Technology Roadmap Contracts

Technology Roadmaps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Technology Roadmap skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Technology Roadmap 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 358 468 402
Rank change year-on-year +110 -66 +40
Contract jobs citing Technology Roadmap 164 132 334
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.30% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.35% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 85 255
10th Percentile £468 £363 £485
25th Percentile £513 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £738
90th Percentile £750 £823 £808
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +23.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 0
10th Percentile - £33.57 -
25th Percentile £52.00 £33.61 -
Median hourly rate £54.00 £35.13 -
Median % change year-on-year +53.74% - -
75th Percentile £56.00 £52.72 -
90th Percentile £60.49 £82.81 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.46 £102.87 -
% change year-on-year -19.84% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Technology 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 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%

Technology Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Roadmap in the UK

Technology Roadmap
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technology Roadmap in the UK

Technology Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Roadmap over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Roadmap in the UK

Technology Roadmap
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technology Roadmap in the UK

Technology Roadmap
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technology Roadmap over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Technology Roadmap in the UK

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Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technology Roadmap 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 +81 127 £599 -0.17% 281
London +52 71 £600 - 143
UK excluding London +54 61 £550 -12.00% 153
Work from Home +31 42 £550 -15.38% 153
North of England +37 22 £550 - 40
South East +47 16 £560 -13.85% 38
North West +12 12 £620 +12.73% 22
Yorkshire +23 10 £550 +4.76% 17
Midlands +29 7 £574 -4.42% 28
West Midlands +22 7 £574 - 17
South West +42 4 £390 -33.62% 15
Wales +6 4 £343 -47.23% 8
Scotland +4 4 £513 -14.58% 10
East of England +20 2 - - 16
Northern Ireland - 2 £625 - 1

Technology 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 6 (3.66%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (3.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.22%) Confluence
3 2 (1.22%) nginx
3 2 (1.22%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.22%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.61%) Apache
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.61%) CMS
4 1 (0.61%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.61%) JBoss
4 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.61%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.61%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (0.61%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.61%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.61%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.61%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (3.05%) FLEXCUBE
1 5 (3.05%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.22%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.61%) SAP Business ByDesign
3 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (20.12%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (18.29%) Azure
3 28 (17.07%) AWS
4 10 (6.10%) GCP
5 4 (2.44%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (2.44%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.44%) PaaS
6 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (1.83%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.22%) GitHub
7 2 (1.22%) IaaS
7 2 (1.22%) OCI
7 2 (1.22%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.61%) Alation
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.61%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.61%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.37%) Skype
1 17 (10.37%) WebEx
2 8 (4.88%) DNS
3 6 (3.66%) Firewall
4 5 (3.05%) Network Security
5 4 (2.44%) SSL
5 4 (2.44%) WAN
6 3 (1.83%) MPLS
6 3 (1.83%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.83%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.22%) 3G
7 2 (1.22%) 3GPP
7 2 (1.22%) DHCP
7 2 (1.22%) HTTP
7 2 (1.22%) Internet
7 2 (1.22%) LAN
7 2 (1.22%) SAN
7 2 (1.22%) SNA
7 2 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.71%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.88%) Oracle Database
3 7 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.44%) Metadata
4 4 (2.44%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.83%) Tableau
6 2 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.22%) Power BI
6 2 (1.22%) Redis
6 2 (1.22%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.61%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.61%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.61%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 11 (6.71%) JIRA
2 6 (3.66%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.83%) Git
4 1 (0.61%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.61%) Mockito
4 1 (0.61%) Toad
4 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 58 (35.37%) Social Skills
2 40 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (15.24%) Finance
4 18 (10.98%) Banking
5 9 (5.49%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.49%) Retail
6 8 (4.88%) Military
7 5 (3.05%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.44%) Legal
8 4 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.83%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.22%) Back Office
10 2 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Automotive
11 1 (0.61%) Billing
11 1 (0.61%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.61%) Local Government
11 1 (0.61%) Marketing
11 1 (0.61%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 59 (35.98%) Architect
2 25 (15.24%) Lead
3 17 (10.37%) Solutions Architect
4 15 (9.15%) Senior
5 14 (8.54%) Enterprise Architect
6 10 (6.10%) Technical Architect
7 8 (4.88%) Senior Architect
8 7 (4.27%) Developer
9 6 (3.66%) Consultant
9 6 (3.66%) Infrastructure Architect
9 6 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (3.66%) Network Engineer
9 6 (3.66%) Project Manager
9 6 (3.66%) Technical Leader
10 5 (3.05%) Analyst
10 5 (3.05%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (3.05%) IT Manager
10 5 (3.05%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
11 4 (2.44%) Data Architect
11 4 (2.44%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.27%) .NET
2 6 (3.66%) Middleware
2 6 (3.66%) React
3 4 (2.44%) Node.js
3 4 (2.44%) Spring
4 3 (1.83%) GraphQL
4 3 (1.83%) HTML
4 3 (1.83%) J2EE
5 2 (1.22%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.22%) CSS
5 2 (1.22%) JSON
5 2 (1.22%) JWT
5 2 (1.22%) Kafka
5 2 (1.22%) LDAP
5 2 (1.22%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.22%) OAuth
5 2 (1.22%) REST
5 2 (1.22%) RESTful
5 2 (1.22%) XML
6 1 (0.61%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.49%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.88%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (3.05%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.05%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.05%) Private Cloud
3 5 (3.05%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.44%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.83%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.83%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (1.83%) Insider Threat
5 3 (1.83%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.22%) Clustering
6 2 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.22%) IBM Mainframe
6 2 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.22%) NHS
6 2 (1.22%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.41%) Windows
2 18 (10.98%) Linux
3 12 (7.32%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.44%) zOS
5 3 (1.83%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.22%) CentOS
6 2 (1.22%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 51 (31.10%) Agile
3 34 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (15.85%) Microservices
5 25 (15.24%) DevOps
6 24 (14.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (14.02%) Change Management
7 23 (14.02%) CI/CD
8 22 (13.41%) Project Management
9 21 (12.80%) TOGAF
10 20 (12.20%) Market Research
11 19 (11.59%) IT Strategy
11 19 (11.59%) ITIL
11 19 (11.59%) Migration
12 18 (10.98%) Enterprise Architecture
13 17 (10.37%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 17 (10.37%) Interaction Design
13 17 (10.37%) Storyboarding
13 17 (10.37%) Wireframes
14 15 (9.15%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (10.98%) Java
2 17 (10.37%) SQL
3 12 (7.32%) PL/SQL
4 11 (6.71%) Python
5 10 (6.10%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.88%) Bash
6 8 (4.88%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.27%) Perl
7 7 (4.27%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.22%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.22%) JCL
8 2 (1.22%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.61%) ABAP
9 1 (0.61%) C
9 1 (0.61%) C#
9 1 (0.61%) C++
9 1 (0.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (17.68%) Degree
2 27 (16.46%) Security Cleared
3 24 (14.63%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (4.27%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.27%) TOGAF Certification
6 6 (3.66%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.66%) CISM
6 6 (3.66%) CISSP
7 4 (2.44%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.22%) ACCA
9 2 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.22%) CEH
9 2 (1.22%) CIMA
9 2 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.61%) Avaya Certification
10 1 (0.61%) CCDP
10 1 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.27%) GDPR
2 4 (2.44%) QA
3 3 (1.83%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (1.83%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.83%) NIST
3 3 (1.83%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.83%) SLA
3 3 (1.83%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.22%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.61%) COBIT
5 1 (0.61%) NCSC
5 1 (0.61%) PMO
5 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (11.59%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.10%) Docker
3 5 (3.05%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.61%) LXC
5 1 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.66%) Ansible
3 3 (1.83%) CASB
3 3 (1.83%) Terraform
4 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.22%) Tivoli NetView
5 1 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.61%) OPNET
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (20.73%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.80%) Oracle
3 19 (11.59%) Cisco
4 17 (10.37%) Polycom
5 8 (4.88%) Google
6 7 (4.27%) F5
6 7 (4.27%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.27%) VMware
7 6 (3.66%) IBM
8 5 (3.05%) Juniper
8 5 (3.05%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.44%) Dell
9 4 (2.44%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.83%) Hitachi
10 3 (1.83%) HP
10 3 (1.83%) Logitech
10 3 (1.83%) SAP
10 3 (1.83%) Virgin Media
10 3 (1.83%) Zscaler
11 2 (1.22%) Databricks