Roadmaps Contract Job Trends

Roadmaps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Roadmaps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 43 44
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 2,106 1,431 1,977
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 5.35% 4.66% 4.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.15% 5.21% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 854 1,337
10th Percentile £400 £413 £410
25th Percentile £463 £500 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 34 55
10th Percentile £27.25 £37.60 £34.53
25th Percentile £34.46 £45.30 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £54.62 £51.06
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +6.99% +1.60%
75th Percentile £89.75 £66.00 £69.38
90th Percentile £97.50 £79.95 £73.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £59.87 £47.09
% change year-on-year -5.63% +27.14% +4.64%

All Process & 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 34,251 27,445 39,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.02% 89.42% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,718 16,700 25,680
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,071 843 2,128
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.08% -11.20% +10.55%

Roadmaps
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Roadmaps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Roadmaps job vacancy trend in the UK

Roadmaps
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Roadmaps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Roadmaps

Roadmaps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Roadmaps over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Roadmaps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Roadmaps

Roadmaps
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Roadmaps over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Top 18 Contract Job 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 10 February 2026. 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 +9 1,845 £550 -8.33% 1,141
UK excluding London +1 933 £523 -5.00% 892
London +2 886 £575 -11.54% 491
Work from Home +1 610 £525 -12.50% 679
North of England 0 312 £495 -10.00% 218
South East +2 261 £525 -8.70% 351
Midlands +13 156 £520 -5.45% 115
Yorkshire +5 155 £500 -13.04% 64
North West -5 136 £495 -7.99% 121
West Midlands +6 112 £525 -6.54% 85
South West +4 88 £600 +5.73% 88
East of England -6 63 £600 +6.67% 77
Scotland -9 59 £475 -1.04% 46
East Midlands -5 42 £456 -4.00% 29
North East -2 26 £494 -21.00% 33
Wales -24 8 £550 -10.20% 16
Northern Ireland -6 1 - - 3
Channel Islands - 1 - -

Roadmaps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 111 (5.27%) Confluence
2 43 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (1.09%) CMS
5 13 (0.62%) TPMS
6 12 (0.57%) Apache
6 12 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 11 (0.52%) Apache Spark
8 10 (0.47%) nginx
9 9 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.43%) SAS
10 7 (0.33%) Appian
10 7 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.28%) CICS
12 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
13 3 (0.14%) PowerFactory
14 2 (0.095%) ArcGIS
15 1 (0.047%) Drupal
15 1 (0.047%) Umbraco
Applications
1 27 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
3 16 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.66%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.38%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.28%) Trello
8 5 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.095%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.047%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.047%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.047%) CATIA
10 1 (0.047%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 72 (3.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 18 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (0.33%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 6 (0.28%) Maximo
6 6 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.28%) SAP FI
7 5 (0.24%) SAP CO
7 5 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.19%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.14%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle Retail
9 3 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.14%) SAP Business One
9 3 (0.14%) SAP GRC
9 3 (0.14%) Shopify
9 3 (0.14%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.095%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.095%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 459 (21.79%) Azure
2 384 (18.23%) AWS
3 143 (6.79%) GCP
4 118 (5.60%) SaaS
5 101 (4.80%) Power Platform
6 89 (4.23%) Entra ID
7 81 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
8 71 (3.37%) Serverless
9 70 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (2.42%) PaaS
11 50 (2.37%) GitHub
12 49 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
13 47 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
14 39 (1.85%) IaaS
15 37 (1.76%) Amazon S3
15 37 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 34 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
17 32 (1.52%) OpenShift
17 32 (1.52%) Power Automate
18 25 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 69 (3.28%) Firewall
2 41 (1.95%) DNS
3 31 (1.47%) WAN
4 29 (1.38%) Network Security
5 27 (1.28%) VPN
6 22 (1.04%) LAN
6 22 (1.04%) SD-WAN
7 21 (1.00%) Kerberos
7 21 (1.00%) SSL
8 20 (0.95%) BGP
9 19 (0.90%) MPLS
10 18 (0.85%) SSH
10 18 (0.85%) TCP/IP
11 15 (0.71%) DHCP
12 13 (0.62%) SNMP
13 10 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 10 (0.47%) Wireless
14 9 (0.43%) OSPF
14 9 (0.43%) VLAN
14 9 (0.43%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (3.32%) Power BI
2 51 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
3 40 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (1.76%) Metadata
5 30 (1.42%) Data Lake
6 24 (1.14%) SQL Server
6 24 (1.14%) Tableau
7 20 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (0.95%) NoSQL
8 17 (0.81%) BigQuery
8 17 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (0.76%) Relational Database
10 15 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (0.52%) DynamoDB
12 11 (0.52%) MongoDB
12 11 (0.52%) MySQL
13 10 (0.47%) Pinecone
13 10 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 170 (8.07%) JIRA
2 52 (2.47%) Git
3 39 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 28 (1.33%) GitLab
5 15 (0.71%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.28%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.28%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.24%) ERwin
7 5 (0.24%) JUnit
7 5 (0.24%) Robot Framework
7 5 (0.24%) Selenium
8 4 (0.19%) Gradle
8 4 (0.19%) Maven
8 4 (0.19%) MLflow
9 3 (0.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.14%) Xcode
10 2 (0.095%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.095%) Rational DOORS
General
1 759 (36.04%) Social Skills
2 557 (26.45%) Finance
3 338 (16.05%) Public Sector
4 284 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
5 160 (7.60%) Banking
6 100 (4.75%) Influencing Skills
7 89 (4.23%) Marketing
8 75 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
9 71 (3.37%) Legal
10 66 (3.13%) Retail
11 58 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
12 50 (2.37%) Manufacturing
13 43 (2.04%) Telecoms
14 31 (1.47%) Local Government
15 30 (1.42%) Military
16 28 (1.33%) Financial Institution
17 24 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
17 24 (1.14%) Publishing
18 20 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 19 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 565 (26.83%) Architect
2 216 (10.26%) Solutions Architect
3 198 (9.40%) Lead
4 189 (8.97%) Senior
5 158 (7.50%) Product Manager
6 148 (7.03%) Consultant
7 137 (6.51%) Analyst
8 113 (5.37%) Business Analyst
9 112 (5.32%) Product Owner
10 94 (4.46%) Project Manager
11 90 (4.27%) Enterprise Architect
12 85 (4.04%) Developer
13 84 (3.99%) Technical Architect
14 53 (2.52%) Senior Manager
15 43 (2.04%) Data Architect
15 43 (2.04%) Designer
16 42 (1.99%) Programme Manager
17 37 (1.76%) Cloud Architect
17 37 (1.76%) Delivery Manager
18 33 (1.57%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (3.89%) REST
2 52 (2.47%) Middleware
3 43 (2.04%) Node.js
4 42 (1.99%) Kafka
5 39 (1.85%) .NET
6 38 (1.80%) React
7 35 (1.66%) SOAP
8 34 (1.61%) OAuth
