Roadmaps Contracts

Roadmaps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Roadmaps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Roadmaps over the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 43 47
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 1,480 1,942 3,468
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.67% 4.46% 5.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.25% 5.10% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 891 1,347 2,375
10th Percentile £425 £413 £419
25th Percentile £500 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £723 £700 £700
90th Percentile £825 £775 £794
UK excluding London median daily rate £566 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -1.57% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 51 56
10th Percentile £36.20 £41.10 -
25th Percentile £45.00 £46.18 £16.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £50.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -11.76%
75th Percentile £64.50 £65.38 £69.06
90th Percentile £80.16 £72.90 £79.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.75 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year +22.88% +2.62% -35.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Roadmaps 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 28,184 38,060 61,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.93% 87.41% 89.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,128 25,092 42,543
10th Percentile £306 £300 £330
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 892 1,860 1,706
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.00 £11.80
25th Percentile £20.94 £17.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £37.18 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.59% +16.19% +44.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.62 £39.78 £26.00
% change year-on-year -23.03% +52.98% +40.54%

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 23 January 2025.

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 23 January 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Top 17 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 23 January 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 0 1,275 £605 +0.83% 780
London +3 700 £650 +8.33% 487
UK excluding London -3 615 £566 -1.57% 337
Work from Home +2 549 £611 +3.03% 607
North of England +5 178 £550 -7.56% 91
South East +5 157 £575 +3.60% 82
North West +4 117 £550 -7.23% 55
Scotland -12 81 £494 -5.90% 23
South West -20 73 £575 -4.17% 54
Midlands -13 68 £550 -12.00% 59
West Midlands -7 52 £575 -14.81% 30
Yorkshire +3 50 £600 -1.59% 23
East of England +13 48 £575 - 30
Wales +12 19 £625 -3.85% 10
North East +1 16 £650 -9.72% 14
East Midlands -2 15 £500 -23.08% 30
Northern Ireland -3 5 £653 +12.02% 2

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 58 (3.92%) Confluence
2 38 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.61%) WebSphere
5 8 (0.54%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.54%) CMS
6 6 (0.41%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.27%) Appian
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 3 (0.20%) Mendix
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.14%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.14%) Smallworld
11 1 (0.068%) Drupal
11 1 (0.068%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.068%) OpenROAD
11 1 (0.068%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.47%) Trello
5 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.14%) Revit
7 2 (0.14%) Sketch
8 1 (0.068%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.068%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.068%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.068%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 31 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.35%) Aladdin
3 17 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.61%) Shopify
5 6 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.41%) SAP MDG
5 6 (0.41%) Workday HCM
6 5 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.27%) SAP MDG-S
8 3 (0.20%) Maximo
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.20%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.20%) SAP SRM
8 3 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
9 2 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.14%) Workfront
10 1 (0.068%) Actimize
10 1 (0.068%) IBM Planning Analytics
10 1 (0.068%) iTrent
10 1 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 246 (16.62%) Azure
2 179 (12.09%) AWS
3 71 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (4.39%) Power Platform
5 62 (4.19%) SaaS
6 60 (4.05%) GCP
7 47 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
8 45 (3.04%) PaaS
8 45 (3.04%) Serverless
9 35 (2.36%) Entra ID
10 33 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (1.62%) Power Automate
13 22 (1.49%) IaaS
14 21 (1.42%) SuccessFactors
15 19 (1.28%) Amazon S3
16 18 (1.22%) OpenShift
17 17 (1.15%) GitHub
17 17 (1.15%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.97%) Firewall
2 40 (2.70%) Network Security
3 21 (1.42%) SD-WAN
3 21 (1.42%) WAN
4 20 (1.35%) VoIP
5 19 (1.28%) SSL
6 17 (1.15%) DNS
6 17 (1.15%) LAN
7 11 (0.74%) Internet
7 11 (0.74%) NGFW
8 10 (0.68%) 5G
8 10 (0.68%) DHCP
8 10 (0.68%) Intranet
8 10 (0.68%) Kerberos
8 10 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
8 10 (0.68%) Unified Communications
9 9 (0.61%) PBX
10 8 (0.54%) CTI
10 8 (0.54%) HTTP
10 8 (0.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (6.01%) Data Lake
2 38 (2.57%) Power BI
3 28 (1.89%) NoSQL
3 28 (1.89%) SQL Server
4 23 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
5 22 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (1.15%) Big Data
7 13 (0.88%) DB2
8 12 (0.81%) GIS
8 12 (0.81%) MongoDB
9 10 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (0.68%) Relational Database
10 9 (0.61%) Metadata
11 8 (0.54%) Tableau
12 7 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (0.47%) SAP HANA
13 6 (0.41%) Data Mining
13 6 (0.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 94 (6.35%) JIRA
2 54 (3.65%) Jenkins
3 35 (2.36%) Git
4 18 (1.22%) Artifactory
4 18 (1.22%) Bitbucket
5 15 (1.01%) GitLab
6 13 (0.88%) TeamCity
7 8 (0.54%) Cypress.io
7 8 (0.54%) ERwin
7 8 (0.54%) Rational Rhapsody
7 8 (0.54%) Selenium
8 7 (0.47%) InstallShield
8 7 (0.47%) LoadRunner
8 7 (0.47%) MSI
9 6 (0.41%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
11 4 (0.27%) JMeter
11 4 (0.27%) Maven
11 4 (0.27%) Mercurial
General
1 404 (27.30%) Social Skills
2 376 (25.41%) Finance
3 176 (11.89%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (9.19%) Front Office
5 126 (8.51%) Public Sector
6 105 (7.09%) Banking
7 69 (4.66%) Retail
8 66 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
9 54 (3.65%) Marketing
10 42 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
11 40 (2.70%) Investment Banking
12 37 (2.50%) Legal
13 36 (2.43%) Telecoms
14 32 (2.16%) Military
15 27 (1.82%) Billing
16 26 (1.76%) Manufacturing
17 25 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 19 (1.28%) Automotive
18 19 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
19 15 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 361 (24.39%) Architect
2 216 (14.59%) Lead
3 140 (9.46%) Senior
4 131 (8.85%) Solutions Architect
5 130 (8.78%) Analyst
6 125 (8.45%) Product Manager
7 103 (6.96%) Consultant
8 102 (6.89%) Product Owner
9 90 (6.08%) Business Analyst
10 58 (3.92%) Developer
11 49 (3.31%) Technical Architect
12 42 (2.84%) Business Manager
13 34 (2.30%) Head of Finance
14 33 (2.23%) Data Architect
14 33 (2.23%) Project Manager
14 33 (2.23%) Security Architect
15 32 (2.16%) Product Analyst
16 31 (2.09%) Enterprise Architect
16 31 (2.09%) Programme Manager
17 27 (1.82%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (2.30%) HTML
2 30 (2.03%) .NET
2 30 (2.03%) CSS
3 29 (1.96%) React
4 23 (1.55%) Node.js
5 21 (1.42%) REST
6 20 (1.35%) Web Services
7 18 (1.22%) SAML
7 18 (1.22%) Spring
8 17 (1.15%) SOAP
9 15 (1.01%) AWS CDK
9 15 (1.01%) JSON
9 15 (1.01%) Kafka
10 14 (0.95%) Spring Boot
11 13 (0.88%) Middleware
12 12 (0.81%) XML
13 10 (0.68%) AngularJS
13 10 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
14 9 (0.61%) ADO
14 9 (0.61%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 274 (18.51%) Product Ownership
2 132 (8.92%) Fixed Income
2 132 (8.92%) Hedge funds
3 128 (8.65%) Derivative
3 128 (8.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 127 (8.58%) Equities
5 51 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 41 (2.77%) Data Centre
7 39 (2.64%) Public Cloud
8 27 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (1.49%) Cloud Native
9 22 (1.49%) Onboarding
10 21 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
10 21 (1.42%) Mobile App
11 18 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
12 17 (1.15%) CMDB
