Product Roadmap Contracts

Product Roadmaps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Product Roadmap skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Roadmap over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 369 338
Rank change year-on-year +63 -31 +22
Contract jobs citing Product Roadmap 232 240 433
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.79% 0.55% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.64% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 167 319
10th Percentile £356 £393 £439
25th Percentile £423 £478 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £631 £666 £638
90th Percentile £750 £751 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.90% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 4
10th Percentile £36.84 £47.75 £46.58
25th Percentile £47.45 £57.71 £61.64
Median hourly rate £53.00 £66.00 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.70% -20.00% +103.70%
75th Percentile £55.25 £68.75 £90.00
90th Percentile £63.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 - £90.00
% change year-on-year - - +29.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product 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 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Product Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Roadmap in the UK

Product Roadmap
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Product Roadmap in the UK

Product Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Roadmap over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Roadmap in the UK

Product Roadmap
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Roadmap in the UK

Product Roadmap
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Roadmap over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Roadmap in the UK

Product Roadmap
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Roadmap within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +57 208 £513 -12.58% 760
London +21 105 £525 -12.50% 509
UK excluding London +49 97 £494 -5.90% 277
Work from Home +36 65 £494 -2.99% 348
North of England +40 34 £463 -39.34% 100
South West +65 24 £500 +22.25% 32
South East +23 24 £522 -2.88% 51
North West +16 22 £450 -47.06% 69
North East +6 7 £788 +50.00% 7
Midlands +19 6 £423 -23.18% 43
East of England - 6 £700 - 22
Yorkshire +16 5 £494 -5.95% 24
West Midlands +12 5 £413 -25.00% 34
Scotland -7 5 £494 +2.07% 19
East Midlands +9 1 £433 +11.61% 9

