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 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 343 331 339
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 +30
Contract jobs citing Product Roadmap 241 415 707
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.72% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.81% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 311 531
10th Percentile £406 £440 £413
25th Percentile £484 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.84%
75th Percentile £663 £638 £638
90th Percentile £743 £730 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.38% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile - £37.04 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £37.80 £36.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £75.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +100.00% -18.92%
75th Percentile £68.75 £90.00 £41.75
90th Percentile - - £43.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £82.50 -

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 36,622 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%

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 20 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
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 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 +17 212 £586 +6.59% 313
London +38 113 £600 - 144
UK excluding London -22 107 £538 +2.38% 208
Work from Home +4 73 £513 -4.65% 162
South East +12 44 £525 +11.11% 63
North of England +18 34 £627 +17.47% 50
North West +29 30 £627 +16.11% 31
Scotland -1 16 £473 -3.57% 24
Midlands +16 10 £550 - 25
West Midlands +20 8 £550 -6.38% 19
South West +7 4 £409 -13.89% 23
Yorkshire -6 3 £525 -0.47% 14
East Midlands +16 2 £388 -26.19% 6
North East +13 1 £525 -19.23% 5

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 (2.07%) Confluence
2 3 (1.24%) ArcGIS
2 3 (1.24%) CMS
2 3 (1.24%) SAS
3 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.41%) Drupal
4 1 (0.41%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.41%) Kentico
4 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Aladdin
1 2 (0.83%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.83%) Relativity
1 2 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.83%) 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 30 (12.45%) Azure
2 28 (11.62%) AWS
3 14 (5.81%) SuccessFactors
4 13 (5.39%) SaaS
5 10 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (4.15%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.32%) OpenShift
7 7 (2.90%) PaaS
7 7 (2.90%) Serverless
8 6 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.49%) GitHub
9 5 (2.07%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.07%) GCP
9 5 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.66%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.24%) IaaS
12 2 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.83%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.64%) Firewall
2 10 (4.15%) VPN
3 4 (1.66%) DHCP
3 4 (1.66%) DNS
4 2 (0.83%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.83%) WAN
4 2 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.41%) 3G
5 1 (0.41%) 4G
5 1 (0.41%) 5G
5 1 (0.41%) Broadband
5 1 (0.41%) DSL
5 1 (0.41%) Intranet
5 1 (0.41%) LAN
5 1 (0.41%) Network Security
5 1 (0.41%) PBX
5 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.15%) Data Lake
1 10 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (4.15%) Power BI
2 8 (3.32%) NoSQL
3 7 (2.90%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.49%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (2.49%) Big Data
5 5 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.66%) GIS
6 4 (1.66%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.24%) OLAP
7 3 (1.24%) OLTP
7 3 (1.24%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.24%) Spatial Data
8 2 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.83%) Parquet
8 2 (0.83%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.41%) QGIS
9 1 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (8.30%) JIRA
2 6 (2.49%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.83%) JUnit
3 2 (0.83%) LoadRunner
3 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.41%) Gatling
4 1 (0.41%) Git
4 1 (0.41%) JMeter
4 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 70 (29.05%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.58%) Finance
3 34 (14.11%) Public Sector
4 29 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (10.79%) Marketing
6 23 (9.54%) Legal
7 15 (6.22%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (5.39%) Retail
9 12 (4.98%) Pharmaceutical
9 12 (4.98%) Telecoms
10 10 (4.15%) Billing
11 9 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (3.32%) Banking
12 8 (3.32%) Military
13 5 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (2.07%) Health Technology
13 5 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (2.07%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.66%) Advertising
15 3 (1.24%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 52 (21.58%) Product Manager
2 39 (16.18%) Senior
3 38 (15.77%) Product Owner
4 33 (13.69%) Architect
5 21 (8.71%) Lead
