Strategic Roadmap Contracts

Strategic Roadmaps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Strategic Roadmap skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Strategic Roadmap over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 343 481
Rank change year-on-year +19 +138 -78
Contract jobs citing Strategic Roadmap 268 396 429
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.69% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.77% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 284 292
10th Percentile £410 £413 £463
25th Percentile £525 £495 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £745 £725 £725
90th Percentile £863 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £550 £604
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.90% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £44.93 - £34.40
25th Percentile £63.66 - £34.62
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £35.61
75th Percentile £82.07 - £36.49
90th Percentile £84.44 - £36.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.40 - £35.72

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Strategic Roadmap in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Roadmap over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Roadmap in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Roadmap in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Strategic Roadmap over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Strategic Roadmap in the UK

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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 Strategic Roadmap within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 +31 241 £625 +4.17% 181
London +27 129 £600 -5.88% 93
UK excluding London +17 107 £650 +18.18% 105
Work from Home +46 98 £600 - 91
North of England +39 41 £650 +13.04% 16
North West +45 37 £625 -2.00% 14
South East -4 22 £650 +30.00% 42
South West +20 21 £650 +27.45% 10
Midlands +5 11 £550 -2.22% 23
Scotland +29 8 £575 +19.79% 3
West Midlands +12 7 £550 +4.76% 15
East Midlands +14 4 £445 -27.35% 8
East of England +6 4 £675 +22.73% 10
Yorkshire +3 4 £700 +27.27% 2

