Technology Roadmap Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Technology Roadmaps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Technology Roadmap skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 262 271
Rank change year-on-year +16 +9 -66
Permanent jobs citing Technology Roadmap 299 353 362
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.71% 0.98% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.10% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 129 205 202
10th Percentile £48,500 £42,500 £42,798
25th Percentile £62,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -6.40% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £79,600 £91,875
90th Percentile £98,750 £96,500 £117,236
UK median annual salary £81,924 £72,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +13.00% -12.12% +10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Technology Roadmap falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Technology Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Technology Roadmap relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Technology Roadmap job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Technology Roadmap
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Technology Roadmap.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Technology Roadmap

Technology Roadmap
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technology Roadmap in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Technology Roadmap in the UK excluding London

Technology Roadmap
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technology Roadmap within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -23 74 £75,000 +22.54% 49
Scotland -1 67 £65,000 -40.91% 9
Midlands +34 60 £82,500 +17.86% 32
East of England +48 51 £75,000 -6.25% 31
Yorkshire -20 35 £90,000 +80.00% 18
South East +40 34 £65,000 +15.03% 77
West Midlands +26 32 £86,250 +16.95% 14
East Midlands 0 28 £40,000 -38.46% 17
North West -14 24 £71,250 -1.03% 24
North East +20 14 £75,000 +22.54% 7
South West -19 7 £70,000 +12.00% 19
Wales -12 4 £90,000 +19.36% 13
Northern Ireland -10 2 - - 5
Technology Roadmap
UK

Technology Roadmap
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 35 (11.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (7.36%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.67%) Confluence
3 2 (0.67%) IIS
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.33%) CMS
4 1 (0.33%) Site Server
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.34%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.67%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.67%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.33%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 114 (38.13%) Azure
2 59 (19.73%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (16.39%) AWS
4 41 (13.71%) Entra ID
5 21 (7.02%) Azure Logic Apps
6 17 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (5.35%) Microsoft Purview
7 16 (5.35%) Power Platform
8 13 (4.35%) SaaS
9 12 (4.01%) GCP
10 10 (3.34%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (2.68%) Mimecast
11 8 (2.68%) PowerApps
12 5 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.67%) OneDrive
13 3 (1.00%) Power Automate
14 2 (0.67%) Azure Service Bus
14 2 (0.67%) GitHub
14 2 (0.67%) PaaS
14 2 (0.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.70%) Broadband
2 10 (3.34%) Firewall
3 5 (1.67%) WAN
4 4 (1.34%) LAN
4 4 (1.34%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.34%) VLAN
4 4 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.67%) Internet
6 2 (0.67%) Network Security
6 2 (0.67%) SAN
6 2 (0.67%) VoIP
7 1 (0.33%) DHCP
7 1 (0.33%) DNS
7 1 (0.33%) GSM
7 1 (0.33%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.33%) LTE
7 1 (0.33%) SNMP
7 1 (0.33%) TETRA
7 1 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.01%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.01%) MySQL
3 9 (3.01%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.01%) Big Data
5 6 (2.01%) Hadoop
5 6 (2.01%) Power BI
6 5 (1.67%) Neo4j
7 2 (0.67%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 17 (5.69%) Jenkins
2 16 (5.35%) GitLab
3 15 (5.02%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.00%) Git
4 3 (1.00%) JIRA
5 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
General
1 91 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 71 (23.75%) Finance
3 41 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.03%) Games
5 26 (8.70%) Marketing
6 23 (7.69%) Retail
7 15 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (4.68%) Telecoms
9 12 (4.01%) Publishing
10 10 (3.34%) Manufacturing
11 9 (3.01%) Public Sector
12 8 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (2.01%) Law
14 4 (1.34%) Legal
15 3 (1.00%) Electronics
15 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.67%) Agriculture
16 2 (0.67%) General Ledger
16 2 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
17 1 (0.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 106 (35.45%) Lead
2 70 (23.41%) Architect
3 36 (12.04%) Senior
4 27 (9.03%) Developer
5 21 (7.02%) Enterprise Architect
5 21 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (6.69%) Solutions Architect
7 14 (4.68%) Salesforce Architect
7 14 (4.68%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (4.01%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (4.01%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (4.01%) Lead Developer
8 12 (4.01%) SAP Architect
8 12 (4.01%) Software Developer
9 11 (3.68%) Technical Architect
10 10 (3.34%) Lead Software Developer
11 9 (3.01%) ERP Architect
11 9 (3.01%) SAP Enterprise Architect
11 9 (3.01%) Systems Architect
12 8 (2.68%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.69%) REST
2 16 (5.35%) .NET
2 16 (5.35%) SOAP
3 15 (5.02%) Lightning Web Components
3 15 (5.02%) Visualforce
4 12 (4.01%) React
5 8 (2.68%) RESTful
6 7 (2.34%) .NET Framework
6 7 (2.34%) CSS
6 7 (2.34%) HTML
7 5 (1.67%) ASP.NET
7 5 (1.67%) Flutter
8 4 (1.34%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.34%) Node.js
8 4 (1.34%) React Native
9 2 (0.67%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (0.67%) Web Services
9 2 (0.67%) YAML
10 1 (0.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 65 (21.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 65 (21.74%) Cyber Threat
1 65 (21.74%) Operational Technology
1 65 (21.74%) Security Operations Centre
2 53 (17.73%) Product Ownership
3 16 (5.35%) Security Posture
4 15 (5.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.68%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (2.01%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.67%) Cyber Security Posture
7 5 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.34%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.34%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.34%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.00%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.00%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.67%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.03%) Windows
2 21 (7.02%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.67%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.34%) Linux
5 1 (0.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 121 (40.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 112 (37.46%) Business Strategy
4 103 (34.45%) ITIL
5 101 (33.78%) Coaching
6 98 (32.78%) Mentoring
7 92 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 84 (28.09%) Agile
9 77 (25.75%) Vulnerability Management
10 71 (23.75%) Risk Management
11 69 (23.08%) Security Operations
12 66 (22.07%) SABSA
13 65 (21.74%) Change Advisory Board
13 65 (21.74%) Cyber Intelligence
13 65 (21.74%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 65 (21.74%) IT Strategy
13 65 (21.74%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
13 65 (21.74%) Threat Intelligence
14 55 (18.39%) Technology Strategy
15 52 (17.39%) AI
Programming Languages
1 41 (13.71%) Python
2 33 (11.04%) PowerShell
3 20 (6.69%) Bash
4 18 (6.02%) SQL
5 15 (5.02%) Apex Code
5 15 (5.02%) C#
5 15 (5.02%) SOQL
5 15 (5.02%) SOSL
6 11 (3.68%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.34%) Java
7 7 (2.34%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.67%) Go
8 5 (1.67%) Scala
9 4 (1.34%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.67%) Bicep
10 2 (0.67%) C
10 2 (0.67%) C++
10 2 (0.67%) PHP
11 1 (0.33%) Delphi
11 1 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 43 (14.38%) Degree
2 18 (6.02%) AWS Certification
3 16 (5.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 16 (5.35%) Security Cleared
4 14 (4.68%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.01%) TOGAF Certification
6 10 (3.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.01%) Master's Degree
8 8 (2.68%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.67%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (1.00%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.67%) CISSP
13 2 (0.67%) MBA
14 1 (0.33%) ACCA
14 1 (0.33%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (25.08%) NIST
2 69 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 65 (21.74%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 21 (7.02%) PMO
5 7 (2.34%) QA
6 6 (2.01%) GDPR
7 5 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (1.34%) SLA
9 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.33%) GRC
10 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 26 (8.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (5.69%) Docker
4 11 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.00%) Firmware
7 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.33%) HDFS
8 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (11.04%) Microsoft Intune
1 33 (11.04%) Terraform
2 9 (3.01%) SCCM
3 6 (2.01%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.34%) Autotask
5 1 (0.33%) Ansible
5 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 57 (19.06%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.02%) Salesforce
2 18 (6.02%) SAP
3 15 (5.02%) Splunk
4 14 (4.68%) VMware
5 11 (3.68%) Oracle
5 11 (3.68%) Workday
6 5 (1.67%) Progress
7 2 (0.67%) Cisco
7 2 (0.67%) Google
7 2 (0.67%) SonicWALL
8 1 (0.33%) Altera
8 1 (0.33%) Huawei
8 1 (0.33%) Juniper
8 1 (0.33%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.33%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.33%) Xilinx