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 9 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 314 342
Rank change year-on-year +20 +28 -18
Contract jobs citing Product Roadmap 274 279 364
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 0.72% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.84% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 184 282
10th Percentile £341 £400 £418
25th Percentile £409 £492 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £636
90th Percentile £681 £760 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 3
10th Percentile £46.93 - £36.79
25th Percentile £50.63 £51.25 £37.17
Median hourly rate £61.75 £52.50 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +17.62% +29.34% -6.41%
75th Percentile £70.16 £53.75 £44.78
90th Percentile £70.86 - £45.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.16 £52.50 £43.39
% change year-on-year +33.64% +21.01% -

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 30,016 33,233 47,065
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.45% 85.53% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,756 21,319 32,264
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £547
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.07% -0.50%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,695 1,839 1,534
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.25 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% -3.67% +60.38%
75th Percentile £48.44 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.63 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £42.27 £37.50
% change year-on-year -46.47% +12.73% +72.18%

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 9 August 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 9 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Roadmap in the UK

Product Roadmap
Top 16 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 9 August 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 +3 236 £500 -13.79% 728
London +11 126 £500 -16.67% 503
UK excluding London -21 112 £490 -10.91% 258
Work from Home +24 89 £497 -9.64% 321
North of England -39 29 £450 -26.83% 89
South West +41 28 £510 -2.86% 23
South East +6 21 £522 -0.57% 65
Midlands -6 19 £441 -19.77% 34
North West -38 16 £440 -29.79% 56
West Midlands -9 11 £640 +16.36% 24
Scotland -7 10 £487 -1.42% 14
East Midlands 0 8 £402 +10.97% 10
Yorkshire -9 8 £525 - 26
North East +1 5 £625 -7.75% 7
Wales - 3 - - 5
East of England - 3 £519 - 24

