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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 47 33
Rank change year-on-year +10 -14 +11
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 1,468 1,691 3,217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.03% 3.93% 5.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.53% 4.55% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 939 1,109 2,295
10th Percentile £413 £407 £425
25th Percentile £493 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +1.69%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £863 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 £566 £563
% change year-on-year -4.19% +0.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 33 45
10th Percentile £33.92 £33.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £48.25 £36.00 £22.41
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +14.27% +37.07%
75th Percentile £65.00 £85.78 £80.00
90th Percentile £77.27 £91.60 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £68.47 £56.89
% change year-on-year -7.98% +20.36% +29.43%

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 26,532 37,140 52,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.94% 86.25% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,079 23,924 36,124
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,080 2,439 1,724
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.34 £16.00 £16.17
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% +1.39% +42.97%
75th Percentile £60.84 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.06 £38.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.78% +8.57% +75.00%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +8 1,230 £600 +1.20% 3,718
London +15 698 £625 +4.17% 2,309
UK excluding London +6 576 £543 -4.19% 1,913
Work from Home +7 506 £625 +11.11% 2,072
North of England +9 170 £550 -3.51% 426
South East +15 142 £575 +12.75% 724
North West +4 107 £539 -7.86% 259
South West +11 77 £536 +0.94% 194
Midlands -14 65 £500 -25.93% 248
Scotland -27 62 £475 -5.00% 113
West Midlands -16 50 £525 -22.22% 140
Yorkshire -1 47 £550 +11.39% 137
East of England +31 40 £600 -4.76% 202
Wales +25 26 £463 -26.00% 32
North East +3 16 £625 -17.76% 31
East Midlands +14 15 £475 -13.64% 91
Northern Ireland -7 3 £525 -17.97% 38

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 59 (4.02%) Confluence
2 39 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.89%) CMS
5 10 (0.68%) WebSphere
6 7 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.41%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.20%) IIS
9 3 (0.20%) SharePoint 2010
10 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.14%) Drupal
10 2 (0.14%) JBoss
10 2 (0.14%) nginx
10 2 (0.14%) SAS
10 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 30 (2.04%) MS Visio
2 28 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (1.43%) Trello
4 19 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
5 14 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
6 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.20%) InfoPath
8 3 (0.20%) Revit
9 1 (0.068%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.068%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.068%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.068%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.068%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.068%) Sketch
9 1 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.068%) SPSS
9 1 (0.068%) Stata
Business Applications
1 30 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.54%) Workday HCM
4 7 (0.48%) FLEXCUBE
4 7 (0.48%) Oracle BPM
5 5 (0.34%) SAP MDG
5 5 (0.34%) SAP MDG-S
5 5 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.27%) CA PPM
6 4 (0.27%) Primavera
6 4 (0.27%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.20%) Magento
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.20%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.20%) Shopify
8 2 (0.14%) Avolution ABACUS
8 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.14%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 256 (17.44%) Azure
2 166 (11.31%) AWS
3 77 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
4 75 (5.11%) SaaS
5 65 (4.43%) GCP
6 48 (3.27%) Entra ID
7 47 (3.20%) Power Platform
8 45 (3.07%) PaaS
9 37 (2.52%) IaaS
10 33 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
11 31 (2.11%) Serverless
12 25 (1.70%) SuccessFactors
13 22 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
