Architecture Roadmap Contracts

Architecture Roadmaps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Architecture Roadmap skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Architecture 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 440 504 451
Rank change year-on-year +64 -53 +127
Contract jobs citing Architecture Roadmap 80 78 274
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.18% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.21% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 59 178
10th Percentile £463 £486 £456
25th Percentile £569 £512 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £703 £788 £738
90th Percentile £772 £951 £799
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £608 £633
% change year-on-year -1.23% -3.95% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £84.32 - £78.63
25th Percentile £84.51 - £80.63
Median hourly rate £91.69 £102.87 £86.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +18.58% -
75th Percentile £99.28 - £101.25
90th Percentile £99.71 - £101.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £91.05 £102.87 £86.75
% change year-on-year -11.49% +18.58% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Architecture 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Architecture Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Architecture Roadmap as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Architecture Roadmap in the UK

Architecture Roadmap
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Architecture Roadmap.

Daily rate trend for Architecture Roadmap in the UK

Architecture Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Architecture Roadmap over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Architecture Roadmap in the UK

Architecture Roadmap
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Architecture Roadmap.

Hourly rate trend for Architecture Roadmap in the UK

Architecture Roadmap
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Architecture Roadmap within the UK 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
England +72 68 £600 -14.29% 75
UK excluding London +66 38 £600 -1.23% 38
London +41 32 £740 +23.33% 46
Work from Home +31 32 £600 +5.45% 41
South East +57 14 £600 -21.31% 13
North of England +27 12 £620 -30.88% 10
North West - 7 £620 - 4
Scotland +3 6 £494 -2.37% 4
Yorkshire +12 5 £507 - 3
Midlands +21 4 £442 -47.97% 5
West Midlands +14 3 £438 -48.53% 5
East of England +31 2 - - 5
East Midlands +9 1 £447 -38.34%

Architecture Roadmap
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (15.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.25%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.25%) JBoss
3 1 (1.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (16.25%) MS Visio
2 10 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.50%) Teamcenter
3 1 (1.25%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.25%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 25 (31.25%) AWS
2 24 (30.00%) Azure
3 13 (16.25%) GCP
4 9 (11.25%) SaaS
5 8 (10.00%) IaaS
5 8 (10.00%) PaaS
6 6 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (7.50%) Serverless
7 5 (6.25%) Cloudflare
7 5 (6.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 4 (5.00%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.00%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (2.50%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.75%) WAN
2 8 (10.00%) MPLS
2 8 (10.00%) VPN
3 6 (7.50%) Firewall
3 6 (7.50%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (6.25%) Network Security
5 3 (3.75%) BGP
5 3 (3.75%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (3.75%) DMZ
5 3 (3.75%) DNS
5 3 (3.75%) DWDM
5 3 (3.75%) Internet
5 3 (3.75%) IPsec
5 3 (3.75%) L2TP
5 3 (3.75%) LAN
5 3 (3.75%) Multicast
5 3 (3.75%) OSPF
5 3 (3.75%) SSL
5 3 (3.75%) Wireless
6 2 (2.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.75%) Big Data
3 2 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.50%) DB2
3 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.25%) GIS
4 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) ERwin
1 7 (8.75%) PowerDesigner
2 3 (3.75%) JIRA
3 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
General
1 39 (48.75%) Social Skills
2 19 (23.75%) Presentation Skills
3 18 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (18.75%) Finance
5 11 (13.75%) Banking
6 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
7 5 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.75%) Retail
10 2 (2.50%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.50%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.25%) Marketing
11 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 54 (67.50%) Architect
2 25 (31.25%) Solutions Architect
3 12 (15.00%) Data Architect
4 11 (13.75%) Technical Architect
5 10 (12.50%) Technical Solutions Architect
6 9 (11.25%) Network Engineer
7 8 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
7 8 (10.00%) Integration Architect
8 7 (8.75%) Data Modeller
8 7 (8.75%) Lead
9 5 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 5 (6.25%) Lead Architect
10 4 (5.00%) Developer
10 4 (5.00%) Salesforce Architect
10 4 (5.00%) Senior
11 3 (3.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.75%) IT Engineer
11 3 (3.75%) Strategy Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (3.75%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.75%) AWS CDK
3 2 (2.50%) Kafka
3 2 (2.50%) Middleware
3 2 (2.50%) React
3 2 (2.50%) Shiny
3 2 (2.50%) Spring
3 2 (2.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.25%) .NET
4 1 (1.25%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.25%) Next.js
4 1 (1.25%) Node.js
4 1 (1.25%) PostGIS
4 1 (1.25%) REST
4 1 (1.25%) SOAP
4 1 (1.25%) Struts
4 1 (1.25%) Visualforce
4 1 (1.25%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.25%) Management Information System
2 11 (13.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (11.25%) Data Structures
4 6 (7.50%) Cloud Native
4 6 (7.50%) Public Cloud
5 4 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.50%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.50%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.25%) CMDB
8 1 (1.25%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.25%) Equities
8 1 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 26 (32.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (23.75%) TOGAF
4 17 (21.25%) Data Architecture
5 16 (20.00%) Agile
5 16 (20.00%) Analytics
5 16 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 14 (17.50%) Data Modelling
7 12 (15.00%) Data Management
8 11 (13.75%) Enterprise Architecture
9 10 (12.50%) MODAF
9 10 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 9 (11.25%) IT Strategy
10 9 (11.25%) Migration
11 8 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (10.00%) Data Governance
11 8 (10.00%) Mentoring
11 8 (10.00%) Network Design
12 7 (8.75%) DevOps
12 7 (8.75%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.75%) Java
1 11 (13.75%) Python
2 5 (6.25%) Apex Code
3 4 (5.00%) SQL
4 3 (3.75%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.75%) Perl
4 3 (3.75%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.75%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.50%) MATLAB
5 2 (2.50%) R
6 1 (1.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (11.25%) CCIE
1 9 (11.25%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (10.00%) Degree
3 5 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 5 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (5.00%) CCNP
4 4 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.50%) CISSP
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.25%) CISM
7 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) Accessibility
1 6 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.75%) GDPR
3 2 (2.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (2.50%) NIST
3 2 (2.50%) QA
4 1 (1.25%) Basel II
4 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.25%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.25%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.50%) Docker
3 1 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (11.25%) Ansible
2 2 (2.50%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.25%) Grafana
3 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.75%) Cisco
3 8 (10.00%) Fortinet
4 7 (8.75%) Salesforce
4 7 (8.75%) Sparx
5 5 (6.25%) CheckPoint
5 5 (6.25%) Citrix
5 5 (6.25%) F5
5 5 (6.25%) Oracle
5 5 (6.25%) SAP
5 5 (6.25%) Zscaler
6 4 (5.00%) Google
7 3 (3.75%) Arista
7 3 (3.75%) McAfee
7 3 (3.75%) Splunk
8 2 (2.50%) Ariba
8 2 (2.50%) Aruba
8 2 (2.50%) Sage
8 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.50%) Virgin Media