Product Roadmap Contracts

Product Roadmaps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Product Roadmap skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Roadmap over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 354 350 355
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 +23
Contract jobs citing Product Roadmap 231 429 663
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.73% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.81% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 318 494
10th Percentile £381 £440 £413
25th Percentile £475 £461 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £655 £638 £638
90th Percentile £749 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £536
% change year-on-year - -2.10% +17.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £47.75 £46.58 -
25th Percentile £57.71 £61.64 £36.25
Median hourly rate £66.00 £82.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +120.00% -18.92%
75th Percentile £68.75 £90.00 £41.75
90th Percentile - - £43.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £90.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product 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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Product Roadmap
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Roadmap in the UK

Product Roadmap
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Roadmap.

Daily rate trend for Product Roadmap in the UK

Product Roadmap
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Roadmap over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Roadmap in the UK

Product Roadmap
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Roadmap.

Hourly rate trend for Product Roadmap in the UK

Product Roadmap
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Roadmap over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Roadmap in the UK

Product Roadmap
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Roadmap within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -9 199 £575 +4.55% 298
London +48 116 £600 - 130
UK excluding London -33 96 £525 - 172
Work from Home +22 73 £506 -4.98% 146
South East +5 43 £525 +6.06% 52
North of England -2 20 £763 +41.53% 47
Scotland -2 20 £473 -3.22% 17
North West +24 16 £850 +51.11% 25
Midlands +29 11 £550 - 14
West Midlands +20 9 £550 -6.38% 13
South West +22 3 £409 -9.11% 25
Yorkshire -6 3 £525 -0.47% 14
East Midlands +17 2 £388 -26.19% 1
North East +17 1 £525 -19.23% 8