12 17 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.08%) Virtual Team
14 15 (1.01%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.01%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 73 (4.93%) Windows
2 60 (4.05%) Linux
3 35 (2.36%) Apple iOS
4 31 (2.09%) Unix
5 24 (1.62%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.81%) Android
8 11 (0.74%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.20%) zOS
10 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.068%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (36.76%) Agile
2 269 (18.18%) Product Roadmap
3 260 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
4 229 (15.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 217 (14.66%) Migration
6 208 (14.05%) DevOps
7 196 (13.24%) Strategic Roadmap
8 174 (11.76%) Analytics
9 156 (10.54%) Project Management
10 149 (10.07%) Data Governance
11 134 (9.05%) Technology Roadmap
12 133 (8.99%) Investment Management
13 120 (8.11%) Scrum
14 119 (8.04%) Artificial Intelligence
14 119 (8.04%) Decision-Making
15 112 (7.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 112 (7.57%) Data Management
16 105 (7.09%) Cybersecurity
16 105 (7.09%) Product Management
17 100 (6.76%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 125 (8.45%) Python
2 119 (8.04%) SQL
3 76 (5.14%) Java
4 64 (4.32%) JavaScript
5 33 (2.23%) TypeScript
6 30 (2.03%) PowerShell
7 24 (1.62%) C#
8 19 (1.28%) Shell Script
9 18 (1.22%) Bash
10 15 (1.01%) Ruby
11 11 (0.74%) Perl
12 10 (0.68%) C++
13 8 (0.54%) C
13 8 (0.54%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.54%) R
14 6 (0.41%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.34%) Go
15 5 (0.34%) RPG
15 5 (0.34%) RPG IV
16 4 (0.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 220 (14.86%) Security Cleared
2 187 (12.64%) Degree
3 182 (12.30%) SC Cleared
4 49 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.70%) Master's Degree
6 33 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 33 (2.23%) DV Cleared
7 26 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (1.49%) CISSP
9 21 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
10 20 (1.35%) PMI Certification
11 18 (1.22%) Azure Certification
12 17 (1.15%) PMP
13 16 (1.08%) CCNP
13 16 (1.08%) CISM
14 14 (0.95%) AWS Certification
15 12 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 10 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.68%) Postgraduate
17 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (4.05%) QA
2 37 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 34 (2.30%) NIST
4 26 (1.76%) Data Quality
5 25 (1.69%) GDPR
5 25 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.62%) MiFID
7 16 (1.08%) PMO
8 15 (1.01%) GRC
9 12 (0.81%) COBIT
9 12 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.61%) SLA
12 8 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
12 8 (0.54%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.20%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.14%) HIPAA
16 1 (0.068%) GxP
System Software
1 60 (4.05%) Active Directory
2 47 (3.18%) Docker
3 44 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.61%) RACF
7 7 (0.47%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.27%) SRDF
10 2 (0.14%) Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.068%) Microcode
11 1 (0.068%) vSphere
11 1 (0.068%) XenApp
11 1 (0.068%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 67 (4.53%) Terraform
2 57 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 49 (3.31%) Ansible
4 27 (1.82%) Grafana
5 19 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (1.01%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (0.81%) Kibana
9 11 (0.74%) Puppet
10 10 (0.68%) Packer
11 9 (0.61%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.54%) MOM
13 6 (0.41%) SCCM
14 5 (0.34%) Rancher
14 5 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (0.20%) Matomo
16 2 (0.14%) FortiGate
16 2 (0.14%) systemd
17 1 (0.068%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 193 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 91 (6.15%) SAP
3 72 (4.86%) Oracle
4 66 (4.46%) ServiceNow
5 64 (4.32%) VMware
6 50 (3.38%) Salesforce
7 45 (3.04%) Cisco
8 36 (2.43%) Google
9 25 (1.69%) IBM
10 24 (1.62%) Bloomberg
10 24 (1.62%) Juniper
11 22 (1.49%) Palo Alto
12 20 (1.35%) Adobe
13 19 (1.28%) BISAM
13 19 (1.28%) Genesys
14 18 (1.22%) Splunk
15 17 (1.15%) Databricks
15 17 (1.15%) Red Hat
16 16 (1.08%) F5
17 13 (0.88%) Fortinet