Architecture Roadmap Contracts

Architecture Roadmaps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Architecture Roadmap skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Architecture Roadmap over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 431 560
Rank change year-on-year -87 +129 -130
Contract jobs citing Architecture Roadmap 72 279 293
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.48% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.54% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 188 192
10th Percentile £506 £459 £458
25th Percentile £559 £534 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £604
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +7.62% +13.69%
75th Percentile £875 £750 £725
90th Percentile £955 £799 £786
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £625 £563
% change year-on-year +12.00% +11.11% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Median hourly rate £102.87 £86.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.58% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £102.87 £86.75 -
% change year-on-year +18.58% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Architecture Roadmap is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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 11 May 2024.

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 14 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 11 May 2024. 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 -33 53 £767 +17.41% 46
Work from Home +17 37 £588 -9.62% 24
UK excluding London -64 30 £700 +12.00% 25
London +19 28 £675 -6.90% 20
Scotland -9 10 £506 -11.31% 1
South West -4 7 £700 +7.69% 3
North of England +23 4 £897 +63.08% 8
Midlands +20 4 £850 +54.55% 8
South East -10 4 £706 +12.10% 2
North East +12 3 £897 +70.85%
West Midlands +8 3 £850 +88.89% 5
East Midlands +20 1 £900 +38.46% 3
Yorkshire +15 1 - -
East of England +10 1 £575 +1.32% 3

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 2 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 4 (5.56%) SAP BPC
1 4 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.78%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.44%) AWS
2 9 (12.50%) Azure
3 7 (9.72%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 6 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (8.33%) Serverless
5 4 (5.56%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.17%) Cloudflare
6 3 (4.17%) GCP
7 2 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.78%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.78%) Route 53
7 2 (2.78%) Stripe
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.39%) IaaS
8 1 (1.39%) SaaS
8 1 (1.39%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.39%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.33%) WAN
2 4 (5.56%) Kerberos
3 3 (4.17%) MPLS
3 3 (4.17%) VPN
4 2 (2.78%) HTTP
4 2 (2.78%) LAN
4 2 (2.78%) Network Security
4 2 (2.78%) SCCP
4 2 (2.78%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.78%) WLAN
5 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.94%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.17%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.39%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.39%) GIS
7 1 (1.39%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.39%) MySQL
7 1 (1.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.78%) JIRA
3 1 (1.39%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.39%) Git
3 1 (1.39%) GitLab
3 1 (1.39%) Terragrunt
General
1 31 (43.06%) Social Skills
2 19 (26.39%) Finance
3 13 (18.06%) Public Sector
4 12 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (15.28%) Banking
6 7 (9.72%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.17%) Wholesale Banking
9 2 (2.78%) Retail
9 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.39%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.39%) Automotive
10 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.39%) Legal
10 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 52 (72.22%) Architect
2 14 (19.44%) Solutions Architect
3 13 (18.06%) Enterprise Architect
4 10 (13.89%) Security Architect
5 6 (8.33%) Developer
5 6 (8.33%) Senior
6 5 (6.94%) Business Architect
7 4 (5.56%) Digital Architect
7 4 (5.56%) SAP Architect
7 4 (5.56%) SAP Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.56%) Technical Architect
8 3 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) DevSecOps Architect
8 3 (4.17%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Lead
8 3 (4.17%) Network Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Principal Architect
8 3 (4.17%) Senior Architect
9 2 (2.78%) Full Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.11%) OAuth
2 7 (9.72%) AWS CDK
2 7 (9.72%) React
2 7 (9.72%) REST
3 6 (8.33%) Node.js
3 6 (8.33%) OpenID
3 6 (8.33%) SAML
4 4 (5.56%) CSS
4 4 (5.56%) HTML
4 4 (5.56%) Spring
5 3 (4.17%) DAO
5 3 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (4.17%) SOAP
5 3 (4.17%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.17%) Spring Security
6 2 (2.78%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.78%) FIDO
6 2 (2.78%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.78%) RESTful
7 1 (1.39%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 6 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (6.94%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 4 (5.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.17%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.78%) Contactless
6 2 (2.78%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (2.78%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.39%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.39%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.78%) Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 32 (44.44%) Agile
3 16 (22.22%) Business Strategy
4 15 (20.83%) DevOps
4 15 (20.83%) IT Strategy
5 14 (19.44%) Enterprise Architecture
6 13 (18.06%) Technology Strategy
6 13 (18.06%) TOGAF
7 12 (16.67%) Microservices
8 11 (15.28%) CI/CD
8 11 (15.28%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
9 9 (12.50%) Business Case
9 9 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (12.50%) Project Management
9 9 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (11.11%) Analytics
10 8 (11.11%) Coaching
10 8 (11.11%) Community of Practice
10 8 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 8 (11.11%) Python
3 7 (9.72%) Java
4 5 (6.94%) SQL
4 5 (6.94%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.56%) Bash
6 2 (2.78%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.39%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (18.06%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.72%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.17%) CCIE
4 3 (4.17%) CISSP
4 3 (4.17%) Degree
5 2 (2.78%) CISM
5 2 (2.78%) PMP
5 2 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.39%) CEH
6 1 (1.39%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (1.39%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.72%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (4.17%) NIST
3 2 (2.78%) GDPR
3 2 (2.78%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.78%) PSD2
4 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (6.94%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.56%) Docker
3 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.56%) Grafana
1 4 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.56%) PingFederate
2 3 (4.17%) Ansible
2 3 (4.17%) Kibana
3 2 (2.78%) Terraform
4 1 (1.39%) Argo
4 1 (1.39%) Istio
4 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (8.33%) Ping Identity
2 5 (6.94%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.56%) Oracle
3 4 (5.56%) SAP
4 3 (4.17%) CheckPoint
4 3 (4.17%) Cisco
4 3 (4.17%) Fortinet
4 3 (4.17%) Sparx
4 3 (4.17%) Zscaler
5 2 (2.78%) Citrix
5 2 (2.78%) F5
5 2 (2.78%) Google
5 2 (2.78%) PayPal
6 1 (1.39%) Ariba
6 1 (1.39%) Aruba
6 1 (1.39%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.39%) ESRI
6 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.39%) Splunk
6 1 (1.39%) VMware