Strategic Roadmap Contracts in the UK excluding London

Strategic Roadmaps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Strategic Roadmap skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Roadmap over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 285 309
Rank change year-on-year +38 +24 +55
Contract jobs citing Strategic Roadmap 90 103 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.71% 0.50% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.59% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 69 107
10th Percentile £411 £525 £385
25th Percentile £447 £560 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.77% +23.81% -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £788 £638
90th Percentile £721 £850 £741
UK median daily rate £600 £627 £600
% change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% -3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £71.76 £35.58 -
25th Percentile £74.10 £57.84 -
Median hourly rate £80.59 £79.47 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% - -
75th Percentile £84.48 £84.11 -
90th Percentile £85.26 £85.11 -
UK median hourly rate £75.40 £71.45 -
% change year-on-year +5.53% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Strategic 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 11,463 17,414 21,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.37% 84.70% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,190 10,403 14,840
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +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% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 832 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.30 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.56
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £35.80
% change year-on-year -19.33% +0.42% +43.20%

Strategic Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Roadmap in the UK excluding London

Strategic Roadmap
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Strategic Roadmap in the UK excluding London

Strategic Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Roadmap in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Roadmap in the UK excluding London

Strategic Roadmap
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Roadmap in the UK excluding London

Strategic 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 Strategic Roadmap within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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 +19 32 £513 -11.86% 60
South East +49 25 £575 -11.54% 100
North West +4 22 £550 -5.41% 33
Midlands +22 11 £550 - 29
West Midlands +19 9 £563 +2.27% 13
Yorkshire +20 8 £556 -7.29% 19
Scotland +8 8 £455 -20.87% 18
South West +19 6 £600 -7.69% 25
Wales +11 5 £475 -26.92% 8
East of England +31 4 £688 +1.85% 11
East Midlands - 2 £515 - 13
North East - 2 £440 - 8
Strategic Roadmap
UK

Strategic 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 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.11%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.11%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.11%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Magento
1 3 (3.33%) Sage 200
1 3 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.22%) Avolution ABACUS
2 2 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.11%) Maximo
3 1 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.11%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.11%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (23.33%) Azure
2 13 (14.44%) AWS
3 10 (11.11%) GCP
4 5 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.56%) SaaS
5 3 (3.33%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.22%) PaaS
6 2 (2.22%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.11%) Asana
7 1 (1.11%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.11%) IaaS
7 1 (1.11%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.00%) Network Security
2 4 (4.44%) BGP
2 4 (4.44%) DNS
2 4 (4.44%) Firewall
2 4 (4.44%) MPLS
2 4 (4.44%) OSPF
2 4 (4.44%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (4.44%) VLAN
2 4 (4.44%) VPN
3 3 (3.33%) LAN
3 3 (3.33%) SAN
3 3 (3.33%) WLAN
4 2 (2.22%) DHCP
4 2 (2.22%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.22%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.22%) VSAN
4 2 (2.22%) WAN
5 1 (1.11%) GPON
5 1 (1.11%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.22%) Big Data
2 2 (2.22%) GIS
2 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.11%) Metadata
3 1 (1.11%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 39 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.33%) Finance
3 11 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.22%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.56%) Banking
4 5 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.33%) Back Office
5 3 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.22%) Digital Health
6 2 (2.22%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.22%) General Ledger
6 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.22%) Law
6 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Retail
6 2 (2.22%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.11%) Aviation
7 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.11%) Military
7 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (34.44%) Architect
2 18 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (8.89%) Analyst
3 8 (8.89%) Lead
3 8 (8.89%) Product Manager
4 5 (5.56%) Business Analyst
4 5 (5.56%) Consultant
4 5 (5.56%) Designer
4 5 (5.56%) Head of Architecture
4 5 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (4.44%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (4.44%) Head of Security
5 4 (4.44%) Product Owner
5 4 (4.44%) Senior
5 4 (4.44%) Service Manager
6 3 (3.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (3.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (3.33%) Head of Strategy
6 3 (3.33%) Industrial Engineer
6 3 (3.33%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.33%) .NET
1 3 (3.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.11%) LDAP
2 1 (1.11%) Middleware
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.78%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.44%) NHS
4 3 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.22%) PKI
6 1 (1.11%) BYOD
6 1 (1.11%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.11%) Life Science
6 1 (1.11%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.11%) PMI
6 1 (1.11%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.11%) SCADA
6 1 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.22%) Windows
2 8 (8.89%) Linux
3 7 (7.78%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 25 (27.78%) Agile
3 24 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (20.00%) IT Strategy
5 16 (17.78%) TOGAF
6 14 (15.56%) ITIL
7 13 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (13.33%) Decision-Making
8 12 (13.33%) Risk Management
9 11 (12.22%) Enterprise Architecture
9 11 (12.22%) Project Delivery
9 11 (12.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (12.22%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (10.00%) Business Strategy
10 9 (10.00%) Product Management
10 9 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
11 8 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (8.89%) Service Delivery
12 7 (7.78%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.33%) C#
1 3 (3.33%) PHP
2 2 (2.22%) Python
3 1 (1.11%) Java
3 1 (1.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.11%) Magik
3 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (13.33%) Degree
2 11 (12.22%) Security Cleared
3 9 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (7.78%) Master's Degree
5 6 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 6 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.67%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.44%) CCIE
6 4 (4.44%) CCNP
6 4 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (4.44%) CITP
6 4 (4.44%) JNCIE
7 3 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.22%) CISM
8 2 (2.22%) CISSP
8 2 (2.22%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.11%) CISA
9 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.89%) GDPR
2 7 (7.78%) NIST
3 6 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.44%) COBIT
5 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
5 3 (3.33%) QA
6 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.22%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.11%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.11%) ISO 22301
7 1 (1.11%) JSP 440
7 1 (1.11%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.11%) PMO
7 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (7.78%) Active Directory
1 7 (7.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (3.33%) Backup Exec
1 3 (3.33%) vCenter Server
2 2 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.11%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 16 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.33%) VMware
3 8 (8.89%) Cisco
4 7 (7.78%) Google
5 6 (6.67%) SAP
6 5 (5.56%) Oracle
6 5 (5.56%) Salesforce
7 4 (4.44%) Fortinet
7 4 (4.44%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.33%) Symantec
8 3 (3.33%) Veeam
9 2 (2.22%) F5
9 2 (2.22%) Juniper
9 2 (2.22%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.22%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.22%) TOWER Software
9 2 (2.22%) Workday
10 1 (1.11%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (1.11%) Centrify
10 1 (1.11%) Thycotic