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 12 (4.48%) Confluence
2 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.12%) Apache
3 3 (1.12%) IIS
3 3 (1.12%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.12%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.75%) CMS
4 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.75%) WordPress
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.49%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.12%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.37%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 14 (5.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.49%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (1.49%) SAP BPC
4 3 (1.12%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.37%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.37%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.37%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.37%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 56 (20.90%) Azure
2 33 (12.31%) AWS
3 13 (4.85%) SaaS
4 10 (3.73%) Entra ID
4 10 (3.73%) GCP
4 10 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (3.36%) PaaS
6 7 (2.61%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.87%) Tricentis Tosca
8 4 (1.49%) Alation
8 4 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.49%) GitHub
8 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.12%) Boomi
9 3 (1.12%) Collibra
9 3 (1.12%) Serverless
9 3 (1.12%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.75%) Asana
10 2 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.84%) Firewall
2 20 (7.46%) VPN
3 7 (2.61%) PBX
3 7 (2.61%) VoIP
4 6 (2.24%) Network Security
4 6 (2.24%) SDH
4 6 (2.24%) WAN
5 4 (1.49%) DHCP
5 4 (1.49%) DNS
5 4 (1.49%) Junos
5 4 (1.49%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.49%) VLAN
6 2 (0.75%) Intranet
7 1 (0.37%) Broadband
7 1 (0.37%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.37%) SNMP
7 1 (0.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (2.61%) Metadata
3 6 (2.24%) Big Data
3 6 (2.24%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.24%) Power BI
4 5 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.87%) Tableau
5 4 (1.49%) DB2
6 3 (1.12%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.12%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.75%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.37%) DTS
8 1 (0.37%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.37%) OLAP
8 1 (0.37%) OLTP
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (0.37%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 19 (7.09%) JIRA
2 15 (5.60%) Rational DOORS
3 5 (1.87%) LoadRunner
3 5 (1.87%) NeoLoad
4 4 (1.49%) Git
5 2 (0.75%) GitLab
5 2 (0.75%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.37%) Selenium
General
1 81 (30.22%) Social Skills
2 63 (23.51%) Finance
3 33 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 25 (9.33%) Legal
5 23 (8.58%) Telecoms
6 17 (6.34%) Marketing
7 15 (5.60%) Banking
8 13 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.99%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.99%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.99%) Retail
11 7 (2.61%) Digital Economy
12 6 (2.24%) Law
13 5 (1.87%) German Language
14 4 (1.49%) Aeronautics
14 4 (1.49%) Electronics
14 4 (1.49%) Public Speaking
15 3 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (45.90%) Architect
2 44 (16.42%) Solutions Architect
3 36 (13.43%) Analyst
4 31 (11.57%) Technical Architect
5 26 (9.70%) Lead
6 20 (7.46%) Senior
7 19 (7.09%) Consultant
8 18 (6.72%) Product Manager
9 17 (6.34%) Lead Architect
9 17 (6.34%) Technical Leader
10 15 (5.60%) Enterprise Architect
11 12 (4.48%) Business Analyst
11 12 (4.48%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 12 (4.48%) Developer
11 12 (4.48%) Product Owner
12 11 (4.10%) Microsoft Developer
13 10 (3.73%) SAP Architect
13 10 (3.73%) SAP Solutions Architect
13 10 (3.73%) Security Architect
13 10 (3.73%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.34%) Node.js
2 8 (2.99%) REST
3 5 (1.87%) Lucene
4 4 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.49%) SOAP
5 3 (1.12%) .NET
5 3 (1.12%) EJB
5 3 (1.12%) J2EE
5 3 (1.12%) JSP
5 3 (1.12%) LDAP
5 3 (1.12%) Middleware
5 3 (1.12%) RAML
5 3 (1.12%) Servlets
5 3 (1.12%) Web Services
5 3 (1.12%) XML
6 2 (0.75%) CSS
6 2 (0.75%) DOM
6 2 (0.75%) Express.js
6 2 (0.75%) HTML
6 2 (0.75%) React
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.06%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.60%) Public Cloud
3 11 (4.10%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.61%) Blackberry
4 7 (2.61%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.61%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (2.24%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (2.24%) Digital Media
5 6 (2.24%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.49%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.75%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.75%) CMDB
8 2 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.75%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.75%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.75%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.09%) Windows
2 17 (6.34%) Android
2 17 (6.34%) Apple iOS
3 16 (5.97%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.99%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 77 (28.73%) Agile
3 64 (23.88%) IT Strategy
4 57 (21.27%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (18.28%) Business Strategy
6 45 (16.79%) Use Case
7 43 (16.04%) Enterprise Architecture
8 40 (14.93%) DevOps
9 36 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 35 (13.06%) Cybersecurity
11 34 (12.69%) Product Strategy
12 33 (12.31%) Analytics
13 31 (11.57%) Decision-Making
13 31 (11.57%) Risk Management
13 31 (11.57%) TOGAF
14 30 (11.19%) Computer Science
15 29 (10.82%) Product Management
16 27 (10.07%) Project Management
17 25 (9.33%) Artificial Intelligence
17 25 (9.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (4.48%) Java
2 11 (4.10%) SQL
3 5 (1.87%) Python
4 4 (1.49%) Go
5 2 (0.75%) Bash
5 2 (0.75%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.75%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 70 (26.12%) Security Cleared
2 52 (19.40%) SC Cleared
3 48 (17.91%) Degree
4 18 (6.72%) DV Cleared
5 15 (5.60%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (4.10%) HND
7 11 (4.10%) TOGAF Certification
8 10 (3.73%) CISSP
9 9 (3.36%) Master's Degree
10 7 (2.61%) CCNP
10 7 (2.61%) CISM
11 5 (1.87%) CCNA
11 5 (1.87%) PMP
12 4 (1.49%) APMP
12 4 (1.49%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.49%) CEH
12 4 (1.49%) JNCIA
12 4 (1.49%) SANS
12 4 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.21%) NIST
2 11 (4.10%) QA
3 9 (3.36%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.87%) GRC
5 3 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.12%) PMO
6 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.37%) COBIT
6 1 (0.37%) GDPR
6 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (2.61%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.12%) Docker
4 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.12%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (0.75%) Terraform
4 1 (0.37%) Nagios
4 1 (0.37%) OpenView
Vendors
1 35 (13.06%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.46%) IBM
3 18 (6.72%) Cisco
4 17 (6.34%) Juniper
4 17 (6.34%) Nokia
4 17 (6.34%) SAP
5 16 (5.97%) Google
6 10 (3.73%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.61%) Avaya
7 7 (2.61%) CA Agile Central
7 7 (2.61%) Ericsson
7 7 (2.61%) Ribbon
7 7 (2.61%) VMware
8 5 (1.87%) Apple
8 5 (1.87%) iManage
8 5 (1.87%) Informatica
8 5 (1.87%) Intapp
8 5 (1.87%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.87%) Talend
9 4 (1.49%) Okta