Roadmaps Contracts

Roadmaps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Roadmaps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Roadmaps over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 40 43
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Roadmaps 1,552 2,506 4,555
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.04% 5.03% 5.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 5.65% 5.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 954 1,798 3,182
10th Percentile £413 £427 £413
25th Percentile £500 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £713 £717 £700
90th Percentile £800 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 49 46
10th Percentile £32.83 £37.31 £25.67
25th Percentile £46.18 £46.18 £33.76
Median hourly rate £58.30 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.74% +5.56% -33.33%
75th Percentile £80.59 £63.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £91.20 £75.25 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.30 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year +26.25% +2.62% -36.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Roadmaps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,912 44,388 77,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.73% 89.02% 90.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,157 30,166 54,294
10th Percentile £309 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,439 1,570 1,739
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.25 £13.16
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.79 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £42.50 £28.90
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +47.06% +34.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.00 £42.50 £23.45
% change year-on-year +1.18% +81.28% +27.91%

Roadmaps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Roadmaps over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Roadmaps over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Roadmaps in the UK

Roadmaps
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Roadmaps within the UK over the 6 months to 20 September 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 -7 1,333 £600 -4.00% 1,080
London -16 713 £625 - 514
UK excluding London -10 668 £575 -4.17% 621
Work from Home -6 553 £600 - 502
South East -3 201 £550 -12.00% 147
North of England -12 164 £585 -2.50% 196
North West -5 119 £585 -1.68% 132
Midlands -6 104 £575 -13.53% 93
Scotland -4 95 £525 - 49
South West -16 79 £725 +16.00% 61
West Midlands -16 59 £575 -16.36% 72
East Midlands -8 42 £575 -22.82% 21
Yorkshire -28 39 £538 -12.24% 52
East of England -18 32 £600 - 55
North East -6 11 £830 +15.28% 12
Northern Ireland -3 6 - - 19
Wales -5 3 £838 +31.37% 19

Roadmaps
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 52 (3.35%) Confluence
2 39 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.84%) CMS
5 8 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.45%) SAS
7 5 (0.32%) Mendix
8 4 (0.26%) Appian
9 3 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.13%) LiveLink
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.13%) Smallworld
10 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.13%) WordPress
11 1 (0.064%) Apache
11 1 (0.064%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.064%) IBM Notes
11 1 (0.064%) IIS
11 1 (0.064%) StreamWeaver
11 1 (0.064%) WebLogic
Applications
1 34 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.45%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.26%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.19%) Trello
8 2 (0.13%) Sketch
9 1 (0.064%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.064%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 33 (2.13%) Aladdin
1 33 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.42%) SAP GTS
3 11 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.45%) SAP CO
5 7 (0.45%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
6 5 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.26%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.26%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.26%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 4 (0.26%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.26%) SAP SD
7 4 (0.26%) Shopify
7 4 (0.26%) Workfront
8 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.19%) SAP SRM
8 3 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 271 (17.46%) Azure
2 239 (15.40%) AWS
