Product Roadmap Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Product Roadmaps
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Product Roadmap skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 102 119
Rank change year-on-year -10 +17 +52
Contract jobs citing Product Roadmap 16 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.87% 0.48% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.58% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 4
10th Percentile £426 £390 -
25th Percentile £468 £431 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £655 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +19.09% +2.33% -1.38%
75th Percentile £744 £735 £550
90th Percentile £800 £824 -
England median daily rate £510 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -11.30% +4.55% -7.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Product 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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,651 1,557 1,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.34% 82.60% 85.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,057 980 1,178
10th Percentile £250 £231 £263
25th Percentile £400 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £683 £725 £725
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 39 54
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £14.83
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.38 £20.92
Median hourly rate £23.00 £24.18 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -12.07% +56.16%
75th Percentile £33.88 £35.00 £46.56
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.65 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

Product Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Product Roadmap as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Product Roadmap in the West Midlands

Product Roadmap
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Product Roadmap.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Product Roadmap

Product Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Roadmap in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Roadmap in the West Midlands

Product Roadmap
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Product Roadmap.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Product Roadmap

Product Roadmap
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Roadmap within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Warwickshire +5 13 £625 +21.95% 1
Birmingham -1 2 £800 +8.84% 4
Product Roadmap
England

Product Roadmap
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) PowerFactory
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Maximo
1 1 (6.25%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) TestDirector
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Product Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Product Owner
3 1 (6.25%) Development Director
3 1 (6.25%) Digital Programme Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Innovation Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Operations Director
3 1 (6.25%) Portfolio Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Programme Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Product Ownership
2 3 (18.75%) Algorithms
2 3 (18.75%) PKI
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 10 (62.50%) Agile
3 8 (50.00%) Product Management
3 8 (50.00%) Product Vision
4 7 (43.75%) User Stories
5 5 (31.25%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 4 (25.00%) Cryptography
6 4 (25.00%) Programme Management
6 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery
6 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (25.00%) User Experience
7 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (18.75%) Key Management
7 3 (18.75%) Product Strategy
7 3 (18.75%) Project Management
7 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery Management
7 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (18.75%) Strategic Roadmap
8 2 (12.50%) Impact Assessments
8 2 (12.50%) Product Backlog
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) CISM
2 2 (12.50%) CISSP
2 2 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) BC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) CEH
3 1 (6.25%) CRISC
3 1 (6.25%) CSSLP
3 1 (6.25%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) FIPS 140-2
1 4 (25.00%) GDPR
1 4 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (12.50%) NIST
2 2 (12.50%) PMO
3 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.25%) QA
3 1 (6.25%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Apple
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) Workday