6 20 (8.30%) Consultant
7 18 (7.47%) Analyst
8 12 (4.98%) Delivery Manager
8 12 (4.98%) Technical Architect
9 11 (4.56%) Business Analyst
9 11 (4.56%) Technical Leader
10 10 (4.15%) Lead Architect
10 10 (4.15%) SAP Consultant
11 9 (3.73%) Developer
11 9 (3.73%) Senior Manager
11 9 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.32%) Data Architect
13 7 (2.90%) Data Manager
13 7 (2.90%) Senior Consultant
14 6 (2.49%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.47%) Node.js
2 8 (3.32%) Spring
2 8 (3.32%) Spring Boot
3 7 (2.90%) React
4 6 (2.49%) AWS CDK
4 6 (2.49%) CSS
5 5 (2.07%) HTML
6 4 (1.66%) JSON
6 4 (1.66%) JSON Schema
6 4 (1.66%) YAML
7 3 (1.24%) LDAP
7 3 (1.24%) Middleware
7 3 (1.24%) OAuth
8 2 (0.83%) ADO
8 2 (0.83%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.83%) REST
8 2 (0.83%) Spring Security
8 2 (0.83%) Web Services
8 2 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 84 (34.85%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.39%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.15%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.32%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.49%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.07%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.07%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.66%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.66%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.24%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.24%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.24%) CMDB
9 3 (1.24%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.24%) Solar Power
9 3 (1.24%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.22%) Windows
2 11 (4.56%) Android
2 11 (4.56%) Apple iOS
2 11 (4.56%) Windows Server
3 10 (4.15%) Linux
4 3 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.24%) Solaris
5 2 (0.83%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.83%) Unix
5 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 120 (49.79%) Agile
3 54 (22.41%) Product Management
4 49 (20.33%) Product Backlog
5 47 (19.50%) Scrum
6 42 (17.43%) User Stories
7 41 (17.01%) Product Strategy
8 38 (15.77%) DevOps
9 37 (15.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (14.94%) Analytics
10 36 (14.94%) Project Management
11 35 (14.52%) Backlog Management
12 34 (14.11%) User Experience
13 30 (12.45%) Backlog Prioritisation
14 28 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (11.20%) Decision-Making
15 27 (11.20%) Stakeholder Management
16 23 (9.54%) Product Requirements
16 23 (9.54%) Product Vision
16 23 (9.54%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 16 (6.64%) SQL
2 14 (5.81%) Java
2 14 (5.81%) Python
3 11 (4.56%) JavaScript
3 11 (4.56%) TypeScript
4 6 (2.49%) Bash
5 3 (1.24%) C++
6 2 (0.83%) C
6 2 (0.83%) Go
6 2 (0.83%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.83%) VBScript
7 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.41%) Perl
7 1 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 45 (18.67%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.79%) Degree
4 16 (6.64%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.15%) PMP
6 9 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.32%) Master's Degree
7 8 (3.32%) PMI Certification
8 6 (2.49%) MBA
9 3 (1.24%) CSPO
10 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.83%) CBAP
11 1 (0.41%) CCNP
11 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
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 12 (4.98%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.73%) QA
3 8 (3.32%) PMO
4 6 (2.49%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.07%) SLA
6 4 (1.66%) GDPR
7 3 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.83%) GxP
9 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.41%) GRC
9 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (4.56%) Docker
2 4 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.24%) vSphere
4 2 (0.83%) Ceph
4 2 (0.83%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.83%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.83%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (4.15%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.73%) Terraform
3 5 (2.07%) Ansible
4 3 (1.24%) Grafana
4 3 (1.24%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (0.83%) Kibana
5 2 (0.83%) Pacemaker
5 2 (0.83%) Podman
5 2 (0.83%) SCCM
6 1 (0.41%) Argo
6 1 (0.41%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.41%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.41%) SELinux
6 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (10.37%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.47%) SAP
3 13 (5.39%) Oracle
4 11 (4.56%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.90%) Google
5 7 (2.90%) VMware
6 5 (2.07%) Apple
6 5 (2.07%) Citrix
6 5 (2.07%) Informatica
6 5 (2.07%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.07%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.07%) SolarWinds
6 5 (2.07%) Workday
7 4 (1.66%) Databricks
8 3 (1.24%) ESRI
9 2 (0.83%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.83%) Brio
9 2 (0.83%) Charles River
9 2 (0.83%) Sun
9 2 (0.83%) Symantec