Product 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 19 (8.19%) Confluence
2 2 (0.86%) Appian
2 2 (0.86%) CMS
2 2 (0.86%) Drupal
2 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.43%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (2.59%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.29%) Trello
3 2 (0.86%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (5.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.16%) SAP MDG
2 5 (2.16%) SAP MDG-S
3 4 (1.72%) CA PPM
4 3 (1.29%) Primavera
5 2 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.86%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 29 (12.50%) Azure
2 22 (9.48%) SaaS
3 19 (8.19%) AWS
4 14 (6.03%) PaaS
5 11 (4.74%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.02%) GCP
9 4 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.72%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.72%) IaaS
9 4 (1.72%) Serverless
10 3 (1.29%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.86%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (0.86%) GitHub
11 2 (0.86%) OCI
11 2 (0.86%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.88%) POP3
1 9 (3.88%) SMTP
2 8 (3.45%) PBX
2 8 (3.45%) VoIP
3 7 (3.02%) HTTP
4 5 (2.16%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.29%) Broadband
5 3 (1.29%) Firewall
6 2 (0.86%) DHCP
6 2 (0.86%) DNS
6 2 (0.86%) Intranet
6 2 (0.86%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.43%) Internet
7 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.31%) Relational Database
2 7 (3.02%) Power BI
3 5 (2.16%) SAP HANA
4 4 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.72%) Tableau
5 2 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.86%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.43%) GIS
6 1 (0.43%) Looker
6 1 (0.43%) Metadata
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (11.21%) JIRA
2 5 (2.16%) Git
3 4 (1.72%) Rational Rhapsody
4 3 (1.29%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.86%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.86%) Subversion
6 1 (0.43%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.43%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.43%) Storybook
6 1 (0.43%) Xcode
General
1 89 (38.36%) Social Skills
2 49 (21.12%) Finance
3 32 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.90%) Banking
5 16 (6.90%) Telecoms
6 15 (6.47%) Retail
7 14 (6.03%) Marketing
8 13 (5.60%) Legal
9 11 (4.74%) Automotive
10 10 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (3.88%) Manufacturing
11 9 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (3.02%) Military
14 6 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (1.72%) Arabic Language
15 4 (1.72%) Local Government
15 4 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (24.57%) Product Manager
2 37 (15.95%) Product Owner
3 31 (13.36%) Architect
4 19 (8.19%) Analyst
5 18 (7.76%) Lead
6 17 (7.33%) Senior
7 15 (6.47%) Developer
8 12 (5.17%) Business Analyst
9 11 (4.74%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.45%) Senior Manager
10 8 (3.45%) ServiceNow Developer
11 7 (3.02%) Senior Product Manager
12 6 (2.59%) Project Manager
12 6 (2.59%) Security Architect
12 6 (2.59%) Technical Architect
13 5 (2.16%) Delivery Manager
13 5 (2.16%) Technical Manager
13 5 (2.16%) Technical Product Manager
14 4 (1.72%) Product Analyst
14 4 (1.72%) Solutions Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.31%) CSS
1 10 (4.31%) HTML
2 9 (3.88%) AngularJS
2 9 (3.88%) Bootstrap
2 9 (3.88%) CSS3
2 9 (3.88%) LDAP
2 9 (3.88%) Web Services
3 8 (3.45%) REST
4 7 (3.02%) JSON
5 6 (2.59%) SOAP
6 4 (1.72%) React
7 3 (1.29%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.29%) HTML5
8 2 (0.86%) Node.js
8 2 (0.86%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.86%) Swagger
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.43%) React Native
9 1 (0.43%) Redux
9 1 (0.43%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 80 (34.48%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.88%) Video Conferencing
3 8 (3.45%) Blackberry
3 8 (3.45%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 7 (3.02%) Industry 4.0
5 6 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.16%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.16%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.16%) Reference Data
6 5 (2.16%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.72%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.72%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.72%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.29%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.29%) Linux
1 3 (1.29%) Windows
2 2 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (0.86%) Solaris
2 2 (0.86%) Unix
2 2 (0.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.43%) Android
3 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 136 (58.62%) Agile
3 55 (23.71%) Product Management
4 54 (23.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 45 (19.40%) Scrum
6 44 (18.97%) Product Strategy
7 43 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (18.10%) Project Management
9 40 (17.24%) Product Backlog
10 39 (16.81%) Product Vision
11 37 (15.95%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 36 (15.52%) Decision-Making
12 36 (15.52%) User Stories
13 34 (14.66%) User Experience
14 31 (13.36%) Analytics
15 25 (10.78%) Backlog Management
16 24 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
16 24 (10.34%) DevOps
17 21 (9.05%) Migration
18 18 (7.76%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 15 (6.47%) JavaScript
2 7 (3.02%) Python
2 7 (3.02%) SQL
3 6 (2.59%) Java
4 5 (2.16%) TypeScript
5 2 (0.86%) Bash
5 2 (0.86%) Perl
5 2 (0.86%) PHP
6 1 (0.43%) Go
6 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.43%) Scala
6 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (15.52%) Degree
2 34 (14.66%) Security Cleared
3 25 (10.78%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.03%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.74%) Master's Degree
6 10 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (3.45%) CCNP
8 8 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.72%) SAP Certification
11 3 (1.29%) MBA
12 2 (0.86%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.86%) CSPO
12 2 (0.86%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.43%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.90%) QA
2 11 (4.74%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.72%) GDPR
4 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.43%) NIST
4 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (7.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (6.03%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.86%) vSphere
6 1 (0.43%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.43%) Docker
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.43%) XenApp
6 1 (0.43%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (3.88%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (3.45%) MOM
3 4 (1.72%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.86%) Ansible
4 2 (0.86%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (0.86%) SELinux
4 2 (0.86%) Terraform
5 1 (0.43%) Grafana
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.43%) SCCM
5 1 (0.43%) VxRail
5 1 (0.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.62%) SAP
3 17 (7.33%) VMware
4 15 (6.47%) ServiceNow
5 13 (5.60%) Cisco
6 10 (4.31%) Nokia
7 9 (3.88%) Oracle
8 8 (3.45%) Avaya
8 8 (3.45%) Ericsson
8 8 (3.45%) F5
8 8 (3.45%) Juniper
8 8 (3.45%) Palo Alto
8 8 (3.45%) Ribbon
9 7 (3.02%) Rockwell
9 7 (3.02%) Siemens
10 6 (2.59%) Google
10 6 (2.59%) Salesforce
11 5 (2.16%) BiZZdesign
11 5 (2.16%) Databricks
12 4 (1.72%) Broadcom