Product 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 5 (2.16%) Confluence
2 3 (1.30%) ArcGIS
2 3 (1.30%) CMS
2 3 (1.30%) SAS
3 2 (0.87%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.43%) Drupal
4 1 (0.43%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.43%) Kentico
4 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.43%) Blender
3 1 (0.43%) Houdini
3 1 (0.43%) Maya
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Aladdin
1 2 (0.87%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.43%) SAP APO
2 1 (0.43%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.43%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.43%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (11.69%) AWS
2 26 (11.26%) Azure
3 12 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (4.76%) OpenShift
5 10 (4.33%) SaaS
6 9 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (3.90%) Serverless
7 8 (3.46%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.03%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.60%) GitHub
9 6 (2.60%) PaaS
10 5 (2.16%) GCP
11 4 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.73%) SuccessFactors
12 3 (1.30%) IaaS
13 2 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (0.87%) Google App Engine
14 1 (0.43%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.36%) Firewall
2 10 (4.33%) VPN
3 4 (1.73%) DHCP
3 4 (1.73%) DNS
4 2 (0.87%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.87%) WAN
4 2 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.43%) 3G
5 1 (0.43%) 4G
5 1 (0.43%) 5G
5 1 (0.43%) Broadband
5 1 (0.43%) DSL
5 1 (0.43%) Intranet
5 1 (0.43%) LAN
5 1 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.43%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (3.90%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (3.03%) Data Lake
3 7 (3.03%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.03%) Power BI
4 6 (2.60%) Big Data
5 4 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.73%) GIS
5 4 (1.73%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.30%) OLAP
6 3 (1.30%) OLTP
6 3 (1.30%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.30%) Spatial Data
6 3 (1.30%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.87%) Parquet
8 1 (0.43%) QGIS
8 1 (0.43%) Redis
8 1 (0.43%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (7.79%) JIRA
2 9 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.30%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.43%) Git
4 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 66 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 49 (21.21%) Finance
3 36 (15.58%) Public Sector
4 30 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (11.69%) Marketing
6 20 (8.66%) Legal
7 15 (6.49%) Retail
8 13 (5.63%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (5.19%) Telecoms
10 10 (4.33%) Billing
11 9 (3.90%) Military
11 9 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.60%) Banking
12 6 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (2.16%) Health Technology
13 5 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (2.16%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.73%) Advertising
15 3 (1.30%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 54 (23.38%) Product Manager
2 37 (16.02%) Product Owner
3 33 (14.29%) Senior
4 31 (13.42%) Architect
5 22 (9.52%) Lead
6 16 (6.93%) Analyst
7 13 (5.63%) Delivery Manager
8 12 (5.19%) Technical Architect
8 12 (5.19%) Technical Leader
9 11 (4.76%) Business Analyst
9 11 (4.76%) Developer
10 10 (4.33%) Lead Architect
11 9 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.46%) Consultant
12 8 (3.46%) Senior Manager
13 7 (3.03%) Data Architect
14 6 (2.60%) Project Manager
14 6 (2.60%) Senior Analyst
14 6 (2.60%) Senior Business Analyst
15 5 (2.16%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.36%) Node.js
2 10 (4.33%) CSS
2 10 (4.33%) React
3 9 (3.90%) AWS CDK
3 9 (3.90%) HTML
3 9 (3.90%) Spring
3 9 (3.90%) Spring Boot
4 5 (2.16%) OAuth
4 5 (2.16%) REST
5 4 (1.73%) JSON
5 4 (1.73%) JSON Schema
5 4 (1.73%) OAuth2
5 4 (1.73%) Spring Security
5 4 (1.73%) YAML
6 3 (1.30%) LDAP
6 3 (1.30%) Middleware
6 3 (1.30%) Spring MVC
6 3 (1.30%) Spring Web Flow
6 3 (1.30%) Thymeleaf
7 2 (0.87%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 83 (35.93%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.33%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.46%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.60%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.73%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.73%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.30%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.30%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.30%) CMDB
8 3 (1.30%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.30%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.30%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.63%) Windows
2 11 (4.76%) Android
2 11 (4.76%) Apple iOS
2 11 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 10 (4.33%) Linux
4 3 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.30%) Solaris
5 2 (0.87%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.87%) Unix
5 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 117 (50.65%) Agile
3 52 (22.51%) Product Management
4 45 (19.48%) Product Backlog
4 45 (19.48%) Scrum
5 42 (18.18%) User Stories
6 41 (17.75%) Product Strategy
7 38 (16.45%) User Experience
8 37 (16.02%) Analytics
8 37 (16.02%) Project Management
9 36 (15.58%) DevOps
10 34 (14.72%) Backlog Management
10 34 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (12.99%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 28 (12.12%) Decision-Making
13 25 (10.82%) Product Requirements
14 24 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (10.39%) Product Vision
14 24 (10.39%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (9.96%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 16 (6.93%) Python
2 15 (6.49%) JavaScript
3 14 (6.06%) Java
3 14 (6.06%) SQL
4 13 (5.63%) TypeScript
5 6 (2.60%) Bash
6 3 (1.30%) C++
7 2 (0.87%) C
7 2 (0.87%) Go
7 2 (0.87%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.87%) VBScript
8 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.43%) Perl
8 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 49 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 44 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.26%) Degree
4 16 (6.93%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.76%) PMP
6 9 (3.90%) PMI Certification
7 8 (3.46%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.60%) MBA
9 3 (1.30%) CSPO
10 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.87%) CBAP
11 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.43%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.43%) IIBA
11 1 (0.43%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.93%) Accessibility
2 11 (4.76%) QA
3 8 (3.46%) PMO
4 6 (2.60%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.16%) SLA
6 4 (1.73%) GDPR
7 2 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.43%) GRC
8 1 (0.43%) GxP
System Software
1 12 (5.19%) Docker
2 3 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.30%) VMware NSX
2 3 (1.30%) vSphere
3 2 (0.87%) Ceph
3 2 (0.87%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.87%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (3.90%) Kubernetes
1 9 (3.90%) Terraform
2 7 (3.03%) Grafana
3 6 (2.60%) Ansible
4 3 (1.30%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (0.87%) Kibana
5 2 (0.87%) Pacemaker
5 2 (0.87%) Podman
5 2 (0.87%) SCCM
6 1 (0.43%) Argo
6 1 (0.43%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.43%) Puppet
6 1 (0.43%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.43%) SELinux
6 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.43%) vRealize
6 1 (0.43%) VxRail
Vendors
1 20 (8.66%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.63%) ServiceNow
3 9 (3.90%) Oracle
4 8 (3.46%) SAP
5 7 (3.03%) Google
5 7 (3.03%) VMware
6 6 (2.60%) SolarWinds
7 5 (2.16%) Apple
7 5 (2.16%) Citrix
7 5 (2.16%) Informatica
7 5 (2.16%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.16%) Workday
8 4 (1.73%) Databricks
9 3 (1.30%) ESRI
10 2 (0.87%) Adobe
10 2 (0.87%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.87%) Charles River
10 2 (0.87%) Sun
10 2 (0.87%) Symantec