9 30 (1.42%) OpenID
10 29 (1.38%) Spring Boot
11 28 (1.33%) Spring
12 26 (1.23%) HTML
12 26 (1.23%) LDAP
13 25 (1.19%) CSS
14 23 (1.09%) RESTful
15 22 (1.04%) SAML
15 22 (1.04%) Web Services
16 20 (0.95%) AngularJS
16 20 (0.95%) OAuth2
17 17 (0.81%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 293 (13.91%) Product Ownership
2 129 (6.13%) Cloud Native
3 97 (4.61%) Onboarding
4 53 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
5 50 (2.37%) Data Centre
6 49 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 46 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 43 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
9 38 (1.80%) Management Information System
10 37 (1.76%) CMDB
11 33 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
12 30 (1.42%) Virtual Team
13 29 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
14 26 (1.23%) IoT
14 26 (1.23%) Security Posture
14 26 (1.23%) Taxonomies
15 25 (1.19%) Algorithms
16 21 (1.00%) Reinsurance
17 20 (0.95%) FMCG
17 20 (0.95%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 86 (4.08%) Linux
2 74 (3.51%) Windows
3 20 (0.95%) Mac OS
4 19 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.76%) Windows 10
6 15 (0.71%) Unix
7 13 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.52%) Solaris
9 10 (0.47%) AIX
10 7 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.28%) Android
11 6 (0.28%) VMS
12 5 (0.24%) CentOS
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.095%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.095%) zOS
15 1 (0.047%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 703 (33.38%) Agile
2 518 (24.60%) Stakeholder Management
3 405 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 360 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 314 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
6 309 (14.67%) Strategic Roadmap
7 282 (13.39%) Decision-Making
8 276 (13.11%) DevOps
9 263 (12.49%) AI
10 259 (12.30%) Product Roadmap
11 258 (12.25%) Analytics
12 250 (11.87%) Migration
13 244 (11.59%) Enterprise Architecture
14 222 (10.54%) CI/CD
15 188 (8.93%) Technology Roadmap
16 165 (7.83%) Scrum
17 157 (7.45%) Mentoring
18 154 (7.31%) TOGAF
18 154 (7.31%) Workshop Facilitation
19 151 (7.17%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 232 (11.02%) Python
2 153 (7.26%) SQL
3 94 (4.46%) Java
4 79 (3.75%) PowerShell
5 57 (2.71%) JavaScript
6 51 (2.42%) Bash
7 28 (1.33%) TypeScript
8 24 (1.14%) C#
9 17 (0.81%) Bicep
10 13 (0.62%) PHP
10 13 (0.62%) Ruby
11 11 (0.52%) Apex Code
12 8 (0.38%) C
12 8 (0.38%) C++
13 7 (0.33%) Perl
14 6 (0.28%) COBOL
14 6 (0.28%) Groovy
14 6 (0.28%) Korn
15 5 (0.24%) Go
15 5 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 443 (21.04%) Security Cleared
2 339 (16.10%) SC Cleared
3 173 (8.21%) Degree
4 71 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 61 (2.90%) Master's Degree
6 54 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 46 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (1.95%) DV Cleared
9 40 (1.90%) AWS Certification
10 38 (1.80%) CISSP
11 30 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 30 (1.42%) PMI Certification
12 29 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
13 22 (1.04%) CISM
14 21 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.85%) ISEB
16 17 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 16 (0.76%) CCIE
18 15 (0.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (5.75%) GDPR
2 78 (3.70%) NIST
3 74 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 74 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 72 (3.42%) QA
5 62 (2.94%) Accessibility
6 43 (2.04%) PCI DSS
7 33 (1.57%) GRC
8 30 (1.42%) NCSC
9 29 (1.38%) SLA
10 21 (1.00%) PMO
11 17 (0.81%) COBIT
12 16 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.62%) GLBA
14 12 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
15 9 (0.43%) Def Stans
15 9 (0.43%) HIPAA
16 8 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
17 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 85 (4.04%) Active Directory
2 84 (3.99%) Docker
3 40 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.81%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.57%) vSphere
6 7 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.28%) Squid
7 6 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.24%) RACF
8 5 (0.24%) vCloud
9 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.095%) Firmware
10 2 (0.095%) GPFS
10 2 (0.095%) HDFS
10 2 (0.095%) Lustre
10 2 (0.095%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.047%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.047%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 137 (6.51%) Terraform
2 128 (6.08%) Kubernetes
3 57 (2.71%) Ansible
4 43 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
6 35 (1.66%) Grafana
7 32 (1.52%) Prometheus
8 25 (1.19%) SCCM
9 13 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 11 (0.52%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
12 7 (0.33%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.28%) Consul
14 5 (0.24%) Kibana
15 4 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
15 4 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
15 4 (0.19%) logstash
15 4 (0.19%) Rancher
16 3 (0.14%) Istio
16 3 (0.14%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 291 (13.82%) Microsoft
2 137 (6.51%) SAP
3 95 (4.51%) ServiceNow
4 85 (4.04%) Salesforce
5 80 (3.80%) Cisco
6 73 (3.47%) Oracle
7 68 (3.23%) VMware
8 61 (2.90%) Google
9 52 (2.47%) Databricks
10 37 (1.76%) Aruba
11 29 (1.38%) Red Hat
12 25 (1.19%) Dynatrace
12 25 (1.19%) Splunk
13 24 (1.14%) Citrix
14 23 (1.09%) IBM
15 22 (1.04%) F5
16 21 (1.00%) Adobe
16 21 (1.00%) Sparx
16 21 (1.00%) Workday
17 20 (0.95%) Palo Alto