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 27 (9.85%) Confluence
2 9 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.92%) CMS
4 5 (1.82%) WordPress
5 3 (1.09%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.73%) Drupal
6 2 (0.73%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.36%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (2.55%) Trello
2 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.09%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.36%) InVision
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.36%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.46%) CA PPM
3 2 (0.73%) Primavera
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 26 (9.49%) Azure
2 25 (9.12%) AWS
3 18 (6.57%) SaaS
4 15 (5.47%) Miro
5 14 (5.11%) GCP
6 12 (4.38%) PaaS
7 10 (3.65%) Power Platform
8 8 (2.92%) dbt
8 8 (2.92%) Vertex AI
9 7 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.19%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.19%) Figma
11 5 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.82%) Serverless
12 4 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.09%) IaaS
14 2 (0.73%) Amazon SQS
14 2 (0.73%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.28%) VoIP
2 8 (2.92%) PBX
3 4 (1.46%) DHCP
3 4 (1.46%) DNS
3 4 (1.46%) Firewall
3 4 (1.46%) Network Security
4 3 (1.09%) Broadband
4 3 (1.09%) POP3
4 3 (1.09%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.09%) SMTP
5 2 (0.73%) Internet
6 1 (0.36%) 802.11
6 1 (0.36%) DECT
6 1 (0.36%) HTTP
6 1 (0.36%) LAN
6 1 (0.36%) WAN
6 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.36%) Wireless
6 1 (0.36%) Wireless Security
6 1 (0.36%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.28%) BigQuery
2 7 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.82%) Power BI
5 4 (1.46%) GIS
6 3 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.09%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.73%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.73%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.73%) Tableau
8 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.36%) KDB
8 1 (0.36%) Looker
8 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.36%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 35 (12.77%) JIRA
2 8 (2.92%) MLflow
3 3 (1.09%) Git
4 2 (0.73%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.73%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.73%) Subversion
5 1 (0.36%) Storybook
5 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 109 (39.78%) Social Skills
2 50 (18.25%) Finance
3 46 (16.79%) Public Sector
4 38 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.39%) Marketing
6 19 (6.93%) Banking
7 17 (6.20%) Retail
8 16 (5.84%) Telecoms
9 11 (4.01%) Legal
10 10 (3.65%) Advertising
10 10 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (3.65%) Military
10 10 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.46%) Arabic Language
12 4 (1.46%) Czech Language
12 4 (1.46%) Local Government
12 4 (1.46%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 71 (25.91%) Product Manager
2 63 (22.99%) Product Owner
3 29 (10.58%) Architect
4 22 (8.03%) Analyst
5 20 (7.30%) Senior
6 17 (6.20%) Business Analyst
7 12 (4.38%) Developer
7 12 (4.38%) Lead
8 10 (3.65%) Senior Manager
9 9 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.92%) Delivery Manager
10 8 (2.92%) Senior Product Manager
11 7 (2.55%) Security Architect
11 7 (2.55%) Technical Architect
12 6 (2.19%) Senior Architect
12 6 (2.19%) Technical Manager
12 6 (2.19%) Technical Product Manager
13 5 (1.82%) Digital Product Manager
13 5 (1.82%) Project Manager
13 5 (1.82%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.82%) AWS CDK
1 5 (1.82%) CSS
1 5 (1.82%) HTML
2 4 (1.46%) REST
2 4 (1.46%) Web Services
3 3 (1.09%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.09%) Bootstrap
3 3 (1.09%) CSS3
3 3 (1.09%) Flash
3 3 (1.09%) LDAP
3 3 (1.09%) React
4 2 (0.73%) .NET
4 2 (0.73%) EDI
4 2 (0.73%) Kafka
4 2 (0.73%) Node.js
4 2 (0.73%) PostGIS
4 2 (0.73%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.73%) Spring
4 2 (0.73%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.73%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 103 (37.59%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.74%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.01%) Digital Media
4 10 (3.65%) Marketing Technology
5 8 (2.92%) Blackberry
5 8 (2.92%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.82%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.82%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.46%) FMCG
9 4 (1.46%) NHS
10 3 (1.09%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.09%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.09%) PKI
10 3 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.46%) Windows
2 3 (1.09%) Linux
2 3 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.73%) Solaris
3 2 (0.73%) Unix
4 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (99.64%) Roadmaps
2 177 (64.60%) Agile
3 87 (31.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 79 (28.83%) Product Management
5 68 (24.82%) User Stories
6 57 (20.80%) Product Vision
7 55 (20.07%) Product Backlog
7 55 (20.07%) Product Strategy
8 50 (18.25%) Scrum
9 43 (15.69%) User Experience
10 42 (15.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 42 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (14.96%) Backlog Management
12 39 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (12.77%) Analytics
14 31 (11.31%) Project Management
15 29 (10.58%) Kanban
16 28 (10.22%) Service Design
17 27 (9.85%) Decision-Making
18 23 (8.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (3.65%) Python
2 9 (3.28%) JavaScript
3 8 (2.92%) Java
4 6 (2.19%) SQL
5 5 (1.82%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.73%) Bash
6 2 (0.73%) Perl
6 2 (0.73%) PHP
7 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.36%) Go
7 1 (0.36%) Korn
7 1 (0.36%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.36%) Ruby
7 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 44 (16.06%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.31%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.39%) Degree
4 14 (5.11%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.92%) CCNP
6 8 (2.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.55%) CSPO
8 5 (1.82%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.73%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.36%) CCIE
11 1 (0.36%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.36%) MBA
11 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.36%) PMP
11 1 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.11%) Accessibility
1 14 (5.11%) GDPR
2 10 (3.65%) QA
3 6 (2.19%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.46%) FIPS 140-2
4 4 (1.46%) GRC
5 3 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.09%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.73%) PMO
7 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.36%) HL7
7 1 (0.36%) NIST
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.73%) vSphere
5 1 (0.36%) Docker
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (2.92%) Kubeflow
2 3 (1.09%) Ansible
2 3 (1.09%) Grafana
2 3 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (0.73%) SELinux
4 1 (0.36%) SCCM
4 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (13.50%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.11%) VMware
3 10 (3.65%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.28%) Cisco
5 8 (2.92%) Avaya
5 8 (2.92%) Ericsson
5 8 (2.92%) F5
5 8 (2.92%) Juniper
5 8 (2.92%) Nokia
5 8 (2.92%) Palo Alto
5 8 (2.92%) Ribbon
5 8 (2.92%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.19%) SAP
7 4 (1.46%) Broadcom
7 4 (1.46%) Databricks
7 4 (1.46%) Google
7 4 (1.46%) Oracle
8 3 (1.09%) Adobe
9 2 (0.73%) Apple
9 2 (0.73%) Red Hat