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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 39 46 52
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 +2
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 2,136 3,939 4,373
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.76% 5.13% 4.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.38% 5.69% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,504 2,681 3,035
10th Percentile £422 £413 £405
25th Percentile £500 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £550 £533
% change year-on-year +6.82% +3.29% +5.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 55 26
10th Percentile £41.30 - £24.68
25th Percentile - £16.25 £38.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £37.50 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -29.58% +56.04%
75th Percentile £58.37 £69.38 £68.49
90th Percentile £72.00 £79.48 £75.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £37.50 £69.48
% change year-on-year +23.15% -46.03% +189.50%

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 39,726 69,214 81,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.51% 90.15% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,590 47,923 56,854
10th Percentile £310 £338 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +5.26% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £623
90th Percentile £745 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,525 1,676 1,999
10th Percentile £14.45 £13.41 £11.99
25th Percentile £18.95 £17.56 £13.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +62.79% -17.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.73 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.90 £32.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year +35.08% +80.56% -20.00%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 +6 1,814 £600 - 1,744
London +8 969 £613 -2.00% 799
UK excluding London +2 947 £588 +6.82% 1,036
Work from Home +8 809 £600 - 950
North of England +11 240 £600 +9.09% 283
South East 0 233 £589 +7.09% 274
South West +19 160 £590 -4.69% 96
Scotland 0 156 £550 +4.76% 59
North West +15 154 £650 +18.18% 158
Midlands +4 105 £665 +23.15% 185
Yorkshire +7 93 £610 +10.86% 88
East of England +15 73 £575 -4.17% 125
West Midlands +9 72 £675 +22.73% 129
East Midlands +4 39 £683 +43.68% 56
Wales 0 14 £650 +33.33% 26
North East +37 13 £720 +25.22% 38
Northern Ireland - 5 £525 - 7
Isle of Man - 4 £475 -

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 90 (4.21%) Confluence
2 59 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.26%) CMS
4 18 (0.84%) Apache
5 16 (0.75%) Tomcat
6 13 (0.61%) MS Exchange
6 13 (0.61%) WebLogic
7 12 (0.56%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.51%) IIS
9 10 (0.47%) nginx
10 8 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
11 7 (0.33%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.28%) JBoss
12 6 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 5 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
13 5 (0.23%) IBM Domino
14 4 (0.19%) IBM Notes
14 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 57 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 46 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (1.50%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.61%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
7 6 (0.28%) Trello
8 2 (0.094%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.047%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.047%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.047%) Blender
9 1 (0.047%) Houdini
9 1 (0.047%) InVision
9 1 (0.047%) Maya
9 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.047%) Simulink
9 1 (0.047%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 39 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.42%) SAP CO
3 9 (0.42%) SAP FI
3 9 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
3 9 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.33%) Workfront
5 6 (0.28%) Oracle CRM
5 6 (0.28%) SAP HCM
5 6 (0.28%) Teamcenter
6 5 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
6 5 (0.23%) SAP HR
6 5 (0.23%) SAP MM
7 4 (0.19%) Magento
7 4 (0.19%) Primavera
7 4 (0.19%) ResourceLink
7 4 (0.19%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.19%) SAP Payroll
7 4 (0.19%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 372 (17.42%) Azure
2 280 (13.11%) AWS
3 99 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
4 98 (4.59%) GCP
5 97 (4.54%) SaaS
6 82 (3.84%) Power Platform
7 67 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
8 65 (3.04%) PaaS
9 57 (2.67%) Serverless
10 52 (2.43%) Entra ID
11 50 (2.34%) IaaS
12 44 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
13 32 (1.50%) SuccessFactors
14 24 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
15 20 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (0.94%) Amazon S3
15 20 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
16 16 (0.75%) GitHub
17 14 (0.66%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 80 (3.75%) Firewall
2 49 (2.29%) WAN
3 43 (2.01%) VPN
4 41 (1.92%) LAN
5 35 (1.64%) Network Security
6 32 (1.50%) DNS
7 29 (1.36%) HTTP
8 27 (1.26%) TCP/IP
9 26 (1.22%) Cisco ASA
9 26 (1.22%) MPLS
10 25 (1.17%) BGP
11 24 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
12 22 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
13 19 (0.89%) SAN
14 18 (0.84%) Broadband
14 18 (0.84%) OSPF
15 15 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 15 (0.70%) SSL
15 15 (0.70%) Wireless
16 14 (0.66%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (2.76%) Power BI
2 47 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (2.15%) SQL Server
4 44 (2.06%) Metadata
5 40 (1.87%) Big Data
6 35 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (1.31%) Tableau
8 18 (0.84%) Oracle Database
9 16 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (0.75%) Data Lake
10 15 (0.70%) NoSQL
11 13 (0.61%) SAP BW
11 13 (0.61%) SAP HANA
12 12 (0.56%) BigQuery
12 12 (0.56%) MongoDB
13 11 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (0.51%) MariaDB
13 11 (0.51%) Relational Database
14 10 (0.47%) DB2
15 9 (0.42%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 159 (7.44%) JIRA
2 50 (2.34%) Git
3 46 (2.15%) Jenkins
4 19 (0.89%) Cypress.io
5 15 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (0.47%) Selenium
7 8 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 8 (0.37%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.33%) XCUITest
9 6 (0.28%) git-flow
9 6 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
9 6 (0.28%) Robot Framework
10 5 (0.23%) HP UFT
10 5 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.23%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.19%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.19%) webpack
12 3 (0.14%) Rational Rhapsody
12 3 (0.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 556 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 485 (22.71%) Finance
3 303 (14.19%) Public Sector
4 246 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
5 134 (6.27%) Banking
6 100 (4.68%) Marketing
7 75 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
7 75 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
8 70 (3.28%) Retail
9 66 (3.09%) Telecoms
10 62 (2.90%) Legal
11 59 (2.76%) Manufacturing
12 58 (2.72%) Front Office
13 43 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
14 36 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 30 (1.40%) Electronics
16 26 (1.22%) Law
17 21 (0.98%) Digital Economy
17 21 (0.98%) Publishing
18 18 (0.84%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 608 (28.46%) Architect
2 223 (10.44%) Lead
3 217 (10.16%) Senior
4 209 (9.78%) Solutions Architect
5 153 (7.16%) Analyst
6 119 (5.57%) Developer
7 117 (5.48%) Consultant
8 106 (4.96%) Product Manager
9 103 (4.82%) Business Analyst
9 103 (4.82%) Product Owner
10 89 (4.17%) Project Manager
11 86 (4.03%) Enterprise Architect
12 73 (3.42%) Data Architect
13 70 (3.28%) Technical Architect
14 56 (2.62%) Delivery Manager
15 52 (2.43%) Senior Manager
16 44 (2.06%) Security Architect
17 41 (1.92%) Senior Architect
18 40 (1.87%) Technical Manager
19 35 (1.64%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (3.32%) REST
2 54 (2.53%) HTML
3 46 (2.15%) .NET
4 43 (2.01%) Middleware
5 42 (1.97%) React
5 42 (1.97%) XML
6 40 (1.87%) CSS
7 31 (1.45%) AngularJS
8 29 (1.36%) SOAP
8 29 (1.36%) Web Services
9 25 (1.17%) OAuth
10 24 (1.12%) Spring
11 22 (1.03%) Velocity
12 20 (0.94%) RESTful
12 20 (0.94%) SAML
13 19 (0.89%) Node.js
13 19 (0.89%) Spring Boot
14 18 (0.84%) JSON
14 18 (0.84%) LDAP
14 18 (0.84%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 263 (12.31%) Product Ownership
2 86 (4.03%) Management Information System
3 66 (3.09%) Data Centre
4 64 (3.00%) Onboarding
5 57 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 45 (2.11%) Public Cloud
7 36 (1.69%) CMDB
8 33 (1.54%) Fixed Income
8 33 (1.54%) Mobile App
9 32 (1.50%) Security Posture
10 31 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
11 28 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
12 27 (1.26%) Cloud Native
13 24 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
14 22 (1.03%) Replication
15 21 (0.98%) Virtual Team
16 20 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 19 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
17 19 (0.89%) Derivative
17 19 (0.89%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 114 (5.34%) Linux
2 112 (5.24%) Windows
3 46 (2.15%) Windows Server
4 34 (1.59%) Unix
5 29 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 20 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
8 18 (0.84%) Windows 10
9 17 (0.80%) Ubuntu
9 17 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
10 16 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
11 13 (0.61%) Solaris
12 11 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (0.37%) Android
13 8 (0.37%) SUSE
14 5 (0.23%) AIX
14 5 (0.23%) VMS
14 5 (0.23%) Windows 7
15 4 (0.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 722 (33.80%) Agile
2 286 (13.39%) DevOps
3 283 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 272 (12.73%) Product Roadmap
5 266 (12.45%) Strategic Roadmap
6 236 (11.05%) Project Management
7 234 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
8 216 (10.11%) Technology Roadmap
9 212 (9.93%) Analytics
10 187 (8.75%) Migration
11 171 (8.01%) ITIL
12 169 (7.91%) Scrum
13 166 (7.77%) Business Strategy
14 165 (7.72%) Cybersecurity
15 155 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
16 147 (6.88%) Risk Management
17 141 (6.60%) Business Case
17 141 (6.60%) Project Delivery
18 136 (6.37%) User Experience
19 133 (6.23%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 166 (7.77%) Python
2 155 (7.26%) SQL
3 97 (4.54%) Java
4 76 (3.56%) JavaScript
5 63 (2.95%) PowerShell
6 44 (2.06%) C#
7 42 (1.97%) TypeScript
8 20 (0.94%) Perl
9 19 (0.89%) Bash
10 11 (0.51%) C++
10 11 (0.51%) Ruby
11 8 (0.37%) ABAP
11 8 (0.37%) C
11 8 (0.37%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.33%) PHP
12 7 (0.33%) R
12 7 (0.33%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.33%) Swift
13 5 (0.23%) Gremlin
13 5 (0.23%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 329 (15.40%) Security Cleared
2 242 (11.33%) SC Cleared
3 215 (10.07%) Degree
4 69 (3.23%) DV Cleared
5 48 (2.25%) CISSP
6 30 (1.40%) Azure Certification
7 29 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
8 28 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
11 20 (0.94%) CISM
12 18 (0.84%) AWS Certification
13 17 (0.80%) CCNP
13 17 (0.80%) PMP
14 16 (0.75%) Chartered Engineer
14 16 (0.75%) PMI Certification
15 15 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
16 14 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
17 13 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
18 10 (0.47%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (3.65%) QA
2 52 (2.43%) Data Quality
3 51 (2.39%) PMO
4 38 (1.78%) Accessibility
5 35 (1.64%) NIST
6 33 (1.54%) GDPR
7 32 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (1.22%) SLA
9 21 (0.98%) NCSC
10 18 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
11 10 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 9 (0.42%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
13 8 (0.37%) ISO 22301
14 7 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.33%) HL7
15 6 (0.28%) GRC
15 6 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 6 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 4 (0.19%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 112 (5.24%) Active Directory
2 54 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (1.87%) Docker
4 24 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.51%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.37%) vSphere
9 7 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
9 7 (0.33%) XenApp
10 6 (0.28%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.19%) Gluster
11 4 (0.19%) GlusterFS
11 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.14%) NFS
13 2 (0.094%) Samba
13 2 (0.094%) Xen
14 1 (0.047%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.047%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 68 (3.18%) Ansible
2 66 (3.09%) Kubernetes
3 59 (2.76%) Terraform
4 43 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
5 25 (1.17%) SCCM
6 22 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 17 (0.80%) Grafana
8 12 (0.56%) ZABBIX
9 9 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (0.42%) Nagios
9 9 (0.42%) NetBackup
9 9 (0.42%) Puppet
10 8 (0.37%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
10 8 (0.37%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 8 (0.37%) VxRail
11 7 (0.33%) Data Guard
11 7 (0.33%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.33%) SCOM
12 6 (0.28%) vRealize
Vendors
1 314 (14.70%) Microsoft
2 162 (7.58%) SAP
3 118 (5.52%) ServiceNow
4 104 (4.87%) Oracle
5 90 (4.21%) VMware
6 73 (3.42%) Cisco
7 62 (2.90%) Salesforce
8 58 (2.72%) Google
9 50 (2.34%) Red Hat
10 33 (1.54%) IBM
11 32 (1.50%) Atlassian
12 29 (1.36%) F5
12 29 (1.36%) Palo Alto
13 28 (1.31%) HP
14 25 (1.17%) MuleSoft
15 23 (1.08%) Citrix
15 23 (1.08%) EMC
16 22 (1.03%) Dell
17 20 (0.94%) Juniper
18 19 (0.89%) Nokia