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 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 38 47 36
Rank change year-on-year +9 -11 +8
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 1,489 1,734 3,280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.09% 3.98% 5.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.61% 4.61% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 952 1,135 2,331
10th Percentile £413 £408 £425
25th Percentile £500 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +1.87%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £850 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £570 £566
% change year-on-year -3.51% +0.80% +2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 32 52
10th Percentile £33.66 £33.00 -
25th Percentile £47.73 £35.41 £16.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £64.75 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.60% +28.86% +14.92%
75th Percentile £64.63 £76.40 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.87 £88.68 £89.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £60.94 £48.75
% change year-on-year +3.38% +25.01% +3.78%

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 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%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 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 +11 1,253 £600 +1.84% 2,785
London +12 703 £650 +8.33% 1,705
UK excluding London +5 590 £550 -3.51% 1,192
Work from Home +7 519 £620 +10.71% 1,428
North of England +14 174 £550 -3.51% 368
South East +15 149 £575 +11.11% 297
North West +9 111 £545 -5.22% 234
South West +11 76 £560 +10.62% 132
Scotland -30 65 £480 -5.24% 84
Midlands -8 64 £500 -25.93% 179
West Midlands -11 51 £500 -25.93% 117
Yorkshire +2 47 £550 +10.00% 105
East of England +30 40 £600 -4.00% 96
Wales +25 27 £480 -26.15% 32
North East +4 16 £625 -13.19% 29
East Midlands +14 13 £475 -13.64% 62
Northern Ireland -8 3 £525 -17.97% 22

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 60 (4.03%) Confluence
2 43 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.67%) CMS
4 10 (0.67%) WebSphere
5 8 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.40%) ArcGIS
6 6 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.20%) IIS
8 3 (0.20%) SharePoint 2010
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.13%) Drupal
9 2 (0.13%) JBoss
9 2 (0.13%) nginx
9 2 (0.13%) SAS
9 2 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 26 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 25 (1.68%) MS Visio
3 21 (1.41%) Trello
4 19 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
6 12 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.20%) InfoPath
8 3 (0.20%) Revit
9 1 (0.067%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.067%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.067%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.067%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.067%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.067%) Sketch
9 1 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 34 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (0.54%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
4 5 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
4 5 (0.34%) SAP MDG
4 5 (0.34%) SAP MDG-S
5 4 (0.27%) CA PPM
5 4 (0.27%) Primavera
6 3 (0.20%) Magento
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.20%) Shopify
6 3 (0.20%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.067%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 256 (17.19%) Azure
2 172 (11.55%) AWS
3 79 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
4 77 (5.17%) SaaS
5 66 (4.43%) GCP
6 47 (3.16%) Entra ID
6 47 (3.16%) PaaS
7 45 (3.02%) Power Platform
8 39 (2.62%) IaaS
9 33 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
10 31 (2.08%) Serverless
11 25 (1.68%) SuccessFactors
12 23 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (1.21%) GitHub
15 17 (1.14%) OneDrive
16 16 (1.07%) Snowflake
17 15 (1.01%) Power Automate
17 15 (1.01%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (3.22%) Firewall
2 39 (2.62%) Network Security
3 30 (2.01%) DNS
4 23 (1.54%) VPN
4 23 (1.54%) WAN
