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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 333 328
Rank change year-on-year -12 -5 +54
Contract jobs citing Product Roadmap 243 404 717
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.72% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.80% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 306 544
10th Percentile £406 £437 £413
25th Percentile £500 £460 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -2.50% +7.84%
75th Percentile £663 £638 £638
90th Percentile £743 £728 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile - £36.92 £37.32
25th Percentile £66.25 £37.48 £38.94
Median hourly rate £67.50 £57.80 £43.24
Median % change year-on-year +16.79% +33.66% +12.31%
75th Percentile £68.75 £82.50 £44.81
90th Percentile - £87.00 £44.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 -

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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
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 1 June 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 +6 213 £600 +9.09% 359
London +37 116 £600 - 176
UK excluding London -30 106 £550 +4.76% 198
Work from Home +6 74 £525 -1.87% 177
South East -2 40 £525 +11.11% 58
North of England +23 38 £621 +18.29% 49
North West +40 34 £627 +22.34% 36
Scotland -13 17 £484 -2.47% 22
Midlands +19 7 £550 - 30
West Midlands +11 6 £550 -6.38% 24
South West +6 4 £409 -25.64% 17
Yorkshire -2 3 £525 -0.94% 9
East Midlands +11 1 £225 -55.00% 6
North East - 1 £525 - 4

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 (2.06%) Confluence
2 3 (1.23%) ArcGIS
2 3 (1.23%) SAS
3 2 (0.82%) CMS
3 2 (0.82%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.41%) Drupal
4 1 (0.41%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.41%) Kentico
4 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Aladdin
1 2 (0.82%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.82%) Relativity
1 2 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.82%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.41%) SAP APO
2 1 (0.41%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.41%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.41%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 32 (13.17%) AWS
2 30 (12.35%) Azure
3 16 (6.58%) SuccessFactors
4 14 (5.76%) SaaS
5 13 (5.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (4.12%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.70%) OpenShift
8 8 (3.29%) GitHub
8 8 (3.29%) Serverless
9 7 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.88%) PaaS
10 6 (2.47%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.06%) GCP
12 4 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.65%) PowerApps
13 3 (1.23%) IaaS
14 2 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 2 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.58%) Firewall
2 10 (4.12%) VPN
3 4 (1.65%) DHCP
3 4 (1.65%) DNS
4 3 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.82%) Network Security
5 2 (0.82%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.82%) WAN
6 1 (0.41%) 3G
6 1 (0.41%) 4G
6 1 (0.41%) 5G
6 1 (0.41%) Broadband
6 1 (0.41%) DSL
6 1 (0.41%) Intranet
6 1 (0.41%) PBX
6 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (4.12%) Data Lake
2 10 (4.12%) Power BI
3 8 (3.29%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (2.88%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.47%) Big Data
5 6 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.65%) GIS
6 4 (1.65%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.23%) OLAP
7 3 (1.23%) OLTP
7 3 (1.23%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.23%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.23%) Spatial Data
8 2 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.82%) Parquet
9 1 (0.41%) QGIS
9 1 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (9.05%) JIRA
2 7 (2.88%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.23%) JUnit
3 3 (1.23%) LoadRunner
4 2 (0.82%) Gatling
4 2 (0.82%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.41%) Git
5 1 (0.41%) JMeter
5 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 69 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 54 (22.22%) Finance
3 35 (14.40%) Public Sector
4 31 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (9.47%) Legal
5 23 (9.47%) Marketing
6 16 (6.58%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (5.35%) Pharmaceutical
8 12 (4.94%) Retail
8 12 (4.94%) Telecoms
9 10 (4.12%) Banking
9 10 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (3.29%) Billing
10 8 (3.29%) Military
11 5 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.06%) Health Technology
11 5 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.06%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.65%) Advertising
13 3 (1.23%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 53 (21.81%) Product Manager
2 42 (17.28%) Senior
3 34 (13.99%) Architect
4 31 (12.76%) Product Owner
5 22 (9.05%) Consultant
5 22 (9.05%) Lead
6 18 (7.41%) Analyst
7 13 (5.35%) Business Analyst
8 12 (4.94%) Delivery Manager