3 100 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
4 83 (5.35%) Power Platform
5 76 (4.90%) GCP
6 57 (3.67%) SaaS
7 50 (3.22%) Dynamics 365
8 39 (2.51%) PaaS
8 39 (2.51%) Serverless
9 35 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 35 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (1.80%) GitHub
10 28 (1.80%) SuccessFactors
11 24 (1.55%) Amazon S3
11 24 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (1.55%) PowerApps
12 19 (1.22%) OpenShift
13 18 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
13 18 (1.16%) Entra ID
13 18 (1.16%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.32%) Firewall
2 50 (3.22%) Network Security
3 30 (1.93%) VPN
4 28 (1.80%) VoIP
5 27 (1.74%) WAN
6 22 (1.42%) LAN
7 21 (1.35%) SD-WAN
8 19 (1.22%) DNS
9 17 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (1.03%) CTI
11 15 (0.97%) Internet
12 13 (0.84%) Unified Communications
13 11 (0.71%) 5G
14 10 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
14 10 (0.64%) Intranet
14 10 (0.64%) MPLS
14 10 (0.64%) PBX
14 10 (0.64%) SSL
15 9 (0.58%) BGP
15 9 (0.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.54%) Power BI
2 31 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.42%) Big Data
4 22 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
5 21 (1.35%) NoSQL
5 21 (1.35%) SQL Server
6 17 (1.10%) Data Lake
6 17 (1.10%) Tableau
7 13 (0.84%) MongoDB
8 10 (0.64%) GIS
9 9 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (0.58%) Informix
9 9 (0.58%) SAP BW
10 8 (0.52%) Data Mining
10 8 (0.52%) Metadata
10 8 (0.52%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.45%) DB2
11 7 (0.45%) SAP HANA
12 6 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 115 (7.41%) JIRA
2 58 (3.74%) Jenkins
3 33 (2.13%) Git
4 16 (1.03%) Bitbucket
4 16 (1.03%) GitLab
4 16 (1.03%) LoadRunner
5 15 (0.97%) Artifactory
5 15 (0.97%) TeamCity
6 13 (0.84%) Cypress.io
7 8 (0.52%) InstallShield
7 8 (0.52%) MSI
7 8 (0.52%) NeoLoad
8 7 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (0.39%) JMeter
9 6 (0.39%) JUnit
10 5 (0.32%) Postman
10 5 (0.32%) Selenium
11 4 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.26%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.26%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 416 (26.80%) Social Skills
2 333 (21.46%) Finance
3 226 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (9.92%) Public Sector
5 149 (9.60%) Banking
6 62 (3.99%) Marketing
7 60 (3.87%) Influencing Skills
7 60 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
8 59 (3.80%) Legal
9 54 (3.48%) Front Office
10 52 (3.35%) Investment Banking
11 45 (2.90%) Telecoms
12 43 (2.77%) Retail
13 39 (2.51%) Manufacturing
14 33 (2.13%) Military
15 32 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 28 (1.80%) Billing
17 22 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
18 17 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
19 16 (1.03%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 445 (28.67%) Architect
2 179 (11.53%) Senior
3 171 (11.02%) Lead
4 146 (9.41%) Analyst
5 143 (9.21%) Solutions Architect
6 129 (8.31%) Consultant
7 95 (6.12%) Product Manager
7 95 (6.12%) Product Owner
8 89 (5.73%) Business Analyst
9 64 (4.12%) Enterprise Architect
10 55 (3.54%) Developer
11 50 (3.22%) Technical Architect
12 46 (2.96%) Project Manager
12 46 (2.96%) SAP Consultant
13 42 (2.71%) Security Architect
14 41 (2.64%) Senior Manager
15 34 (2.19%) Data Architect
15 34 (2.19%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
16 33 (2.13%) Technical Leader
17 30 (1.93%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (2.00%) HTML
2 26 (1.68%) React
3 24 (1.55%) .NET
3 24 (1.55%) CSS
4 23 (1.48%) SOAP
5 22 (1.42%) Spring Boot
6 21 (1.35%) REST
7 19 (1.22%) AWS CDK
7 19 (1.22%) Node.js
8 18 (1.16%) AngularJS
9 17 (1.10%) Middleware
10 16 (1.03%) Kafka
10 16 (1.03%) Spring
11 14 (0.90%) Web Services
12 12 (0.77%) RESTful
13 11 (0.71%) SAML
14 10 (0.64%) J2EE
14 10 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
15 9 (0.58%) RAML
16 8 (0.52%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 269 (17.33%) Product Ownership
2 67 (4.32%) Management Information System
3 54 (3.48%) Fixed Income
4 51 (3.29%) Hedge funds
5 50 (3.22%) Public Cloud
6 39 (2.51%) Data Centre
7 36 (2.32%) Derivative
8 35 (2.26%) Equities
8 35 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 32 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
10 28 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
11 24 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
