Strategic Roadmap Contracts with Work from Home Options

Strategic Roadmaps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Strategic Roadmap skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Strategic Roadmap over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 309 405
Rank change year-on-year +71 +96 -23
Contract jobs citing Strategic Roadmap 108 165 222
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.71% 0.64% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.72% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 108 155
10th Percentile £411 £456 £463
25th Percentile £525 £495 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £550 £603
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% -8.71% +9.55%
75th Percentile £778 £724 £681
90th Percentile £895 £800 £733
UK median daily rate £630 £600 £613
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.04% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £33.30 - -
25th Percentile £52.15 - -
Median hourly rate £83.55 - -
75th Percentile £84.67 - -
90th Percentile £85.33 - -
UK median hourly rate £71.45 - £35.61

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Strategic Roadmap is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,390 22,975 40,674
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.75% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,954 16,256 29,514
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 528 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.00 £30.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Strategic Roadmap
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Strategic Roadmap as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Strategic Roadmap trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Strategic Roadmap.

Strategic Roadmap daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Strategic Roadmap over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Strategic Roadmap daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Strategic Roadmap.

Strategic Roadmap hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Strategic Roadmap over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Strategic Roadmap hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Strategic Roadmap
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.56%) IIS
2 4 (3.70%) CMS
2 4 (3.70%) Confluence
3 3 (2.78%) Apache
3 3 (2.78%) WebLogic
3 3 (2.78%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.78%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.93%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 8 (7.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (2.78%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.93%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.93%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.93%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.93%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.93%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.93%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 24 (22.22%) Azure
2 9 (8.33%) AWS
3 8 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (3.70%) GCP
5 4 (3.70%) GitHub
5 4 (3.70%) SaaS
6 3 (2.78%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.85%) Asana
7 2 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.85%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.93%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.93%) Serverless
8 1 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.93%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.48%) WAN
2 6 (5.56%) Firewall
2 6 (5.56%) Network Security
3 4 (3.70%) DHCP
3 4 (3.70%) DNS
3 4 (3.70%) Junos
3 4 (3.70%) SDH
3 4 (3.70%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.70%) VLAN
3 4 (3.70%) VPN
4 3 (2.78%) LAN
4 3 (2.78%) SAN
5 1 (0.93%) Broadband
5 1 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.93%) HTTP
5 1 (0.93%) Internet
5 1 (0.93%) SNMP
5 1 (0.93%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.63%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (4.63%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.78%) DB2
3 2 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.85%) Couchbase
3 2 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.85%) Metadata
3 2 (1.85%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.85%) Power BI
4 1 (0.93%) Big Data
4 1 (0.93%) GIS
4 1 (0.93%) MySQL
4 1 (0.93%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.70%) JIRA
1 4 (3.70%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (2.78%) Git
3 2 (1.85%) GitLab
3 2 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.93%) Selenium
General
1 39 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 28 (25.93%) Finance
3 15 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.48%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.70%) Aeronautics
6 4 (3.70%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.70%) Banking
6 4 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.70%) Marketing
6 4 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.78%) Legal
7 3 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.78%) Police
8 2 (1.85%) Law
8 2 (1.85%) Public Speaking
8 2 (1.85%) Retail
9 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.93%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 43 (39.81%) Architect
2 17 (15.74%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (12.96%) Consultant
4 13 (12.04%) Analyst
5 8 (7.41%) Senior
6 7 (6.48%) SAP Architect
6 7 (6.48%) SAP Solutions Architect
7 6 (5.56%) Product Owner
8 5 (4.63%) Developer
8 5 (4.63%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (4.63%) Lead
8 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Developer
8 5 (4.63%) Security Architect
8 5 (4.63%) Technical Architect
9 4 (3.70%) Business Analyst
9 4 (3.70%) Business Architect
9 4 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 4 (3.70%) Microsoft 365 Architect
9 4 (3.70%) Product Manager
9 4 (3.70%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.70%) Node.js
2 3 (2.78%) .NET
2 3 (2.78%) CSS
2 3 (2.78%) EJB
2 3 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (2.78%) HTML
2 3 (2.78%) J2EE
2 3 (2.78%) JSP
2 3 (2.78%) LDAP
2 3 (2.78%) React
2 3 (2.78%) REST
2 3 (2.78%) Servlets
2 3 (2.78%) Web Services
2 3 (2.78%) XML
3 2 (1.85%) DOM
3 2 (1.85%) Express.js
3 2 (1.85%) Lucene
4 1 (0.93%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.93%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.93%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.63%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.78%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.78%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.85%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.85%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.85%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.93%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (0.93%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.93%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.93%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.63%) Linux
1 5 (4.63%) Windows
2 3 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 28 (25.93%) Agile
3 23 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (17.59%) IT Strategy
5 18 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 16 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (13.89%) Mentoring
7 15 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (13.89%) TOGAF
8 13 (12.04%) Business Strategy
9 12 (11.11%) Computer Science
9 12 (11.11%) Use Case
10 11 (10.19%) Analytics
10 11 (10.19%) Enterprise Architecture
10 11 (10.19%) Information Security
10 11 (10.19%) Product Management
10 11 (10.19%) Technology Strategy
11 10 (9.26%) DevOps
11 10 (9.26%) Scrum
11 10 (9.26%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.19%) Java
2 5 (4.63%) Python
2 5 (4.63%) SQL
3 4 (3.70%) Bash
3 4 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.85%) Go
4 2 (1.85%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.85%) PHP
5 1 (0.93%) C#
5 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (24.07%) Security Cleared
2 19 (17.59%) Degree
2 19 (17.59%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.89%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (9.26%) CISSP
5 8 (7.41%) CCNA
6 7 (6.48%) CCNP
6 7 (6.48%) DV Cleared
7 6 (5.56%) CISM
7 6 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (4.63%) PMP
9 4 (3.70%) APMP
9 4 (3.70%) CEH
9 4 (3.70%) HND
9 4 (3.70%) JNCIA
9 4 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.78%) SANS
11 2 (1.85%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.85%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) QA
2 4 (3.70%) GRC
2 4 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.70%) NIST
3 3 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.85%) GDPR
4 2 (1.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.93%) COBIT
5 1 (0.93%) PMO
5 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (9.26%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.85%) Docker
3 2 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (3.70%) Terraform
2 3 (2.78%) SCCM
3 2 (1.85%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.85%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (0.93%) Nagios
4 1 (0.93%) OpenView
Vendors
1 21 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.26%) SAP
3 6 (5.56%) VMware
4 5 (4.63%) Cisco
5 4 (3.70%) Ciena
5 4 (3.70%) IBM
5 4 (3.70%) Juniper
5 4 (3.70%) Nokia
5 4 (3.70%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.78%) CyberArk
6 3 (2.78%) F5
6 3 (2.78%) Oracle
7 2 (1.85%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.93%) Adobe
8 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.93%) BT
8 1 (0.93%) ESRI
8 1 (0.93%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.93%) Google
8 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds