Roadmaps Contracts

Roadmaps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Roadmaps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Roadmaps over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 37 44
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +8
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 1,739 3,278 4,657
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.99% 5.47% 5.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 6.08% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 2,324 3,261
10th Percentile £408 £425 £414
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.13% +6.82%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £675
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £570 £564 £550
% change year-on-year +1.15% +2.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 53 41
10th Percentile £33.00 - £25.25
25th Percentile £38.55 £16.25 £33.00
Median hourly rate £56.89 £50.50 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.64% +16.09% +2.35%
75th Percentile £73.95 £70.00 £60.93
90th Percentile £88.45 £88.75 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.89 £48.75 £46.98
% change year-on-year +16.69% +3.78% +44.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Roadmaps 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 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

Roadmaps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Roadmaps over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Roadmaps over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Roadmaps within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 -10 1,449 £592 -1.29% 1,324
UK excluding London -8 784 £570 +1.15% 759
London -13 765 £600 -4.00% 592
Work from Home -6 616 £560 -6.67% 600
South East -19 186 £518 -10.00% 190
North of England -8 177 £570 +3.64% 207
Scotland -2 156 £506 -2.69% 59
South West +29 115 £538 -6.85% 81
North West -4 111 £575 +4.55% 123
Midlands -12 101 £675 +10.20% 131
West Midlands +4 89 £675 +3.85% 88
Yorkshire -15 60 £500 -9.09% 55
East of England -29 43 £625 -3.85% 85
North East +15 14 £720 +20.00% 31
East Midlands -28 9 £550 -15.38% 43
Wales -12 6 £650 +15.04% 15
Northern Ireland +7 3 £640 +16.36% 9
Isle of Man - 1 £475 - 3

Roadmaps
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 53 (3.05%) Confluence
2 32 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.27%) CMS
5 10 (0.58%) SAS
6 7 (0.40%) IIS
7 6 (0.35%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.29%) Apache
8 5 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.23%) Drupal
9 4 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.17%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.12%) WordPress
12 1 (0.058%) LiveLink
12 1 (0.058%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 44 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.86%) Chatbot
5 14 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.17%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.058%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.058%) Blender
9 1 (0.058%) Houdini
9 1 (0.058%) Maya
9 1 (0.058%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.058%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.75%) Aladdin
4 12 (0.69%) SAP FI
5 11 (0.63%) SAP CO
5 11 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
6 9 (0.52%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.46%) SAP SD
8 7 (0.40%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.35%) Shopify
10 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 4 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
11 4 (0.23%) SAP BPC
11 4 (0.23%) SAP MM
12 3 (0.17%) Fidessa
12 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
12 3 (0.17%) OpenText VIM for SAP
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
12 3 (0.17%) SAP HCM
12 3 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 252 (14.49%) Azure
2 201 (11.56%) AWS
3 72 (4.14%) SaaS
4 70 (4.03%) GCP
5 66 (3.80%) Power Platform
6 65 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
7 53 (3.05%) PaaS
8 38 (2.19%) IaaS
9 31 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
10 29 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (1.50%) Serverless
12 25 (1.44%) Entra ID
13 23 (1.32%) GitHub
14 22 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
