Technology Roadmap Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technology Roadmaps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Technology Roadmap skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technology Roadmap over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 338 345
Rank change year-on-year +63 +7 +17
Contract jobs citing Technology Roadmap 61 61 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.29% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.35% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 39 97
10th Percentile £424 £403 £495
25th Percentile £508 £569 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +23.22%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £700
90th Percentile £664 £702 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £69.67 - -
25th Percentile £72.19 - -
Median hourly rate £82.46 £102.87 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.84% - -
75th Percentile £93.53 - -
90th Percentile £96.55 - -
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £35.13 -
% change year-on-year +53.74% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Technology 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 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
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 £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Technology Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Roadmap in the UK excluding London

Technology Roadmap
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Technology Roadmap in the UK excluding London

Technology Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Roadmap in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Roadmap in the UK excluding London

Technology Roadmap
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technology Roadmap in the UK excluding London

Technology Roadmap
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technology Roadmap in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Technology Roadmap in the UK excluding London

Technology 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 Technology Roadmap within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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 +28 22 £550 - 115
South East +50 16 £560 -13.85% 142
North West +18 12 £620 +12.73% 45
Yorkshire +16 10 £550 +4.76% 61
Midlands +27 7 £574 -4.42% 82
West Midlands +20 7 £574 - 46
South West +43 4 £390 -33.62% 54
Scotland +8 4 £513 -14.58% 27
Wales +2 4 £343 -47.23% 18
East of England +17 2 - - 70
Northern Ireland - 2 £625 - 4
Technology Roadmap
UK

Technology 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 (9.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.92%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.28%) Confluence
3 2 (3.28%) OpenStack
3 2 (3.28%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.64%) Apache
4 1 (1.64%) JBoss
4 1 (1.64%) nginx
4 1 (1.64%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.64%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.64%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (1.64%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.64%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.75%) Azure
2 8 (13.11%) AWS
3 5 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.92%) GCP
4 3 (4.92%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.28%) OCI
6 1 (1.64%) Akamai
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.64%) GitHub
6 1 (1.64%) IaaS
6 1 (1.64%) SaaS
6 1 (1.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.11%) DNS
2 4 (6.56%) SSL
3 3 (4.92%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.28%) 3G
4 2 (3.28%) 3GPP
4 2 (3.28%) 4G
4 2 (3.28%) 5G
4 2 (3.28%) DHCP
4 2 (3.28%) LTE
4 2 (3.28%) SNA
5 1 (1.64%) BGP
5 1 (1.64%) DMVPN
5 1 (1.64%) DWDM
5 1 (1.64%) GLBP
5 1 (1.64%) MPLS
5 1 (1.64%) Multicast
5 1 (1.64%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.64%) OSPF
5 1 (1.64%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.64%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) Oracle Database
2 6 (9.84%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.64%) Metadata
5 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.64%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 5 (8.20%) JIRA
2 2 (3.28%) Git
3 1 (1.64%) Mockito
3 1 (1.64%) Toad
General
1 20 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.11%) Finance
3 5 (8.20%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.56%) Banking
4 4 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.92%) Retail
6 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Back Office
7 1 (1.64%) Automotive
7 1 (1.64%) Billing
7 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.64%) Legal
7 1 (1.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (39.34%) Architect
2 10 (16.39%) Enterprise Architect
3 7 (11.48%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (9.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Lead
6 4 (6.56%) Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) Network Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Project Manager
6 4 (6.56%) Technical Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Consultant
7 3 (4.92%) Engineering Specialist
7 3 (4.92%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 3 (4.92%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Senior
7 3 (4.92%) Technical Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Technical Project Manager
8 2 (3.28%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) .NET
2 4 (6.56%) Middleware
3 2 (3.28%) .NET Framework
3 2 (3.28%) JWT
3 2 (3.28%) OAuth
4 1 (1.64%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.64%) Apache Camel
4 1 (1.64%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.64%) HTML
4 1 (1.64%) JSON
4 1 (1.64%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.64%) ModSecurity
4 1 (1.64%) OpenID
4 1 (1.64%) REST
4 1 (1.64%) SAML
4 1 (1.64%) Spring
4 1 (1.64%) Spring Batch
4 1 (1.64%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.64%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (9.84%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.56%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.56%) Mainframe
4 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.28%) Clustering
5 2 (3.28%) IBM Mainframe
5 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.64%) BYOD
6 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.64%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.64%) FMCG
6 1 (1.64%) NHS
6 1 (1.64%) PKI
6 1 (1.64%) Tandem
6 1 (1.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (26.23%) Windows
2 12 (19.67%) Linux
3 10 (16.39%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.56%) zOS
5 3 (4.92%) Windows 10
6 2 (3.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 28 (45.90%) Agile
3 13 (21.31%) Microservices
4 12 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (19.67%) Project Delivery
5 11 (18.03%) Migration
6 10 (16.39%) CI/CD
6 10 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (16.39%) DevOps
6 10 (16.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (14.75%) Enterprise Architecture
7 9 (14.75%) Project Management
8 8 (13.11%) ITIL
9 7 (11.48%) Security Management
9 7 (11.48%) TOGAF
10 6 (9.84%) Architecture Roadmap
10 6 (9.84%) Coaching
10 6 (9.84%) Decision-Making
10 6 (9.84%) SOA
10 6 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.11%) Bash
2 7 (11.48%) Perl
2 7 (11.48%) PL/SQL
2 7 (11.48%) SQL
3 6 (9.84%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.28%) Java
4 2 (3.28%) JCL
4 2 (3.28%) Python
5 1 (1.64%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 15 (24.59%) Security Cleared
2 14 (22.95%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.11%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (6.56%) Degree
4 4 (6.56%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.92%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.92%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (3.28%) ACCA
6 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.28%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.28%) CIMA
6 2 (3.28%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.64%) CCDP
7 1 (1.64%) CISM
7 1 (1.64%) CISSP
7 1 (1.64%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) QA
2 2 (3.28%) SLA
3 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.64%) GDPR
3 1 (1.64%) NCSC
3 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (18.03%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.92%) Docker
3 2 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.64%) LXC
4 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (11.48%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.28%) Ansible
2 2 (3.28%) Tivoli NetView
3 1 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.64%) OPNET
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (1.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (18.03%) Microsoft
1 11 (18.03%) Oracle
2 10 (16.39%) Cisco
3 6 (9.84%) IBM
4 3 (4.92%) Virgin Media
4 3 (4.92%) VMware
5 2 (3.28%) Apple
5 2 (3.28%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.28%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.28%) F5
5 2 (3.28%) HP
5 2 (3.28%) Juniper
6 1 (1.64%) Aruba
6 1 (1.64%) Blue Coat
6 1 (1.64%) Google
6 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.64%) Riverbed
6 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.64%) Talend