12 21 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.29%) Mobile App
14 19 (1.22%) Security Posture
14 19 (1.22%) Virtual Team
15 17 (1.10%) CMDB
15 17 (1.10%) IVR
16 16 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
16 16 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 74 (4.77%) Windows
2 65 (4.19%) Linux
3 36 (2.32%) Apple iOS
4 31 (2.00%) Android
5 23 (1.48%) Unix
6 17 (1.10%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.71%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.064%) Solaris
10 1 (0.064%) VMS
10 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (31.96%) Agile
2 300 (19.33%) Product Roadmap
3 286 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
4 261 (16.82%) Strategic Roadmap
5 250 (16.11%) DevOps
5 250 (16.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 174 (11.21%) Project Management
7 170 (10.95%) Analytics
8 142 (9.15%) Migration
9 138 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 137 (8.83%) Scrum
11 123 (7.93%) Cybersecurity
12 121 (7.80%) CI/CD
13 117 (7.54%) Technology Roadmap
14 114 (7.35%) Risk Management
15 112 (7.22%) Product Management
16 111 (7.15%) Business Strategy
17 109 (7.02%) IT Strategy
18 107 (6.89%) Artificial Intelligence
19 105 (6.77%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 162 (10.44%) SQL
2 160 (10.31%) Python
3 94 (6.06%) Java
4 47 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 37 (2.38%) TypeScript
6 32 (2.06%) PowerShell
7 27 (1.74%) C#
8 20 (1.29%) C++
9 18 (1.16%) Ruby
10 15 (0.97%) Bash
11 12 (0.77%) C
11 12 (0.77%) Shell Script
12 11 (0.71%) Perl
13 7 (0.45%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.32%) Scala
15 4 (0.26%) Go
15 4 (0.26%) VBA
15 4 (0.26%) VBScript
16 3 (0.19%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 285 (18.36%) Security Cleared
2 208 (13.40%) SC Cleared
3 199 (12.82%) Degree
4 73 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (4.12%) Master's Degree
6 59 (3.80%) DV Cleared
7 36 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
8 30 (1.93%) PMP
9 27 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (1.61%) PMI Certification
11 23 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
12 18 (1.16%) CISSP
13 17 (1.10%) AWS Certification
14 15 (0.97%) Azure Certification
14 15 (0.97%) CISM
15 13 (0.84%) CCNP
15 13 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 9 (0.58%) CCNA
17 8 (0.52%) CCIE
18 7 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.22%) Data Quality
2 47 (3.03%) QA
3 44 (2.84%) Accessibility
4 35 (2.26%) NIST
5 22 (1.42%) GDPR
6 18 (1.16%) PMO
7 17 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
10 12 (0.77%) SLA
11 10 (0.64%) COBIT
12 9 (0.58%) GRC
12 9 (0.58%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.19%) GxP
15 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.19%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 36 (2.32%) Docker
2 33 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.26%) Firmware
9 3 (0.19%) vSphere
9 3 (0.19%) XenApp
10 2 (0.13%) SRDF
10 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.064%) Ceph
11 1 (0.064%) Microcode
11 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.064%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.064%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.064%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 88 (5.67%) Terraform
2 66 (4.25%) Kubernetes
3 52 (3.35%) Ansible
4 25 (1.61%) Grafana
5 16 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.77%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.71%) SCCM
8 10 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (0.64%) Puppet
9 9 (0.58%) Kibana
10 8 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.39%) AirWatch
12 5 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.32%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.26%) Opsgenie
13 4 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (0.13%) systemd
15 1 (0.064%) logstash
15 1 (0.064%) Pacemaker
15 1 (0.064%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 227 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 129 (8.31%) SAP
3 63 (4.06%) Oracle
4 57 (3.67%) ServiceNow
5 48 (3.09%) Bloomberg
6 47 (3.03%) Cisco
7 43 (2.77%) Google
8 39 (2.51%) VMware
9 38 (2.45%) Salesforce
10 33 (2.13%) BISAM
11 32 (2.06%) Palo Alto
12 27 (1.74%) Splunk
13 26 (1.68%) F5
14 23 (1.48%) Genesys
14 23 (1.48%) Juniper
15 16 (1.03%) Fortinet
16 15 (0.97%) CheckPoint
16 15 (0.97%) Nokia
17 13 (0.84%) IBM
18 12 (0.77%) Apple