14 19 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 19 (1.29%) GitHub
15 18 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (1.16%) OneDrive
17 15 (1.02%) Amazon S3
17 15 (1.02%) Snowflake
18 14 (0.95%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.34%) Firewall
2 39 (2.66%) Network Security
3 30 (2.04%) DNS
4 21 (1.43%) VPN
4 21 (1.43%) WAN
5 18 (1.23%) SD-WAN
6 17 (1.16%) Skype
6 17 (1.16%) WebEx
7 16 (1.09%) SSL
8 14 (0.95%) DHCP
8 14 (0.95%) LAN
8 14 (0.95%) MPLS
9 11 (0.75%) VoIP
10 10 (0.68%) Internet
10 10 (0.68%) TCP/IP
11 9 (0.61%) BGP
11 9 (0.61%) HTTP
11 9 (0.61%) OSPF
11 9 (0.61%) POP3
11 9 (0.61%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (6.81%) Data Lake
2 34 (2.32%) Power BI
3 28 (1.91%) SQL Server
4 21 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (1.23%) Oracle Database
6 15 (1.02%) Big Data
6 15 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (0.95%) Relational Database
8 13 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (0.75%) Metadata
9 11 (0.75%) Tableau
10 10 (0.68%) DB2
10 10 (0.68%) MongoDB
10 10 (0.68%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.48%) Data Mining
12 6 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.41%) GIS
12 6 (0.41%) SAP HANA
13 5 (0.34%) Geospatial Data
13 5 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 112 (7.63%) JIRA
2 24 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 12 (0.82%) GitLab
4 9 (0.61%) ERwin
5 7 (0.48%) Git
6 6 (0.41%) Maven
7 4 (0.27%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.27%) Rational Rhapsody
8 3 (0.20%) Subversion
9 2 (0.14%) Balsamiq
9 2 (0.14%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.14%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.14%) Xcode
10 1 (0.068%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.068%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.068%) webpack
10 1 (0.068%) Zephyr
General
1 486 (33.11%) Social Skills
2 425 (28.95%) Finance
3 200 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (8.72%) Public Sector
5 107 (7.29%) Front Office
6 93 (6.34%) Banking
7 70 (4.77%) Retail
8 68 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
9 59 (4.02%) Marketing
10 50 (3.41%) Telecoms
11 41 (2.79%) Legal
12 40 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
13 34 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
14 31 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 27 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
16 26 (1.77%) Military
17 19 (1.29%) Manufacturing
18 18 (1.23%) Back Office
19 12 (0.82%) Financial Institution
19 12 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 417 (28.41%) Architect
2 176 (11.99%) Lead
3 159 (10.83%) Solutions Architect
4 127 (8.65%) Product Manager
5 124 (8.45%) Analyst
6 97 (6.61%) Senior
7 92 (6.27%) Consultant
8 74 (5.04%) Business Analyst
9 63 (4.29%) Product Owner
9 63 (4.29%) Technical Architect
10 58 (3.95%) Project Manager
11 54 (3.68%) Enterprise Architect
12 46 (3.13%) Developer
13 43 (2.93%) Security Architect
14 38 (2.59%) Data Architect
15 37 (2.52%) Head of Finance
16 31 (2.11%) Programme Manager
17 26 (1.77%) Data Governance Manager
17 26 (1.77%) Governance Manager
17 26 (1.77%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.45%) REST
2 24 (1.63%) SOAP
3 22 (1.50%) Kafka
3 22 (1.50%) Web Services
4 21 (1.43%) HTML
5 20 (1.36%) CSS
6 17 (1.16%) JSON
6 17 (1.16%) LDAP
7 15 (1.02%) .NET
7 15 (1.02%) SAML
8 14 (0.95%) Middleware
9 13 (0.89%) AngularJS
10 12 (0.82%) React
11 11 (0.75%) Node.js
11 11 (0.75%) XML
12 10 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
12 10 (0.68%) Spring
13 9 (0.61%) Bootstrap
13 9 (0.61%) CSS3
13 9 (0.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 202 (13.76%) Product Ownership
2 107 (7.29%) Hedge funds
3 105 (7.15%) Derivative
3 105 (7.15%) Fixed Income
3 105 (7.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 104 (7.08%) Equities
5 59 (4.02%) Management Information System
6 48 (3.27%) Onboarding
7 47 (3.20%) Data Centre
8 45 (3.07%) Public Cloud
9 39 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
10 36 (2.45%) Cloud Native
11 30 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
12 23 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
13 22 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
14 19 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
14 19 (1.29%) Private Cloud
14 19 (1.29%) Virtual Team
15 17 (1.16%) Data Structures
16 15 (1.02%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 60 (4.09%) Windows
2 49 (3.34%) Linux
3 31 (2.11%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.02%) Apple iOS
4 15 (1.02%) Unix
5 12 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.27%) Solaris
6 4 (0.27%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.27%) zOS
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.14%) Android
8 2 (0.14%) CentOS
8 2 (0.14%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 576 (39.24%) Agile
2 262 (17.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 228 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
4 224 (15.26%) Migration
5 219 (14.92%) Product Roadmap
6 216 (14.71%) Strategic Roadmap
7 161 (10.97%) Analytics
7 161 (10.97%) Technology Roadmap
8 160 (10.90%) Project Management
9 158 (10.76%) Decision-Making
10 156 (10.63%) DevOps
11 150 (10.22%) Data Governance
12 128 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 123 (8.38%) Enterprise Architecture
14 118 (8.04%) Scrum
14 118 (8.04%) User Experience
15 117 (7.97%) Data Management
16 113 (7.70%) Change Management
17 112 (7.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 111 (7.56%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 74 (5.04%) SQL
2 69 (4.70%) Python
3 63 (4.29%) Java
4 46 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 36 (2.45%) PowerShell
6 18 (1.23%) TypeScript
7 16 (1.09%) Bash
7 16 (1.09%) C#
7 16 (1.09%) PL/SQL
8 13 (0.89%) Perl
9 7 (0.48%) Apex Code
9 7 (0.48%) C++
10 6 (0.41%) C
10 6 (0.41%) PHP
10 6 (0.41%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.27%) R
11 4 (0.27%) Rust
12 3 (0.20%) RPG
12 3 (0.20%) RPG IV
13 2 (0.14%) JCL
Qualifications
1 202 (13.76%) Security Cleared
2 181 (12.33%) Degree
3 170 (11.58%) SC Cleared
4 41 (2.79%) CISSP
5 40 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (2.59%) DV Cleared
7 36 (2.45%) AWS Certification
8 35 (2.38%) Master's Degree
8 35 (2.38%) PMI Certification
9 33 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
10 32 (2.18%) CISM
11 28 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
12 27 (1.84%) Azure Certification
12 27 (1.84%) PMP
13 23 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 22 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
15 18 (1.23%) CCNP
16 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
17 13 (0.89%) CCIE
18 9 (0.61%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (4.36%) QA
2 48 (3.27%) GDPR
3 44 (3.00%) NIST
4 40 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (2.59%) Accessibility
6 32 (2.18%) Data Quality
7 24 (1.63%) MiFID
8 19 (1.29%) GRC
8 19 (1.29%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.95%) PMO
10 9 (0.61%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.54%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.48%) COBIT
13 6 (0.41%) SLA
14 5 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
14 5 (0.34%) ISO 20022
15 4 (0.27%) NCSC
16 3 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 76 (5.18%) Active Directory
2 46 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.57%) Docker
4 14 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.61%) RACF
7 8 (0.54%) vSphere
8 7 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.48%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.14%) XenApp
11 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.068%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.068%) Firmware
12 1 (0.068%) LXC
12 1 (0.068%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 38 (2.59%) Terraform
2 37 (2.52%) Kubernetes
3 35 (2.38%) Ansible
4 20 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.54%) CASB
6 8 (0.54%) SCCM
7 6 (0.41%) Packer
8 4 (0.27%) Grafana
9 3 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.20%) Backup Exec
9 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.20%) Puppet
9 3 (0.20%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.14%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.14%) Control-M
10 2 (0.14%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.14%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.14%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 192 (13.08%) Microsoft
2 97 (6.61%) SAP
3 77 (5.25%) Oracle
4 67 (4.56%) ServiceNow
5 61 (4.16%) VMware
6 58 (3.95%) Cisco
7 44 (3.00%) Salesforce
8 40 (2.72%) Google
9 24 (1.63%) F5
10 22 (1.50%) IBM
10 22 (1.50%) Palo Alto
11 20 (1.36%) Databricks
12 19 (1.29%) Red Hat
13 18 (1.23%) Adobe
13 18 (1.23%) Fortinet
14 17 (1.16%) Polycom
15 16 (1.09%) Juniper
16 14 (0.95%) CyberArk
17 13 (0.89%) Workday
17 13 (0.89%) Zscaler