Strategic Roadmaps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Strategic Roadmap skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Strategic Roadmap over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 268 339
Rank change year-on-year +17 +71 +55
Permanent jobs citing Strategic Roadmap 1,129 1,439 1,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 1.37% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.44% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 472 625 900
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £44,322
25th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,273 £83,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% +10.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £101,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Strategic Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Strategic Roadmap as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Roadmap in the UK

Strategic Roadmap
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Strategic Roadmap.

Salary trend for Strategic Roadmap in the UK

Strategic Roadmap
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Strategic Roadmap over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Strategic Roadmap in the UK

Strategic Roadmap
Top 18 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 26 April 2024. 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 +41 1,006 £78,273 -7.91% 202
Work from Home +12 648 £77,500 -3.13% 77
UK excluding London -62 551 £75,000 -3.23% 103
London +108 541 £95,000 +5.56% 94
South East +19 164 £72,500 -14.71% 30
North of England -51 116 £79,632 +14.67% 25
Scotland -97 77 £95,128 +5.70% 7
South West -35 72 £73,420 +5.64% 6
North West -28 65 £83,600 +20.81% 18
Midlands +4 61 £50,000 -30.90% 21
West Midlands +34 45 £60,000 -21.29% 18
East of England +42 44 £60,000 -29.41% 15
Yorkshire +10 39 £79,632 +14.67% 4
East Midlands -27 16 £37,500 -40.48% 3
North East +7 12 £65,000 +7.17% 3
Wales -12 7 £39,000 -46.21% 1
Northern Ireland +7 6 - - 1
Isle of Man - 4 - - 1

Strategic Roadmap
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 299 (26.48%) SAS
2 44 (3.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 44 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.59%) Confluence
4 9 (0.80%) IIS
5 7 (0.62%) Apache
5 7 (0.62%) CMS
6 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.27%) Alfresco
7 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.27%) Documentum
7 3 (0.27%) FileNet
8 2 (0.18%) Liferay
8 2 (0.18%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.089%) Appian
9 1 (0.089%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.089%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (2.83%) UserZoom
3 12 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.35%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.089%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.089%) InVision
6 1 (0.089%) Sketch
6 1 (0.089%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 306 (27.10%) SAP ERP
2 63 (5.58%) Endur
3 8 (0.71%) Fidessa
4 7 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.35%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.18%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.18%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.089%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 221 (19.57%) Azure
2 120 (10.63%) AWS
3 82 (7.26%) SaaS
4 56 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
5 49 (4.34%) Power Platform
6 47 (4.16%) GCP
7 34 (3.01%) Figma
7 34 (3.01%) PaaS
8 32 (2.83%) SurveyMonkey
9 26 (2.30%) IaaS
10 25 (2.21%) Entra ID
11 21 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (1.51%) Azure API Management
12 17 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
13 15 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (0.97%) PowerApps
15 8 (0.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 7 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
16 7 (0.62%) Azure Service Bus
16 7 (0.62%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 329 (29.14%) Broadband
2 30 (2.66%) 5G
3 24 (2.13%) Firewall
4 20 (1.77%) LAN
5 19 (1.68%) WAN
6 18 (1.59%) Network Security
7 16 (1.42%) TCP/IP
8 12 (1.06%) VLAN
8 12 (1.06%) VPN
9 10 (0.89%) DNS
10 7 (0.62%) DHCP
11 6 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
11 6 (0.53%) SAN
11 6 (0.53%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.44%) BGP
12 5 (0.44%) IPsec
12 5 (0.44%) OSPF
12 5 (0.44%) SSL
12 5 (0.44%) Wireless
12 5 (0.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (8.68%) Data Warehouse
2 61 (5.40%) SQL Server
3 51 (4.52%) Data Lake
4 35 (3.10%) RDBMS
4 35 (3.10%) Relational Database
5 28 (2.48%) NoSQL
6 27 (2.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 26 (2.30%) Metadata
8 23 (2.04%) Power BI
9 17 (1.51%) Big Data
10 12 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (0.80%) MySQL
13 6 (0.53%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.53%) DB2
13 6 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.53%) Tableau
14 5 (0.44%) GIS
15 4 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 3 (0.27%) DTS
Development Applications
1 41 (3.63%) Jenkins
2 25 (2.21%) JIRA
3 17 (1.51%) Git
4 2 (0.18%) Bower
4 2 (0.18%) GoCD
4 2 (0.18%) gulp
4 2 (0.18%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.18%) MLflow
4 2 (0.18%) Moq
4 2 (0.18%) NeoLoad
4 2 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.18%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 1 (0.089%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.089%) Postman
5 1 (0.089%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.089%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.089%) TestRail
General
1 648 (57.40%) Finance
2 611 (54.12%) Social Skills
3 173 (15.32%) Marketing
4 164 (14.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 99 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
6 93 (8.24%) Banking
7 77 (6.82%) Retail
8 63 (5.58%) Law
8 63 (5.58%) Presentation Skills
9 51 (4.52%) Games
10 34 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (2.21%) Public Sector
12 24 (2.13%) Legal
13 17 (1.51%) Advertising
14 12 (1.06%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.06%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
16 9 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (0.71%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.62%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 556 (49.25%) Architect
2 366 (32.42%) Solutions Architect
3 150 (13.29%) Senior
4 81 (7.17%) Consultant
5 74 (6.55%) Enterprise Architect
6 62 (5.49%) Lead
7 58 (5.14%) Product Manager
8 55 (4.87%) Senior Manager
9 51 (4.52%) Analyst
10 43 (3.81%) Data Architect
11 39 (3.45%) Developer
12 32 (2.83%) User Experience Researcher
13 31 (2.75%) Senior Architect
14 28 (2.48%) Principal Architect
15 27 (2.39%) Senior Consultant
15 27 (2.39%) Technical Architect
16 26 (2.30%) Business Analyst
17 24 (2.13%) Endur Manager
17 24 (2.13%) Security Architect
17 24 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.81%) .NET
2 24 (2.13%) React
3 22 (1.95%) HTML
4 20 (1.77%) OpenID
5 13 (1.15%) .NET Core
5 13 (1.15%) ASP.NET
6 11 (0.97%) ASP.NET Core
6 11 (0.97%) Entity Framework
7 10 (0.89%) Node.js
7 10 (0.89%) Spring
8 9 (0.80%) Hibernate
8 9 (0.80%) Spring MVC
9 8 (0.71%) .NET Framework
9 8 (0.71%) CSS
9 8 (0.71%) Middleware
9 8 (0.71%) REST
9 8 (0.71%) XML
10 6 (0.53%) JSON
10 6 (0.53%) LDAP
10 6 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 94 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 57 (5.05%) Management Information System
3 35 (3.10%) Swaptions
4 22 (1.95%) Public Cloud
5 21 (1.86%) Mainframe
6 20 (1.77%) Blockchain
7 18 (1.59%) Data Centre
7 18 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (1.33%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.24%) Cyberattack
10 13 (1.15%) Cloud Native
11 11 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (0.80%) Algorithms
12 9 (0.80%) Reinsurance
12 9 (0.80%) Security Posture
13 8 (0.71%) CMDB
13 8 (0.71%) Onboarding
13 8 (0.71%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.62%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 50 (4.43%) Windows
2 25 (2.21%) Unix
3 24 (2.13%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.15%) Windows 10
5 10 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.80%) Android
7 8 (0.71%) Linux
8 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,129 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 648 (57.40%) Agile
3 407 (36.05%) Enterprise Architecture
4 335 (29.67%) ERP
5 332 (29.41%) TOGAF
6 331 (29.32%) Data Management
7 326 (28.88%) Change Management
8 307 (27.19%) Performance Management
9 159 (14.08%) Analytics
10 150 (13.29%) Mentoring
11 149 (13.20%) IT Strategy
12 134 (11.87%) Problem-Solving
13 104 (9.21%) SDLC
14 103 (9.12%) DevOps
15 102 (9.03%) Data Architecture
15 102 (9.03%) Technology Strategy
16 100 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 100 (8.86%) Data Analytics
17 98 (8.68%) Data Modelling
18 97 (8.59%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (5.67%) Java
2 57 (5.05%) SQL
3 53 (4.69%) Python
4 37 (3.28%) VB
5 35 (3.10%) PowerShell
6 33 (2.92%) C#
7 17 (1.51%) JavaScript
7 17 (1.51%) TypeScript
8 15 (1.33%) R
9 8 (0.71%) Go
10 7 (0.62%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.53%) Bash
12 5 (0.44%) PHP
13 4 (0.35%) RPG
14 3 (0.27%) C
15 2 (0.18%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.18%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.18%) VBA
15 2 (0.18%) XAML
16 1 (0.089%) Rust
Qualifications
1 194 (17.18%) Degree
2 47 (4.16%) Master's Degree
3 36 (3.19%) Azure Certification
4 35 (3.10%) Security Cleared
5 34 (3.01%) MBA
6 23 (2.04%) AWS Certification
7 22 (1.95%) CISSP
8 19 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (1.51%) SC Cleared
10 16 (1.42%) DV Cleared
11 12 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.53%) CCIE
13 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.44%) CCNP
14 5 (0.44%) JNCIE
14 5 (0.44%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.35%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 32 (2.83%) Actionable Recommendations
3 25 (2.21%) GDPR
4 20 (1.77%) QA
5 17 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (0.80%) NIST
6 9 (0.80%) SLA
7 7 (0.62%) PMO
8 5 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.35%) COBIT
9 4 (0.35%) GRC
10 3 (0.27%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.18%) WCAG
12 1 (0.089%) FISMA
12 1 (0.089%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.089%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.089%) NCSC
System Software
1 30 (2.66%) Active Directory
2 18 (1.59%) Docker
3 9 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.18%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (3.19%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.68%) Terraform
3 18 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (1.06%) Ansible
5 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.27%) SCCM
7 2 (0.18%) Grafana
7 2 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Identity Management
8 1 (0.089%) Consul
Vendors
1 350 (31.00%) Oracle
2 321 (28.43%) SAP
3 299 (26.48%) Anaplan
3 299 (26.48%) Hyperion
4 149 (13.20%) Microsoft
5 35 (3.10%) OpenLink
5 35 (3.10%) Sybase
5 35 (3.10%) TIBCO
6 32 (2.83%) Qualtrics
7 31 (2.75%) ServiceNow
8 30 (2.66%) Virgin Media
9 25 (2.21%) Google
10 17 (1.51%) BiZZdesign
10 17 (1.51%) Cisco
10 17 (1.51%) Salesforce
10 17 (1.51%) VMware
11 14 (1.24%) Databricks
12 13 (1.15%) Citrix
13 10 (0.89%) iManage
14 8 (0.71%) Meraki