Technology Roadmap Contracts in the West Midlands

Technology Roadmaps
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 114 117
Rank change year-on-year +17 +3 +47
Contract jobs citing Technology Roadmap 5 1 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.35% 0.052% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.062% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 8
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £475 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £599 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.13%
75th Percentile £600 - £700
90th Percentile £600 - -
England median daily rate £600 £615 £675
% change year-on-year -2.52% -8.89% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,253 1,610 1,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.80% 82.95% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 1,077 1,325
10th Percentile £200 £267 £263
25th Percentile £375 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £606
90th Percentile £663 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 116 49
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.22 £13.70
Median hourly rate £21.03 £22.50 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% +7.30% +24.64%
75th Percentile £31.19 £40.81 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £48.75
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

Technology Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Roadmap in the West Midlands

Technology Roadmap
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Technology Roadmap in the West Midlands

Technology Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Roadmap in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Roadmap in the West Midlands

Technology 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 Technology Roadmap within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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
Solihull - 3 £600 - 1
Staffordshire - 1 - - 3
Birmingham - 1 £350 - 4
Technology Roadmap
England

Technology 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Compliance Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Compliance Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Compliance Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Functional Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Functional Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) ArchiMate
3 2 (40.00%) Architecture Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Domain Models
3 2 (40.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Quality Management
3 2 (40.00%) Sequence Diagram
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (40.00%) UML
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks