Strategic Roadmap Contracts

Strategic Roadmaps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Strategic Roadmap skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Roadmap over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 314 328
Rank change year-on-year -8 +14 +122
Contract jobs citing Strategic Roadmap 238 287 411
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 0.66% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.78% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 163 287
10th Percentile £425 £410 £434
25th Percentile £480 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £615 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% -1.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £737
90th Percentile £770 £862 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -21.92% +18.18% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 3
10th Percentile £27.83 £52.94 £66.00
25th Percentile £42.89 £57.64 £75.00
Median hourly rate £61.33 £64.28 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.59% -28.58% +151.96%
75th Percentile £70.16 £77.63 -
90th Percentile - £83.77 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.16 £60.83 £90.00
% change year-on-year +15.34% -32.41% +151.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Strategic Roadmap 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 28,850 36,964 50,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.71% 85.28% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,170 23,592 34,850
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,420 2,515 1,729
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.42 £16.18 £16.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +1.77% +43.62%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

Strategic Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Strategic Roadmap as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Roadmap in the UK

Strategic Roadmap
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Strategic Roadmap.

Daily rate trend for Strategic Roadmap in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Roadmap over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Roadmap in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Strategic Roadmap.

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Roadmap in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Strategic Roadmap over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Strategic Roadmap in the UK

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Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Roadmap within the UK over the 6 months to 5 July 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 +4 195 £600 -3.23% 1,185
UK excluding London +31 114 £508 -21.92% 549
London +11 92 £663 +10.42% 683
Work from Home 0 70 £559 -11.31% 422
North of England -8 34 £494 -21.00% 135
South East +27 28 £508 -19.44% 139
North West -19 20 £494 -21.00% 76
Midlands +14 18 £500 +2.04% 90
Yorkshire +11 11 £600 -4.00% 45
Scotland +11 11 £480 -24.14% 37
East Midlands +8 11 £508 +14.04% 45
South West +26 10 £588 -12.96% 72
East of England +31 9 £663 -1.85% 52
West Midlands +8 7 £450 -18.18% 45
Wales - 6 £461 - 14
North East - 3 £450 - 14

Strategic Roadmap
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 9 (3.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.68%) Confluence
4 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.84%) CMS
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.42%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.42%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (2.94%) Trello
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.42%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.42%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (2.94%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (2.10%) Avolution ABACUS
3 3 (1.26%) Magento
3 3 (1.26%) Sage 200
3 3 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.42%) Maximo
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.42%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 66 (27.73%) Azure
2 51 (21.43%) AWS
3 21 (8.82%) GCP
4 13 (5.46%) Entra ID
4 13 (5.46%) GitHub
4 13 (5.46%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (4.20%) SaaS
6 8 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.52%) IaaS
7 6 (2.52%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (2.10%) OneDrive
9 4 (1.68%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.68%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.26%) Mimecast
10 3 (1.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.04%) Firewall
2 11 (4.62%) Network Security
3 9 (3.78%) VPN
4 8 (3.36%) DNS
5 7 (2.94%) VLAN
6 6 (2.52%) BGP
6 6 (2.52%) MPLS
6 6 (2.52%) OSPF
7 5 (2.10%) LAN
8 4 (1.68%) Unified Communications
8 4 (1.68%) VSAN
8 4 (1.68%) WAN
9 3 (1.26%) DHCP
9 3 (1.26%) SAN
9 3 (1.26%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.26%) WLAN
10 2 (0.84%) Structured Cabling
10 2 (0.84%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.42%) Internet
11 1 (0.42%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.10%) Big Data
3 5 (2.10%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.10%) Power BI
4 3 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.26%) Metadata
5 2 (0.84%) Bigtable
5 2 (0.84%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.84%) GIS
5 2 (0.84%) Looker
5 2 (0.84%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.84%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.84%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.84%) Tableau
6 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.42%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 20 (8.40%) JIRA
2 10 (4.20%) CircleCI
3 3 (1.26%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.84%) Git
5 1 (0.42%) ERwin
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
General
1 89 (37.39%) Social Skills
2 58 (24.37%) Finance
3 45 (18.91%) Public Sector
4 32 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (12.61%) Banking
6 12 (5.04%) Retail
7 10 (4.20%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.94%) Back Office
9 7 (2.94%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.94%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.52%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (2.52%) Retail Banking
11 5 (2.10%) General Ledger
11 5 (2.10%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.10%) Marketing
11 5 (2.10%) Military
12 3 (1.26%) Law
12 3 (1.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 98 (41.18%) Architect
2 33 (13.87%) Product Manager
3 26 (10.92%) Solutions Architect
4 24 (10.08%) Senior
5 21 (8.82%) Technical Architect
6 20 (8.40%) Lead
7 15 (6.30%) Enterprise Architect
8 14 (5.88%) Analyst
9 13 (5.46%) Consultant
10 12 (5.04%) Data Architect
10 12 (5.04%) Senior Architect
11 11 (4.62%) Security Architect
12 9 (3.78%) Senior Technical Architect
13 8 (3.36%) Business Analyst
14 7 (2.94%) Designer
14 7 (2.94%) Product Owner
15 6 (2.52%) Cloud Architect
15 6 (2.52%) Digital Product Manager
16 5 (2.10%) Network Architect
16 5 (2.10%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.78%) .NET
2 5 (2.10%) Node.js
3 4 (1.68%) Kafka
4 3 (1.26%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.84%) EDI
5 2 (0.84%) SAML
6 1 (0.42%) LDAP
6 1 (0.42%) Middleware
6 1 (0.42%) OAuth
6 1 (0.42%) OpenID
6 1 (0.42%) React
6 1 (0.42%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.56%) Data Centre
2 15 (6.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (5.46%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.04%) Cloud Native
5 11 (4.62%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.10%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.68%) NHS
7 4 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.26%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.84%) Blog
9 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.84%) Online Banking
9 2 (0.84%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.84%) PKI
9 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.42%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.04%) Windows
2 8 (3.36%) Linux
3 7 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.26%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.84%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.84%) Unix
6 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 70 (29.41%) Agile
3 50 (21.01%) IT Strategy
4 44 (18.49%) Enterprise Architecture
4 44 (18.49%) Technology Strategy
5 40 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (15.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 33 (13.87%) Decision-Making
8 29 (12.18%) Microservices
9 26 (10.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (10.92%) DevOps
9 26 (10.92%) ITIL
9 26 (10.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 26 (10.92%) Technical Leadership
10 25 (10.50%) Business Strategy
10 25 (10.50%) TOGAF
11 23 (9.66%) Product Management
12 22 (9.24%) Backlog Management
12 22 (9.24%) Product Strategy
13 21 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 15 (6.30%) Java
2 12 (5.04%) TypeScript
3 10 (4.20%) Kotlin
4 7 (2.94%) Python
4 7 (2.94%) SQL
5 6 (2.52%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.68%) C#
7 3 (1.26%) Bash
7 3 (1.26%) PHP
8 2 (0.84%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (0.84%) Scala
8 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.42%) Magik
Qualifications
1 31 (13.03%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.76%) Degree
3 21 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.88%) Master's Degree
5 13 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.20%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.78%) AWS Certification
7 9 (3.78%) CISSP
8 6 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.52%) CCIE
8 6 (2.52%) CCNP
8 6 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.52%) JNCIE
8 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.10%) CISM
10 4 (1.68%) CITP
10 4 (1.68%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.46%) GDPR
1 13 (5.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (5.04%) NIST
3 11 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 11 (4.62%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.10%) QA
5 4 (1.68%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.26%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.84%) GRC
7 2 (0.84%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.84%) NCSC
7 2 (0.84%) PSD2
7 2 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.42%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.42%) JSP 440
System Software
1 16 (6.72%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.68%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.68%) vSphere
4 3 (1.26%) Docker
4 3 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.42%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 17 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.72%) Terraform
3 10 (4.20%) Grafana
3 10 (4.20%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.10%) SCCM
6 3 (1.26%) Backup Exec
6 3 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.26%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.84%) Control-M
7 2 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.42%) QRadar
Vendors
1 39 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.14%) Cisco
3 13 (5.46%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.04%) Google
4 12 (5.04%) VMware
5 9 (3.78%) Fortinet
6 8 (3.36%) SAP
7 5 (2.10%) Oracle
7 5 (2.10%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.68%) F5
8 4 (1.68%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.68%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.68%) Workday
9 3 (1.26%) AlgoSec
9 3 (1.26%) Okta
9 3 (1.26%) Ping Identity
9 3 (1.26%) Splunk
9 3 (1.26%) Symantec
9 3 (1.26%) Tufin
9 3 (1.26%) Veeam