Technology Roadmap Contract Job Trends in Wales

Technology Roadmaps
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Technology Roadmap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 44 47
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +16
Contract jobs citing Technology Roadmap 3 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.63% 1.35% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.56% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -30.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% -6.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 372 321 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 78.65% 86.52% 82.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 202 270
10th Percentile £196 £167 £172
25th Percentile £290 £234 £242
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £563
90th Percentile £638 £650 £667
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 32 27
10th Percentile £13.33 £15.69 £13.03
25th Percentile £15.80 £20.12 £21.30
Median hourly rate £19.00 £23.84 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.30% -26.65% +66.75%
75th Percentile £24.74 £31.82 £55.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £44.63 £86.72
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%

Technology Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technology Roadmap relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Technology Roadmap job vacancy trend in Wales

Technology Roadmap
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Technology Roadmap.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Technology Roadmap

Technology Roadmap
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 4 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
South Wales -7 2 - - 4
West Wales - 1 £475 - 1
Technology Roadmap
UK

Technology Roadmap
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) CloudFront
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
General
1 2 (66.67%) Law
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
2 2 (66.67%) Contract Management
2 2 (66.67%) Software Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) UX Design
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft