Strategic Roadmap Job Trends

Strategic Roadmaps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Strategic Roadmap skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 353 327
Rank change year-on-year -26 -26 -21
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Roadmap 350 339 735
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.79% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.84% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 253 235 482
10th Percentile £60,217 £51,250 £48,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £84,335 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% +5.91% -0.82%
75th Percentile £108,750 £100,000 £103,750
90th Percentile £119,750 £125,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £73,000 £78,273
% change year-on-year +9.59% -6.74% +7.96%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Strategic 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58,145 40,321 73,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.92% 93.51% 87.23%
Number of salaries quoted 35,200 22,427 56,120
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,925 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £44,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Strategic Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Strategic Roadmap relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Strategic Roadmap job vacancy trend in the UK

Strategic Roadmap
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Strategic Roadmap.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Strategic Roadmap

Strategic Roadmap
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategic Roadmap over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Strategic Roadmap in the UK

Strategic Roadmap
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Roadmap within the UK over the 6 months to 16 March 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
England -4 321 £91,250 +10.61% 132
London +45 178 £100,000 +11.11% 59
UK excluding London -81 146 £80,000 +9.59% 101
Work from Home +12 100 £82,038 +0.97% 55
North of England -47 41 £95,000 +31.03% 18
South West -32 31 £74,683 +6.69% 15
Midlands -34 26 £80,000 +18.52% 14
South East -10 25 £65,000 -23.53% 45
Yorkshire -38 20 £85,000 -10.53% 7
West Midlands -19 19 £76,250 +5.17% 11
North West -30 15 £90,500 +27.02% 10
Scotland -35 13 £87,500 -7.89% 2
East of England -13 7 £77,500 +3.33% 7
East Midlands -38 7 £80,000 +33.33% 3
North East -20 6 £105,000 +78.72% 1
Wales -17 2 £86,250 +73.37% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £65,000 - 2

Strategic Roadmap
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 13 (3.71%) Confluence
2 11 (3.14%) JBoss
2 11 (3.14%) WebSphere
3 9 (2.57%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.29%) Apache Spark
5 7 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.14%) Documentum
7 3 (0.86%) CMS
7 3 (0.86%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.86%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.29%) Carpe Diem
5 1 (0.29%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.29%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP PLM
5 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 75 (21.43%) Azure
2 50 (14.29%) SaaS
3 44 (12.57%) Power Platform
4 43 (12.29%) AWS
5 25 (7.14%) GitHub
6 22 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (6.00%) Entra ID
8 20 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (5.14%) GCP
10 13 (3.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (3.71%) Snowflake
11 12 (3.43%) PaaS
12 11 (3.14%) Power Automate
13 10 (2.86%) Nutanix
14 9 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (2.00%) dbt
15 7 (2.00%) Serverless
16 6 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
17 5 (1.43%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.00%) WAN
2 16 (4.57%) SD-WAN
3 15 (4.29%) Firewall
4 7 (2.00%) VPN
5 5 (1.43%) DNS
6 4 (1.14%) DHCP
7 2 (0.57%) BGP
7 2 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.57%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.57%) LAN
7 2 (0.57%) MPLS
7 2 (0.57%) Network Security
7 2 (0.57%) OSPF
7 2 (0.57%) SSL
7 2 (0.57%) VLAN
8 1 (0.29%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.29%) DKIM
8 1 (0.29%) DMARC
8 1 (0.29%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.86%) Power BI
2 23 (6.57%) Data Lake
3 22 (6.29%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (4.29%) Metadata
5 10 (2.86%) Tableau
6 8 (2.29%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.71%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.43%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.43%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.14%) DataStage
9 4 (1.14%) Qlik Sense
9 4 (1.14%) QlikView
10 2 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.57%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.57%) MySQL
10 2 (0.57%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.29%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 24 (6.86%) Jenkins
2 21 (6.00%) JIRA
3 4 (1.14%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.14%) ERwin
3 4 (1.14%) Git
3 4 (1.14%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (0.57%) MLflow
5 1 (0.29%) Appium
5 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.29%) Selenium
General
1 158 (45.14%) Finance
2 142 (40.57%) Social Skills
3 50 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (12.00%) Marketing
5 31 (8.86%) Legal
6 24 (6.86%) Retail
7 20 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
8 19 (5.43%) Law
9 18 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (4.29%) Manufacturing
11 11 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (2.86%) Banking
13 8 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.71%) Public Sector
14 6 (1.71%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.43%) Financial Institution
16 4 (1.14%) Digital Health
16 4 (1.14%) Retail Banking
17 3 (0.86%) Local Government
18 2 (0.57%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 92 (26.29%) Architect
2 60 (17.14%) Senior
3 33 (9.43%) Lead
4 26 (7.43%) Enterprise Architect
5 25 (7.14%) Senior Architect
6 23 (6.57%) Product Manager
7 21 (6.00%) Analyst
8 20 (5.71%) Applications Engineer
8 20 (5.71%) Product Owner
8 20 (5.71%) Security Engineer
8 20 (5.71%) Senior Manager
8 20 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (4.29%) Data Architect
10 14 (4.00%) Head of Security
11 13 (3.71%) Business Analyst
12 11 (3.14%) Consultant
12 11 (3.14%) Lead Architect
13 10 (2.86%) Head of IT
14 8 (2.29%) IT Manager
14 8 (2.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.86%) .NET
2 16 (4.57%) Middleware
2 16 (4.57%) REST
2 16 (4.57%) Spring
3 12 (3.43%) SOAP
4 11 (3.14%) GraphQL
4 11 (3.14%) Hibernate
5 8 (2.29%) Kafka
6 7 (2.00%) CSS
6 7 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (1.43%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.14%) JSON
8 4 (1.14%) OAuth
8 4 (1.14%) OpenID
8 4 (1.14%) SAML
8 4 (1.14%) XML
9 2 (0.57%) EDI
9 2 (0.57%) Node.js
9 2 (0.57%) PySpark
9 2 (0.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 58 (16.57%) Product Ownership
2 33 (9.43%) Cloud Native
3 22 (6.29%) Management Information System
4 20 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (4.57%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.14%) DataPower
8 9 (2.57%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (2.29%) Low-Code
10 7 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (2.00%) Fixed Income
10 7 (2.00%) Reinsurance
10 7 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.71%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.71%) IoT
12 5 (1.43%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.43%) Data Fabric
12 5 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.14%) Linux
2 3 (0.86%) Windows
3 2 (0.57%) VMS
4 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 107 (30.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 94 (26.86%) Agile
4 93 (26.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 87 (24.86%) AI
6 75 (21.43%) Analytics
7 68 (19.43%) Decision-Making
8 53 (15.14%) Data Governance
9 50 (14.29%) Data Modelling
10 47 (13.43%) IT Strategy
11 46 (13.14%) Business Intelligence
12 44 (12.57%) DevOps
13 43 (12.29%) Data Architecture
13 43 (12.29%) Product Strategy
14 38 (10.86%) Business Strategy
14 38 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
14 38 (10.86%) Technology Strategy
15 37 (10.57%) Machine Learning
16 36 (10.29%) Project Management
16 36 (10.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 43 (12.29%) SQL
2 40 (11.43%) Python
3 24 (6.86%) PowerShell
4 22 (6.29%) Bash
5 16 (4.57%) Java
6 10 (2.86%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.14%) C#
8 2 (0.57%) Bicep
8 2 (0.57%) Go
8 2 (0.57%) Ruby
9 1 (0.29%) ABAP
9 1 (0.29%) PHP
9 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 46 (13.14%) Degree
2 41 (11.71%) CISSP
3 24 (6.86%) SANS
4 20 (5.71%) CREST Certified
5 16 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.29%) CISM
7 14 (4.00%) Security Cleared
8 13 (3.71%) CISA
9 12 (3.43%) Master's Degree
10 9 (2.57%) AWS Certification
10 9 (2.57%) Azure Certification
11 7 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (2.00%) PMI Certification
12 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.71%) SC Cleared
13 5 (1.43%) DBS Check
14 4 (1.14%) CITP
14 4 (1.14%) GIAC
14 4 (1.14%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.86%) Data Quality
2 29 (8.29%) Accessibility
3 19 (5.43%) GDPR
4 17 (4.86%) NIST
5 16 (4.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 14 (4.00%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.29%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (2.29%) QA
8 5 (1.43%) MiFID
9 4 (1.14%) GRC
10 3 (0.86%) SLA
11 2 (0.57%) WCAG
12 1 (0.29%) GMP
12 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (3.43%) Docker
2 5 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (5.43%) Terraform
2 15 (4.29%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.86%) CASB
3 10 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (2.29%) Ansible
5 7 (2.00%) SCCM
6 5 (1.43%) Grafana
6 5 (1.43%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.86%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 57 (16.29%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 20 (5.71%) Google
4 14 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.43%) Oracle
6 10 (2.86%) SAP
7 9 (2.57%) Databricks
8 8 (2.29%) Workday
9 7 (2.00%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.71%) Intapp
11 5 (1.43%) Cisco
11 5 (1.43%) Concur
11 5 (1.43%) GoldenSource
11 5 (1.43%) Informatica
12 4 (1.14%) ForgeRock
12 4 (1.14%) HubSpot
12 4 (1.14%) IBM
12 4 (1.14%) OpenText
12 4 (1.14%) Pega
12 4 (1.14%) Sage