5 18 (1.21%) SD-WAN
6 17 (1.14%) Skype
6 17 (1.14%) WebEx
7 16 (1.07%) SSL
8 15 (1.01%) MPLS
9 14 (0.94%) DHCP
9 14 (0.94%) LAN
10 11 (0.74%) VoIP
11 10 (0.67%) Internet
11 10 (0.67%) TCP/IP
12 9 (0.60%) BGP
12 9 (0.60%) HTTP
12 9 (0.60%) OSPF
12 9 (0.60%) POP3
12 9 (0.60%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (6.72%) Data Lake
2 30 (2.01%) Power BI
2 30 (2.01%) SQL Server
3 19 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (1.14%) Oracle Database
4 17 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (1.07%) Big Data
6 15 (1.01%) Relational Database
7 13 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (0.74%) Metadata
8 11 (0.74%) NoSQL
8 11 (0.74%) Tableau
9 10 (0.67%) DB2
9 10 (0.67%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.60%) Data Mining
11 6 (0.40%) SAP HANA
12 5 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.34%) GIS
12 5 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 109 (7.32%) JIRA
2 22 (1.48%) Jenkins
3 13 (0.87%) ERwin
4 12 (0.81%) GitLab
5 7 (0.47%) Git
5 7 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
6 6 (0.40%) Maven
7 4 (0.27%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.27%) Rational Rhapsody
8 3 (0.20%) Subversion
9 2 (0.13%) Balsamiq
9 2 (0.13%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.13%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.13%) Xcode
10 1 (0.067%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.067%) JIRA Agile
10 1 (0.067%) webpack
10 1 (0.067%) Zephyr
General
1 487 (32.71%) Social Skills
2 417 (28.01%) Finance
3 200 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (8.46%) Public Sector
5 114 (7.66%) Front Office
6 90 (6.04%) Banking
7 73 (4.90%) Retail
8 69 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
9 59 (3.96%) Marketing
10 51 (3.43%) Telecoms
11 43 (2.89%) Legal
12 33 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
13 31 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
14 29 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 29 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
15 23 (1.54%) Manufacturing
16 22 (1.48%) Military
17 17 (1.14%) Back Office
18 16 (1.07%) Automotive
19 12 (0.81%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 411 (27.60%) Architect
2 185 (12.42%) Lead
3 159 (10.68%) Solutions Architect
4 137 (9.20%) Product Manager
5 127 (8.53%) Analyst
6 102 (6.85%) Senior
7 92 (6.18%) Consultant
8 77 (5.17%) Business Analyst
9 69 (4.63%) Product Owner
10 59 (3.96%) Technical Architect
11 56 (3.76%) Project Manager
12 52 (3.49%) Enterprise Architect
13 46 (3.09%) Developer
14 40 (2.69%) Data Architect
14 40 (2.69%) Security Architect
15 37 (2.48%) Head of Finance
16 30 (2.01%) Programme Manager
17 27 (1.81%) Senior Architect
18 26 (1.75%) Data Governance Manager
18 26 (1.75%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.48%) REST
2 25 (1.68%) SOAP
3 23 (1.54%) Kafka
3 23 (1.54%) Web Services
4 22 (1.48%) HTML
5 21 (1.41%) CSS
6 18 (1.21%) .NET
6 18 (1.21%) JSON
7 16 (1.07%) LDAP
8 15 (1.01%) SAML
9 13 (0.87%) AngularJS
9 13 (0.87%) Middleware
9 13 (0.87%) Node.js
9 13 (0.87%) React
10 12 (0.81%) Spring
11 11 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
11 11 (0.74%) XML
12 9 (0.60%) Bootstrap
12 9 (0.60%) CSS3
12 9 (0.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 213 (14.30%) Product Ownership
2 113 (7.59%) Hedge funds
3 111 (7.45%) Derivative
3 111 (7.45%) Fixed Income
3 111 (7.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 110 (7.39%) Equities
5 55 (3.69%) Management Information System
6 49 (3.29%) Onboarding
7 47 (3.16%) Data Centre
8 46 (3.09%) Public Cloud
9 39 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 35 (2.35%) Cloud Native
11 32 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
12 23 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.34%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
14 19 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
14 19 (1.28%) Private Cloud
14 19 (1.28%) Virtual Team
15 16 (1.07%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 62 (4.16%) Windows
2 52 (3.49%) Linux
3 33 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.41%) Apple iOS
5 15 (1.01%) Unix
6 12 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.27%) Solaris
7 4 (0.27%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.27%) zOS
8 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.13%) Android
9 2 (0.13%) CentOS
9 2 (0.13%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 589 (39.56%) Agile
2 264 (17.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 232 (15.58%) Product Roadmap
4 227 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
5 223 (14.98%) Migration
6 212 (14.24%) Strategic Roadmap
7 178 (11.95%) Analytics
8 164 (11.01%) Project Management
8 164 (11.01%) Technology Roadmap
9 160 (10.75%) Decision-Making
10 153 (10.28%) DevOps
11 149 (10.01%) Data Governance
12 128 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 119 (7.99%) Data Management
13 119 (7.99%) Enterprise Architecture
14 116 (7.79%) Investment Management
14 116 (7.79%) Scrum
14 116 (7.79%) User Experience
15 112 (7.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 111 (7.45%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 72 (4.84%) Python
2 71 (4.77%) SQL
3 66 (4.43%) Java
4 51 (3.43%) JavaScript
5 37 (2.48%) PowerShell
6 20 (1.34%) TypeScript
7 16 (1.07%) Bash
7 16 (1.07%) C#
8 14 (0.94%) PL/SQL
9 13 (0.87%) Perl
10 10 (0.67%) C++
10 10 (0.67%) Shell Script
11 9 (0.60%) C
12 7 (0.47%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.40%) PHP
14 4 (0.27%) Rust
15 3 (0.20%) R
15 3 (0.20%) RPG
15 3 (0.20%) RPG IV
16 2 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 197 (13.23%) Security Cleared
2 192 (12.89%) Degree
3 167 (11.22%) SC Cleared
4 44 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.82%) CISSP
6 41 (2.75%) Master's Degree
7 40 (2.69%) DV Cleared
8 37 (2.48%) AWS Certification
9 34 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (2.28%) PMI Certification
10 32 (2.15%) CISM
11 31 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
12 27 (1.81%) Azure Certification
13 24 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 23 (1.54%) PMP
14 23 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
15 18 (1.21%) CCNP
15 18 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
16 14 (0.94%) CCIE
17 10 (0.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (4.63%) QA
2 45 (3.02%) GDPR
3 43 (2.89%) NIST
4 38 (2.55%) Accessibility
5 37 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (1.95%) Data Quality
7 24 (1.61%) MiFID
8 18 (1.21%) GRC
9 17 (1.14%) PCI DSS
10 16 (1.07%) PMO
11 8 (0.54%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.47%) COBIT
12 7 (0.47%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
14 5 (0.34%) SLA
15 4 (0.27%) ISO 20022
15 4 (0.27%) NCSC
16 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 77 (5.17%) Active Directory
2 45 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (1.75%) Docker
4 14 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.60%) RACF
7 8 (0.54%) vSphere
8 7 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.47%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.13%) XenApp
11 2 (0.13%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.067%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.067%) Firmware
12 1 (0.067%) LXC
Systems Management
1 38 (2.55%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.42%) Ansible
2 36 (2.42%) Terraform
3 20 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.54%) CASB
5 8 (0.54%) MOM
5 8 (0.54%) SCCM
6 6 (0.40%) Packer
7 4 (0.27%) Grafana
8 3 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.20%) Backup Exec
8 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.20%) Puppet
8 3 (0.20%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.13%) Control-M
9 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.13%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 196 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 99 (6.65%) SAP
3 78 (5.24%) Oracle
4 69 (4.63%) ServiceNow
5 61 (4.10%) Cisco
6 60 (4.03%) VMware
7 42 (2.82%) Google
8 40 (2.69%) Salesforce
9 25 (1.68%) F5
10 22 (1.48%) IBM
10 22 (1.48%) Palo Alto
11 19 (1.28%) Fortinet
11 19 (1.28%) Red Hat
12 17 (1.14%) Adobe
12 17 (1.14%) Polycom
13 16 (1.07%) Databricks
13 16 (1.07%) Juniper
14 14 (0.94%) CyberArk
14 14 (0.94%) Nokia
14 14 (0.94%) Zscaler