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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 345 330
Rank change year-on-year +66 -15 +36
Contract jobs citing Technology Roadmap 63 46 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.23% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.27% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 31 99
10th Percentile £366 £413 £486
25th Percentile £506 £555 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £700
90th Percentile £675 £698 £750
UK median daily rate £593 £610 £650
% change year-on-year -2.75% -6.15% +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 11,541 17,047 20,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 84.14% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,211 10,194 14,065
10th Percentile £231 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.73%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 817 2,072 1,252
10th Percentile £14.09 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.25 £15.29 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +31 24 £550 -3.08% 331
South East +54 15 £560 -13.85% 395
North West +15 13 £620 +9.25% 154
Yorkshire +24 11 £550 +4.76% 139
South West +38 8 £390 -33.62% 195
Scotland +9 5 £513 - 60
Midlands +21 4 £599 - 257
West Midlands +16 4 £599 - 133
Wales - 4 £343 - 45
Northern Ireland - 2 £625 - 22
East of England +17 1 - - 229
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 (9.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (3.17%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.59%) Apache
3 1 (1.59%) JBoss
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.59%) nginx
3 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.59%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.59%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.59%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (1.59%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.59%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.59%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.11%) Azure
2 6 (9.52%) AWS
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.17%) OCI
5 1 (1.59%) Akamai
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.59%) GCP
5 1 (1.59%) GitHub
5 1 (1.59%) IaaS
5 1 (1.59%) iPaaS
5 1 (1.59%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.70%) DNS
2 4 (6.35%) SSL
3 3 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.17%) DHCP
4 2 (3.17%) SNA
5 1 (1.59%) BGP
5 1 (1.59%) DWDM
5 1 (1.59%) Firewall
5 1 (1.59%) FTP
5 1 (1.59%) HTTP
5 1 (1.59%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.59%) IGRP
5 1 (1.59%) Internet
5 1 (1.59%) IPsec
5 1 (1.59%) LAN
5 1 (1.59%) MPLS
5 1 (1.59%) OSPF
5 1 (1.59%) SNMP
5 1 (1.59%) VPN
5 1 (1.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.70%) Oracle Database
2 3 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.59%) Metadata
4 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.59%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 5 (7.94%) JIRA
2 3 (4.76%) Git
2 3 (4.76%) Gradle
2 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.76%) Xcode
3 1 (1.59%) Mockito
3 1 (1.59%) Toad
General
1 21 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.29%) Finance
3 6 (9.52%) Banking
4 4 (6.35%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.76%) Retail
5 3 (4.76%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Back Office
6 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.17%) Military
6 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.59%) Automotive
7 1 (1.59%) Billing
7 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (41.27%) Architect
2 11 (17.46%) Enterprise Architect
2 11 (17.46%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Senior
5 4 (6.35%) Analyst
5 4 (6.35%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
5 4 (6.35%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 4 (6.35%) Network Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.76%) Consultant
6 3 (4.76%) Developer
6 3 (4.76%) Engineering Specialist
6 3 (4.76%) iOS Developer
6 3 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Senior Architect
6 3 (4.76%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.76%) Technical Manager
6 3 (4.76%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.35%) HTML
1 4 (6.35%) Middleware
2 3 (4.76%) .NET
2 3 (4.76%) CSS
3 2 (3.17%) .NET Framework
3 2 (3.17%) JWT
3 2 (3.17%) OAuth
4 1 (1.59%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.59%) Apache Camel
4 1 (1.59%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.59%) JSON
4 1 (1.59%) Kafka
4 1 (1.59%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.59%) ModSecurity
4 1 (1.59%) OpenID
4 1 (1.59%) REST
4 1 (1.59%) Spring
4 1 (1.59%) Spring Batch
4 1 (1.59%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (6.35%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.35%) Mainframe
2 4 (6.35%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.76%) Mobile Banking
3 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.17%) Clustering
4 2 (3.17%) FMCG
4 2 (3.17%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.59%) BYOD
5 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.59%) NHS
5 1 (1.59%) PKI
5 1 (1.59%) Robotics
5 1 (1.59%) Tandem
5 1 (1.59%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.63%) Windows
2 10 (15.87%) Linux
3 8 (12.70%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.35%) zOS
5 3 (4.76%) Android
5 3 (4.76%) Apple iOS
5 3 (4.76%) Windows 10
6 2 (3.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 28 (44.44%) Agile
3 11 (17.46%) Enterprise Architecture
3 11 (17.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (15.87%) Microservices
4 10 (15.87%) Migration
5 9 (14.29%) DevOps
6 8 (12.70%) Project Delivery
6 8 (12.70%) TOGAF
7 7 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 7 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 7 (11.11%) Security Management
7 7 (11.11%) User Experience
8 6 (9.52%) Architecture Roadmap
8 6 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (9.52%) ITIL
8 6 (9.52%) Mentoring
8 6 (9.52%) Project Management
8 6 (9.52%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.70%) Bash
2 7 (11.11%) Perl
2 7 (11.11%) PL/SQL
2 7 (11.11%) SQL
3 6 (9.52%) PowerShell
4 5 (7.94%) Java
5 4 (6.35%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.35%) Python
6 3 (4.76%) C
6 3 (4.76%) C++
6 3 (4.76%) Kotlin
6 3 (4.76%) Objective-C
6 3 (4.76%) Ruby
6 3 (4.76%) Scala
6 3 (4.76%) Swift
7 2 (3.17%) JCL
8 1 (1.59%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.59%) C#
Qualifications
1 18 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 17 (26.98%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.70%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (7.94%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.76%) Degree
5 3 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (3.17%) ACCA
6 2 (3.17%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.17%) CIMA
6 2 (3.17%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.59%) CCDP
7 1 (1.59%) CISM
7 1 (1.59%) CISSP
7 1 (1.59%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.76%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) SLA
3 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.59%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) NCSC
3 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (15.87%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.59%) Docker
3 1 (1.59%) LXC
3 1 (1.59%) ProxySG
3 1 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.17%) Ansible
2 2 (3.17%) Tivoli NetView
3 1 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.59%) OPNET
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (1.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (17.46%) Cisco
1 11 (17.46%) Oracle
2 10 (15.87%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.52%) IBM
4 3 (4.76%) Virgin Media
4 3 (4.76%) VMware
5 2 (3.17%) Apple
5 2 (3.17%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.17%) Blue Coat
5 2 (3.17%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.17%) F5
5 2 (3.17%) HP
5 2 (3.17%) Juniper
6 1 (1.59%) Aruba
6 1 (1.59%) Citrix
6 1 (1.59%) Google
6 1 (1.59%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.59%) Riverbed
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.59%) Talend