect
3 58 (8.30%) Analyst
4 46 (6.58%) Lead
4 46 (6.58%) Senior
5 41 (5.87%) Consultant
5 41 (5.87%) Product Manager
6 40 (5.72%) Technical Architect
7 39 (5.58%) Product Owner
8 34 (4.86%) Business Analyst
9 31 (4.43%) Enterprise Architect
10 29 (4.15%) Security Architect
11 19 (2.72%) Data Architect
11 19 (2.72%) Developer
11 19 (2.72%) Project Manager
12 17 (2.43%) Delivery Manager
13 13 (1.86%) Workday Architect
14 12 (1.72%) Salesforce Architect
14 12 (1.72%) Senior Architect
15 11 (1.57%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.43%) .NET
2 13 (1.86%) HTML
2 13 (1.86%) REST
3 12 (1.72%) CSS
4 11 (1.57%) .NET Framework
4 11 (1.57%) Middleware
5 10 (1.43%) Kafka
5 10 (1.43%) Lightning Web Components
5 10 (1.43%) SOAP
6 8 (1.14%) Visualforce
7 7 (1.00%) Web Services
8 6 (0.86%) AWS CDK
8 6 (0.86%) React
8 6 (0.86%) Spring Boot
9 5 (0.72%) JWT
9 5 (0.72%) XML
10 4 (0.57%) Flash
10 4 (0.57%) J2EE
10 4 (0.57%) JSON
10 4 (0.57%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 87 (12.45%) Product Ownership
2 47 (6.72%) Legacy Systems
3 35 (5.01%) Cloud Native
4 24 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 24 (3.43%) Onboarding
5 23 (3.29%) Data Centre
6 21 (3.00%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 11 (1.57%) IoT
9 11 (1.57%) Operational Technology
9 11 (1.57%) PKI
10 10 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
10 10 (1.43%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.29%) Video Conferencing
12 8 (1.14%) Blackberry
12 8 (1.14%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.72%) Windows
2 29 (4.15%) Linux
3 16 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.72%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.14%) Android
5 8 (1.14%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.86%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.72%) Solaris
7 5 (0.72%) Unix
8 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.29%) AIX
9 2 (0.29%) HPUX
9 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (35.05%) Agile
2 149 (21.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 136 (19.46%) Strategic Roadmap
4 128 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
5 110 (15.74%) Product Roadmap
6 98 (14.02%) Migration
7 88 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 82 (11.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 82 (11.73%) Technology Roadmap
9 75 (10.73%) Analytics
10 71 (10.16%) DevOps
11 68 (9.73%) Change Management
11 68 (9.73%) ITIL
12 67 (9.59%) Enterprise Architecture
13 66 (9.44%) Scrum
14 63 (9.01%) Architecture Roadmap
14 63 (9.01%) CI/CD
14 63 (9.01%) Project Delivery
15 60 (8.58%) Product Management
16 58 (8.30%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 46 (6.58%) Python
2 42 (6.01%) SQL
3 29 (4.15%) Java
4 20 (2.86%) JavaScript
4 20 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 17 (2.43%) TypeScript
6 13 (1.86%) Bash
7 10 (1.43%) Apex Code
8 9 (1.29%) C++
8 9 (1.29%) Kotlin
8 9 (1.29%) Scala
9 8 (1.14%) C
9 8 (1.14%) C#
10 7 (1.00%) Objective-C
10 7 (1.00%) Ruby
10 7 (1.00%) Swift
11 5 (0.72%) PHP
11 5 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.57%) Perl
13 3 (0.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 117 (16.74%) Security Cleared
2 81 (11.59%) SC Cleared
3 69 (9.87%) Degree
4 36 (5.15%) DV Cleared
5 27 (3.86%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (3.29%) Master's Degree
7 22 (3.15%) CISSP
8 20 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (2.29%) Azure Certification
11 15 (2.15%) CCNP
12 13 (1.86%) CISM
13 12 (1.72%) AWS Certification
14 11 (1.57%) CCIE
15 10 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
16 9 (1.29%) CIMA
17 8 (1.14%) ACCA
17 8 (1.14%) JNCIE
17 8 (1.14%) PMI Certification
17 8 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.72%) GDPR
2 33 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (3.86%) Data Quality
4 26 (3.72%) NIST
5 20 (2.86%) PCI DSS
6 19 (2.72%) QA
7 18 (2.58%) Accessibility
8 12 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 10 (1.43%) PMO
10 7 (1.00%) COBIT
10 7 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (1.00%) NCSC
11 5 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.72%) SLA
12 4 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.57%) FIPS 140-2
12 4 (0.57%) GRC
12 4 (0.57%) ITGC
12 4 (0.57%) PSD2
System Software
1 27 (3.86%) Active Directory
2 26 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.15%) Docker
4 8 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.72%) XenDesktop
6 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.14%) Firmware
7 1 (0.14%) LXC
7 1 (0.14%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.14%) vSphere
7 1 (0.14%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 30 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 29 (4.15%) Terraform
3 15 (2.15%) Grafana
4 13 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (1.57%) SCCM
6 10 (1.43%) Ansible
6 10 (1.43%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.86%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.57%) Argo
8 4 (0.57%) Control-M
8 4 (0.57%) Istio
8 4 (0.57%) OPNET
8 4 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.43%) Backup Exec
10 2 (0.29%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.29%) QRadar
11 1 (0.14%) CASB
11 1 (0.14%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.14%) SELinux
Vendors
1 96 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.86%) SAP
3 33 (4.72%) VMware
4 27 (3.86%) Cisco
4 27 (3.86%) Salesforce
4 27 (3.86%) ServiceNow
5 20 (2.86%) Oracle
6 17 (2.43%) Citrix
7 16 (2.29%) Workday
8 15 (2.15%) F5
9 14 (2.00%) Google
10 12 (1.72%) IBM
10 12 (1.72%) Palo Alto
11 10 (1.43%) Juniper
12 9 (1.29%) Splunk
13 8 (1.14%) Avaya
13 8 (1.14%) Ericsson
13 8 (1.14%) Fortinet
13 8 (1.14%) Nokia
13 8 (1.14%) Ribbon