8 12 (4.94%) SAP Consultant
8 12 (4.94%) Technical Architect
9 11 (4.53%) Developer
9 11 (4.53%) Technical Leader
10 10 (4.12%) Lead Architect
11 9 (3.70%) Data Architect
11 9 (3.70%) Senior Manager
11 9 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.29%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.29%) Senior Consultant
13 7 (2.88%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.41%) Node.js
2 9 (3.70%) Spring
2 9 (3.70%) Spring Boot
3 8 (3.29%) React
4 7 (2.88%) AWS CDK
4 7 (2.88%) CSS
5 6 (2.47%) HTML
6 5 (2.06%) Middleware
7 4 (1.65%) JSON
7 4 (1.65%) JSON Schema
7 4 (1.65%) OAuth
7 4 (1.65%) YAML
8 3 (1.23%) LDAP
8 3 (1.23%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.23%) REST
8 3 (1.23%) Spring Security
9 2 (0.82%) ADO
9 2 (0.82%) Apache Avro
9 2 (0.82%) Web Services
9 2 (0.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 77 (31.69%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.94%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.12%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.29%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.47%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.06%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.06%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.65%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.65%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.65%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.23%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.23%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.23%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.17%) Windows
2 11 (4.53%) Android
2 11 (4.53%) Apple iOS
2 11 (4.53%) Windows Server
3 10 (4.12%) Linux
4 3 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.23%) Solaris
5 2 (0.82%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.82%) Unix
5 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 117 (48.15%) Agile
3 52 (21.40%) Product Management
4 46 (18.93%) Scrum
5 44 (18.11%) Product Backlog
6 42 (17.28%) DevOps
6 42 (17.28%) Product Strategy
7 40 (16.46%) User Stories
8 38 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (15.23%) Analytics
10 35 (14.40%) Project Management
11 34 (13.99%) User Experience
12 33 (13.58%) Backlog Management
13 30 (12.35%) Decision-Making
14 28 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (11.11%) Backlog Prioritisation
16 26 (10.70%) Stakeholder Management
17 25 (10.29%) Strategic Roadmap
18 24 (9.88%) CI/CD
18 24 (9.88%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.00%) SQL
2 16 (6.58%) Java
3 15 (6.17%) Python
4 14 (5.76%) TypeScript
5 12 (4.94%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.47%) Bash
7 3 (1.23%) C++
8 2 (0.82%) C
8 2 (0.82%) Go
8 2 (0.82%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.82%) VBScript
9 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.41%) Perl
9 1 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (20.99%) Security Cleared
2 47 (19.34%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.47%) Degree
4 15 (6.17%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.12%) PMP
6 9 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.29%) Master's Degree
7 8 (3.29%) PMI Certification
8 6 (2.47%) MBA
9 3 (1.23%) CSPO
10 2 (0.82%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.82%) CBAP
11 1 (0.41%) CCNP
11 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.41%) IIBA
11 1 (0.41%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.12%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.70%) QA
3 6 (2.47%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.47%) PMO
4 5 (2.06%) SLA
5 4 (1.65%) GDPR
6 3 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.82%) GxP
7 2 (0.82%) NIST
8 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.41%) GRC
System Software
1 12 (4.94%) Docker
2 4 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.23%) vSphere
4 2 (0.82%) Ceph
4 2 (0.82%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (0.82%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.82%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 12 (4.94%) Terraform
2 10 (4.12%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.06%) Ansible
4 4 (1.65%) Grafana
5 3 (1.23%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.82%) Kibana
6 2 (0.82%) Pacemaker
6 2 (0.82%) Podman
6 2 (0.82%) SCCM
7 1 (0.41%) Argo
7 1 (0.41%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.41%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.41%) SELinux
7 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.41%) SAP
3 14 (5.76%) Oracle
4 10 (4.12%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.88%) Google
5 7 (2.88%) VMware
6 5 (2.06%) Apple
6 5 (2.06%) Citrix
6 5 (2.06%) Informatica
6 5 (2.06%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.06%) SolarWinds
6 5 (2.06%) Workday
7 4 (1.65%) Databricks
8 3 (1.23%) ESRI
8 3 (1.23%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.82%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.82%) Brio
9 2 (0.82%) Charles River
9 2 (0.82%) Sun
9 2 (0.82%) Symantec