15 21 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
16 19 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
17 18 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (1.04%) OpenShift
18 17 (0.98%) Amazon S3
19 15 (0.86%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 84 (4.83%) Firewall
2 42 (2.42%) VPN
3 36 (2.07%) Network Security
4 32 (1.84%) DNS
4 32 (1.84%) WAN
5 22 (1.27%) VoIP
6 21 (1.21%) 5G
6 21 (1.21%) LAN
7 19 (1.09%) BGP
7 19 (1.09%) MPLS
8 16 (0.92%) 4G
8 16 (0.92%) Intranet
9 15 (0.86%) Radio Access Network
9 15 (0.86%) TCP/IP
10 13 (0.75%) Cisco IOS
11 12 (0.69%) DHCP
12 11 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
12 11 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
12 11 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (2.93%) Power BI
2 32 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.32%) Metadata
5 22 (1.27%) Tableau
6 21 (1.21%) Big Data
6 21 (1.21%) NoSQL
7 17 (0.98%) MongoDB
8 15 (0.86%) SQL Server
9 14 (0.81%) Data Lake
9 14 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (0.63%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.46%) GIS
13 8 (0.46%) OLAP
13 8 (0.46%) OLTP
13 8 (0.46%) SAP BW
14 6 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.35%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 117 (6.73%) JIRA
2 38 (2.19%) Jenkins
3 35 (2.01%) Git
4 18 (1.04%) Rational DOORS
5 9 (0.52%) Artifactory
6 8 (0.46%) GitLab
7 7 (0.40%) Cypress.io
7 7 (0.40%) Selenium
7 7 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (0.35%) TeamCity
8 6 (0.35%) webpack
8 6 (0.35%) XCUITest
9 5 (0.29%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.29%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.29%) NeoLoad
9 5 (0.29%) Subversion
10 3 (0.17%) git-flow
10 3 (0.17%) Visual Website Optimizer
11 2 (0.12%) ERwin
11 2 (0.12%) kappa
General
1 455 (26.16%) Social Skills
2 365 (20.99%) Finance
3 245 (14.09%) Public Sector
4 207 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
5 108 (6.21%) Banking
6 96 (5.52%) Telecoms
7 77 (4.43%) Marketing
8 73 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
9 65 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
10 64 (3.68%) Retail
11 60 (3.45%) Legal
12 59 (3.39%) Manufacturing
13 32 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 30 (1.73%) Front Office
15 23 (1.32%) Law
16 22 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
17 21 (1.21%) Investment Banking
18 20 (1.15%) Electronics
19 18 (1.04%) Military
20 17 (0.98%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 481 (27.66%) Architect
2 187 (10.75%) Lead
3 180 (10.35%) Senior
4 164 (9.43%) Analyst
5 134 (7.71%) Solutions Architect
6 116 (6.67%) Consultant
7 113 (6.50%) Product Manager
8 92 (5.29%) Business Analyst
9 91 (5.23%) Product Owner
10 86 (4.95%) Enterprise Architect
11 79 (4.54%) Technical Architect
12 77 (4.43%) Developer
13 54 (3.11%) Project Manager
14 45 (2.59%) Data Architect
15 43 (2.47%) Lead Architect
16 41 (2.36%) Network Engineer
17 35 (2.01%) Delivery Manager
18 34 (1.96%) Technical Leader
19 33 (1.90%) Security Architect
19 33 (1.90%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.24%) REST
2 36 (2.07%) Node.js
3 34 (1.96%) HTML
4 32 (1.84%) React
5 31 (1.78%) .NET
6 28 (1.61%) CSS
7 23 (1.32%) JSON
8 22 (1.27%) Web Services
8 22 (1.27%) XML
9 19 (1.09%) SAML
10 17 (0.98%) RESTful
11 16 (0.92%) AngularJS
11 16 (0.92%) AWS CDK
12 15 (0.86%) OAuth
13 13 (0.75%) SOAP
13 13 (0.75%) Spring
14 12 (0.69%) NETCONF
14 12 (0.69%) YANG
15 11 (0.63%) Kafka
15 11 (0.63%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 224 (12.88%) Product Ownership
2 101 (5.81%) Management Information System
3 39 (2.24%) Public Cloud
4 36 (2.07%) Data Centre
5 34 (1.96%) Security Posture
5 34 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (1.84%) CMDB
7 29 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 28 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.61%) Mobile App
9 26 (1.50%) Fixed Income
10 25 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 22 (1.27%) Hedge funds
12 20 (1.15%) Derivative
13 19 (1.09%) Equities
13 19 (1.09%) Virtual Team
14 18 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.04%) Onboarding
14 18 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
15 16 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 77 (4.43%) Linux
2 69 (3.97%) Windows
3 41 (2.36%) Apple iOS
4 30 (1.73%) Windows Server
5 29 (1.67%) Android
6 24 (1.38%) Unix
7 18 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.40%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.29%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.17%) Solaris
14 2 (0.12%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.058%) CentOS
15 1 (0.058%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.058%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 568 (32.66%) Agile
2 276 (15.87%) Strategic Roadmap
3 239 (13.74%) Product Roadmap
4 215 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
5 202 (11.62%) Stakeholder Management
6 197 (11.33%) DevOps
7 193 (11.10%) Project Management
8 172 (9.89%) Analytics
9 168 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 161 (9.26%) Scrum
11 149 (8.57%) Decision-Making
11 149 (8.57%) IT Strategy
12 145 (8.34%) Business Strategy
13 141 (8.11%) Migration
14 132 (7.59%) Technology Roadmap
15 126 (7.25%) Cybersecurity
16 122 (7.02%) Enterprise Architecture
17 121 (6.96%) Product Management
18 115 (6.61%) User Experience
19 113 (6.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 125 (7.19%) Python
2 98 (5.64%) SQL
3 79 (4.54%) Java
4 55 (3.16%) JavaScript
5 39 (2.24%) PowerShell
6 33 (1.90%) TypeScript
7 26 (1.50%) Bash
8 25 (1.44%) C#
9 19 (1.09%) C++
10 12 (0.69%) Perl
11 10 (0.58%) VB.NET
12 9 (0.52%) PHP
12 9 (0.52%) VBA
13 7 (0.40%) Go
13 7 (0.40%) Ruby
13 7 (0.40%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.35%) C
14 6 (0.35%) Scala
14 6 (0.35%) Swift
15 5 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 283 (16.27%) Security Cleared
2 224 (12.88%) Degree
3 197 (11.33%) SC Cleared
4 75 (4.31%) DV Cleared
5 47 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (1.84%) Master's Degree
8 30 (1.73%) CISSP
9 25 (1.44%) PMP
10 24 (1.38%) CCNP
11 22 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
12 20 (1.15%) CISM
13 18 (1.04%) PMI Certification
14 17 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
15 16 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (0.81%) Azure Certification
17 11 (0.63%) HND
18 10 (0.58%) AWS Certification
18 10 (0.58%) CCNA
19 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (3.97%) QA
2 53 (3.05%) NIST
3 43 (2.47%) PMO
4 36 (2.07%) GDPR
5 35 (2.01%) Data Quality
6 34 (1.96%) Accessibility
7 25 (1.44%) SLA
8 20 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
8 20 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.81%) GRC
10 13 (0.75%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.58%) COBIT
12 6 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 5 (0.29%) ITGC
14 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.23%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 63 (3.62%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.78%) Docker
3 28 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.40%) vSphere
7 5 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.29%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.29%) XenApp
8 3 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (0.17%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.12%) Ceph
9 2 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.058%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (3.51%) Terraform
2 44 (2.53%) Ansible
3 41 (2.36%) Kubernetes
4 17 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (0.69%) Grafana
7 11 (0.63%) FortiGate
7 11 (0.63%) Red Hat Satellite
8 10 (0.58%) SCCM
9 8 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.29%) Puppet
11 4 (0.23%) Kibana
11 4 (0.23%) Opsgenie
11 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
11 4 (0.23%) WSUS
12 3 (0.17%) SolarWinds Orion
13 2 (0.12%) Argo
13 2 (0.12%) Pacemaker
13 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
13 2 (0.12%) vRealize
Vendors
1 237 (13.63%) Microsoft
2 117 (6.73%) SAP
3 84 (4.83%) ServiceNow
4 64 (3.68%) Google
5 56 (3.22%) Cisco
6 44 (2.53%) VMware
7 36 (2.07%) Nokia
8 34 (1.96%) Oracle
9 31 (1.78%) Salesforce
10 26 (1.50%) IBM
11 23 (1.32%) Atlassian
11 23 (1.32%) Red Hat
12 22 (1.27%) Juniper
13 20 (1.15%) F5
13 20 (1.15%) Palo Alto
14 17 (0.98%) Adobe
14 17 (0.98%) Workday
15 16 (0.92%) Splunk
16 15 (0.86%) Databricks
17 14 (0.81%) Bloomberg